Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crop rotation can also help reduce the opportunity for resistance to develop in the insect population . |
| 2 | The gap was about a foot and a half wide — wide enough for Sigarup to sit in the basket with his legs hanging down below . |
| 3 | A property company may promise restoration of the house in return for permission to build in the grounds . |
| 4 | But there is a view , which is gaining political support , that suggests that the best way to guarantee a ‘ responsible and representative ’ media , especially with regard to broadcasting , is to remove all regulatory mechanisms altogether : for broadcasting to follow in the footsteps of the ‘ free ’ press . |
| 5 | Reconciling the conflict between the demands of public accountability and the desirability of freedom to operate in the market has proved extremely difficult . |
| 6 | The February early morning was chilly , with a hint of snow to come in the air . |
| 7 | David Lawrence is certainly having a lot of work to do in the field as well as bowl , runs a long way , that 's to be better at deep back with square leg , in place of Philip DeFreitas and let Daffy do some running about , he 's just had a drink there . |
| 8 | But he admitted afterwards : ‘ I 'm pleased to win , but I 've got a lot of work to do in the gym still ’ |
| 9 | There is plenty of room to work in the galley . |
| 10 | I was panicking a bit about a week before the sale as stuff was not coming in very quickly but thanks to Nursery Needs and all those who did last minute searches we had a good amount of stuff to sell in the end . |
| 11 | The kit arrives complete with worms , a pack of starter compost to get the process going , calcified seaweed to keep the compost sweet and non-acidic ; there 's even a ready-torn supply of strips of newspaper to go in the bottom . |
| 12 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ My query about the weight is to ascertain the dose of anaesthetic to put in the barrel of the dart which is shot into the animal by the Cap Chur gun . |
| 14 | Caterina and Rosalba , working at Sabina 's side in the cool of the pantry 's shade , were pinching pouches of dough to seal in the stuffing of cream cheese , pepper and chopped basil and lining up the results on a white tea towel powdered with coarse rice flour . |
| 15 | Fashions in education will come and go , politicians , local and national , will peddle their transitory wares , but the long-term effectiveness of our schools will depend ultimately upon there being sufficient teachers of quality to work in the nation 's classrooms . |
| 16 | Swimming lessons are available for children and there is masses of space to play in the grounds . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's my idea of bliss to stand in the kitchen with the window open on a beautiful summer 's day , following some complicated recipe in the hope that it will come out all right , ’ she says . |
| 18 | This would not merely perpetuate such control but would allow the Secretary of State to interfere in the activities of Scottish Bus Group subsidiaries to a greater extent than at present . |
| 19 | It is the purpose of training to instil in the child mind a conscience that will be his guide , and this training is best done , and usually is done , by the various processes involving reward , and in this respect it must always be remembered that there is little greater reward that can be offered a child than the knowledge that it is loved . |
| 20 | In the field of mental handicap the growth of the self-advocacy movement reflects the ability of a spirit of self-determination to emerge in the face of and ( paradoxically ) with the help of , an oppressive and dependency inducing style of professional help . |
| 21 | Would you have selected any of these pieces of information to go in the essay ? |
| 22 | It would have been unreasonable of the author/translator to expect this item of information to remain in the reader 's consciousness after three intervening pages and an explicitly marked change of scene or topic . |
| 23 | ‘ We can not allow that sort of thing to happen in the World Cup . |
| 24 | The reason for such lack of jurisdiction to review in the court is that an eleemosynary corporation is governed by a system of private law which is not of ‘ the common known laws of the kingdom ’ but the particular laws and constitutions assigned by the founder . |
| 25 | No one was more alive to the vital necessity of keeping open lines of communication than the Railway Companies and the LMSR readily accepted a suggestion from the Ministry of Supply to assist in the production of railway bridges and trestles for use of the fighting services . |
| 26 | He 's the type of player to blossom in the heat of a derby match , a quality finisher . |
| 27 | The summer holidays had begun and she had plenty of time to spend in the shop , helping Mr Evans and watching him and wondering … |
| 28 | In fact she would have had plenty of time to shade in the circles in the last two letters . |
| 29 | In practice , however , such is the scope for self-interest to stand in the way of the smooth running of the firm that the right of any one partner to veto some proper alteration should be excluded . |
| 30 | Serum PTHrP correlates with response to pamidronate in the treatment of TIH ; which may be associated with a renal tubular mechanism not significantly affected by currently available treatment . |