Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] in [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is best not to carry money in Cairo at night . |
| 2 | The deeper they go , the more secure the vine will be in times of flood and the more able it will be to obtain moisture in times of drought . |
| 3 | A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 . |
| 4 | But it is not only in Scotland that police appear to over-emphasise violence in connection with rape . |
| 5 | Grave food shortages in the north led the principal Soviet representative , General Shtikov , to request rice in return for coal being supplied to the south . |
| 6 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
| 7 | Olive Maguiness argued that the scholarship system itself was dysgenic because of its effects on social mobility ; she wrote that the bright members of the working class were removed from their environment , which encouraged fertility , and encouraged to defer child-bearing in favour of career . |
| 8 | If a small group has shown its work , try to encourage discussion in terms of meaning , rather than by judging it . |
| 9 | But it is possible for people growing up in a totally different culture to see kingship in terms of tyranny , in which case they would receive the statement that God is like a king as meaning that God is tyrannical , even some kind of dictator , so that religion resembles a prison rather than paradise . |
| 10 | In measures seen as evidence of MPRP efforts to streamline government in response to opposition criticism , seven ministries and three state committees , at an estimated saving of 3,600 million tugrik ( US$1.00=3.3495 tugrik as at March 26 , 1990 ) , were disbanded on April 7 , some being reorganized [ see p. 37344 for previous full list of Council of Ministers ] . |
| 11 | Or we might hope to define justification in terms of knowledge . |
| 12 | Only her determination not to betray weakness in front of fitzAlan had enabled her to grit her teeth and step into the seemingly bottomless pit . |
| 13 | Whatever the nature of the defendant 's conduct this should be so where there is ‘ no breach ’ only in the sense that an exemption clause in the contract allows a contracting party to escape liability in damages for non-performance of his obligation . |
| 14 | As computer whizzes , the twins ' main expertise is the logic of programming languages , so it is natural for them to discuss story-telling in terms of program-writing . |
| 15 | MacMillan 's The Burrow , based on the real diary of Anne Frank , was possibly the most explicit and moving of all his efforts to depict reality in terms of dance ( see page 30 ) . |
| 16 | It also follows that the work of those sociolinguists and ethnographers who attempt to discuss language in terms of user 's purposes will also be of interest . |
| 17 | 3 to give practice in changes in intonation : Teacher A bird in the hand . |
| 18 | There are also specific duties on employees to use equipment in accordance with training they have received and to report dangerous situations and any shortcomings in their employers ' health and safety arrangements . |
| 19 | An interior ‘ panic button ’ allows occupants to draw attention in case of attack . |
| 20 | Price was then called to give evidence in person on behalf of the applicant , and he again repudiated his evidence before the Swedish court in so far as it implicated the applicant , on the ground that his evidence had been obtained by pressure exerted upon him by officers of the Swedish and Norwegian police . |
| 21 | In the early 70's , the railway 's experiments to use fuel-oil in place of coal proved unsuccessful and in the mid 80's , trials to burn coal on the gas producer principle were abandoned . |
| 22 | Whilst the law is designed to give succour in times of difficulty to those who do their best , it will show little mercy to those who are at the receiving end of proceedings who can not demonstrate that they have given the highest priority . |
| 23 | Nicandra was always ready to give succour in times of trouble . |
| 24 | In a divorce case , a Dutchwoman was unable to prove actual service of process on her husband in Great Britain , so by virtue of Article 15(1) judgment could not be given in the matter ; the court , however , was prepared to give judgment in default under Article 15(2) , the Netherlands having made the necessary declaration , once the petitioner could satisfy it as to the items listed in that provision . |
| 25 | The first possibility in relation to BSL — English mixtures is to use speech in conjunction with sign . |
| 26 | In the USA , at the beginning of the century , the universities were also closer to seminaries , but by the 1870s they had begun to adopt the German model too , following the lead given by the new Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , the first to emphasize research in alliance with teaching . |
| 27 | Its object was to reduce disparity in sentences of imprisonment , and to remove the difficulty which judges faced when Parliament had told them no more than the maximum sentence for a particular crime : see Reflections on the English Sentencing System by Professor Sir Rupert Cross , Child & Co . |
| 28 | The network will also need Telecom 's cooperation to distribute traffic in areas without microwave links . |
| 29 | Two Southend players missed the team bus and had to fly north in time for kickoff . |
| 30 | It is now generally recognized that the attempt to analyse consciousness in terms of behaviour amounted to flying in the face of the facts . |