Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] in [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The recognition of interests and groups in society , and a concern to see them in relation to government and the development of public policy represented an important breakthrough in the study of British politics .
2 Mind you , he 'd come home from university one time to see me in bed with flu , glasses and no front teeth , so I guess he was pretty immune to my charmlessness — or was too shortsighted himself to notice .
3 J. was blown off his bicycle by the force of one explosion , while cycling from one aircraft to another , and woke up to find himself in hospital with concussion .
4 My longing is to meet you in play of love , my lover :
5 If we are to speak meaningfully in terms of membership it is probably better to define it in terms of communicant or active membership .
6 So if we 're talking about something talking about something taking a light year to reach us in terms of light , any possibility of human contact we 're talking about millions of years , probably , rather than a few years .
7 We seemed to wrap ourselves in coil after coil of finely spun logic , to raise our pedestal upon a mountain of phrases and formulas and to be unresponsive to the altered mood of those whose opinions we sought to change .
8 Extraordinary revenues derived from the general obligation of the King 's subjects to aid him in times of emergency .
9 However , FreeHand is simpler to use for the amateur or casual artist and this may be all the motivation he or she needs to buy it in preference to Illustrator 88 .
10 Once Newton 's physics had been constituted , it was possible to apply it in detail to astronomy .
11 But explore all the options first , such as cost-cutting and restructuring borrowings , before calling in an insolvency practitioner : they tend to see everything in terms of insolvency legislation .
12 Other issues with which I shall not detain the House but which have been mentioned by other hon. Members include the design of motor vehicles , the admirable Which ? survey , the question of insurance and rewarding those who take adequate precautions to secure their vehicles by having the means to immobilise them in case of theft , safety improvements and cases such as those in Swansea , where , for example , the local authority has now put attendants in several of the key car parks .
13 We 'd like you to put them in order of priority to agree with our judges ' decision .
14 The former Swansea City player unleashed a spectacular strike in front of the television cameras to put himself in contention for goal of the month .
15 Your family doctor should be able to put you in touch with community health services .
16 there there 's been a She asked us to do something in relation to employer awareness campaign .
17 I had now a faint ambition , both definite and indefinite , to do something in connection with learning or literature .
18 ‘ He said to tell you he was working hard on the unknown numbers , and you are not to put yourself in danger of arrest . ’
19 how could that have been developed among a people whose public granaries were crammed with provisions and whose public officials were authorized to distribute them in case of need ?
20 Yet , thanks to the cumbersome appeals procedure , each execution currently costs between $2m and $5m , four or five times what it costs to keep someone in prison for life .
21 By contrast it costs about $600,000 to keep someone in prison for life if they live for another 40 years .
22 The discussion customarily takes place in the early evening in the Home Secretary 's room at the Commons , and is intended to keep him in touch with backbench opinion .
23 The correct way to think about [ 4 ] is to interpret it in terms of energy transfers .
24 The Conti family held on to Sora after the election of Innocent 's successor , Honorius III , who wished to retain their loyalty and allowed them to keep it in return for payment , but lost the territory back to the Regno after a successful campaign by Frederick II in 1221 .
25 To recognize a rule as a rule is not to recognize it in terms of approval or disapproval .
26 Mr Pyle would like to see him in Riyadh without delay .
27 Perhaps er er another way of looking at this would be to see it in terms of rightist deviations and leftist deviations and one might see erm the er the moderate policies er of thirty seven to forty nine i in a sense as being erm a rightist deviation , one might see forty six forty seven as being leftist deviations and the left is seeking to overcome rightist deviations , the right seeking to overcome leftist deviations and you 've got some kind of oscillation between the two .
28 The point , so I thought , was to have one in case of emergency , and hope that it never came out of its pouch .
29 The FE market was large and growing , and the recent Budget had allowed still further provision to expand it in line with government policy to increase student numbers by 25% over the next three academic years , Mr Whitnall said .
30 There is no doubt that the efficient way to plan projects is to take them in order of priority — the marketing function has a major interest in priority setting — and allocate to each in turn the maximum amount of resources it can usefully employ .
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