Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [pron] [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hectic social life could cost a packet so you might have to pull in your horns a wee bit . |
| 2 | Hurrying under cover of darkness up to Roscarrock Hall where a real priest was visiting from Ireland or Spain , they whispered their confessions to him , received absolution from him and knelt in the Roscarrock family chapel to hear a proper Latin Mass and to receive in their mouths the living sacrifice , the Body of Christ . |
| 3 | We will now see if it is possible to state in what circumstances the different tones are used within the very limited context of the words ‘ yes ’ and ‘ no ’ said in isolation . |
| 4 | Most important , since form was now largely suggested rather than clearly defined , and since a strong linear quality was retained in the finished painting , it became much easier to combine the various views of an object or to synthesize in its depiction a greater amount of information . |
| 5 | Wagner began to assume in his mind a heroic , aesthetic , Schopenhauerian status , so that it was natural for him to couple the two even before he had any reason to suppose that Wagner was at all interested in the philosopher . |
| 6 | 24–9– " The Session desires to record in their minutes the following resolution annent the Church question , viz. that they resolve unanimously to adhere to the union of 1900 . |
| 7 | Sultan Mahmud I ( 1730–54 ) attempted to disband the janissaries and to put in their place a modern force , modelled on the standing armies of his European enemies . |
| 8 | No water emerges from the exit , the stream electing to sink in its bed a short distance inside . |
| 9 | In September 1964 a special meeting of the corporation finance committee , which included all councillors , adopted an amended motion which gave the boundary extension subcommittee the power to include in its remit the progressive expansion of Derry , so as to maintain its position as the second city in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | The coroner made a mental note to include in his treatise a special chapter on the cleaning of the ditch . |
| 11 | He used to sit in his study the whole time . |
| 12 | The organisations participating in Compacts will provide an excellent resource for teachers in all subjects aiming to develop in their students a wide understanding of the society in which they will live and work . |
| 13 | Most of the new novelists , in fact , set out to portray in their works the social reality of their respective countries , and some novels — notably Carpentier 's Explosion in a Cathedral , García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Vargas Llosa 's The War of the End of the World — are continental in scope , reflecting the reality of Latin America as a whole . |
| 14 | He seemed to embody in his person the entire history of the sport : he symbolized the Hawaiian spirit . |
| 15 | It should be the duty of all teachers to instil in their pupils a civilised respect for other languages and an understanding of the relations between other languages and English . |
| 16 | She urged parents to instil in their children the three ‘ Rs ’ — responsibility , respect and right from wrong . |
| 17 | Eliot , who invited his friends to this performance , who attended some of the rehearsals , and who expressed his full confidence in the director Rupert Doone , continued to follow in his text the original impetus which Cornford had given him . |