Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen , then , that the historical reasons for charging in the social services are diverse and often contradictory , but a case can still be made for charging on a priori grounds . |
| 2 | Olschewski had no worries about competing in the difficult personal computer market , saying ‘ We are not concerned about unit numbers , but about quality . |
| 3 | In marked distinction to the solicitors ' branch of the profession , the pupil barrister may not earn any money during the first six months of pupillage and there are only limited opportunities for earning in the second six months of pupillage . |
| 4 | The Armed Forces Supreme Court sentenced 26 non-commissioned army officers to terms of imprisonment of between six and nine months for participating in the abortive military coup of Dec. 3 , 1990 [ see p. 37913 ] . |
| 5 | On appeals against the assessments , the taxpayers having conceded that they had received an emolument as a result of participating in the concessionary fees scheme but maintaining that the cash equivalent of the benefit had to be determined under the principle of marginal costing , the special commissioner found that the school incurred no additional expenditure in educating the taxpayers ' sons other than on certain items of equipment and on food that together cost less than the concessionary fees paid and allowed the appeals . |
| 6 | Moreover , the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 , and the emergence of public deficit financing , led to the appearance of a new force in politics , that of the " monied interest " , men who had made huge fortunes as a result of investing in the national debt . |
| 7 | This distribution , as Map 4 shows , extended an existing regional concentration of minting in the north-eastern part of Charles 's kingdom . |
| 8 | But he continues to drink away in his own private time and has no intention of following in the dry footsteps of O'Toole and Harris . |
| 9 | It indicates the significant aspects of budgeting in the public sector , the influences from the different social sciences , and the areas covered . |
| 10 | The rational pursuit of reduced management burdens , given the impossibility of acting in the public interest ( because of the limits on the bureaucrat 's information and the conflicting interests of others ) , is made possible by increases in the total budget . |
| 11 | There were two reasons not to use the phone at home — the cost to a generous woman living on a widow 's pension , and the impossibility of talking in the open-plan downstairs without being overheard . |
| 12 | By 1911 , Umberto Boccioni who was dead by 1916 , was grappling with the emotions of modern life ; the impact and anxieties of living in the stroboscopic uncertainties of a mechanised urban environment . |
| 13 | It produces the archetypal image of the Christian , afraid of life , always trying to climb back into the Garden of Eden , by creating a world of fantasy if necessary to inhabit at the expense of living in the real world . |
| 14 | Accommodation offices provide information on the types of housing available locally , on college policy regarding priority for halls of residence , comparative costings , lists of housing in the private sector and considerable back-up on your legal rights , housing law , etc . |
| 15 | The shattered towns and cities of Croatia , bombarded and battered by months of shelling in the civil war . |
| 16 | Nor could jumpy Orrell cope with the efficiency of the steady , unflurried Pilgrim , the full-back , who kicked Wasps ' penalty goals besides putting in the delicate chip that set up the try for Oti . |
| 17 | Frequently , a claim by an employer based on breach of confidence has failed as it was perceived to be an attempt to prevent the employee from working in the same field by offering his skill to another employer . |
| 18 | They were Article 12 , prohibiting former members of Nazi organizations from serving in the Austrian armed forces ; Article 13 , prohibiting Austria from possessing special weapons ; Article 14 , on the disposal of war materiel of German or Allied origin ; Article 15 , on co-operation in preventing German rearmament ; Article 16 banning the acquisition of civil aircraft of German or Japanese design ; and paragraph 13 of Article 22 , banning the return to German or foreign ownership of former German assets . |
| 19 | They had dinner at the Trocadero in Shaftesbury Avenue before taking in the late show at the Windmill Theatre . |
| 20 | Michelin is axing 16,000 jobs and has spent £460m on restructuring in the last two years . |
| 21 | An alternative to digging in the green manure in spring is to cut and add the material to the compost heap . |
| 22 | The principal can also give assistance to the agent by helping in the commercial negotiations between the agent and important customers , helping with special discounts or credit arrangements in order to secure business . |
| 23 | Dexter compounds the effect by writing in the present tense , depriving the narration of even the possibility of temporal causality ( and making it read like a 290-page stage direction ) . |
| 24 | Over half the respondents acknowledged that dreams could foretell the future , and among those who believed in the literal truth of the accounts of dreaming in the New Testament , this proportion was much higher . |
| 25 | " The results suggest , however , that a significant part of warming in the last century is not greenhouse-related " , he commented . |
| 26 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |
| 27 | The dependence/independence continuum in the model of living serves as a reminder that all people experience change of dependence/independence status for the Activities of Living in the normal course of the lifespan . |
| 28 | The recent cuts in the mortgage rate — with the cost of borrowing on homes now down to around the 7–8% level — will also fuel a wave of spending in the high street . |
| 29 | This is particularly so in homoiotherms , whose constant body temperature ensures a steady level of functioning in the central nervous system and hence the possibility of extensive exploration in varied environments . |
| 30 | It is difficult to distinguish cause and effect ; and even if we could be sure that the low level of orienting in the pre-exposed subjects was responsible for their retarded conditioning , it would still be necessary to explain why it is that the OR should return when reinforced training begins . |