Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there was the question of what sorts of costume were appropriate on such a journey , and whether or not it was worth my while to invest in a new set of clothes . |
| 2 | Diet , general fitness , golfing psychology and sports injuries all feature among the discussion topics and have their part to play in the overall picture . |
| 3 | Too often these people are frustrated by their inability to communicate in the new language . |
| 4 | After all , I ca n't see a girl like you giving up her freedom to live in a squalid little room above a shop — and , believe me , without help Peter certainly ca n't afford anything else . ’ |
| 5 | The Damiani family made their decision to leave in the third week of April after snipers in Tel Aviv began shooting into the centre of Jaffa , sending at least one bullet into David Damiani 's home . |
| 6 | Cleo turned and craned her neck to take in the massive black pile rising behind them . |
| 7 | Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support . |
| 8 | Many other animals that harbour secret chemical defences also show themselves fearlessly to the world and some of them also perform special displays that indicate their readiness to engage in a chemical encounter . |
| 9 | Defeated presidential candidates Ion Ratiu ( Christian Democratic National Peasants ' Party — CDNPP ) and Radu Campeanu ( National Liberal Party — NLP ) listed irregularities in the process and complained that the campaign had been waged in an atmosphere of violence ; both , however , stated their intention to participate in the new parliament . |
| 10 | Even if the fighting dies down , no answer is in sight to the political issue that led to the war — the reluctance of most of Bosnia 's Serbs and many of its Croats to live in an independent Bosnian state . |
| 11 | Following the implementation of the new Financial Services Act , licensed dealers dragged their nets to pull in a few of the old-style hard sell merchants . |
| 12 | Dana sulked because Roman had thwarted her plan to sit in the front passenger seat , and Claudia , conscious of her twin 's glowering presence , could n't find anything to say . |
| 13 | Unlike their failure to collaborate in the atomic field , the two countries did decide to work together on missiles . |
| 14 | While the result gives Peter Shilton 's side hope in their efforts to stay in the Second Division , the FA Cup finalists will face their own anxious battle against relegation between now and May 9 . |
| 15 | They have adapted their behaviour to survive in the arid and semi-arid conditions of northwest Namibia . " |
| 16 | The secure places are fully used , but secure accommodation is an expensive resource and one which has its role to play in the full range of provision . |
| 17 | to encourage its members to invest in the inner cities . |
| 18 | To prevent such a sequence of events the church must seek continual spiritual renewal ; deploy a high proportion of its members to work in the external constituency ; in McGavran 's terminology , to turn them into class two leaders and workers , i.e. ‘ members whose energies are primarily directed to serving and evangelising non-Christians in their ministry area in an effort to bring them into the Body of Christ ’ , and to establish new groups and plant new congregations . |
| 19 | All that they wanted was the full recognition of their king 's sovereign rights in the duchy , a moderate enough approach in which they had the support of the papacy , now becoming increasingly aware of its obligation to help in the diplomatic negotiations between the two countries . |
| 20 | This 100 ( or such lesser number as existed at any time ) were to elect 28 of their number to sit in the new House . |
| 21 | There were at most twenty-two Jacobite peers in the House of Lords , ten of whom were Scottish representative peers , who owed their places to the Union of 1707 ( under the terms of which , the Scottish peers as a whole elected sixteen of their number to sit in the upper chamber at Westminster ) . |
| 22 | If boards are encouraged to take part in the identification of their needs and the development of materials , as indicated from the seminar conclusions outlined above , then it is to be hoped that their potential to act in a supportive and constructive way will be fully realised . |
| 23 | Not only does Dame Sirith advertise her professional ability to repeat the trick , or to obtain for a man the woman he wants in the way he wants , and thus anticipate her ability to star in an extended series of fabliaux that the poet may tell , but the language and prosody convey certain points that lie at the heart of the fabliau perspective . |
| 24 | Working relations between professional groups is the key to their ability to succeed in a common task . |
| 25 | Students are encouraged to apply analytical and diagnostic skills to the information-related problems which are likely to be encountered at the interface of Personal Assistant , Office Supervisory and Middle Management levels , thus enhancing their ability to work in an interactive role in team situations . |
| 26 | While we can not explain why this sense should be restricted to British English ( the Brown Corpus confirms Quirk et al. " s claim ) , it is possible to offer some explanation for its tendency to occur in the perfective aspect . |
| 27 | She had once thought of herself as unique , had been encouraged ( in theory at least ) by her education and by her reading to believe in the individual self , the individual soul , but as she grew older she increasingly questioned these concepts : seeing people perhaps more as flickering impermanent points of light irradiating stretches , intersections , threads , of a vast web , a vast network , which was humanity itself : a web of which much remained dark , apparently but not necessarily unpeopled : peopled by the dark , the unlit , the dim spirits , as yet unknown , the past and the future , the dead , the unborn : and herself , and Brian , and Liz , and Charles , and Esther , and Teddy Lazenby , and Otto and Caroline Werner , and all the rest of them at that bright party , and in these discreet anonymous dark curtained avenues and crescents were but chance and fitful illuminations , chance meetings , chance and unchosen representatives of the thing itself . |
| 28 | On Jan. 6 Mobutu met party leaders at N'Sele ( 60 km from Kinshasa ) to discuss a new constitution and an electoral timetable , and , according to a report in the International Herald Tribune of Jan. 16 , he obtained their agreement to participate in an interim government , provided that such a government were " representative , responsible and independent " . |
| 29 | France 's two environmental parties , Les Verts and Génération Ecologie , ratified their agreement to co-operate in the forthcoming elections in mid-January [ see ED65/66 ] . |
| 30 | The hearts of millions of people across the United Kingdom and the Republic went out to Wilf Ball ( 58 ) and his wife , Marie ( 37 ) , as they laid their son to rest in a quiet hill side cemetery overlooking Stockton Heath . |