Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most basic case for charging is the general case for pricing in a competitive economy ( Seldon , 1977 ) . |
| 2 | Before 1099 he had made no difficulty about acting in a contrary sense . |
| 3 | There is always a trivial algorithm for searching in a finite space — just list all nodes , and examine them in turn . |
| 4 | It 's sad , is n't it ? … that people 's heroes are just a bunch of pansies who get paid extortionate amounts of money for kicking in a poor ball who has n't done anyone any harm ! |
| 5 | Even though she knew in her heart of hearts that this could never last , she felt as though she 'd reached a safe harbour after sailing in a vast , unfriendly sea . |
| 6 | To ensure an employee becomes effective in his work as soon as possible , briefing on the areas mentioned above is most important but no matter how much business information is provided in advance , the expatriate can not give full attention to his work if he or members of his family suffer culture shock as a result of living in a strange environment . |
| 7 | On appeals against the assessments , the taxpayers having conceded that they had received an emolument as a result of participating in the concessionary fees scheme but maintaining that the cash equivalent of the benefit had to be determined under the principle of marginal costing , the special commissioner found that the school incurred no additional expenditure in educating the taxpayers ' sons other than on certain items of equipment and on food that together cost less than the concessionary fees paid and allowed the appeals . |
| 8 | Moreover , the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 , and the emergence of public deficit financing , led to the appearance of a new force in politics , that of the " monied interest " , men who had made huge fortunes as a result of investing in the national debt . |
| 9 | Sage can be grown outdoors in cool , temperate climates in spite of its provenance , and will survive all but the coldest winters , provided the soil is well-drained , and the plant has been well-ripened as a result of growing in a sunny position . |
| 10 | This distribution , as Map 4 shows , extended an existing regional concentration of minting in the north-eastern part of Charles 's kingdom . |
| 11 | It is particularly this aspect of BSL structure which not only creates the concentration of meaning in a few glosses but is frequently brought into use by deaf people . |
| 12 | But he continues to drink away in his own private time and has no intention of following in the dry footsteps of O'Toole and Harris . |
| 13 | Both Law and Baxter liked a good time , but language problems , an over-attentive press and the sheer tedium of living in a big city hotel , conspired against them . |
| 14 | The rational pursuit of reduced management burdens , given the impossibility of acting in the public interest ( because of the limits on the bureaucrat 's information and the conflicting interests of others ) , is made possible by increases in the total budget . |
| 15 | There were two reasons not to use the phone at home — the cost to a generous woman living on a widow 's pension , and the impossibility of talking in the open-plan downstairs without being overheard . |
| 16 | It produces the archetypal image of the Christian , afraid of life , always trying to climb back into the Garden of Eden , by creating a world of fantasy if necessary to inhabit at the expense of living in the real world . |
| 17 | Everyone felt a desire to go out , even if only for a moment , to feel the pleasure of walking in a foreign city at night . |
| 18 | This is the essence of participating in a social environment . |
| 19 | Frequently , a claim by an employer based on breach of confidence has failed as it was perceived to be an attempt to prevent the employee from working in the same field by offering his skill to another employer . |
| 20 | ‘ Guided Conversation ’ sections deal with a number of useful functions ( e.g. asking for information/permission , making requests , reporting ) and give students practice in speaking in a whole range of situations and contexts . |
| 21 | He could live happily among poor working people on his holidays , but found immense pleasure in staying in a French house so grand that a servant squeezed the tubes of toothpaste between applications . |
| 22 | An alternative to digging in the green manure in spring is to cut and add the material to the compost heap . |
| 23 | The alternative to participating in a single currency is higher interest rates in this country than within that currency . |
| 24 | There may be no alternative to working in a small firm for those excluded or transferred from regular employment status in large companies and their primary subcontractors . |
| 25 | The principal can also give assistance to the agent by helping in the commercial negotiations between the agent and important customers , helping with special discounts or credit arrangements in order to secure business . |
| 26 | Dexter compounds the effect by writing in the present tense , depriving the narration of even the possibility of temporal causality ( and making it read like a 290-page stage direction ) . |
| 27 | " The results suggest , however , that a significant part of warming in the last century is not greenhouse-related " , he commented . |
| 28 | If a British Government continued , as a matter of policy , to stand apart from the process , would inward investors who need access to markets of the whole community think of locating in a semi-detached country ? |
| 29 | The advantage of buying in a local store in Europe is that although you have to pay local duty , it is likely to be much less than in the UK . |
| 30 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |