Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He would not neglect his wife in favour of his work , nor his work in favour of his wife . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 ’ . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The visibility was so bad even after dawn that ‘ you could not see your fingers in front of your face ’ . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Sir George Calvert , a politician at the Stuart court , had already shown his interest in colonization by trying to found a settlement in the Avalon district of Newfoundland , though this had failed partly because of the climate and partly because of the opposition of the fishermen who came from England every summer to use it as a base for fishing on the Grand Banks . |
| 43 | David Howell did not remember his time in Cabinet with much pleasure — ‘ some arguments just left such acrimony and ill-feeling that I ca n't believe they really could have been enjoyable … |
| 44 | File it alongside ‘ I 'll put you in motion pictures ’ , ‘ I could immortalise you in paint ’ , ‘ I can just see your neck in marble ’ , etc , etc . |
| 45 | He was so innocent of the ways of the world that Hari just shook her head in amazement . |
| 46 | Billy did n't bother to answer , he just raised his thumb in agreement and snuggled even deeper into his coat . |
| 47 | I recall being in the first class and er a teacher coming to me , as I were n't paying much attention I think , and to this day I shall remember and never forget , she just folded my arms in front of me and says , Percy , you 're not listening , you 'll have to have a rest . |
| 48 | The two wingers were , in the manager 's words , ‘ brilliant against Poland at Wembley ’ , but tactical considerations had already precluded their selection in tandem next week . |
| 49 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |
| 50 | But it is useless to start deciding which aspects of behaviour did or did not have their origin in sex . |
| 51 | I ca n't swear to the following but the headmaster said Basil was undoubtedly a gentleman , but he 'd rather not have his brother in case he turned out the same . |
| 52 | But Tudor sovereigns did not take their decisions in isolation from pressure and advice . |
| 53 | Further to the west the Ingleton Parish Register for the period records after many burials that the dead were " buried in wool according to the act " and in Swaledale itself , when Ann Baker was buried in 1692 at Grinton Church , her father , Adam , a lead-miner from Oldgang , was fined five pounds for not burying his daughter in wool . |
| 54 | Haydn was ill and could not complete his commission in time , so Mozart finished it for him . |
| 55 | ‘ We can be certain that the designer of Class AA ( an undergraduate student ) did not read your article in Wireless World unless it was translated into Japanese ; he can not , read , write or speak English . |
| 56 | In a separate conclusion , the advocate general , Karl Otto Lenz , decided that the Commission had not proved its allegations in respect of complaints of unsafe levels of lead in Scottish water . |
| 57 | You will not mention our name in connection with this order or disclose the existence of this order in any publicity material or other similar communication to third parties without our prior consent in writing . |
| 58 | Most commonly , tales are told of mermaids who fall in love with mortal men and painfully shed their tail in order to be able to live with them on land . |
| 59 | Solicitors who do not tell their clients in advance as much as they can about the likely cost of a piece of work — or exceed an estimate without notice — are now at risk of having their charges reduced by the Law Society under its powers to penalise Inadequate Professional Services . |
| 60 | Do not disguise your intentions in order to achieve your own ends as doing this only feeds the negativity within you . |