Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The records need to be sorted in order of a particular ( key ) field before storing the data on to the file . |
| 2 | In F v West Berkshire Health Authority [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 545 , Lord Goff stated : where the state of affairs is permanent or semi-permanent , as … in the case of a mentally disordered person … there is no point in waiting to obtain the patient 's consent … the doctor must act in the best interests of his patient , just as if he had received his patient 's consent so to do … the lawfulness of the doctor 's action is to be found in the principle of necessity … the doctor must act in accordance with a responsible and competent body of relevant professional opinion … it may be good practice to consult relatives and others who are concerned with the care of the patient . |
| 3 | ‘ If I read you rightly , ’ said Radulfus , having searched Cadfael 's face , and found it in very grave earnest , ‘ you are saying that the young man was attacked in mistake for a Benedictine brother . ’ |
| 4 | Many of the minority who reluctantly chose to borrow money did so as preferable to having to spend forty days in Winson Green Gaol like Tom Broadbent , the Birmingham brass-dresser , who in 1899 was committed in default of a small debt to a coal merchant , and died there . |
| 5 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen of the jury , please bear in mind throughout your decision that all of the offences the defendant is being charged with have been deliberately committed in front of a young and highly impressionable public . |
| 6 | So coming back more specifically to Selby , and taking er Mr Curtis 's ball-park figure of of seventeen hundred , erm now already we 've we 've got approximately eight hundred and fifty committed in terms of a hundred and eighty con er completions , five hundred and sixty permissions including conversions , and a hundred and ten dwellings identified on a site at Elvington in in the Greater York study , and there 's really not a great deal more flexibility , erm , because of the greenbelt constraint . |
| 7 | The ten-strong squad for the weekend — in which the Scots are in a pool with Romania and Tonga — will be named today and the likelihood is that Derek Stark , omitted in Fiji after a lacklustre showing the previous week in Canberra , will be restored . |
| 8 | But conversely if the government raises interest rates the supply of money may fall in response to a lower demand for money . |
| 9 | ‘ Who would fall in love with a selfish baby like that ? ’ |
| 10 | It conceals , itself , and lies in wait for an unsuspecting moth . |
| 11 | There may well be an element of compulsion involved in civil disobedience , but it differs from coercion in that it is aimed at securing mutual co-operation and understanding in accordance with a dialectical quest for truth . |
| 12 | Mansiones were normally large buildings with ranges of rooms grouped in suites around a central courtyard and a separate bath-house which would be additional to any urban bathing establishments . |
| 13 | Also , the levels of pesticide residues and heavy metals in their tissues are high , as might be expected in animals with a coastal habitat . |
| 14 | And when Matilda finally pronounced in favour of a close-fitting robe of soft , unbleached linen , worn under a blue velvet over-tunic , laced at the sides to show the garment beneath , and trimmed with soft grey vair , her protests had quite died away . |
| 15 | ( On one occasion he helped in conjunction with a Dutch charitable organisation to arrange a holiday in the Netherlands for some of the children . ) |
| 16 | 5.5 This conclusion will actually exclude the great majority of verbs ( or , more exactly , all normal uses of the great majority of verbs ) from appearing in construction with an adverbal adjective at all , with or without the claimed nuance ; either they will be related to their object in such a way that there is simply no need to mention any particular property of the latter entity , as in ( 30 ) ; or , even if there is some property of the object specially relevant to the notion introduced in the verb , that property does not belong to the object by virtue of the relationship between the verb and the object ; for instance , even if Angela in ( 31 ) resembles her cousin in that they are both dark , her cousin does not have that property because Angela resembles her , and even if the Prince admired his Chief Justice because of his disposition to clemency it is not the the Prince 's admiration that justifies the applicability of the property merciful . |
| 17 | The McKays qualified and married in Edinburgh and then left to work in London for a short time before travel beckoned and they went to work firstly in Papua New Guinea and then in Lusaka , Zambia . |
| 18 | Faced with these problems , computer scientists began in the mid 1970s to experiment with using many processors in a single machine to work in parallel on a single problem . |
| 19 | AT least one Labour MP , and probably a few more , think that Labour leader John Smith should ditch his troubled shadow Scottish secretary Tom Clarke , who went back to work in January after a three-month illness and promptly inflicted two unnecessary controversies upon himself . |
| 20 | The estates varied in size from a few units in piecemeal developments to 30 or 40 plots on well serviced , carefully planned schemes . |
| 21 | Keeping in touch with a wide range of people interested in primary education has many benefits including helping to ensure that your school receives the publicity that it deserves . |
| 22 | He therefore lives The Natural , something apparently forgotten in favour of an alienating fiction . |
| 23 | Andrew Metcalfe , 23 , of Branksome Terrace , Darlington , appeared before the town 's magistrates yesterday charged in connection with an alleged incident at a Darlington kebab shop in January . |
| 24 | Here was the empirical proof : trapped in Woolwich with a geriatric nutter and the Hound of the Baskervilles . |
| 25 | The man they call Lurch was the villain of the piece after his uncharacteristic boob let in Oldham for an 85th minute equaliser . |
| 26 | Her casual clothes had been discarded in favour of a short-sleeved chartreuse-coloured jacket with a matching skirt and high-heeled sandals . |
| 27 | The Hill of Heaven was flowery with silk blooms and the tree from the Garden of Eden was discarded in favour of a glittering cloth-of-gold pavilion perfect for transformation scenes and disappearing tricks . |
| 28 | As part of the ‘ Big Bang ’ , this system was discarded in favour of a dual capacity regime in which the two jobs were fused together . |
| 29 | But the Albatross was superseded in turn by a still more extravagant vehicle — at once spaceship , submarine , and racing car — called The Terror . |
| 30 | In a June 7 referendum 74.25 per cent of the republic 's 213,000 electors voted in favour of a new constitution , according to official figures released on June 10 . |