Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Sun and the Daily Mirror , where it is possible to compare with the numbers in 1978 , both show significant increases — the Sun from thirty-two to forty-nine and the Daily Mirror , even more , from twenty-six to forty-five . |
| 2 | Former Chancellor Fred Sinowatz , former Interior Minister Karl Blecha and former Foreign Minister Leopold Gratz were due to appear before the court in this respect . |
| 3 | Edward for his part had to accommodate himself to political and financial realities , and was prepared to compromise with the commons in return for taxes , though he would not give way on the fundamental issue of the right to choose his own councillors . |
| 4 | As epistemic breaks go , however , it seems to be a slow one : Foucault attributes its hesitancy to a fundamental reluctance to think difference rather than the reassuring form of the identical : it is , he comments , ‘ as if we were afraid to conceive of the Other in the time of our own thought ’ . |
| 5 | When considering how high to go , the limiting factor must be to keep within the realistic expectations of the buyer , otherwise he may not be willing to talk to the seller in the first place . |
| 6 | We are anxious to have a small group of people who would be willing to look after the altar in the church , prepare it for special occasions and generally take a personal interest in its care . |
| 7 | After countless such visits he was afraid to look into the bowl in case something of himself had been lost in his body 's writhing struggles to empty itself . |
| 8 | In the absence of strong evidence to the contrary , the law presumes that in face to face agreements the seller is prepared to deal with the person in front of him — whoever that may be . |
| 9 | If it is equitable , the chargee may be preferred on the ground that the company has been allowed to represent that it is free to deal with the assets in the normal course of business as though they were unencumbered . |
| 10 | As Professor Goode has pointed out , the fact that the charge has crystallised will affect the relationship between the chargee and the company but it does not necessarily affect a third party since if the company is left free to deal with the assets in the normal course of its business then the chargee should be estopped from denying the company 's authority to do so . |
| 11 | Maria , my wife , was afraid to ride up the hill in the carts . |
| 12 | By late June , however , close political aides of the PPP leader Benazir Bhutto were quoted as saying that the party was willing to co-operate with the army in putting an end to a " reign of terror " by its political rival , the Sind-based Mohajir Qaumi Mahaz ( MQM ) . |
| 13 | ‘ If any of you have any problems , at any time , you know you are free to speak to the officers in charge of your landing or to me personally , ’ Nicholson continued . |
| 14 | It will be crucial to know about the context(s) in which the system had been used . |
| 15 | Solutions to the Ferranti crisis are not going to be easy to find despite the way in which the company has been inundated with offers of help . |
| 16 | The Isle of Arran is easy to reach from the mainland in summer . |
| 17 | He liked Eden , and he found it easy to disapprove of the way in which Chamberlain had handled relations with him . |
| 18 | Giles Aplin rode from Burford and was delighted to learn of the improvement in her condition . |
| 19 | ‘ It makes me very sad to think about the children in the world who are suffering . |
| 20 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 21 | AMERICA 'S FIRST five-jet aerobatic team look set to take to the skies in time for the 1993 airshow season , reports Bill Jesse . |
| 22 | Many materials have been produced for different languages by individual teachers : these have been shown to succeed in the very specific circumstances facing a particular teacher/author in his or her classroom , but it has not so far proved possible to generalise from the successes in terms of easily accessible materials usable by different teachers under differing circumstances . |
| 23 | But it is not possible to look beyond the world in order to see what it depends upon directly . |
| 24 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 25 | Even if the information is specific , the insider may deal on the basis of it if the information is generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in the securities in question . |
| 26 | They are quick to rally behind the team in a tight stadium which generates a potent atmosphere but also quick to register their displeasure with the dealings of Brian Little , a flamboyant , long-haired winger in his playing days but a cautious , grey-haired manager today . |
| 27 | One possibility would be for the analyst to invent a large number of sentences and try saying them with different intonation patterns ( i.e. different combinations of head and tone ) , noting what attitude was supposed to correspond to the intonation in each case ; of course , the results are then very subjective , and based on an artificial performance that has little resemblance to conversational speech . |
| 28 | It was incredibly eerie to stand outside the office in the pitch dark , to press a switch and immediately have the whole air field illuminated by the ghostly glow of this small searchlight , making its little patch of light on the cloud above . |
| 29 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
| 30 | When we consider temperament in horses , and especially in families , it is most reasonable to look at the stallions in a family to get a more valid picture of the family characteristics , as stallions often exhibit traits of temperament to greater extremes than geldings and mares . |