Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the clutch of Highers and then the Ordinary MA with which I eventually emerged turned out to be a pretty useful preparation for a life in journalism . |
| 2 | " Instead of the children of the working class being subjected to rigorous self-denial in preparation for a life-time in mill or mine , " he writes , " they have been offered instead the promise of the easy and immediate gratification which , in the end , can sabotage human development and achievement just as effectively as the poverty and hunger of the past . " |
| 3 | Some observers interpreted this as a manoeuvre in preparation for a shift in Kadhafi 's position on the extraditions . |
| 4 | In England in the early part of the eighteenth century the crown occasionally gave some help , in a haphazard way , to suitable young would-be diplomats to travel in preparation for a career in government service . |
| 5 | The Paris talks were in preparation for a meeting in September of the so-called " Paris Club " of creditor countries . |
| 6 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be stated , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 7 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be states , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 8 | ‘ The attendance ’ , said counsel for the defendant in Hunt v. Broome , ‘ is for the purpose of peacefully persuading a man not to work so the attendance must be in a position where the persuasion can be carried out ; otherwise its purpose is frustrated … |
| 9 | The apparent failure of the English to contain the Irish reveals a great deal of weakness about the English in Spenser 's eyes . |
| 10 | Hankin said of the young midfielder , who can also play in defence : ‘ It is a big opportunity for the lad in front of a crowd of 13,000 or 14,000 . |
| 11 | East of Tromsø , the ‘ capital ’ of Arctic Norway , is Lyngen , a superb area of jagged peaks that is near paradise for the climber in winter . |
| 12 | Beginners sometimes see the short story as a novel in capsule , but it is n't . |
| 13 | A council has been asked to give permission for the development in return for money for recreational facilities . |
| 14 | The Regional Council refused planning permission for the development in November of last year , and among the reasons for refusal was the lack of justification for the commercial development , and the harm that would be caused to this particular part of the Green Belt . |
| 15 | The Department of Transport finally granted permission for the scheme in February following over ten years of lobbying of Southwark Council by JS . |
| 16 | In ‘ Pride and Prejudice ’ it is essential for a suitor to request permission for the hand in marriage of the women he has chosen . |
| 17 | Accepted by the Foreign Mission Board as a teacher in Duke Town , Calabar , in August 1876 she sailed for West Africa , never before having left Scotland . |
| 18 | BP 's case for a reduction in North Sea taxes to provide room for manoeuvre smacks of special pleading . |
| 19 | BACK IN THE COURTroom , David Calvert-Smith opens the case for the Crown in front of Judge Lowry . |
| 20 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 21 | The other was a £310,000 provision for the diminution in market value of an undisclosed investment . |
| 22 | There is the further grave difficulty about the idea in hand , as a little reflection will show , that in the given sense no causal circumstance , as distinct from cc " use , has the given power . |
| 23 | Hammond laughed , but his face was filled with loathing for the man in front of him . |
| 24 | Osburn saw hope for the future in Englishmen mending their ways . |
| 25 | In 1909 the " sunday Chronicle " published a light-hearted sketch about a festival in Dieppe , dwelling upon the tendency of sober Englishmen to lead a " gay " life ( in the 1909 sense of the word ) when safely across the channel . |
| 26 | CHRIS Balderstone will create history at Lord 's tomorrow when he becomes the first umpire to sit in judgement during a Test in England . |
| 27 | One or two other questions , of a routine kind about the house in Mouncy Street , more to keep her talking , open her up , than anything else . |
| 28 | The District Council endorsed these opinions and Jacques wrote to National Secretary Harry Nutt the following week to tell him so — adding that the Council had also supported the plea for an increase in Ministry grant-aid to 90% of teaching costs , which was of course in keeping with National WEA policy . |
| 29 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 30 | An additional difficulty for the archivist in UK government is the lack of a sense of history . |