Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | With few exceptions , such as franchising in hotels and fast foods , where the service can be ‘ packaged ’ and transferred to a third party under stringent conditions of control , most service firms find that they require equity control to ‘ internalise ’ the gains and recoup the high costs of developing the network in the first place . |
| 2 | Er facilities er exist for parking and so on and the only thing is , er I 'm talking about catering in the sense of a Saturday whether it 's here or there . |
| 3 | Italian cuisine is so good we do n't bother to comment , but you 'll find some hints about catering in Cannigione on page 45 . |
| 4 | Graham Sharpe , spokesman for Hills , who cut the second favourite , Double Dutch , from 7-1 to 6-1 and Royal Square from 16-1 to 10-1 yesterday , countered by saying : ‘ We have often been criticised for including in our ante-post lists horses that trainers later said were never intended runners . |
| 5 | My favourites are the seedless Thompson raisins for everyday baking and for including in salads and pilafs , and the larger lexia raisins from Australia , which are usually seeded and are ideal for special cakes and puddings . |
| 6 | The piano is now moveable and appears to have seven keys that strike a note , but I always take my tambour , and am eternally grateful to Francis and Rita for including in our training , advice on ways of accompanying movement without a piano . |
| 7 | Their hospitality would doubtless have extended to me sampling the food in each of the three messes — but not wanting to risk either myself or the computer 's Carafe programme developing hiccups , I enjoyed visiting each mess and settled for eating in the Sergeant 's Mess . |
| 8 | The food there did n't taste too different and we were spared a cabaret but I reckon £30 is n't too high a price for eating in a beautiful , traditional-style Moroccan room with the well heeled jet set , being served by obsequious waiters in costumes that would put to shame Aladdin 's chorus at the Palladium . |
| 9 | Most doctors and nutritionists would agree that cutting down on fat , especially animal fat , and sugar are two good rules for eating in midlife , even though not all agree that positive proof of their harmful effects is conclusive . |
| 10 | The shrimps are too small for eating in the summer , but the net will capture lots of other small fish including the sandy coloured gobies , juvenile flatfish , dragnets , the Lesser Weever with venomous spines , pipefish , rockling ; as well as hermit crabs , little cuttlefish , and larvae of all sorts . |
| 11 | You many have thought , like me , that serving hatches went out when the craze for eating in the kitchen came back into fashion . |
| 12 | ‘ We might go and have lunch , ’ Anthony said to Maud , looking at the preparations for eating in the compartment — napkins tucked into shirt collars , laps spread with paper bags . |
| 13 | Being based on characters which had been designed for incising in stone they were difficult and slow to write . |
| 14 | Using Pope 's ‘ Mobil Guide to the North Island ’ we were able to look up what was worth seeing in each of the towns we passed through . |
| 15 | The assistant chief of the Division of Eastern European Affairs in the State Department , Stevens , argued for rearming in Korea as a sign that the United States would resist communism : |
| 16 | Olschewski had no worries about competing in the difficult personal computer market , saying ‘ We are not concerned about unit numbers , but about quality . |
| 17 | And that means Carl 's got ta stay in all tomorrow |
| 18 | Indeed , you have probably broken previous weight-loss diets because of social pressures , such as eating in a restaurant , or eating in a friend 's house , where their encouragement , " go on it wo n't hurt " , and your response , " just this once , " are the first fatal steps to weight gain . |
| 19 | At this stage they are probably too acidic for most palates to be eaten raw , but they are ideal for using in pies , tarts , jams and jellies . |
| 20 | Using woven fabrics for household articles seems appropriate because many of the samples when they are finished have the right feel and substance for using in the home . |
| 21 | Vincent went to him for drawing in the mornings , and in the evenings to try his hand at watercolours , as he had done before Christmas . |
| 22 | For the first time since taking over as Chief Constable last month Tony Butler held a meeting to talk about policing in Gloucestershire . |
| 23 | During the 1967 San Francisco Film Festival , Crawford met Gene Kelly , the song-and-dance maestro who had himself been a hit on the Broadway stage before starring in film musicals such as Singing In the Rain . |
| 24 | That gave him dibs on the scav , not that there would be much worth looting in this sandhole . |
| 25 | Sometimes I 'm really embarrassed about eating in front of people , in case they think I 'm greedy or fat . |
| 26 | As yet there is no other body to undertake this task , and even tentative moves to remove the problem from the cell block and into the detoxification centre foundered in the entrepreneurial 1980s ; for there is little immediate profit to be made from reclamation of this kind of scrap material ( although the long-term value of a humanitarian return might be thought to be well worth pursuing in a civilized society ! ) . |
| 27 | Values such as fairness , honesty , and integrity are values worth pursuing in themselves , and should not be shrugged off by reverting to some contervailing argument such as costs . |
| 28 | We are grateful for imaginative erm ideas that come up anywhere in the Council and we do consider them , but on reflection this seemed not one that was worth pursuing in Oxford . |
| 29 | However , it is well worth using in dishes which require the wine to be added at a later stage to give flavouring . |
| 30 | A TEENAGE IRA girl was jailed for 10 years yesterday for plotting to kill troops — while her accomplice was given life for helping in the murder of a businessman . |