Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed .
2 ‘ Handiman made everyone think about the handicapped person in their family that it 's easy to deny , ’ says Damon , who may have found the character 's roots in his own childhood club foot .
3 It is also important that you try and evaluate the dramatic experience of these different forms of presentation — this is worthwhile , because it will make you think about the different ways in which an actor can work and the various ways in which his skills are used .
4 Once again Charles was astonished how easily Malcolm would fall for the oldest cons in the business .
5 Make a list of what essential food you will need for the first day in your new home and go shopping the day before you move .
6 Taligent kernels — as opposed to layered products — will act as the hardware-specific interface in place of current operating systems , and application programming interfaces such as the Apple Mac user interface and IBM 's Workplace Shell will become modules that run on top of these kernels .
7 The kernels will act as the hardware-specific interface in place of current operating systems , and application programming interfaces such as the Mac user interface and IBM 's Workplace Shell will become modules that run on top of these kernels .
8 Taligent kernels — as opposed to layered products — will act as the hardware-specific interface in place of current operating systems , and application programming interfaces such as the Apple Mac user interface and IBM 's Workplace Shell will become modules that run on top of these kernels .
9 Ironically , Candy had reached her conclusions on pretty scant evidence — she did n't even know about the heated moments in Adam 's arms — if she knew how strongly Rory had responded to his touch , she 'd be completely convinced .
10 Or perhaps he felt he had no choice , perhaps he did n't know about the other places in the city which he could have gone to ; anyway he became a real regular , and soon he was there most nights , in fact every night , six nights a week , The Bar being open every day of the week except Monday , usually from the afternoon and always until three a.m. ( at least officially ) .
11 An absolute winner — I ca n't wait for the new items in the series .
12 Finally we show that recombinant TFIIA from Saccharomyces cerevisiae can substitute for the human factor in pol III transcription in vitro which proves that TFIIA is also involved in the efficient expression of classical pol III genes .
13 Yeast TFIIA can substitute for the human factor in pol III transcription in vitro
14 Since cloned human TFIIA is not yet available , we used the yeast analogue , which can functionally substitute for the human factor in pol II transcription in vitro ( 17 , 24 ) .
15 The development of professional competence however paramountly desirable can not substitute for the academic element in language courses .
16 ‘ Did they know of the deep place in the pond ?
17 My hon. Friend will know of the considerable worry in the Radcliffe part of my constituency about the prospect of an opencast coal mine being developed there .
18 Anyone dealing with such figures will know of the enormous variation in coding practice in different areas .
19 Stalin adhered to the agreement because he wished to maintain satisfactory relations with the United States if possible and perhaps because he felt that sooner or later Korea would fall into the Soviet sphere in any case .
20 With most sentences , particularly non-observational sentences , no clear answer will emerge because the natives will not all behave in the same way in the same conditions .
21 Tobacco advertisers nevertheless reach a collective readership of 7mn such women by using magazines that do n't fall within the tight definition in the agreement ; and they increased their spend on cigarette advertising in women 's magazines by 10% in real terms between 1984 and 1988 .
22 The nub of this criticism is that such views give rise to a kind of political paralysis : everything must wait until the revolutionary moment in which the production relations are transformed ; until then labour must play a purely oppositional role , a role which Precludes struggle of a ‘ prefigurative ’ kind .
23 When ‘ scarce anything [ was ] more likely to mar a … man 's reputation than to be thought opposed or indifferent to the cause of abolition , but when slavery was a distant and foreign institution , the urge to respectability could predominate over the vital flame in antislavery .
24 ‘ Or does she object to the coloured races in general ? ’
25 The rhetoric of equal opportunity could not finally win over the entrenched interests in a broad-meshed filter , a crude sieve for the child population .
26 He took deep breaths , trying to calm his mind and soul so he could concentrate on the recent events in the Tower .
27 Acton and Shepherd 's Bush , he said , were a long way from Islington but it had not needed the history and memory of Risinghill and William Tyndale to make headteachers alert to the damaging way in which matters of discipline , race , criminality and parental disquiet could be brought together into presentations of hot and not always accurate news .
28 I would place a great deal of emphasis on my own impressions , the comments of people in authority and I would focus on the key personalities in the ‘ drama ’ .
29 In Saunders 's view , the ‘ local state ’ can not simply be reduced to a functioning part of a national capitalist state , for within certain constraints ‘ non-capitalist interests can win at the local level in a way that is becoming increasingly difficult at national level ’ ( pp. 4 , 11 ) .
30 Those Q.T. 's who have already received tickets to sell will greatly assist Cicely in the organisation of the event if they would let her know by the first week in February how many tickets they have sold as she will be away from 8th Feb. to 8th March .
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