Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [noun] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told them about the bath in Swines ' building yard . |
| 2 | These include : the Department of Employment , which ( directly and indirectly ) runs YTS/YT and TVEI ( see Chapter 10 ) and controls 25% of the funding for NAFE ( see Chapter 5 ) ; the Department of the Environment , which through the Urban Programme gives grants for educational projects in deprived areas ; and the Department of Industry , which through the Micros in Schools Project subsidises the buying of microcomputers in primary and secondary schools . |
| 3 | For the next couple of years at least the shares will be supported only by assets , which despite the fall in values are still worth 25 p.c. more than the share price . |
| 4 | This is a visit that nobody with an interest in plants and gardens should miss ! |
| 5 | Ruth sparkled in the midst of them like a jewel in cobwebs . |
| 6 | If so , it would be wrong that the council , because it has performed its statutory duty under the national law to enforce section 47 , was to find itself under a liability in damages as a result of performing that duty . |
| 7 | The report cited above also concerns itself with the growth in projects creating electronic resources in the humanities , and the increase in those wanting access to information electronically held . |
| 8 | You can use a stronger line which is less likely to be cut ; but , inevitably its extra weight and drag will put you at a disadvantage in terms of manoeuvrability . |
| 9 | Mr Bloomfield is something of a legend in sports publishing . |
| 10 | It had obviously escaped them that their pun was something of a contradiction in terms ! |
| 11 | Erm , it does seem to be something of a contradiction in terms there , and in fact Mr Lock is n't here today because his clients have subsequently withdrawn from the er E I P but er it would have been interesting to have asked him the question . |
| 12 | For reference , these are put into a media visual , which , at the planning stage , will look something like the schedules in Figures 10.1 and 10.2 . |
| 13 | What you 're doing is setting up a resistance here for a perfectly adequate site in an area where we desperately need a site for people , and what you offer us as a compensation , something in the future in terms of a bypass and two trees coming down , and on the basis of that we 're supposed to stop the whole deal . |
| 14 | When you make these dishes , or other obviously easily freezable recipes which you particularly like , it is a good idea to cook several portions at one time and then divide them into individual portions and store them in the freezer in bags . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd toss them in the river in sacks , ’ he says , and I pretend to believe him . |
| 16 | I think , too , if you know your students , if you meet them outside the classroom in activities , then it makes life in the classroom as well . |
| 17 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 18 | Pink flowers like willow herb clustered along a dried-up river bank , circling birds reminded her of the vultures in westerns . |
| 19 | Van de Wetering 's criticisms of Goldreyer 's restoration landed him with a claim in damages for libel amounting to $25 million from Goldreyer 's lawyer , to which Van de Wetering has since replied by asking the court in New York to declare the claim inadmissible on the grounds that he does not fall under the jurisdiction of the State of New York . |
| 20 | Make Sheila a wondrous cup of 99 tea — that 'll have her over the moon in seconds . |
| 21 | And ou and going back to Mr Heselton , he has said i , I 've got a negative factor for him at the moment in terms of minus eight fifty , but let let me let me take the figure which is actually quoted in the County Council 's table of nine fifty dwellings . |
| 22 | Fishing is also a sport , although the chaps who do it for a livelihood in trawlers are not included in the sporting fraternity . |
| 23 | It was the widow 's custom to leave a jug of milk for them each night after milking , she gave it as a gift in thanks , she said , for their support of an unfortunate woman on her own . |
| 24 | The result is a 192 page , well produced volume which anyone with an interest in ships and the sea will find a delight to dip into . |
| 25 | For over twenty years , Hugo had masterfully deployed the metaphor of the wave : he had bent the wave to his own ends , he had coupled it to revolution , to love , to Napoleon , to centuries , pinning it to the page in alexandrines and rhymes . |
| 26 | This puts them at an advantage in terms of trading within the EC , and within a Europe whose centre of gravity is shifting steadily eastwards . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 28 | Eldorado 's Trish Valentine does what for a living in bars ? |
| 29 | I was surprised at the violence of his remorse — after all , he had only hit me — and I remember thinking , quite irrelevantly , how much more true to life the old dramatists were than modern ones , making their characters utter loud cries and throw themselves about the stage in moments of anguish , rather than deliver their parts poker-faced , through stiff lips . |
| 30 | Having done the recording , I found myself in the dressing-room in tears . |