Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [art] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negative reinforcement is something unwelcome that happens before or during the behaviour in question has occurred . |
| 2 | Title V , being ostensibly concerned with intergovernmental agreement , is among those parts of the Treaty which are not available for parliamentary debate or for a vote in Parliament . |
| 3 | Are props/costumes ( for children or for the teacher in role ) needed ? |
| 4 | The normal ‘ use ’ is to go for a joyride , to get home after missing the last bus or train or for the use in crime . |
| 5 | 8.4 The Publisher shall keep full and proper books or accounts and records showing clearly all transactions and proceedings relating to this Agreement and in particular all transactions undertaken by or through the Publisher in relation to the Work . |
| 6 | This can perhaps be interpreted as either a sign of policy changes feeding through into the yield curve or as a change in exchange rate expectations . |
| 7 | A retired solicitor will not be treated as continuing to hold himself out as a partner merely because he has neglected to ensure that revised letterheads are used by the firm from the date of his retirement , but there could be more of a problem when he has been party to a lease of partnership property and steps have not been taken to replace him as one of its lessees/trustees. ( e ) Sureties Section 18 of the Partnership Act contains a special provision which applies , in the absence of contrary agreement , whenever there is a change in the membership of a firm : A continuing guaranty or cautionary obligation given either to a firm or to a third person in respect of the transactions of a firm is , in the absence of agreement to the contrary , revoked as to future transactions by any change in the constitution of the firm to which , or of the firm in respect of transactions of which , the guaranty or obligation was given . |
| 8 | Half the men were already straggling back into the Residency building or into the hospital in order to form a new position while the remainder did their best to hold off the sepoys who were already swarming over the ramparts . |
| 9 | It was revolting to see these half-starved creatures snuffling around behind the houses or along the river-bank in search of excrement . |
| 10 | Finally , since the buyer is also anxious not to exclude any of his rights implied at common law or under the SGA in addition to the express rights which he has included in the contract , he makes it absolutely clear that all such implied rights will also apply to the contract . |
| 11 | ‘ Save a life ’ means literally that — what would you do if someone collapsed in your class , or in the street in front of you ? |
| 12 | She was sleeping , or in the room in bed anyway . |
| 13 | The times allowable are given in Ord 8 , r 2(3) ( a ) and ( b ) or in the table in Vol 2 of The Supreme Court Practice , para 902 . |
| 14 | We gain little from minute attention to the manufacturers ' congratulations for our choice of car , or from the swearing-in in court , and , on a first reading of a novel , it may be more important to follow those parts which forward the plot than those which set the scene . |
| 15 | The time difference between pulses emitted by the transmitter and received by the receiver with or without the specimen in place can be measured to the order of 1 ns . |
| 16 | Such increases in productivity might be due to new investment in existing industries , to speed-up and other kinds of changes on the shop-floor , or to a change in balance between low and high productivity sectors . |
| 17 | To avoid problems the drafter should make clear whether the reference in the terms is to the definition current at the time of drafting or to the version in force from time to time . |
| 18 | Do you regard yourself to the left or to the right in politics ? |
| 19 | It can be served on the person undertaking the activity , or on a person in control of it at the time the notice was served . |
| 20 | Allocation decisions are made by the Librarian , or by the Librarian in conjunction with the library committee ( largely comprised of academics ) , or by the library committee alone . |
| 21 | In its treatment of matrimonial conveyancing , this book is not concerned with the merits of the spouses ' respective claims nor with the proceedings in connection with those claims . |
| 22 | ( He has come closest to an antipathetic character as the ex-con in Straight Time , and as a crook in Family Business , two of his biggest commercial failures . ) |
| 23 | In Zambia it is widely used to control termites and as a pesticide in maize fields . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it does provide a simple demonstration of a problem that dogs all our stratigraphical thinking , and as the palaeontologist in question was my student ( and I visited the area with him ) my inclinations are wholly for the second interpretation in this case . |
| 25 | Quoting diplomatic sources at the UN , the newspaper said that Gulf Arab governments which backed the UAE 's case increasingly perceived Iran as a threat to their security and as an argument in favour of a continued US military presence . |
| 26 | Reading has essentially personal value as a source of enjoyment , as a stimulus to the imagination , as a means of gaining vicarious experience , and as an agent in language development ; but it also allows warnings , instructions , information and so on to be absorbed . |
| 27 | Since these are relatively common finds of a mundane form , the highly parochial local museum can often contribute its own sequence which is a version of the overall national pattern , thereby helping to embody in material form , and as an aid in teaching , that sense of history which underlies the collective identity presupposed by the state . |
| 28 | ‘ Everything 's more forward here , ’ she noticed , as they went by a line of horse-chestnut trees that were leafy and about a month in advance of those in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 29 | The information about the difficulties of conveying the intended meaning of language , and about the problems in memory and attention experienced by many people with schizophrenia , has been combined with neuropsychological knowledge to suggest the possibility of a dysfunction of one of the two hemispheres of the brain , probably the right side ( Cutting , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | The chairman of the committee was Representative Jim Jones of Oklahoma , a conservative Democrat who agreed with the main thrust of Reagan 's economic policy — the need for budget cuts and for a reduction in taxation . |