Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passion offers schools , colleges and community venues the opportunity to invest in a vast wealth of information about our work during the 80 's and then draw from that information in a more creative and challenging way . |
| 2 | I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province . |
| 3 | Skill descriptions are generalisable in that human operators have characteristic abilities and limitations and therefore have tendencies to perform in the same way . |
| 4 | However , the theoretical advances that these views represent do not seem to have significantly affected statements about literacy , which appear at times to remain in a pre-Saussurian world . |
| 5 | One imagines that not a few may actually have seized the opportunity to indulge in a quiet sleep in preparation for the evening stint , for the dinner was formal and the occasion for full ceremonial . |
| 6 | Services at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury have been saved by a decision to invest in a new maternity unit . |
| 7 | It would undoubtedly cost a lot on money to implement in the short run , as would some of the more conventional changes proposed by that Frenchman who claims to run the sport with an impartial hand . |
| 8 | amd next week we 'll be back on the football trail to see in the new season |
| 9 | Then the Shah persuaded the Carters to see in the New Year at the palace and the Queen sent the Crown Prince into the Library to organize a smaller party . |
| 10 | There 's even more ammunition for the Limited driver to unload in the performance-over-a-pint discussion at the local pub . |
| 11 | All peers of England have retained entitlement to sit in the appropriate House of Lords throughout . |
| 12 | The overall aims of the experience would be specified , including : to give students the opportunity to work in a real production kitchen where the pace , the expectations and the allowed tolerances would be different from a college training kitchen ; to give students the chance to see and use specialist equipment unavailable at college ; to give the students the opportunity to assess their own personal skills , including the ability to cope on their own , away from home . |
| 13 | I 've got two essays to write in the next fortnight . |
| 14 | Some used this expertise to work in the private sector as consultants advising on urban policy ; in one case a firm that employed no Black people was selected for its ‘ inner city expertise ’ to evaluate the Handsworth Task Force in inner Birmingham which it had previously also been paid to advise but which was now being shut down to make room for a newly fashionable Urban Development Corporation , this time in the Birmingham Heartlands ( sic ) . |
| 15 | So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch . |
| 16 | Too often these people are frustrated by their inability to communicate in the new language . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm going to Alès to work in the municipal library , ’ she replied . |
| 18 | I saw the lizard again , darting from her matted hair to hide in a broken fruitbowl . |
| 19 | Inability to work in a particular job or profession or for a particular employer is insufficient . |
| 20 | Mr. Denzil Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he has any plans to meet in the near future the chairman of British Coal to discuss the state of the Welsh coalfield . |
| 21 | Pupils should be given the opportunity to write in a wide range of forms : diaries , formal letters , chronological accounts , reports , pamphlets , reviews ( of books , television programmes , films or plays ) , essays , newspaper articles , biography , autobiography , poems , stories , play-scripts , TV or film-scripts . |
| 22 | Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period , as will be seen in the next chapter . |
| 23 | The tendency is , then , for professional/client relationships to continue in the existing mode — even , as suggested earlier , pushing their interpretation of normalisation principles into line with their established practice in order to reduce the dissonance they might otherwise experience . |
| 24 | The first missionaries to preach in the Muslim north of Nigeria were greeted by a handful of people who were already believers in Jesus and claimed to follow him . |
| 25 | Tie bands hold curtains away from a window or door , allowing the fabric to fall in an attractive drape , while at the same time letting as much light as possible into a room . |
| 26 | Each faction seems prima facie to have chosen a different side to support in the Arab-Israeli conflict . |
| 27 | Because the salmon live in the icy waters of Alaska then migrate to the Pacific , where they live a wild and natural existence , many valuable nutrients are retained in the canning process to produce the perfect ingredient to include in a weight-reducing diet . |
| 28 | Indeed , the Soviet press supported a query by the Indian Foreign Minister , N. Rao , in May 1981 about whether to permit Pakistan to remain in the Non-Aligned Movement with the assertion that ‘ Islamabad 's policy of all possible military rapprochement with Washington and the huge shipments of American arms that have been promised can not help but raise legitimate doubts among many member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement as to whether Pakistan is legally entitled to remain in their ranks ’ . |
| 29 | But they are being forced to do it by fragrant Virginia , who 's actually trying to reduce the ability of dentists to perform in the National Health Service as they want to do , and as they always have done . |
| 30 | ( ii ) Allow the skin of the neck to slip in a controlled fashion between thumb and finger until the scruff is held tightly behind the ears . |