Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] of the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each man would wear an individual set of breathing apparatus and as each group got clear of the gas in Bank mine the equipment would be taken back into Knockshinnoch by rescuers and used by another group of three men . |
| 2 | His father had installed a Spiel petroleum engine to drive some of the machinery in his workshops , and Herbert was inspired to work on the problem of developing an internal-combustion engine that would run on heavier ( and safer ) grades of fuel oil . |
| 3 | There was a butcher here in Bungay , his name was Rodwell ; he got — he was killing one of these cattle and got some of the blood in his finger or something . |
| 4 | The planning at Brighton revealed some of the unease in relations with the local authority . |
| 5 | ‘ Socialist , Socialist , ’ shouted some of the crowd in answer . |
| 6 | The background information obtained was as valuable as the answers to the prepared Questionnaire and provided much of the information in the Report . |
| 7 | Until the 1890s income tax was virtually unknown outside Great Britain ; indirect taxes still bore much of the burden in other states in 1900 , but by then Germany , Italy , Austria and Spain all had some form of income tax , and Russia and Great Britain had taxes on inherited wealth . |
| 8 | ‘ Does my turnover fall short of the potential in that market , given its size and quality ? ’ and ‘ Which of my brands/retail concepts best match the preferences of the local community ? ’ |
| 9 | Ex-music journalist Nick Kelly and his band first came into the public eye in 1989 with the release of the excellent single ‘ Arclight ’ , which was voted Single of the Year in the 1989 Hot Press readers ' poll . |
| 10 | When she woke in the morning , she felt a profound reluctance to meet any of the family in case she got drawn into any more dramas . |
| 11 | The large enterprise of Jedburgh Kiltmakers stands beside the A68 north of Jedburgh , and large-scale mills and knitwear houses still provide most of the employment in Hawick on the Teviot . |
| 12 | Other changes highlighted in 1989 by the National Economic Development Council include an aging workforce ( in the 1990s the working population will become increasingly concentrated in the middle age groups and in the year 2000 there are likely to be 1.8 million more people aged 35 to 54 ) and an expanding adult labour force ( women returning to the labour market are expected to provide most of the growth in labour force in the 1990s ) . |
| 13 | This description covers most of the material in the first 675 propositions , but is insipid compared with the subtle and exciting working-out of the programme . |
| 14 | Alecko Papamarkou , who lives most of the year in America , is always a very kind and welcoming host , and loves to see his friends enjoying themselves . |
| 15 | They made a rendezvous with Anna Campbell , who was also staying in the south of France , and passed much of the holiday in a mad drunken haze . |
| 16 | An articulate Inspector of Accidents who has personal experience of these matters is possibly better able to make an assessment of such things than a lawyer who has little more experience than turbulence in flight spilling some of the champagne in the first class section of the cabin . |
| 17 | Spread half of the mixture in the base of the prepared tin . |
| 18 | Penry ate some of the meal in thoughtful silence , then laid down his fork . |
| 19 | She ate some of the piece in her left hand , and waited to see what would happen . |
| 20 | The medical neglect of psychosomatic illness and hypochondria must shoulder some of the blame in such situations , because the stigma attached to these disorders owes much to doctors ' negative attitudes . |
| 21 | He was made free of the company in 1649 . |
| 22 | And if she got half a pig 's head she used to cut the pig 's head in half and used to use the top half , and that was where the ears was , and everything , boil it until all all the meat dropped off and then she used to put in er a big basin , scrumple it up in her fingers , put some of the juice in , and put a seven pound weight on it , and a saucer , and make brawn . |
| 23 | Put some of the filling in a corner of each pastry strip . |
| 24 | The sea shimmering and heaving beneath the brisk breeze seemed ignorant of the loss in her life . |
| 25 | Black communities around Pietermaritzburg have seen much of the fighting in a brutal turf war between the ANC and Inkatha supporters which flared in 1986 , deeply dividing black communities . |
| 26 | We welcome much of the guidance in this section of the Note . |
| 27 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 28 | Later you should do most of the session in spikes . |
| 29 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |
| 30 | Development of the social services was seen as concentrating on improving the Big Four — unemployment insurance , workmen 's compensation , health insurance and old-age pensions — which provided against the ‘ interruption of earnings ’ which caused five-sixths of the want in Britain before the war . |