Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is best to work out a pattern in advance and draw it out on same graph paper . |
| 2 | Want to set up a table in document ? |
| 3 | It is not easy , to say nothing of being undignified , to strip off a jumper in front of an audience ! |
| 4 | She crept stealthily along the gallery , not daring to put on a light in case she should wake Luke , past his room , feeling carefully in the half-darkness . |
| 5 | I mean , it 's not a great , from a computing point of view , it 's not great having some erm you know vast faceless organisation which is going to make sure everything 's alright , because it means that when something goes wrong , it takes weeks and weeks and weeks to get it sorted out , because you have to fill in a form in triplicate , get it signed |
| 6 | ‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange . |
| 7 | SUCH has been the scale of reopenings ( not to mention survivals ) of lines and stations in the 1980s that to put matters in perspective it is necessary to go back a bit in history . |
| 8 | THE week 's news was dominated by Chancellor Nigel Lawson 's failed attempt to stave off a rise in bank base rates . |
| 9 | The single currency mortgage allows you to take out a loan in Sterling , which the lender converts into another currency . |
| 10 | It 's always difficult to know how to start a completely new venture , but the way I did it was to take out an ad in Guitar Player magazine , offering to modify any piece of equipment — anything that anyone wanted done . |
| 11 | However , quite apart from the fact that such a statement does not accommodate cases of emergency — cases where the defendant 's unlawful conduct could , unless restrained , cause serious and irreparable harm before trial , as for example where the defendant threatens to cut down a tree in breach of a tree preservation order — in other cases it is usually not so much the flagrancy of the breach as the fact that the defendant intends to persist in offending unless restrained by an injunction , which justifies the invocation of that form of relief : see City of London Corporation v. Bovis Construction Ltd . |
| 12 | Thus , when the Bank of England wishes to bring about a change in base rates , which in turn affect all other sterling rates of interest over the whole yield curve , it does so by adjusting its money market intervention rates , in what must be , by definition , the discount market . |
| 13 | Gilmore said , ‘ The army has worked with the civil authority to bring about a reduction in violence and will continue to do so as long as it is necessary . ’ |
| 14 | But yesterday Alan Milburn , Labour 's parliamentary candidate for Darlington , said : ‘ It is Conservative Party policy as well as Labour Party policy to bring about a reduction in tobacco consumption . |
| 15 | But Mr Milburn said : ‘ It is Conservative party policy as well as Labour Party policy to bring about a reduction in tobacco consumption . |
| 16 | The various items offered in the pack have been chosen to reflect the concept of the Church attempting to bring about a renewal in society . |
| 17 | The section of the Education Reform Act 1988 , which forces all LEAs to devolve financial power to the schools in the form of Local Management of Schools , is only one of the many new initiatives designed , apparently , to bring about an increase in quality . |