Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province . |
| 2 | Tonics , restoratives and health remedies provide an opportunity to invest in the non-toxic remedies of the future . |
| 3 | It would undoubtedly cost a lot on money to implement in the short run , as would some of the more conventional changes proposed by that Frenchman who claims to run the sport with an impartial hand . |
| 4 | amd next week we 'll be back on the football trail to see in the new season |
| 5 | There 's even more ammunition for the Limited driver to unload in the performance-over-a-pint discussion at the local pub . |
| 6 | All peers of England have retained entitlement to sit in the appropriate House of Lords throughout . |
| 7 | Some used this expertise to work in the private sector as consultants advising on urban policy ; in one case a firm that employed no Black people was selected for its ‘ inner city expertise ’ to evaluate the Handsworth Task Force in inner Birmingham which it had previously also been paid to advise but which was now being shut down to make room for a newly fashionable Urban Development Corporation , this time in the Birmingham Heartlands ( sic ) . |
| 8 | So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch . |
| 9 | Too often these people are frustrated by their inability to communicate in the new language . |
| 10 | Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period , as will be seen in the next chapter . |
| 11 | Each faction seems prima facie to have chosen a different side to support in the Arab-Israeli conflict . |
| 12 | If you want your wedding to appear in the local newspaper , now is the time to organise it |
| 13 | Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support . |
| 14 | His was too literary , and now too deliberate , a talent to flourish in the public realm of the theatre . |
| 15 | This rise in spending will raise national income to £1,010 in period t + 1 and this will cause both consumption and investment to increase in the next period , period t + 2 : Notice that both investment and national income have already risen above the levels reached in the previous example . |
| 16 | It seems that even if you have loved and been loved , there could well have been some loss to bear in the recent past . |
| 17 | It was the brothers ' intention to disappear in the ensuing melée . |
| 18 | It is possible for the future to appear in the subordinate clause as well : The firm will expand if the investors will put up the money , although the normal pattern is the future tense in the main clause , followed by the present tense in the subordinate one . |
| 19 | Comparing the post-acute pancreatitis patients with the controls , the time taken for labelled total protein to appear in the duodenal juice was significantly ( p<0.05 ) longer in the post-acute pancreatitis patients ( Table II , Fig 3 ) . |
| 20 | In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority . |
| 21 | Defeated presidential candidates Ion Ratiu ( Christian Democratic National Peasants ' Party — CDNPP ) and Radu Campeanu ( National Liberal Party — NLP ) listed irregularities in the process and complained that the campaign had been waged in an atmosphere of violence ; both , however , stated their intention to participate in the new parliament . |
| 22 | A local garage owner has leant them a car to help in the short term . |
| 23 | ‘ It was a pleasure to play in the same side as a true football genius . |
| 24 | Saddam Hussein delivered a speech on March 26 at the ceremony to swear in the new Council of Ministers in which he acknowledged that the forthcoming period would be a difficult one for the new ministers ; he said that they would be given between four and six months to demonstrate whether or not they were capable of doing their job properly . |
| 25 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 26 | It attributed the growth of judicial review to , amongst other things , ‘ an increasing willingness on the part of the judiciary to intervene in the day-to-day business of government , coupled with a move towards an imaginative interpretation of statutes ’ . |
| 27 | He would not have created around him such a large and adoring circle had he not had very real capacities as a teacher , a gift for friendship and for infecting others with his passion for art , literature , films and music as well as a readiness to share in the post-war desire for a better world . |
| 28 | Public outcry over what was widely seen as an attempt to intervene in the judicial process , however , caused the party to withdraw this threat almost immediately . |
| 29 | THE mother of the only British soldier to die in the Bosnian conflict will receive a posthumous United Nations medal on his behalf tomorrow . |
| 30 | TEN City executives and a solicitor were yesterday bailed for a total of £1.1million after appearing at Guildhall magistrates court on charges of conspiracy to defraud in the Blue Arrow rights issue . |