Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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1 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
2 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |
3 | Next month he travels to Nuremburg to do parish work before going on to work in the archives in the Papal capital . |
4 | Craftsmanship in wood , leathern iron and silver was quite highly developed among the Yakuts in the seventeenth century , and they were almost the only north Siberian people to make pottery . |
5 | Invading fans are not only repulsed by the occupants in defence of their home ‘ turf ’ , but also by the police in their pursuit of law and order and the status quo . |
6 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
7 | Er I hope that makes the matter clear , because when we come to make a decision on this group of amendments , er when I er seek the opinion of the er Committee on my Amendment five , I shall only be seeking agreement to Amendment five and its related amendments er eight and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to the amendments in his name because we have in fact four alternatives before us which we are debating together . |
8 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
9 | This brings in the other theme of how money can corrupt which is obviously shown by the ways in which Pip 's attitude changes towards those around him by becoming condescending towards them and showing little respect and compassion . |
10 | What steps are reasonable in any particular case will obviously depend on the circumstances in which the policeman ( or the citizen ) finds himself , but these might include requiring trespassers to leave , requiring a speaker to move from his chosen spot , or to desist from speaking altogether , calling for quiet when noise seems likely to provoke a breach of the peace ; in short , anything that is necessary to prevent the breach from occurring . |
11 | The rush for tickets was sparked by Sunday 's goalless draw between the US and El Salvador which left Trinidad needing only to draw against the Americans in the National Stadium to qualify for next year 's finals . |
12 | Atlantic Aeroengineering naturally specialises in the types in the remainder of the Group , the DC-3 , DC-6 , Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander and the Cessna 402/404 series , but work can be undertaken on a wide variety of types . |
13 | But these values were much influenced by the changes in the value of the dollar , both in relation to other currencies and in relation to world prices . |
14 | It has been noted as a common error in response to ratio and proportion questions , but its incidence is much influenced by the numbers in the questions and particularly by context ( Bell , APU ) . |
15 | The implication always was , the feeling , that Michael not only knew about the men in balaclavas , but was a part of them somehow , but Rory and his mother — although never discussing it — believed otherwise . |
16 | In England , belief in the uniformity of time was greatly influenced by the Puritans in their strong opposition to the practices of the Roman Church , in particular to the idea of special days in the ecclesiastical calendar . |
17 | The early sociologists were greatly influenced by the changes in patterns of life which they saw going on around them as industrialisation proceeded , and they were often deeply disturbed by what they saw . |
18 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
19 | Some of Lancaster 's supporters who had escaped justice in 1322 were at large committing acts of banditry in the north-west , and a more general change of sentiment perhaps lay behind the petitions in the parliament of February 1324 that the rotting corpses of the rebels who had been hanged should be taken down and given decent burial . |
20 | The matter is made worse by the fact that the two offences are construed as being mutually exclusive ; and the resulting difficulties are not entirely overcome by the provisions in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 44 as to the verdicts open to the jury when they find that the accused committed an offence different from that charged ( cf. paragraph 90 ) . |
21 | In Tampa , Florida , in 1989 , the Europeans quite rightly complained about the conditions in which their horses were stabled — overheated , with poor ventilation and an insufficient exercising area — compared with the facilities given to the North American horses . |
22 | The highlight of the Junior School charities programme is the Summer Charities Fair held on the lawns in June . |
23 | ( 4 ) The sales information , including the information about prices , was necessarily acquired by the defendants in order that they could do their work . |
24 | Highlights have been the visit of Mr J. Scott Morgan with his book on the Bishop 's Castle Railway , and much work behind the scenes in connection with the proposed Museum . |
25 | Material characteristic of medieval Latin writing that is widely exploited in the fabliaux in ways that are often both entertaining and probing is the dogma of antifeminist traditions : traditions which present woman , the daughters of Eve , as generally morally reprehensible and dangerous to man ; insatiable and extravagant sexual sirens with their bodies , and perjurers , temptresses or endless naggers with their tongues . |
26 | We went on to talk about the articles in Time and Tide that had so provoked Rebecca West , and Father D'Arcy observed how , in dealing with ‘ difficult ’ correspondents , it was important to strike the right note in replying . |
27 | Japan , the United States and western Europe are generally regarded as the leaders in the present electronics revolution . |
28 | The poison was not given to the Indians in massive doses that would have provoked a reaction , but was administered drop by drop , until it brought about the loss of personality . |
29 | Wordsworth 's name soon doubled with the Lakes in the titles — The English Lake District as interpreted by Wordsworth appeared in 1874 , and in 1911 Eric Robertson produced a book simply called Wordsworthshire — the final apotheosis ! |
30 | We need to look beyond the social position readers already occupy to the ways in which reading as an activity is itself structured in different contexts . |