Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it was in vogue to have an all-over tan — so the barer the body the better ! |
| 2 | From this treatise and other evidence , it can be deduced that Dom Pérignon achieved the following innovations : he was the first person in Champagne to produce a truly red wine ; the first person to produce a perfectly limpid white wine from black grapes ; he invented the traditional Champagne press ; perfected the art of blending wines from many different vineyards to produce one consistent and superior cuvée , or blend ; reintroduced the cork-stopper to France ; and pioneered the use of stronger English glass to withstand the internal pressure generated by sparkling wine . |
| 3 | But Fiver was nowhere to be seen and Hazel was afraid to ask for him , in case to do so should seem like weakness and a need for comfort . |
| 4 | Yes , it 's the County Council canteen , but the City Council is putting in money to subsidize it . |
| 5 | In the 1989 statement on Government expenditure they announced that the Home Office was to receive yet another increase in money to enable it to build two extra prisons , to set up 30 day centres for parole on probation , to recruit 300 more police officers in provincial forces , to employ an additional 1,300 civilians in the police forces and to make the Immigration and Nationality Department more efficient . |
| 6 | He 's calling for a change in direction to kick start the economy . |
| 7 | The statement by Adam Smith that businessmen 's meetings , even for ‘ merriment and diversion ’ , usually end up in connivance to restrict competition , is often quoted , but the sentence which follows it is equally perceptive : ‘ It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings , by any law which either could be executed , or would be consistent with liberty and justice . ’ |
| 8 | 1 tin anchovy fillets , soaked in milk to reduce saltiness |
| 9 | I mean to lay down my life that men like you can live in freedom to fight for what is right in the world . ’ |
| 10 | In other words , perhaps a little more than half of the variation in liability to develop Crohn 's disease is a consequence of inherited differences between individuals . |
| 11 | These findings support the contention that host antigenic variation , through an autoimmune aetiology , is unlikely to make a substantial contribution to differences in liability to develop Crohn 's disease . |
| 12 | About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all . |
| 13 | I have had the former fitted up with Drawers for birds and books in hope to work going along and taking a quantity of birds with me as well as left over plates to cut up for box books etc . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the mysterious passage of disease can be made in fiction to serve God 's judgement on the rich . |
| 15 | The reforms in national insurance contributions will abolish the in-built bias currently in existence to create part-time employment . |
| 16 | Firstly , and I return to this point which I have mentioned again and again in debates such as this and that 's the the question of the lack of there being a central agency er in existence to see to the enforcement of these matters . |
| 17 | A fund is in existence to help defray the costs of the Senior Citizens Dinner but as no member has any detailed knowledge of it the chairman will make the necessary enquiries . |
| 18 | A fund is in existence to help defray the costs of the Senior Citizens Dinner but as no member has any detailed knowledge of it the chairman will make the necessary enquiries . |
| 19 | In fact no one argues that the marked increase in provision to service this model ( Department of Education and Science 1978b Ling and Davies 1984 ) has led to a marked improvement in pupils ' behaviour . |
| 20 | the measurement used in typesetting to express quality of output . |
| 21 | F , options for benefits in payment to increase in line with inflation , do we have that ? |
| 22 | Lucy says it has been a lesson in sympathy to begin again as a ‘ new ’ teacher , finding a way to pull our work more into line with the current fitness scene . |
| 23 | Come and be glad and , it goes on in chorus to use yet another picture of the Holy Spirit , we 've talked of one being of fire , another picture is that of water , I will pour water on him that is thirsty ! |
| 24 | Little children came in chorus to move him |
| 25 | Firstly they could be painted in camouflage to lessen the visual impact or alternatively , they could be dispersed among trees and in copses , so as to be out of sight from the very well used coast paths . |
| 26 | This is a complicated , scientific bit of equipment , and really you need to have a P H D in physics to have any appreciation what a syncrotron radiation source is . ’ |
| 27 | Enterprise representatives are friendly , reliable , and highly skilled , and are in resort to ensure that you have the best possible holiday . |
| 28 | Here there is a tendency in contract to do justice and in crime to be merciful . |
| 29 | Further work is in progress to clarify this problem . |
| 30 | In applications of this kind the authors argue that geographic information management in general and GIS in particular have an important role to play and they give a number of examples from research in progress to illustrate the current state of the art in this field . |