Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [noun] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported that Yazov , Kryuchkov , Baklanov and Tizyakov had flown to meet Gorbachev in the Crimea , where Gorbachev had had them arrested ( his 32-strong bodyguard having remained with him ) . |
| 2 | She had arranged to meet Luke in the bar for a drink , and she hoped that he had a dinner engagement so that she would be left to her own devices afterwards . |
| 3 | Molly and Mary both had things to do that evening , so Yanto had arranged to meet Billy in the Boar to round off a good weekend . |
| 4 | Interior Minister Carlos Saavedra Bruno announced on July 17 a 120-day amnesty period for drug traffickers to surrender voluntarily in return for a guarantee that they would not be extradited to stand trial in the United States . |
| 5 | These communication styles can be expected to induce difficulties in the listener 's ability to focus attention and handle the meaning of what is being said . |
| 6 | This drill is one of a series of exercises designed to increase flexibility in the shoulders . |
| 7 | This assumption is hardly ever challenged ; yet it is clearly the case that many scientists are as incompetent in the humanities as many humanities graduates tend to be in the sciences ; it is perhaps a mark of the enormous divide we have made between the two areas that ability in one is often considered to preclude ability in the other . |
| 8 | The lexical analyser ( which includes morphological processing ) has been designed to accept input in the form of a character lattice ( see Appendix C ) , so this can work with any recogniser that produces output in this format . |
| 9 | For a fear of pollution and impurity in the body physical is constantly and easily transposed to create controls in the body social . |
| 10 | Weighing just 7g it has what is claimed to be a new yoke-less magnetic system with a special allow core for the coil assembly ; this is claimed to eliminate irregularities in the flux . |
| 11 | The Scottish National Party 's vice-president , Andrew Welsh , challenged Mr Smith last night to spell out whether he intended to exempt Scotland from his ‘ neo-Tory policies ’ , which were designed to win votes in the south of England by taking his Scottish voters for granted . |
| 12 | If teachers can not be trusted to organise schools in the interests of their pupils , should not the state restrict their autonomy ? |
| 13 | The aim of this research is to investigate the role of money income targets for a small open economy such as the UK , and their relationship with policies designed to avoid fluctuations in the exchange rate of the magnitude we have seen in the last few years . |
| 14 | The research identifies the areas in which they have survived in sufficient abundance to form the basis of a nationwide sample survey designed to illustrate changes in the level , composition and distribution of household wealth in the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution . |
| 15 | A political decision is real enough but it is designed to leave things in the end exactly as they were in the beginning . |
| 16 | Teesside magistrates also lifted reporting restrictions in the case . |
| 17 | Have you considered having holes in the ground and inside the board one on top of the other ? |
| 18 | Part of this study has been subcontracted to project teams in the Universities of Glasgow , Manchester , Reading and London . |
| 19 | In a safety initiative designed to reduce accidents in the home , the Kitchen Specialists Association ( KSA ) has launched a new booklet — Greater Safety in the Kitchen — which highlights some of the more common causes of accidents in the home and offers advice on how to avoid mishaps in the first place . |
| 20 | As is often the case , much of the ‘ aid , was more or less off-loaded to clear warehouses in the donor country with little thought of its use to the victims of catastrophe . |
| 21 | A new X-ray astronomy satellite , X-80 , was designed to study variations in the intensity of X-ray sources and to investigate their spectra in detail . |
| 22 | The Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on Sept. 24 presented a new 28-point constitutional reform package aimed at placating separatist tendencies in French-speaking Quebec , and designed to keep Quebec in the federation without alienating the other nine provinces . |
| 23 | Relations between Becker and the rest of the German team would appear to have deteriorated after the incident in Melbourne when , within minutes of learning that Stich and Udo Riglewski had been nominated to represent Germany in the doubles , in Barcelona , he set in motion a chain of events which led to a quick re-think . |
| 24 | More than 200 scientists from thirteen countries participated in the shuttle mission , which was designed to allow research in the materials and life sciences to take place under microgravity conditions . |
| 25 | Here its own Examination Board had recommended dropping dictation in the exam but the Education Committee ‘ missed the point ’ and persisted in keeping it . |
| 26 | The postholder is expected to develop expertise in the area of his/her current specialism while retaining a good working knowledge of all other areas of the Department 's statutory requirements . |
| 27 | ( 4.4 ) , of 100 Hz can be expected to have dips in the torque/speed characteristics at 100 , 50 , 33 , 25 , 20 , … steps per second . |
| 28 | Around 40 members of the congregation are expected to take part in the trip on May 29 . |
| 29 | A 20-strong group is expected to take part in the event at Tunstall Court on June 26 . |
| 30 | Five of the banks which had been expected to take part in the scheme , however , had on Dec. 20 , 1989 , announced that they would not be participating for commercial reasons , although the following day , John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education and Science , had stated that the objectives , principles and framework of the scheme remained unchanged . |