Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout RX each problem is analysed in the same way , with possible solutions evaluated and prioritized in terms of the relative costs of conformance and non-conformance . |
| 2 | The French king Robert the Pious ( 996 – 1031 ) allegedly delighted in generosity to the poor , in acts of humility , such as when he washed the feet of 160 clerics with his own hair , and in making gifts to churches . |
| 3 | So far as the mechanisms for enforcing the rules of conduct are concerned , section 18(2) of the Act requires that any person who is exercising any of the functions conferred by Part II of the Act with respect to any of the matters described in section 18(1) , the granting of rights or audience etc. , must act in accordance with the general principle mentioned in section 17(3) . |
| 4 | He also submitted that it was essential that a jury should reach a rational conclusion by a rational process of thought , and he further submitted that it was wholly irrational for them in effect to hold that the first appellant did not act in concert with the second appellant , but that the second appellant acted in concert with the first appellant . |
| 5 | IT IS not irrational for a jury to decide that the first of two co-accused acted in concert with the second but that the second co-accused did not act in concert with the first , because the case against each accused must be considered separately and there may be evidence which is admissible against one but not the other . |
| 6 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |
| 7 | It will be offered in conjunction with the Department of Environmental Health , Edinburgh District Council and has been designed in collaboration with the Royal Environmental Health Institute for Scotland . |
| 8 | These national criteria have been designed in connection with the new General Certificate of Secondary Education and are intended to ‘ offer a concise account of the understanding , knowledge and competences which should be developed in the course of following the syllabus ’ . |
| 9 | Two court cases were still awaited in connection with the simultaneous uprisings at Santa Barbara and El Frontón prisons in which at least another 100 inmates were thought to have died . |
| 10 | The identification of common phrases and word combinations may assist in selection of the correct word . |
| 11 | He turned the truck in the direction he had pointed , Myeloski once again walking in front of the two headlights that lit his path for him . |
| 12 | Sainte En grace the saint was in fact Portuguese , and said to have been martyred in Saragossa in the fourth century . |
| 13 | The main charges being investigated were acts committed in relation to the 1968 invasion by Warsaw Pact troops and to the November 1989 demonstrations as well as more general charges involving abuse of official authority , political interference in legal proceedings , illegal property and currency transactions , and embezzlement . |
| 14 | The four first grow in quantities on the steep banks of the rivers in Jamaica , and are generally supposed to drop into the water , and to be carried into the sea ; from thence , by tides and currents , and the predominency of the East wind , to he forced through the gulf of Florida , into the North-American ocean , in the same manner as the Saragosso , a plant growing on the rocks of the seas of Jamaica . |
| 15 | The four first grow in quantities on the steep banks of the rivers in Jamaica , and are generally supposed to drop into the water , and to be carried into the sea ; from thence , by tides and currents , and the predominency of the East wind , to he forced through the gulf of Florida , into the North-American ocean , in the same manner as the Saragosso , a plant growing on the rocks of the seas of Jamaica . |
| 16 | A favourite plant in the frescoes is the papyrus , treated in various decorative ways : but the papyrus did not , as far as we know , grow in Crete in the Minoan period , so the frescoes do not factually depict the Cretan landscape . |
| 17 | Given the above potential for arbitrage profits , it was argued that if enough investors acted on this opportunity , the price of ABC Ltd would rise and that of XYZ Ltd would fall in response to the changing pattern of demand . |
| 18 | The answer lies in part in the social position of the reformers who belonged to the professional rather than the employing middle class : they were social workers , teachers , social scientists , philosophers , clerics , doctors , and psychologists , the majority of whom were distanced from the realities of the labour-market . |
| 19 | Death or injury lies in wait for the imprudent in Brobdingnagian chasms below . |
| 20 | Danger , intrigue and tragedy lurk unseen , unrecognized by the traveller — whilst evil , unimagined and terrible , lies in wait around the next bend . |
| 21 | While the citizens of Amiens demonstrated in favour of the High Speed Line from Paris to the Channel Tunnel serving their city , the rural stockbrokers of Kent revolted against the idea of an equivalent new railway from the tunnel to London . |
| 22 | By the time ‘ taking stock ’ is occurring in preparation for the annual report to parents , priorities are being considered for next year 's Plan . |
| 23 | A subject who not only finds science exciting but also believes it can be applied to help people and produce wealth and employment could hardly be bettered in answer to the white coated caricature with which Ian Fells began . |
| 24 | Special Forces men burst through the front door of The Anabaptist Reform Church , and gaped in horror at the unholy tableau spread out before them . |
| 25 | In living lizards and crocodiles , new teeth appear in sequence below the functional teeth , which are effectively dead , and force them out periodically . |
| 26 | Something more than a vote was expected in return for the major posts , but essentially they too were employed to aid the development of a political interest . |
| 27 | As a juvenile romanticist Kingston , like his contemporary Ballantyne , used the device of the intrusive author accepted in his time and , besides , the didacticism expected in books for the young , didacticism made easier by the continuity and the extent of time afforded by serial publication in the boys ' magazines of the period . |
| 28 | Elderly women with bleeding varices seem to outnumber men , perhaps to be expected in view of the lower incidence of alcoholic cirrhosis and the longer life expectancy of women . |
| 29 | Hidden in a bower of trees at the southern base of Moughton , the tiny colony of mature and mellowed buildings blends in harmony with the natural environment . |
| 30 | In the case of the Stommeln Synagogue , located in Pulheim-Stommeln in the extreme west of Cologne , an unusual exhibition venue has been created which has excited attention with its sensitive presentation of single works by Jannis Kounellis and Richard Serra . |