Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant .
2 The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant .
3 Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life .
4 It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in .
5 And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured .
6 If the pub as an institution expresses itself in a rich variety of ways , the same is true of the physical forms it takes .
7 While foot-based metre(s) do display promotion , they are typically " heavier " lines , and such heaviness shows itself in the high degree of demotion ( e.g. of lexical monosyllables — blind in three blind mice ) and subordination within the line .
8 ‘ Instead the council finds itself in an impossible position . ’
9 For example , let's say an old lady with a walking stick approaches you in the High Street and asks you the way to the nearest public toilets .
10 In these circumstances , where a director alleges an agreement with a committee of the Board for payment of remuneration , the court will not , in law or equity , award a sum to him for services to the company , as in relying on such an alleged agreement the director involves himself in an irreconcilable conflict between his duties as a director and his personal interests .
11 Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense .
12 An early picture shows her in a wide-brimmed black hat and white dress owned by Sarah .
13 Ayer tells us in the next paragraph :
14 Antoine Bloye not only clarifies the meaning of Antoine 's life and in the process immortalises it in a negative exemplary narrative .
15 We often feel like one of the black sheep of the independent sector — accepting a licence fee puts you in the not-serious programme makers ' league .
16 MIPS claims all RISC chips offer roughly the same performance and that its R4400 96 SPECint89 score puts it in the same league as HP , distinguished by its significantly lower price and wide availability .
17 Labour 's change of policy on the European Community puts it in a strong position to argue that economic and industrial decisions are increasingly likely to be made on a European basis and it is essential that Britain plays a more constructive role .
18 The war boar is a dangerous beast whose charge puts him in the same category as a fully armoured , lance-armed knight .
19 The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on .
20 TRIPOS ' extensive experience and expertise in conformational searching , activity prediction , and 3D visualisation places it in a unique position to produce a single system that unites 3D searching , molecular design and analysis with proprietary activity and property prediction techniques into an effective information analysis environment .
21 This has always been a problem for heads because the structure of the service puts them in an isolated position .
22 Its position beside Musgrave Street police station puts it in the same difficult position as many old buildings beside security installations .
23 Frodo uses it in the Old Forest :
24 The economy finds itself in a suboptimal state of temporary equilibrium at point C owing to a sales constraint on output : firms would ideally like to produce Y * ; output and employ L * ; workers but , being unable to sell all of this output and employ this number of workers , they are obliged to produce a level of output Y 1 compatible with constraint on sales and hence employ only L 1 workers .
25 Parliament changes nothing in the physical world by passing laws .
26 King 's Highway ( 17 ) : Edom 's refusal to let Israel pass along this main road involves them in a long detour south and round .
27 Growing up is hard to do , when the terms of your parents ' will keeps you in a perpetual state of childhood .
28 This in turn puts him in the right frame of mind to be helped to overcome the problem once and for all .
29 Dumbo puts me in the front passenger seat and seats himself behind .
30 Shedding their skin puts them in the same position as Jane Austen 's heroes , prematurely aged by the treacherous sun of the West Indies . ’
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