Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is your intention to set a cat among the pigeons or let loose an eagle in the dovecote , you do n't send a postcard in advance announcing your intentions . ’ |
| 2 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 3 | Figure 9.3 and Table 9.3 display the main facilities currently available and show clearly the decline in relative importance of the credit tranches , especially after 1980 . |
| 4 | To paint Prague would be to paint a dream , a city of ideas , where the intellect and emotions meet and boogy away the night in a haze of ideology . |
| 5 | And he glanced round at the still-insensible Liam and threw away the cigarette in disgust . |
| 6 | Eventually more than ten people , including Bott , were arrested and spent over a year in jail before the end of the lengthy legal proceedings . |
| 7 | In one such incident , described in some detail , he tells us how ‘ one Friday night an enormous navvy pushed the head of a constable through a shop window and started quite a battle in which uniformed and plainclothes men cheerfully joined in ’ . |
| 8 | Where land is bought at auction it is essential that the purchaser or his solicitor undertakes the necessary searches and reads carefully the smallprint in the brochure . |
| 9 | He was well off and had therefore no difficulty in accomplishing this . |
| 10 | first , he considers saving up for it , by putting £20 into a building society two-year term share ( paying 11¾ per cent ) and setting aside the rest in a building society monthly subscription share account ( paying 12¼ per cent ) . |
| 11 | No nomination shall be valid unless made on the form in terms prescribed by the National Executive Committee and bearing thereon the consent in writing of the member nominated . |
| 12 | Peter was as steady as a rock , keeping the ball on the fairway and hitting nearly every green in regulation . |
| 13 | If electrification is linked to the spur line , it will not be necessary for me to do what my right hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point ( Sir B. Braine ) had to do only recently , which was to get the chairman of British Rail to attend another terminus in London and to make quite a row in order for some action to be taken . |
| 14 | October 1940 , but made virtually no progress in the winter months and the arrival of British Air Force units to assist the Greek troops , prompted Hitler to act in order to protect the very important German control of oilfields in Rumania . |
| 15 | They lost every deposit , and so contributed £128,000 towards the election , but received almost no coverage in the national press , TV or radio in return . |
| 16 | But sensing perhaps the hostility in Flavia , she added , ‘ I tease too hard — forgive me . ’ |
| 17 | Domestic demand for fuel is an important subject as regards both the economy in aggregate and the welfare of individual households : the domestic sector accounts for nearly 30% of total final energy use in the UK . |