Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new method involves candidates literally wrestling for power in a knockout tournament . |
| 2 | The interesting fact to note is that dinosaurs soon benefited from bipedality in the same way humans later did — better vision . |
| 3 | First , many books already deal with doubt in terms of a theology of assurance . |
| 4 | Prince and the Buttholes both play with sound in the most wanton fashion , disfigure , aggravate and dismember it . |
| 5 | ‘ Pole is important , even if the statistics show that no more than 50 per cent of the winners here started from pole in the last 10 years , ’ he said . |
| 6 | He uses these elements effectively to speak of validity in the aesthetic field . |
| 7 | Although Trusts only came into operation in April ninety one , the evidence suggests that many , that many have improved patient services in many w many areas waiting lists have been cut through greater efficiency and increased use of day surgery . |
| 8 | Every year there was a big noisy carnival with its ghost trains and chairoplanes , and yet matrons with shallow baskets did sociable shopping excursions usually ending with coffee in Marine Road and tut-tutting over the state of the borough . |
| 9 | Wise move : Breeders of barn owls will need a licence to release them into the wild from January to stop them being freed into unsuitable areas ill equipped for life in the wild . |
| 10 | Retailing employment has been a traditional refuge for those workers most exposed to redundancy in other sectors , and as such higher consumer prices ‘ provides a form of social security for the retired and unemployed ’ ( Hills 1983 p.65 ) . |
| 11 | The Safety Director 's is a delicate job , requiring diplomacy in dealing with academics and researchers traditionally used to autonomy in their laboratories . |
| 12 | Knights also went to war in company ; a number , sometimes from the same lordship , would serve in the retinue of a great lord . |
| 13 | The innocent purchaser of goods openly offered for sale in the City of London or in a market overt obtains a good title to those goods irrespective of the title of the seller . |
| 14 | ( Details only came to light in 1972 , when London Transport received a compulsory purchase order , in connection with a further rebuilding of the bridge . ) |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I continue ( while we have it , let's press the advantage home ) , ‘ you know as well as I do that these couplings between the separate spheres always come to grief in the end . ’ |
| 16 | Fish , such as the ornate Porcupine Fish and Lion Fish and the colourful Domino Damsels , Koran Angels , Tomato Clownfish , Red-tailed Blenny and Striped Sweetlips — colourful names to describe colourful creatures from fragile marine habitats gravely threatened by pollution in many parts of the world . |
| 17 | Items commonly used in substitution in English include do , one , and the same , as in the following examples from Halliday and Hasan ( 1976 : 89 ; 105 ) : |
| 18 | Cases frequently come to light in which submissive children have been treated literally like household slaves , often into late middle-age , by domineering parents . |
| 19 | Such one-item propositions also occur in English in other commentaries : |
| 20 | Although religious educators often refer to religion in the lives of children and young people , and recommend that religious education draw on this experience in their teaching , little research has been done in the area . |
| 21 | Martial law was also lifted in 16 townships although night curfews reportedly remained in place in all major cities . |
| 22 | To take an example , suppose two mothers regularly go for coffee in each other 's homes and take along their respective toddlers , and that one parent gets quite distressed at the children running riot around the house whilst the other is seemingly oblivious . |
| 23 | Indeed , concern about the security of the Church was a major reason why High Tories were opposed to the Union with Scotland , which the Whigs eventually brought to fruition in 1707 . |
| 24 | The police always looked on top in an eventful first half and translated their superiority into goals just before half-time . |
| 25 | Finally , claims based on public law rights might well raise factual issues more suited to resolution in an action begun by writ than by Ord. 53 procedure ; conversely , claims based on private law rights may well raise no such issues — which is why originating summons procedure is available as an alternative to writ procedure for claims brought outside Ord. 53 . |
| 26 | Like so many of the men now rising to leadership in poor countries , he has done a stint at the World Bank , and is regarded as capable . |
| 27 | Some of us are more mentally productive before midday ; others only come to life in the second half of the day . |
| 28 | One of the most publicised of the new anti-viral agents ( and one of only three anti-viral , drugs currently listed for prescription in the UK Monthly Index of Medical Specialities ) is acyclovir — the trade name for 9-(2-hydroxyethoxymethyl) guanine . |
| 29 | The crimes only came to light in 1990 when one of Oldfield 's victims , then an adult , was himself charged with indecency to children . |