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

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1 The bishop declared that for a clerk in holy orders to sit as a justice in eyre for forest pleas was contrary to the canons of the Church , and rendered him ineligible for an office involving the cure of souls .
2 But the young Conservative member , whom Beatrice Webb thought the most brilliant man in the House of Commons , crossed the floor to sit as an independent in protest against the use of torture to interrogate Sinn Fein prisoners in 1920 .
3 I would n't like to go for a week in silence .
4 I am not intending to go through the report in detail erm but I hope that I we will now need to draw attention to one or two issues erm which are of particular concern and which emerged through the consultation process .
5 Drink driving continues to appear as a factor in road accidents in Lothian and featured in 366 accidents in 1990 , 17% of these resulting in injury .
6 The design activity itself will need to communicate through the network in order to accomplish its set task .
7 This means that if , for example , the cooking cycle is programmed for two-and-a-half minutes at a required temperature the machine will adjust to compensate for the fall in temperature which occurs when a frozen or chilled food will have been cooked for two-and-a-half minutes at the correct temperature .
8 There is moderate reduction in lung cancer risk associated with lower tar cigarettes but research in the UK suggests that the assumed health advantages of switching to lower tar may be largely offset by the tendency of smokers to compensate for the reduction in nicotine ( cigarettes lower in tar also tend to be lower in nicotine ) by smoking more or inhaling more deeply [ 4 ] .
9 While this is a welcome help it does little to compensate for the difference in service provision between the urban and rural areas .
10 Sometimes while approximate balancing is carried out it is necessary to provide for a reduction in sensitivity of detection through incorporation of a suitable attenuation network .
11 Workers are not free since they are forced to work for the capitalist in order to survive .
12 Monthly repayments are fixed throughout the term of the loan so there is no need to worry about a change in interest rates !
13 The damage was reported to the management and the captain was told not to worry as the item in question was in a damaged state before our visit .
14 Paintings are expected to come off the walls in preparation for the tour after 1 January 1993 .
15 The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case .
16 The fourteen founders decided to work towards a text in collaboration with gallery owners and auctioneers and submit it to the French government , within the next few months if possible , in order for it to become law .
17 Ariel began to communicate with the strangers in English ; she told Kit about the hot springs up the mountain , hoping he would let her go there .
18 The Doctor tried to communicate with the slave in English , but received no response .
19 Elderly parents also have to grapple with a change in role .
20 In the first place the Americans had to accept Britain 's inability to persist with the experiment in sterling convertibility in the summer of 1947 — this was attempted in accordance with the terms of the loan agreement .
21 Edward for his part had to accommodate himself to political and financial realities , and was prepared to compromise with the commons in return for taxes , though he would not give way on the fundamental issue of the right to choose his own councillors .
22 Chinese hamster lung fibroblasts transfected with M1 muscarinic receptors responded to carbachol with an increase in inositol phosphate release and fos and myc induction , but there was no DNA synthesis .
23 Twenty years after I was there — in the added bleakness of wartime and the blackout — the economist and educationalist John Vaizey ( the late Lord Vaizey ) was to write in an article in Encounter :
24 The Barbados economy continued to suffer from a slow-down in growth during late 1989 and 1990 in response to the tight fiscal policies introduced by the government to protect the country 's foreign exchange reserves and balance of payments .
25 Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers .
26 Were Lascars and Chinamen to benefit from the improvements in food , accommodation , repatriation etc. which it provided for British seamen ?
27 But I do not agree that it is necessary for the Crown Prosecution Service to appear before the court in order to be bound .
28 Four archways show the scenes in areas 60–63 , and it is possible to walk through these archways to appear within the area in question ( a one-way portal , alas ) .
29 Due diligence will be undertaken by a number of different advisers to Newco and the investors , and in certain transactions it is advisable for these parties to meet before the exercise in order not to duplicate work and to provide for cross-fertilisation of ideas .
30 In it , you mentioned that you would be willing to write to an official in support of the building of a proper path between Bloomiehall Park and Muirwood Road , to give children a shorter and potentially safer route to school avoiding the Lanark Road .
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