Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This job also involves assisting in the organisation of promotional events in the UK and overseas . |
| 2 | The section prohibits canvassing in the sense of the attempt of an applicant or of another person at his instigation to influence a member of a licensing board to support his application for a grant , renewal or permanent transfer of a licence , or for a regular extension of permitted hours before the application is considered by the board ( subs . |
| 3 | We investigated the town with a wheelchair , taking turns to sit in it . |
| 4 | If they dream up a bright profit-winning idea , even if it involves walking in the dirty waters of pornography as the 0898 service does , the Government are unable or unwilling to do anything about it , even over a six-year period . |
| 5 | Q : I think that is because people see it as an act of desperation when an actress agrees to appear in a nude magazine like Playboy . |
| 6 | Oh as he said something , he loves driving , but he hates driving in London . |
| 7 | Even the sexing of fossil human remains appears to be far more difficult than was previously imagined , as Genoves ( 1954 ) has emphasized in his study of Neanderthal remains . |
| 8 | It goes as follows : " So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world . |
| 9 | The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published . |
| 10 | Grenada was the last tiny but bitter dreg in the constitutional cup which the United Kingdom has drained in the past thirty-five years ; and bravely , though not without a grimace of disgust , did we swallow it . |
| 11 | The persons liable to pay the tax are the trustees of the settlement and when the interest that is terminated has subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include it . |
| 12 | needs to sit in the printer and things like that erm so you do n't you know |
| 13 | ‘ The problem is that Knighton wants to sit in the chairman 's seat , at least for a while , ’ one confidant said . |
| 14 | Well , Bryony wants to sit in her own chair today , so you sit on your own chair . |
| 15 | Oh you can put dolls in it as well , but when Amy wants to sit in there , you can put your doll in the other one , ca n't you ? |
| 16 | With a record order book , it now has a slim chance of starting to repay a bit of the $13.5 billion that it has received in government subsidies . |
| 17 | Despite its importance and grade II* listing , the treatment it has received in recent years has been disgraceful , and it is to be hoped a great many lessons will have been learnt about how to deal with irresponsible owners of such important listed buildings . |
| 18 | Especially if you follow a similar path every day , then getting your dog to pass a motion will be easier to achieve by building on the previous training which it has received in home surroundings . |
| 19 | It would seem that the restoration profession has not been able to keep its nerve in the face of the rapidly growing attention it has received in recent years , and is reacting in an undisciplined way . |
| 20 | Book Packagers & Marketing is floating a new series on classic fruit and flowers in response to the interest that Martin Marix Evans has received in the preservation of traditional varieties . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received in connection with applications for national health service trust status from within the Sheffield health authority . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what recent representations he has received in connection with state schools in west Norfolk . |
| 23 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received in favour of taxation policies to benefit the environment ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 24 | The value transferred is to be reduced by the value of any other interest in possession in the property to which the beneficiary becomes entitled at the same time or by the amount of any consideration in money or money 's worth which he has received in respect of the determination or disposal . |
| 25 | The rate of tax payable is arrived at by reference to the total of that value and the value of any previous chargeable transfers made by the beneficiary , but that value is to be reduced by the value of any other interest in possession in the property to which he becomes entitled at the same time or by the amount of any consideration in money or money 's worth which he has received in respect of the termination or disposal of the interest . |
| 26 | As Lord Denning said in Fraser v Evans : No person is permitted to divulge to the world information which he has received in confidence , unless he has just cause or excuse for doing so . |
| 27 | Since then every Q.T. has received in their notes a red paper outlining the Grant Aid meeting also a letter containing a revised timetable in which you were asked to think about specific items . |
| 28 | The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil . |
| 29 | In many far off lands the Commission 's gardeners have no knowledge of the English language , while their supervisors are not fluent in the native tongue ; the result has been , so the Commission reports , that a form of hybrid speech has developed in certain countries that would be incomprehensible to other natives of the country and to ordinary English-speakers , but which is ‘ very eloquent ’ on matters relating to cemetery maintenance ! |
| 30 | The enormous rise in the economic value of her work has developed in tandem with the increased critical and popular response to her particular blend of naive style and incisive content . |