Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We of course did it in nineteen eighty six , er but this year there are about fifteen hundred officers involved from fifteen different police forces . |
| 2 | But it is worthwhile to reiterate that , in a sense , every book published about recent history is of value as a source and the conventional ‘ official ’ documentation does not necessarily occupy in recent history the commanding place which its comparative isolation in a sea of illiteracy gives it in earlier epochs . |
| 3 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 4 | The latter was begun in 1617 for William and Mary White , but rebuilt in 1633 ; when the iron-founding and gentry family of Freeman acquired it in 1666 , they refashioned the interior with some of the finest stucco work in Sussex , masking the simpler tastes of its earlier owners . |
| 5 | There are also these privatization a lot of husbands and wives bought these shares of privatization had it in joint names , well that tax will have been deducted and can be reclaimed also , so er this was a change that came about with independent taxation . |
| 6 | We have no record of Gillray defending himself in this way against charges of inconsistency , but an example can be given of another public figure of those times . |
| 7 | In schools the assumptions of society show themselves in three ways : through what has been called the explicit , the implicit and the nul curricula . |
| 8 | Crowther 's concern that the lay press was weak in its coverage of science led him in 1928 to confront The Manchester Guardian 's legendary editor C. P. Scott with the quip that although there was n't such a profession as science journalism , he , J. G. Crowther , proposed to invent it . |
| 9 | I wrote and said that a lot of members our pension , we could n't afford it , and that we owned our own hall so therefore we had a lot of cost to keep it in good repair and why was it nine pound . |
| 10 | No academic libraries since the time of the Travelling Workshops Experiment have successfully applied the strategy and it is most unlikely that illuminative evaluation ‘ in toto ’ will ever get the opportunity to prove itself in academic user education , largely because of the lack of time to pursue it in full . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd sure like t'have pulled him in that night . |
| 12 | It later passed to John Peach who in turn sold it in 1786 to the infant Canal Company . |
| 13 | This variation in form manifests itself in different ways , depending on the language . |
| 14 | Notation or codes are appended to a sequence of topics in order to arrange them in some clearly defined order . |
| 15 | How could she think that when she had in fact entrammelled herself in terrible evil bonds , luxuriating even in her bondage ? |
| 16 | You 'll feel like a Hollywood star during the journey as the classy chauffeur-driven vehicle comes complete with a television and video and there will be champagne on ice to get you in that million dollar mood ! |
| 17 | His interest in transferring aquatinted designs to pottery led him in 1771 to approach Josiah Wedgwood [ q.v. ] , who after considerable interest finally lost patience with the headstrong Burdett , who had hopes of years of lucrative work from his process . |
| 18 | It was obvious that hammering a Strat into the stage or setting it on fire meant nothing in financial terms to our heroes . |
| 19 | But in none of the above cases do the manoeuvres by which the main character resists her passive relation to language engage her in active polemic with other texts . |
| 20 | Jones had been cast for the minor but useful role of leading a small diversionary force of ships to the north of England and Scotland , but his attempts to make his ships ready for sea involved him in constant arguments with the French authorities , and his reputation as a tyrannical captain made it hard to find a crew . |
| 21 | It is the fear of an election that at present prevents them in many instances from disobeying their party whip . |