Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [to-vb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Video Guide gives advice on how to use the video and exciting ideas for activities to try in the classroom . |
| 2 | This is easy for lecturers to forget in the concern with syllabuses , materials and all the paperwork that curriculum planning involves . |
| 3 | There is an increasing tendency nowadays for solicitors to specialise in the work that they do and in the kind of client they advise . |
| 4 | Most people feel an obligation to keep in contact with their siblings , but beyond that it is regarded as quite proper for relationships to vary in the level of intimacy and the type of support offered ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 ; Allan , 1979 ) . |
| 5 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 6 | At the moment facilities for parents to stay in the hospital are makeshift . |
| 7 | It 's a strangely riveting spectacle , but just in case your eyes get poked out in the moshpit , they 've got a quite daring array of slightly goth-laced nagging pop tunes , pinned by means of twiddly guitar hooks and belting choruses to that corner of your brain which is exclusively reserved for tunes to whistle in the supermarket queue . |
| 8 | In order for plates to behave in the manner proposed the lithosphere of which they are composed must be sufficiently rigid compared with the underlying asthenosphere for stress to be transmitted from one side to the other . |
| 9 | When he was king he was normally accompanied by the clerks of the royal chapel so he had plenty of opportunities to indulge in the pleasures of ritual . |
| 10 | Modules under development at this stage will provide a wide range of opportunities to specialise in the Sciences and to develop further vocational competences . |
| 11 | There is a similar wide variety in the scale of teaching and learning equipment provided , which can be explained by a number of factors : the financial provision made to schools by central or local authorities , the type and efficiency of supply and distribution mechanism ( bureaucratic centralised distribution systems seem universally inefficient ) , differences in attitudes and capabilities of communities to help in the provision of services or equipment to schools or individual children , the initiative and morale of teachers , the richness or poverty of the school environment . |
| 12 | There was a flurry of imports to follow in the years to come . |
| 13 | SOME shock results on the first day of the French Olympic classes regatta at Hyeres yesterday showed that there could still be plenty of surprises to come in the race for British team selection . |
| 14 | ‘ If you needed to see me — for any particular reason — there are thousands of places to meet in the City . |
| 15 | Darwin 's view was that dreams prevented delirium by allowing trains of ideas to continue in the absence of sensory input — if they were to be suspended in sleep like the voluntary motions , ( which are exerted only by intervals during our waking hours ) an accumulation of sensorial power would follow ; and on our awakening a delirium would supervene , since these ideas caused by sensation would be produced with such energy , that we should mistake the trains of imagination for ideas excited by irritation ; as perpetually happens to people debilitated by fevers on their first wakening ; for in these fevers with debility the general quantity of irritation being diminished , that of sensation is increased . |
| 16 | The main thrust of Friedman 's paper was to displace what he regarded as an ill-informed and misguided optimism among post-war Keynesians concerning the ability of governments to intervene in the economy to achieve particular policy objectives . |
| 17 | And I remember one time he gave me a list of things to do in the morning — fill this with potatoes , put the beans up on the shelves , brush the yard and then you can go out . |
| 18 | It is not clear why any of the clergy should be disqualified ( as opposed to restrained by their own professional ethics ) at all , except that in the case of the Church of England some sort of case can then be made out by reason of the right of bishops to sit in the House of Lords . |
| 19 | There are at least three dimensions to this : the relationship between corporate and enforcement agencies ; the nature of laws against corporate activities ; and , probably the greatest of them all , the power of corporations to intervene in the process by which corporate behaviour becomes incorporated in criminal law . |
| 20 | A further Council of Ministers resolution adopted on Sept. 26 authorized the use of soldiers to assist in the harvest . |
| 21 | Some people have moved out of towns to live in the countryside , sometimes adopting a second part-time job in the rural area , while many inhabitants of rural areas have been able to obtain jobs in towns . |
| 22 | This will not so much create a two-tier structure within the Division , as enable a wider spectrum of students to participate in the profession , allowing them to stop off , by way of academic attainment , economic circumstances or job notice , at different levels , secure in the knowledge that they have professional status , capable of being upgraded if they so wish . |
| 23 | The attitudes of women to work in the home are very likely to be related to other attitudes they hold — such as those to paid employment , to marriage , to child-socialization , to leisure activities and so on . |
| 24 | The dining room has a thirty foot wall of glass which enables guests to view the attractive landscaped garden and which looks out to a small patio for guests to enjoy in the summer . |
| 25 | That the sunniest months are May and June is related to the tendency for anticyclones to develop in the Atlantic during these months bringing fine , clear weather to the islands , sometimes for long periods ( Manley 1948 ) . |
| 26 | Some day I 'll give it thought , but in the meantime I 'm far too busy — what with accounts to do in the evenings . ’ |
| 27 | However in 1956 Unwins listed only one geranium mixture , ‘ Zonale Mixed ’ , with instructions to sow in the autumn for flowers 12 months later , but now 22 varieties are included , along with many separate colours , most of which like the ‘ Multiblooms ’ , can be sown in March to flower just five months later in July . |
| 28 | The prospects for such developments , along with others to assist in the reclamation of contaminated land and oil spills , have been discussed by Forster and Wase ( 1987 ) . |
| 29 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 30 | Baroness said she found it absolutely accept unacceptable for patients to wait in the corridor on trolleys . |