Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] in [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly assure the right hon. Gentleman that there is no sense in which the Government want positively to discriminate in favour of one type of schooling over others , because parents have a right to choose . |
| 2 | In contrast , if the terms in general appear unfairly weighted in favour of one party , or if an individual term appears unreasonable , the other party may be encouraged to challenge their effectiveness , and a court may sympathise with the challenger and strive to find ways to reduce the scope of the terms . |
| 3 | The studio almost immediately cast her in a cycle of prestigious ( if often meretricious ) ‘ women 's pictures ’ , including Edmund Goulding 's Dark Victory ( 1939 ) , which had her , in its famous climactic scene , walk upstairs to die in solitude with all the dignified serenity of an elephant trundling off to its ancestral graveyard ; Michael Curtiz 's The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( also 1939 ) , in which she flaunted the Virgin Queen 's ( and her own ) baldness as the ultimate emblem of great , self-abasing character acting ; and , of course , Irving Rapper 's sudsy , multi-Kleenex tearjerker Now , Voyager ( 1942 ) , in which her repressed , plain-Jane spinster blossoms overnight into chic , radiant , cigarette-tapping womanhood . |
| 4 | Those who recover often live in fear of a second , potentially fatal , attack , but a new test , pioneered in Australia by Dr John Bourke and funded by the British Heart Foundation , may identify those at risk . |
| 5 | It reserves the right to re-visit a company and claim further sums in respect of NICs where the Revenue officers have applied the wrong tests from an NIC point of view . |
| 6 | Reach T-junction with track ( castle on left ) and turn left to pass in front of castle ( b ) . |
| 7 | We 've all fallen in love with our cover picture this month , and hope you will too — it 's got such a happy , festive feel . |
| 8 | One of those you 've already met in detail in terms of kinetics as that was the idea of reaction was n't it Chris ? |
| 9 | And , well we 're doing what we 've always done in relation to erm tenants and erm rent arrears , we basically pursue a sympathetic policy erm for tenants who are facing real financial hardship in paying their rents . |
| 10 | I 've also fallen in love with the stereo . |
| 11 | Do you remember what I said about the the er structured thought pattern you 've now got in front of you , let me go to mine which is all blank . |
| 12 | I 've even cried in front of them , which is not something I do easily . |
| 13 | The collapse of tin prices in the 1980s destroyed the tin-mining industry , many of whose former employees have since turned in desperation to growing coca . |
| 14 | And of all the people I met , I have only kept in touch with one or two from Binbrook . |
| 15 | I have already explored in relation to Gide and others the kind of rebellion whose test they retrospectively failed , namely , transgression as a quest for authenticity : underpinning and endorsing the philosophy of individualism , it suggests that in defying a repressive social order we can dis-cover ( and so be true to ) our real selves . |
| 16 | I have already cited in relation to ‘ The Hollow Men ’ Cornford 's idea of the degeneration of ritual into debased formats . |
| 17 | We can not check this independently by re-examining the original one , not because we can not re-examine the original one but because everything we can do in the way of a re-examination is just doing again what we have already done in thinking of the new sensation as relevantly similar to the old one . |
| 18 | The lengthy period which most party leaders have already spent in Parliament before gaining office certainly gives them time and opportunity to acquire suitable skills . |
| 19 | The Chamber , which I have already mentioned in connection with the political life of the court , was the area in which the monarch lived and moved . |
| 20 | The notes will also give a practical interpretation of the regulations and codify best practice , as well as be more prescriptive to clarify what have already proved in practice to be grey areas . |
| 21 | Arousal , reward and punishment , as I have already suggested in relation to the interpretation of Ungar 's experiments , are associated with changes in the amounts of the opioids and other peptides in the brain and bloodstream ; so injecting the peptides , or drugs which interact with them , will alter behaviour , including the expression of memory . |
| 22 | The 12,000 crowd expected in Sheffield will be the largest the Coopers have ever played in front of but the publicity that would accompany Olympic success for Great Britain could make Ian into hockey 's first Gazza-figure . |
| 23 | In the absence of further information to the contrary , we are justified in assuming that money wages and the prices of non-labour inputs have also risen in proportion to the rise in price of final output . |
| 24 | BEC courses have also grown in number in recent years and some of the Institutes of Higher Education , for example , offer full-time courses leading to BEC Ordinary National and Higher National Diplomas . |
| 25 | It is the stuff in the video shop , to which people have consciously turned in preference to what is broadcast . |
| 26 | We have then to look in detail at the ways in which relatively constant biological processes and relatively variable means of production have combined both in specifically comparable and in specifically variable ways , always within specific social ( historico-social ) situations . |
| 27 | The conflicting motives for intervention have sometimes led in practice to the government oscillating ‘ wildly between stubborn resistance and instantaneous surrender ’ ( 560 ) . |
| 28 | Simply knowing that two people are linked in a particular genealogical relationship does not necessarily predict that they will acknowledge any responsibilities towards each other , not even whether they have actually kept in contact at a minimal level . |
| 29 | The committee of the Rugby club have recently decided in favour of holding further talks with a company representing the Argyle Group regarding an offer of £5 million to purchase the site for use as a supermarket and filling station . |
| 30 | If you do elect to have a full structural survey you can , of course , leave it to your building society or bank to select a surveyor for you , and you need never come in contact with him . |