Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | " Ed " endings are rare in catalogue searching and there is no point in removing them at the " weak " level . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You did us a great service in warning him of the threat to his life , Isabel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | The seller has no difficulty in producing them for the buyer in any quantity provided he has sufficient notice to schedule production , and purchase needed materials and components . |
| 17 | Having achieved power in certain situations , the military has great difficulty in maintaining it without the support of other important groups in society . |
| 18 | Common Law found a difficulty in protecting him against the stranger . |
| 19 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 20 | This is a factor which the police are used to taking into account and [ there should be ] no difficulty in weighing it in the balance along with many other factors . ’ |
| 21 | Politicians in Zagreb have no trouble in imagining them as the advance guard of a new patrol on the frontiers of a greater Serbia . |
| 22 | She remembered mother 's compassion in saving her from the certain shock of such evil envelopes . |
| 23 | The electrical forces that were the problem in getting the like-charged hydrogen nuclei together were at least being put to good use in attracting them into the palladium prison . |
| 24 | Our deductive practice needs no such justificatory shoring up and can not be revised by rational argument , hence there is no circularity in deploying it in the explanation . |
| 25 | This is normally accompanied by the equally widespread concentration on the factual content or the basic manipulative skills in the material and the associated neglect of the higher-level objectives that were probably the author 's main motivation in developing it in the first place . |
| 26 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
| 27 | She directed her anger at her husband as well as Luke and was frustrated by her husband 's passivity and lack of activity in helping her with the problem as well as more generally in their relationship . |
| 28 | When a group is unknown , the advantage lies with the record company in signing them on the company 's terms . |
| 29 | It was not such a great step in reducing him to the laws-giver . |
| 30 | Today , the medical establishment , in both Britain and America , is of the opinion that dietary fibre is of value in protecting us from the diseases of modern Western civilization . |