Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It never hurt to know in advance what well-provisioned castles could be put at the King 's disposal at short notice . |
| 2 | Should you become our first prize winner , we require to know in advance your first prize preference . |
| 3 | It was common for sittings to take place in rooms contained in buildings whose primary purpose was to house other government departments . |
| 4 | She gave her twins absolute love and loyalty , and received in return their respectful obedience . |
| 5 | This was done in case my main culture got fouled by overfeeding and hence I was always able to start a new culture if necessary . |
| 6 | Often the " essence " has been seen in terms which wider study of religions has shown to be too narrow or too idiosyncratic or in ways which undermine the significance of the external forms of religious traditions . |
| 7 | Until then these infections had only really been seen in people whose natural defences had been damaged by cancer or by drugs which suppress the immune system . |
| 8 | Rosa Jacobsen confirmed in Elisabeth her determined quest , not directly , but indirectly , for Rosa was like Marie Grubbe , of whom it had been written that she was someone who ‘ sought flowers in the tree of life where others would never think to look — under dark leaves and on dry branches ’ . |
| 9 | Later in this chapter we examine in detail their major characteristics and the nature of the courses which they offer . |
| 10 | An ‘ inside ’ story can also be told in terms which subordinate individuals to some larger social whole . |
| 11 | By the time McAvennie arrived in Scotland his brief engagement to Anita Blue had ended and his pursuit of Jenny Blyth was paying dividends . |
| 12 | It is difficult to imagine in detail what such landscapes looked like , how they were used by people and in what sort of activities these people were engaged . |
| 13 | had realised that Stalin had become extremely unpopular with the Russian peoples , so he decided , in February 1956 , to reveal some of Stalin 's crimes — in effect denouncing him — and from then onwards the Eastern European countries began in shape their own policies , instead of blindly following the policies dictated by the U.S.S.R. |
| 14 | Rocks , trees , mountains , wells and springs were recognized as receptacles for spirit , displaying in season their various properties , fertilizing , therapeutic and oracular … |
| 15 | Whenever there is a puzzling development in physics which seems for a while to put in question our basic understanding , you will hear someone say " I have the feeling that it 's 1925 all over again . " |
| 16 | This result means that New Northern will compete in Division I next year . |
| 17 | In a Europe without internal customs barriers , the long-standing common market of the British Isles will necessarily remain in place whatever constitutional settlement we adopt here . |
| 18 | Although as we have seen earlier the decorative qualities of gold could be explored by direct hammering , the archaeological record shows that goldsmithing of a sophisticated kind in fact developed in communities which practised copper or bronze metallurgy . |
| 19 | Your Miguelito has to fall in love himself one day . |
| 20 | For example , the voluntary agreement seems to protect young women ( aged 16–24 ) from cigarette advertising by requiring that no advertisement be placed in magazines whose primary readership is women in that age range . |
| 21 | Warner Brothers immediately set in motion its own research programme to explore the feasibility of the idea ; it would run for some months before anyone realised it had been an April Fool and abandoned their research . |
| 22 | The baby may well protest loudly but the mother has to keep in mind her ultimate goal . |
| 23 | For when a religion is put into a position where its , albeit necessary , business activities appear in the eyes of its followers , to be outweighing in importance its original purpose , it ceases to be of the slightest use in so far as it is able to fulfil one of its most important reasons for existence , that is , to provide a satisfactory code of behaviour to be observed in that area of human conduct which can be considered as being subject to moral law . |
| 24 | ‘ Danielle ’ , the mystery girl found in Paris whose moving plight was revealed by us , was thought to be French . |
| 25 | No doubt the same will happen in Cockfield itself this Friday . |
| 26 | ( 1977 ) outline in detail its many limitations . |
| 27 | Business and employers organizations are well represented in parliament their secret funding of the Tory Party buys them influence and Tory Party policies , and nothing is said . |
| 28 | Hartlepool collected a £40,000 sponge to soak up some of their debts , Darlington took in exchange their outstanding midfield player . |
| 29 | It was agreed that Turkey 's April 1987 application for membership should be the subject of ministerial discussions , together with prospective Greek membership ( Greece having relaxed in January its former insistence on a non-nuclear defence posture ) , but neither was likely to become a member before 1992 . |
| 30 | The allusion to the famous novella in the Decameron ( 3 , 10 ) , in which ‘ to put the devil back in hell ’ was a euphemism for sexual intercourse by using which a hermit seduced a young novice , is given an application quite the reverse of Boccaccio 's warm-hearted celebration of the flesh : ‘ Yet this shall I ne'er know , but live in doubt/Till my bad angel fire my good one out . ’ |