Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The condition may be upheld if the plaintiff had previously disclosed his reports or offered to disclose them in exchange for the defendant 's reports ( Clarke v Martlew [ 1973 ] QB 58 ) but even that is in doubt since Megarity v DJ Ryan & Sons Ltd [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 832 in which it was said that the plaintiff can not make it a condition precedent to granting a medical examination that the defendant must produce the ensuing report , since to do so would pre-empt the court 's power to give directions as to expert evidence . |
| 2 | Syncretistic vision represents the salient visible details , the hero 's Brylcreemed hair and pocketful of peanuts , rather than seeking to explain him in terms of his social and intellectual background . |
| 3 | On March 22 , after an emotional debate , the Idaho state legislature passed legislation to prohibit abortion as a form of birth control , although continued to allow it in cases of profound foetal abnormality , maternal risk , and in some cases of rape and incest . |
| 4 | Similarly , when the informants were given five sets of words , and asked to list them in order of the likelihood of appearing in SF , the experienced readers included " dreams ' , " drugs ' , " consciousness ' , " identity " , " information " ( all themes of recent SF ) while the inexperienced readers marked only " Martians ' , " flying saucers ' , " ray-guns ' , " robots ' , " mutants ' . |
| 5 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 6 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 7 | Once people overcome their fears about computers and begin to use them in telecottages , they acquire their own equipment . |
| 8 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 9 | I found nothing else of interest but Bernice turned up a couple of old school exercise books of Billy 's and decided to keep them in remembrance . |
| 10 | Adam set the twelve sherry glasses that were cut in a greek key pattern round their rims in the middle of the moonlight and said he would put them in a box tomorrow and try to sell them in Sudbury to the man who had the antique shop in Gainsborough Street that they had passed . |
| 11 | And we 're going to take some perfectly ordinary facets of life and try to address them in terms of what they should mean to the Christian believer . |
| 12 | He was rather like a 12-inch gun with no gunlayer ; he always turned up to meetings late and disoriented , although he had a middle-aged secretary who used to follow him about with his diary and try to keep him in line . |
| 13 | Toby Hedworth , defending , said the man never intended the child should die and meant to release her in time . |
| 14 | Ronni looked into his eyes and smiled at the compliment , inwardly shuddering as he took her in his arms and proceeded to lead her in time to the music . |
| 15 | Presumably when the ( outside ? ) directors of the company meet they will discuss the earnings of the top managerial staff , and attempt to keep them in line with the manager 's worth ( marginal product ) to the company . |
| 16 | When Eleanor died of fever at Nottingham , in the autumn of 1290 , Edward was grief stricken and journeyed to bury her in Westminster . |
| 17 | They derive from the writers ' own work practice and belief system and serve to reinforce it in relation to other groups and cultures . |
| 18 | Lydia felt briefly sorry for her and attempted to engage her in conversation , but it was no good . |
| 19 | She feels she is on the verge of some interesting illumination here , but has to abandon it in order to search for Brian , to ask him to fasten the back of her dress : if she does not leave soon , she will be late for her early arrival , and moreover she has promised to meet Esther Breuer at eight thirty precisely on the corner of Harley Street and Weymouth Street . |
| 20 | We shall just introduce them now , but try to bear them in mind as you read on . |
| 21 | This is because it is thought the human brain is not preprogrammed to recognize all the senses separately , but learns to correlate them in childhood . |
| 22 | It is ironic that theories of federalism , especially of the German variety , should stress responsibility so strongly while failing to realise it in practice . |