Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the long-term effects , there are great advantages in working in the mainstream : access to vastly superior resources and a huge potential audience ; the pay is also infinitely better , albeit insecure if you are freelance . |
| 2 | Four monologues begin at once , with the pace of the argument and the gaps in understanding between the four participants shown by the pregnant , rushing rows of dots . |
| 3 | He liked Curtis and he fully sympathised with his motives in going after the crazed killer on his own . |
| 4 | Up to 1946 , Truman had been able to rely on support from both Democrats and Republicans in dealing with the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | They were led to do this after major expressions of concern about the difficulties institutions were facing in their libraries in coping with the massive expansion in student numbers . |
| 6 | She leaned against him comfortably , and he began to wonder about the possibilities in aiming for the wide sleeve of her dress . |
| 7 | Kim obtained experience in his formative years in cooperating with the Chinese and with the Russians ; it is relevant to note he had no experience of working with the communists in Korea . |
| 8 | Successive governments encountered problems in responding to the changed conditions and in raising resources to meet public expectations . |
| 9 | STRONG demand from other segments of the construction market left Hewden Stuart , Britain 's largest plant hire group , virtually untouched by current problems in housebuilding in the first half of the year . |
| 10 | Secondly for your efforts in putting for the recent joint Delegates Conference on the out-sourcing and that 's a company 's way and not mine . |
| 11 | The limitations of summary statistics are well known , but less attention has been paid to the changes in ranking between the two distributions . |
| 12 | Towards the end of field-work a constable newly transferred to the Neighbourhood Unit from one of the sections expressed his difficulties in adjusting to the new round of duties , stating that it was more difficult to pass the time because nothing seemed to happen ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 16 ) : establishing informal contact with the public was not yet itself seen as doing police work and boredom was unappealing . |
| 13 | He acknowledged that the students may at first find difficulties in adjusting to the Scottish education system , the language , the weather and life in Edinburgh , and said that he hopes that these awards will remind overseas students that the University has confidence in them . |
| 14 | I also pay tribute to the professionalism of the emergency services , who naturally faced difficulties in getting to the injured and in getting them out of the tunnel for treatment . |
| 15 | In many cases , following the advice , particularly with regard to sleep , will initially be against the ‘ natural ’ dictates of the body clock , but , as we have explained , obeying the body clock in this case will only prolong the difficulties in living with the new time zone . |
| 16 | Even those who had formal qualifications in English had difficulties in communicating with the monolingual English line-managers in their work places and with others in the public services . |
| 17 | Academically , he was a bright pupil , though it would appear he had difficulties in concentrating on the day-to-day routines — perhaps through boredom , often an indication of the brighter child . |
| 18 | Probably the best-known , and perhaps the most notorious , selected settlement policy is that adopted in County Durham , where there were special difficulties in planning for the dispersed villages that had grown up in the coalfield ( Barr 1969 ; Blowers 1972 ) . |
| 19 | What has influenced the courts in choosing between the rational basis test and that of rightness or substitution of judgment ? |
| 20 | adapt and reactivate Resolution 125 ( 1981 ) of the CLRAE on the role and responsibility of local and regional authorities in regard to the cultural and social problems of populations of nomadic origin . |
| 21 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |
| 22 | Between groups , categories , communities and societies there will be different mixes and levels of competences in dealing with the outside world which will inevitably affect their conceptualisation of it , the resources available to them , and their response to it . |
| 23 | Sheila is given details in writing by the social workers ; she can see Mark three times a week , once at the weekend , supervised by his grandmother . |
| 24 | The river 's edge , where Virgil 's ghosts held out their arms in longing for the farther shore , and Dante , as a living man , was refused passage by the ferryman , the few planks that mark the meeting point of land and water , there , surely , is a place to stop and reflect , even if , as Father Watson did , you stumble over a ten-gallon tin of creosote . |
| 25 | By providing several columns for the estimates , the stages in arriving at the final budget and any changes of mind during the working stages of the project , can be recorded . |
| 26 | By providing several columns for the estimates , the stages in arriving at the final budget and any changes of mind during the working stages of the project , can be recorded . |
| 27 | A report prepared for the United States State Department , published in September 1989 , stated that the Somali armed forces had " purposely murdered " at least 5,000 civilians in fighting over the previous two years . |
| 28 | Attempting to get to grips with all the developments in nursing over the past five years is meat enough for any expert , and you will not be regarded as letting the side down just because you are not familiar with all the latest terminology or research in your clinical specialty . |
| 29 | Being in London , he could exploit both the court and the merchant community as patrons , and would have been exposed to the new developments in surveying in the published works of Leonard and Thomas Digges [ qq.v. ] and others . |
| 30 | The resulting pressures on children in getting to the better universities and the question of whether access is open will be considered later . |