Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce Armitage , Grampian Enterprise 's director of training , stressed that the £100,000 grant had been designed to set up a framework in which other agencies could work . |
| 2 | At least two , the Statesman and the Indian Express , were expected to take up the story in their issues today . |
| 3 | Ministers are expected to take up the fight in the next few days and urge the banks that , at a time of national economic crisis , they must do their bit . |
| 4 | If it is intended to set up an exhibition in the foyer at ( note address omitted ) , it is necessary to book the foyer area , and to ensure sufficient display boards will be available : |
| 5 | An effort was made to set up the stud in a more favoured , not to say more conventional , site in the foothills of the Nilgiris . |
| 6 | Although we have a clearer picture than we did of long-term changes in demography and household structure , little has been done to fill out the picture in terms of living experience . |
| 7 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 8 | Of the soft woods pine is good , and larch as well if you in a hurry for a blaze and prepared to roll back the hearth-rug in preparation for the spectacular fusillade . |
| 9 | The Bush team wants the Fed to follow up the cut in its discount loan rate to banks from the 3.5 per cent it reached in December to perhaps as low as 3 per cent . |
| 10 | Thirty-seven stitches were needed to sew back a flap in his face which went from the side of his nose and tore the corner of his mouth . |
| 11 | ( God , or the Deity , existed because somebody had had to work out the mathematics in the first place . ) |
| 12 | France and Italy have agreed to set up a sanctuary in which dolphins will be protected from drift-net fishing . |
| 13 | More space was needed to keep up the increase in numbers . |
| 14 | ‘ We put patriotism and self-sacrifice into them , and there is no doubt that after they have learnt a certain amount of that , ’ he explained as he outlined his strategy to the National Defence Association , ‘ they will feel bound to take up the defence in one form or another , should it be necessary , when the time comes . ’ |
| 15 | The reason given for the ban was that Professor Saburo Ienaga , a noted historian , had refused to strike out a reference in his book to bacteriological and other experiments carried out on Chinese prisoners of war by the now-defunct Imperial Army . |
| 16 | Harrison had arrived for the Sports on the previous evening , taken a couple of glasses of beer in the Fish — complimented the landlord on his brew — and then gone to sleep out the night in a barn . |
| 17 | " The venerable Stalinist institution rejects and pushes aside authentic and ambitious Leninists who are not allowed to carve out a career in the PCF because of their bourgeois origins . |
| 18 | Actually we were n't too happy with the back of the old barn , because although we 'd tried to plug up every hole in the stonework , it was still possible for a determined young owl to squeeze out here and there . |
| 19 | Memories being short , it may be forgotten that until comparatively recently a spin bowler was allowed to rough up the ball in the dust to help his grip . |
| 20 | But account-holders who do not put in the maximum in any one year are not allowed to top up the account in the following or any subsequent years . |
| 21 | These actions have begun to bring about an improvement in the value and appropriateness of project reports . |
| 22 | In effect , its tight-money policy is intended to bring about a shift in the domestic economy that might have happened in the early 1980s but which kept being postponed . |
| 23 | Once she had written , another decision would have been taken , and he would tell them in the office that they were having a stab at Italy this year , he 'd managed to track down a villa in Tuscany . |
| 24 | To avoid customers being prejudiced in this way , a firm must not effect a contingent liability transaction unless it can show that it believes on reasonable grounds that the customer understands : ( 1 ) The circumstances under which he may be required to provide any margin ; ( 2 ) Particulars of the form in which the margin may be provided ; ( 3 ) Particulars of the steps which the firm may be entitled to take if the customer fails to provide the required margin ; ( 4 ) That failure by the customer to meet a margin call may lead to the firm closing out his position after time limits specified by the firm , and that the firm will be required to close out the position in any event after a period of five business days ; and ( 5 ) That circumstances other than failure to provide margin may lead to the customer 's position being closed out with prior reference to him . |
| 25 | ‘ Hello Brian , ’ said Shirley , who was feeling marginally more cheerful , having managed to bring out the card-table in the midst of an argument about the relative demerits of the offerings on BBC and ITV . |
| 26 | Repeated presentation of a stimulus is held to bring about a decline in the size of the attentional response . |