Example sentences of "[vb base] in [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Just as firms have to modify what they want in strategic terms with what they can get , so too for government .
2 They can not have done this only by dividing the language into neat areas , for the areas interact in complex ways in which the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts .
3 ‘ If you 're rich — not like us — you shake in some rubies for his lips , some sapphires for his eyes — or topazes , if you like them yellowy — ’ Caterina shifted , resisting ‘ — some diamonds for his fingernails and so forth , all the treasures you like , to make him beautiful as the sky , as the sea , as the earth , and then you murmur the secret formula … . ’
4 Professionals and businesses that stand in fiduciary relationships with their customers have always had to cope with the problems that arise when they owe conflicting duties to different clients , or their own interests conflict with those of a client .
5 The fact that we already participate in certain ways in what are effectively rationing decisions does not constitute an argument for greatly increasing the scope and visibility of that role .
6 One justification for this lengthy examination of policy implementation is that , while we all experience the effects of the implementation process , and many of us participate in various ways in it , very few of us are involved in policy making .
7 In places tree-shrouded , though never oppressively so , in others suitably imposing , the crag does not possess — horror of horrors ! — a complete path under its length ; still less the sandy wastes that appear wherever climbers congregate in large numbers under your average grit crag .
8 I mean , I think every women sho , here should be proud to say they 're a feminist if they believe in equal rights for theirself , and it 's only men that use in the derogatory way .
9 Student Language Use : As many bilingual students in FE appear to be fluent users of English and speak in local accents it is important to alert participants to the fact that they use two or more languages regularly and operate in two cultures in their daily lives .
10 We 've introduced a computerised system to deal with the orders and the meals arrive in heated vans with our service crew ensuring speedy delivery on the Trading Floor ’ .
11 The ants like to feed on the sugary liquid which the aphids produce in large drops from their rear end .
12 ( Opposite ) Impressive aggregations can be observed when caterpillars struggle for space in their breeding swarms , snakes congregate underground in hibernating masses sharing their slight body heat , fish gather in vast protective shoals and butterflies gather in large numbers on their wintering grounds .
13 ‘ Never mind , ’ she told herself , ‘ keep in good terms with them .
14 CASTLEFORD moved to third place , beating BRADFORD 30–20 — their second win in 14 days over their championship rivals .
15 United , inspired by fit-again Eric Cantona are now unbeaten in 15 matches , and Southampton never looked like preventing them chalking up their eighth win in nine attempts against them .
16 Despite all your worries , you feel pleasure and comfort in those words of his , ‘ I like helping people . ’
17 The transfer ratios differ in different applications of what might appear to be the same thing : V8 Ninety — 1.222:1 ; V8 One Ten — 1.410:1 and V8 Range Rover — 1.192:1 .
18 Social Policy 1 evaluates different explanations of the growth of the welfare state and conflicting accounts of the ways in which it functions , and then examines issues and arguments which arise in two areas in which controversy is rife ; namely poverty and disease .
19 Mr Deputy Speaker we live in dark days for our democracy .
20 We thus engage in cultural confrontations in which we suddenly perceive how our vision is clouded and distorted by hidden assumptions that we did not know we entertained .
21 Apart from two periods apart from the beginning of the fifteenth century , and I think in certain respects in our own day , and for the rest of the time we were dass land ohne muziek the land without music , I fear .
22 Return to the chin and work in tiny circles with your thumbs from the middle of the chin along the jaw bone , finishing behind the ears ( see Fig. 16 ) .
23 CARE in all aspects of our administration and management .
24 Hug in both knees to your chest .
25 In our society the judges have in some aspects of their work a discretionary power to do justice so wide that they may be regarded as law-makers .
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