Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rents should be related to the capital value of the property , thereby reflecting its popularity in market terms ’ . |
| 2 | In 1931 , Horton visited Denmark to look more closely at the Folk Schools and their relationships with the trade unions , farmers ' co-operatives , and other cultural and social movements , and though he was in part disappointed by the fact that the Folk Schools had moved away from their original aims and methods , he was able to speak to many people who were involved in this movement and added another dimension to the idea which was eventually to find its expression in Highlander . |
| 3 | Karenin was a direct result of that society and even before she left him she knew there was no way out because she was n't strong enough to sacrifice her position in society . |
| 4 | As an American I can only hang my head in shame over the Bill Clinton sex scandal . |
| 5 | Richard only estimated his age in relationship to his duties . |
| 6 | As Citrine had earlier told his colleagues , a tactical retreat of accepting the Minister 's suggestion and then showing it to be ineffective would enable them better to assert their independence in future . |
| 7 | The CML also queried the legal basis of grant limitation in view of ‘ the Law Society 's duty not to unjustifiably fetter its discretion in respect of the operation of the fund ’ . |
| 8 | He finished the glass of Kir and decided that he had better see his controller in person . |
| 9 | Cromwell commissioned Stephen Vaughan , one of the English envoys in the Low Countries , to seek out Tyndale and persuade him to return to England , hoping perhaps to enlist his pen in support of the new policies . |
| 10 | Baron von Munchausen was an eighteenth-century Hanoverian soldier who greatly exaggerated his prowess in war — and his battle-scars . |
| 11 | Soon it was not enough to demonstrate your success in life by the acquisition of material goods . |
| 12 | The French were crushed by the native forces and the Americans were forced to move in to take their place in order to safe-guard their investment , going a little deeper into the quicksand . |
| 13 | A flicker of something crossed his face but he said nothing , merely inclined his head in return . |
| 14 | I give you ten years , sir , ’ he said to Havvie , ‘ but you are in bad condition , I see , so sweeten your language in future , or it will be the worse for you . ’ |
| 15 | Nigel was paid for his work , but he hated not seeing his piece in print . |
| 16 | He castigated the illustrator of Time Wasted Away for not bringing his work in line with that of Miss [ sic ] Vanessa Bell and , among other things , for depicting the sun as an eight-pointed starfish in the sky . |
| 17 | WILLIAMS ) came in at a run from the " Coriolanus " matin e e , still in his toga , and just made his position in time . ] |
| 18 | It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo . |
| 19 | Over 4000 members have already given their verdict in favour of the club 's ‘ fabulous facilities manifesto ’ and its dual function , ( tennis ' double whammy , if you like ! ) , that of meeting all member needs while maintaining a warm and welcoming atmosphere within the club 's spacious acres . |
| 20 | The existing centre at Northwick Park in north-west London , has not developed its research in collaboration with hospital work , as once hoped , and is to be phased out . |
| 21 | He would not neglect his wife in favour of his work , nor his work in favour of his wife . |
| 22 | A newspaper report of an inquest on a patient at the Biggleswade institution appeared to imply that the guardians had not done their duty in respect of the provision of adequate nursing staff . |
| 23 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 24 | I had already made my debut in Scrutiny , however , and he may have felt that this made it appropriate that I should have something equivalent in The Criterion . |
| 25 | Author Bernard Kops had already made his name in theatre with The Hamlet of Stepney Green , another work of social concern , and later declared that theatre would never again be a ‘ precious inner sanctum for the precious few ’ . |
| 26 | There are two ways in which a bidder generally uses its paper in order to finance a takeover ; an underwritten rights issue ( see para 5.6 above ) or a cash underwritten alternative . |
| 27 | Each applicant had applied for his respective daughter to be admitted to the school in September 1991 , thus expressing their preference in accordance with the appropriate arrangements under the Education Act 1980 . |
| 28 | She will leave , take the children with her and is often in no hurry to take on another man who can not give her caring in return . |
| 29 | The affair between village head teacher Beth and one of her teachers , Hywel , is included an affair that has already run its course in Welsh . |
| 30 | What I did not realise when I bought the house was that in the winter , and sometimes in the summer , the fog rolls thickly in and you can not see your hand in front of your face . |