Example sentences of "in [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But the tables were good then but erm too much time involved in them , in in sawing with in them .
2 Ben R. Finney , on the other hand , in Surfboarding in Oceania , favours the hypothesis of independent invention , drawing attention to the different names for he'enalu in different places ( wahakaheke ngaru among the Maoris and fakapapa in Uvea ) .
3 I joined him in gazing at the large red lump forming just below the joint and we mused together .
4 Leon sucked his way carefully round his host 's person and joined him in gazing at the red plastic blob .
5 ‘ ( 1 ) Where livestock belonging to any person strays on to land in the ownership or occupation of another and — ( a ) damage is done by the livestock to the land or to any property on it which is in the ownership or possession of the other person ; or ( b ) any expenses are reasonably incurred by that other person in keeping the livestock while it can not be restored to the person to whom it belongs or while it is detained in pursuance of section 7 of [ the ] Act , or in ascertaining to whom it belongs ; the person to whom the livestock belongs is liable for the damage or expenses , except as otherwise provided by [ the ] Act . ’
6 ( c ) If the death takes place after the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , but within seven years of the advance or determination , then in ascertaining for the purposes of CTT the value of the deceased 's estate immediately before his death there is to be included the value of any property which would have been chargeable with estate duty had Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , still been in force ( ie , after the application of any taper relief ) , unless the deceased was the surviving partner of a marriage which had been terminated by the death of the other spouse before 13/11/74 and the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of that Act would have applied had they still been in force ; and the persons accountable for the tax are those who would have been accountable under Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , for any estate duty that would have been chargeable .
7 So , I 'm sure members of this Committee have heard this on several occasions as we 've introduced the system , but we have had to put in a fairly complex and detailed system of assessing people 's needs , producing care packages to meet those needs , offering choice to those people , and responding to that choice , then doing what the D S S used to do , I E , a financial assessment of their ability to meet the costs of that care , and settling our contribution , and we 're involved therefore in contracting with the independent sector for purchase of that care , and with the collection of contributions from those individuals , with increasing numbers and increasing complexity .
8 None the less continued expansion of fundholding will lead to excessive management costs , difficulties of coordination in contracting between growing numbers of purchasers , and lack of effectiveness .
9 It will be hard , as only one in ten succeed in abstaining for more than a year .
10 If that was an isolated incident I am sure that the Minister will join me in apologising for it , but will he look at distribution methods to ensure that such incidents do not happen on any scale ?
11 Evidence from the Home Office consultant pathologist , Professor Alan Usher , discovered no abnormality except pneumonia due to lung statis ; ‘ exactly what one would expect in poisoning by a respiratory depressant drug . ’
12 As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom .
13 It has to be emphasised that the committee worked always in the shadow of the law : Section 132 of the Public Health Act 1875 had said that any expenses incurred by a local authority in maintaining in a hospital a patient who is not a pauper , should be deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the local authority , and could be recovered from him at any time within six months after his discharge from the hospital .
14 Most of them do feel that they have succeeded in bringing on board the majority of people in a country such as this to support their claims .
15 Despite the limitations of EEC milk quotas , several chemical companies are involved in bringing into commercial use the growth hormone — bovine somatotropin ( BST ) .
16 The fruit of his labours for the RIIA was a volume of nearly 2,000 pages ( An African Survey , 1938 ) which immediately became the basis of intensive discussion at the Colonial Office and which secured for Hailey , until 1943 , an unrivalled position of influence in the Office 's debate on the future of Africa , which he himself had been instrumental in bringing into being .
17 The publications of Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt have succeeded in bringing into the mainstream of art history the study of artist 's pattern books and travel notebooks , which were so important for the dissemination of ideas and motifs , as well as book illustration and marginalia drawings .
18 In bringing into relation such personnel , the Association also brought together the cultural and institutional themes that have been detailed above .
19 In bringing into play this powerful discourse on art and the eternal " qualities of the human spirit to justify the distinctiveness of English , the Report is able to recuperate the very history which it claims to transcend , by recourse to an essentialist and narrowly-based cultural history of the " English people " :
20 HMIP 's policing function will be crucial in bringing to book companies that pollute air and waterways .
21 This was in recognition both of the 40th anniversary of his debut with the company and of the strenuous part he has played in bringing to fruition this ambitious project .
22 Little did the bargeman know that he would be instrumental in bringing to justice the most hated woman of her time .
23 And although this particular episode in the end solved no major scientific problem , it serves a crucial role in bringing to light the many aspects of what science is all about and what it means to do good science .
24 It claimed to have the authority of the past and the patronage of the saints in bringing to the world the fruits of monastic discipline and devotion .
25 In our own Ulster Nation we would have a free hand in bringing to justice and finally ridding the country of these butchers .
26 They therefore constitute a significant historical source , above all in bringing to life the British community in Calcutta .
27 But for her , the challenge in Athene lay in bringing to the attentions of the readers items which were not of specifically female concerns .
28 In bringing to light the user 's primary need for subject searching , online catalogues have begun to be considered as true IR systems akin to commercial online services .
29 On Nov. 27 a warning had been issued to the government by France , the United Kingdom and the USA , to hand over two men suspected of blowing up a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie , Scotland , in December 1988 , and to co-operate in bringing to trial suspects in the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 [ see p. 39215 ] .
30 Ash had never met Miss LaMotte , who indeed came out exceptionally to please me and to speak of her dear Father , whose Mythologies I have had some hand in bringing before the English public .
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