Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angeli , who also was not in court , had committed a fault in selling them to the press last August . |
| 2 | And , and you think to yourself oh we 've seen everything , but I used to get pleasure in taking somebody to the potteries because I knew they had n't seen it and it would be like ooh , when they got there , you could see the shock , the surprise in their eyes when they went in there |
| 3 | The Directors of Craigendarroch Country Estate have great pleasure in inviting you to a luxury weekend in Royal Deeside . |
| 4 | He did not hold out much hope that Merymose would persuade Kenamun to engage him , but there was no harm in familiarising himself with the terrain in advance if he could . |
| 5 | The applicants accepted that the justices had jurisdiction to make such an order but contended that they had erred in law in making it on the facts of this case . |
| 6 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 7 | They can get so much more out of it if you encourage them to approach it in the way a real production would be approached — as an exercise in communicating something to a specific audience . |
| 8 | The holiday is tremendous value for money and we feel New Millennium is doing a wonderful job in providing us with the opportunity to visit these Eastern European countries at such competitive prices . |
| 9 | In 1955 the new British Conservative premier , Anthony Eden , took the lead in salvaging something from the wreck of EDC . |
| 10 | Obviously , if your document uses Monotype 's Times New Roman then there 's no earthly point in sending it to a bureau that has n't got the face . |
| 11 | Some fat women do not define themselves sexually because they do not consider themselves sexually viable , and see no point in labelling themselves in a vacuum . |
| 12 | They say there 's no point in moving her to a hospital . |
| 13 | " Ed " endings are rare in catalogue searching and there is no point in removing them at the " weak " level . |
| 14 | What 's the point in saving everything for a comfortable old age if you 're suffering hardship now ? |
| 15 | I tidy and vacuum the sitting room after she 's gone to bed — I do n't see any point in doing it in the morning because it 'll only get messed up again . |
| 16 | He said he did n't know what the UK operation would look like after the restructuring but said most resources would be concentrated in Switzerland : ‘ support and marketing is here , so there 's not much point in having it in the UK too . ’ |
| 17 | If shaft flexibility is not important dynamically there seems little point in introducing it as an unwanted variable in the swing . |
| 18 | Leith at that moment saw no point in putting her in a position where she would have to defend him — which she would . |
| 19 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 20 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 21 | But I am content to rest my conclusion in rejecting it on the simple ground , which closely reflects the reasoning I have already deployed in rejecting the board 's construction of section 18 , that the words in subsection ( 2 ) ‘ an order for payment … to the unassisted party … of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings ’ can only apply to costs incurred by the unassisted party in his capacity as such . |
| 22 | This is not part of the project plan but an aid to the project leader in creating one with an adequate safety margin . |
| 23 | I moved the reliquary from its altar , after it had been swathed well for safety in moving it to a higher place . |
| 24 | They concur with the group in seeing it as a way of cutting down on bootleg tapes , though it will still reduce the impact of a future live album . |
| 25 | An alternative procedure would be to ask a lot of speakers to say a list of sentences in different ways according to labels provided by the analyst , and see what intonational features are found in common ( for example , one might count how many speakers used a low head in saying something in a ‘ hostile ’ way ) . |
| 26 | Here he may well have acted as a diplomatic go-between in introducing them to the Roman traders , whose imports have been found at their main centre , the great oppidum at Bagendon near Cirencester . |
| 27 | You did us a great service in warning him of the threat to his life , Isabel . |
| 28 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 29 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 30 | Sentencing McPherson , the judge , Lord Cameron , said he accepted that McPherson had been in some part less responsible for the violence to Mr O'Donnell that evening , but added : ‘ Nevertheless you played a full part in luring him into the hands of those who were responsible for repeated acts of a bizarre and terrible character upon him . ’ |