Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum fees that companies can charge for inspection or copies are now prescribed by regulations ( the former practice of stating them in the primary legislation did not work well in an inflationary climate ) and these regulations clarify the obligations of companies regarding inspection and copies . |
| 2 | The precautionary principle suggests that , as the future damage done by pollution is often more costly than the extra expense of avoiding it in the first place and in any case it is often unacceptable , even if a money cost ca n't be put on it , then prevention is better than cure . |
| 3 | ‘ There was some talk of replanting it in the late Sixties when you were back in London . |
| 4 | If you read Totem and Taboo , and I , by the way I do expect all of you er to read it , because it is one of the set er books , and one of the things I 'm not gon na do in these lectures on the black books , is to tell you what the book says , and just kind of repeat it in the lecture . |
| 5 | This kind of putting oneself in the place of another and attempting to portray and communicate something through a medium which is unsuitable to it is very essential for an understanding of religion . |
| 6 | A classic case of shooting ourselves in the foot , the chairman , Sir Alan Cockshaw , admitted ruefully yesterday . |
| 7 | ‘ And this is where she 's really going to feel the benefit of having someone in the family who knows about insurance . ’ |
| 8 | Breakfast and lunch is usually a question of helping yourself in the kitchen . |
| 9 | And perhaps Van Dyck does n't flatter him in quite the way , flatter 's the wrong word , sort of transmutes him in the way that he often does in his very elegant and sophisticated portraits . |
| 10 | ‘ Sort of left you in the air . |
| 11 | Embarrassing as those moments were for me , I would not wish to imply that I in any way blame Mr Farraday , who is in no sense an unkind person ; he was , I am sure , merely enjoying the sort of bantering which in the United States , no doubt , is a sign of a good , friendly understanding between employer and employee , indulged in as a kind of affectionate sport . |
| 12 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 13 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 14 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 15 | Mr Battleaxe is in danger of lancing himself in the foot : in the sentence quoted from my letter , he inserts the word ‘ sic ’ — inside curved brackets . |
| 16 | They are aware of the danger of putting themselves in the same opposition boat as the Party of Democratic Socialism , formerly the communist party , which has its doubts about unity . |
| 17 | Agencies who intervene are in danger of finding themselves in the role of persecutors ! |
| 18 | She had been out of prison for two months and was in the process of re-establishing herself in the outside world . |
| 19 | If your foe stoops on a ground unit and is locked in combat you 'll have a good chance of catching him in the flanks . |
| 20 | Lewis added : ‘ Bowe 's stripping has robbed me of the chance of beating him in the ring . |
| 21 | Now that her son had taken over , she showed every sign of treating him in the same way , much to his discomfort . |
| 22 | It 's a bonus to have your papers delivered , but my newspaper boy , like all others , had perfected the art of cramming them in the letter box so that they were shredded as you pulled them inside . |
| 23 | It may seem obvious to you that coffee cups belong in the top cupboard , but if people get into the habit of leaving them in the sink and you allow them to do that ( even when it irritates you ) it will be difficult to get them to change . |
| 24 | What goes on in the US today has a habit of repeating itself in the UK tomorrow . |
| 25 | Abuse has a habit of smacking you in the nose like that , for all to see . |
| 26 | There were a lot more long balls down the middle of the field than usual , simply because Beeny was putting them there whereas Lukic had got into the habit of putting them in the stand . |
| 27 | As long as you 're not holding needles , it does n't matter which position these levers are in , though I try to make a habit of having them in the knit position . |
| 28 | Up to five hundred Soviets arrive every day , and it 's the Israeli government 's policy of settling them in the occupied territories of the West Bank that cause most Arab hostility . |
| 29 | In the seventeenth century army service had sometimes offered to ambitious men of low birth the prospect of raising themselves in the social scale , and perhaps of acquiring nobility for themselves and their descendants . |
| 30 | He kept summoning up more strength to attack the ‘ fatal evil of burying herself in the past . ’ |