Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This distribution , as Map 4 shows , extended an existing regional concentration of minting in the north-eastern part of Charles 's kingdom . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | An alternative to digging in the green manure in spring is to cut and add the material to the compost heap . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | " The results suggest , however , that a significant part of warming in the last century is not greenhouse-related " , he commented . |
| 13 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |
| 14 | The recent cuts in the mortgage rate — with the cost of borrowing on homes now down to around the 7–8% level — will also fuel a wave of spending in the high street . |
| 15 | This is particularly so in homoiotherms , whose constant body temperature ensures a steady level of functioning in the central nervous system and hence the possibility of extensive exploration in varied environments . |
| 16 | It is difficult to distinguish cause and effect ; and even if we could be sure that the low level of orienting in the pre-exposed subjects was responsible for their retarded conditioning , it would still be necessary to explain why it is that the OR should return when reinforced training begins . |
| 17 | First , we aim to set out what has happened to the total level of spending in the last 12 years . |
| 18 | Sequoia Systems Inc 's fault-tolerant Unix systems business needs a bit of tweaking in the unhelpful climate , and the Marlborough , Massachusetts company has added a new low-end model , the Series 40 , which comes with up to four Motorola Inc 68040 microprocessors and has a starting price of under $160,000 . |
| 19 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 20 | Nessie had the pig bucket in her hand when she heard the noise of singing in the early evening air . |
| 21 | These facts are by no means irreconcilable , but it requires skill and knowledge on the part of the teacher to fulfil the special needs within the framework of teaching in the ordinary classroom . |
| 22 | As to GATT , a trade war between America and Europe would be bad for people 's stand of living in the long run but it would n't have much direct effect on Courtaulds . |
| 23 | This argument was later extended with respect to the experience of living in the modern metropolis , which Simmel suggests provides for a massive intensification of stimulation and experience , but which threatens to overwhelm us as objective culture ( 1950 : 409–24 ) . |
| 24 | The information gained on each generation will be from a different perspective , but will be in each case of intrinsic value in contributing to our understanding of the changing patterns and experience of ageing in the ordinary population . |
| 25 | The experience of travelling in the huge amphibian , and the take-offs and landings on water increased my interest in aviation , but not enough to effect any change in my plans . |
| 26 | I have found the experience of working in the voluntary sector , first of all as Chair of C V S N A , and vice-Chair of N C V O , for I think about five or six years , and finally as Chairman , in many ways on top of all my other work , exhausting . |
| 27 | A 15 year follow up of a controlled trial of grommets versus myringotomy showed no long term impairment of hearing in the grommeted ear . |
| 28 | Their independence reduced the executive 's capacity for interfering in the legal process . |
| 29 | There will have to be specific help for those in the least favoured areas , and particular help for restructuring in the southern countries of Europe . |
| 30 | After years in the wilderness , he became head of the newly-established Institute for Forecasting in the mid-80s . |