Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When questions , for example on morbidity , had been validated in the General Household Survey , it would be possible to include them in the Resource Allocation Survey . |
| 2 | ‘ Harry said he was due to meet someone in the boathouse , so we went over there . ’ |
| 3 | If there was no shot in or among the human remains , in the cavities of the skull for instance , would it be possible to find it in the soil , among the sand and gravel and pine needles ? |
| 4 | Dr Mackintosh had left for the weekend , but Dr Lange , the literary one , would be free to see him in the morning . |
| 5 | I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office . |
| 6 | UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots … |
| 7 | Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh . |
| 8 | It would be easier to meet you in the bar . |
| 9 | And you 'll find it 's so much easier to try everything in the comfort of your own home . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid to put one in the kitchen |
| 11 | By now the champagne was flowing … all United need now is a new owner willing to keep them in the style to which they 'd like to become accustomed . |
| 12 | For these are hyper-competitive athletes , all ex-pro American footballers or wrestlers , and not afraid to punish themselves in the cause of being The Best . |
| 13 | In some cultures , scribes do not record texts with word-for-word fidelity , while in others one is not free to alter anything in the process of re-recording . |
| 14 | And , by the way , he did have this job in Italy , but if it was in the slightest degree inconvenient to join them in the villa , he 'd book into a cheap little pensione by the railway station in Siena . |
| 15 | A trail marked with simple stone arches every half mile or so leads to Las Ruinas on top of each , but it 's easy to lose yourself in the maze of secondary trails which weave between the small fields . |
| 16 | Each of these secondary attacks should be treated as having WS 25 and S 3 ; it is impossible to destroy everything in the room which is capable of delivering these attacks , and the only way to stop them is to destroy the clock . |
| 17 | It is not easy to imagine anything in the behaviour of natural flowers for which evolution could conceivably have needed to program bees to anticipate regular changes in distance . |
| 18 | I think it is immoral to put it in the water when you do n't know how much water people drink . ’ |
| 19 | He ordered a second bottle ; ‘ It 's almost impossible to prove anything in the spying world . |
| 20 | An entry can be made by any part of the accused 's body or by an instrument held by the accused to intimidate someone in the building or to remove goods from the building . |
| 21 | He who valued life so much to enter it in the form of a human person must be committed to its survival . |
| 22 | Carrie had taken over many of Dolly 's duties at Handley Farm , with two young girls aged ten and eleven to help her in the dairy . |
| 23 | Flu is most likely to affect you in the autumn and winter , e.g. from October to March . |
| 24 | Flu is most likely to affect you in the autumn and winter , e.g. from October to March . |
| 25 | The body shape is the well-known Hamer-adopted version of the double-cutaway Les Paul Special ; widely used as a pleasingly symmetrical guitar body shape , it 's unusual to find it in the context of a bass . |
| 26 | Somehow it was hard to imagine him in the gym . |
| 27 | ‘ It is hard to put yourself in the mind of a general , , Cameron answered . |
| 28 | However , if your child does something , and as a result of his action something unpleasant happens to him , he is less likely to do it in the future ( the undesired behaviour may be reduced or eliminated ) . |
| 29 | They also get the largest amount of pocket money in a week — £5.20 , compared with a UK average of £3.62 — and are most likely to put it in the bank . |
| 30 | Bush , who had repeatedly stated his opposition to abortion under all but the most extreme circumstances , was known to oppose the bill , and was thought likely to veto it in the event of its enactment . |