Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] in [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
| 2 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 3 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 4 | Women 's exemption from these time-geared precepts was the result both of their extensive periods of ritual impurity and of their designated role as closeted homemakers — though of course in making such a statement , we immediately involve ourselves in a greater degree of circularity . |
| 5 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 6 | This model confirms the importance of the greenhouse gas forcing of the climate , but it suggests that a doubling of greenhouse gas concentration will produce an increase in surface air temperature of 1.6 + 0.3 °C , which places it in the lower range of the generally accepted predictions of temperature increase ( Gilliland and Schneider , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 8 | These results may also be seen as offering some tentative support to the contention that the greater flexibility now permitted in fee setting , coupled with the ability of architects to establish themselves in a wider variety of organisational forms and to advertise more freely , has essentially lubricated the market and led to greater efficiency . |
| 9 | But I could do them in the smaller size . ’ |
| 10 | However , I will seek to set them in the wider context of the Government 's commitment and programme for the computerisation of general practice . |
| 11 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 12 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 13 | The aim here is to look at its political and social repercussions and to set it in the wider context of central-local administrative relations . |
| 14 | Social workers should always have as clear a plan as possible for the child , and implement it in a shorter time than normal . |
| 15 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 16 | So she approaches it in a better frame of mind . |
| 17 | She added that the festival had been attended by more people than ever before , and that by celebrating it in a smaller town , away from the more sophisticated attractions of Bogotá , the festival had a more genuine , grassroots character . |
| 18 | A second interpretation of the developments of the 1980s would set them in a longer context , dating back to the late 1960s . |
| 19 | There now exist community groups of a greater or lesser degree of militancy which have eschewed political parties as the main vehicle of their demands ( although they often have to use them in the later stages of campaigns ) . |
| 20 | IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If somebody 's already used a break it just means you 've got to use it in a better way . |
| 22 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 23 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |
| 24 | Byron would not have me in the larger house , claiming that the dogs would never tolerate my presence without howling all night . |
| 25 | On the contrary , his direct line to Hitler and Mussolini placed him in a better position than the monarchists to deal with Axis pressure . |
| 26 | You can also recover all SMP paid in previous months in the same tax year if you have not recovered it in an earlier month . |
| 27 | Accordingly , we wrap it up in a little computer procedure , label it DEVELOPMENT , and prepare to embed it in a larger program labelled EVOLUTION . |
| 28 | ( 4 ) You may use the premises for the sole purpose of … ( 5 ) You will keep the premises clean and tidy and will leave them in no worse condition than that in which they are at the date of this letter and free from rubbish . |
| 29 | That would leave them in a worse position than they began , because all the T'ang can offer them is money . |
| 30 | We had run one in an earlier year , erm , I think that was slightly a different type , but that , er , the idea was the same . |