Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Low-growing crocuses and irises will be easier to manage than full-size daffodils , which get beaten about by wind in exposed situations . |
| 2 | For years whenever I 've got out of bed in the middle of the night — about whatever pursuit you get out of bed in the night for — my right ankle has made cracking noises , like kindling being snapped . |
| 3 | Traders who 've gone out of business in a showpiece shopping complex are suing the developers for damages . |
| 4 | Portfolio controls were used intermittently through the 1970s , but have fallen out of favour in the 1980s and early 1990s with the recognition that they distort the workings of the financial system , and that methods of circumventing the controls exist ( see Hall 1983 ) . |
| 5 | Sexually exiled trom the repressiveness of the home culture ( to which psychoanalytic theory has contributed in no small part with theories like the one just mentioned ) , homosexuals have searched instead for fulfilment in the realm of the foreign . |
| 6 | For example , international insurers compete in part by deploying the abilities to manage large-scale systems they have built up by investment in equipment and human skills over many years . |
| 7 | Things have got out of hand in the past but this time it 's just a fashion show , ’ said Mrs Deborah Keily of the NSPCC , which hoped to raise £20,000 from the show . |
| 8 | In summary , Collins have pulled out of participation in the National Corpus Project and Longman have given a commitment to participate in the National Corpus Project , which leaves us having submitted a proposal a revised proposal to the D T I , erm fully documenting Longman 's contribution , erm but leaving O U P's role and financial contribution to the project open in anticipation that there is likely to be some rearrangements amongst the industrial partners , that is there may be a reallocation of funding between Longman and O U P and maybe the addition of new partners erm or it may just stay as it is erm . |
| 9 | Some bishops , notably Jenkins of Durham , Sheppard of Liverpool , and Hapgood of York , have spoken out about deprivation in the inner cities , the miners ' strike , and the need for government to show a greater compassion for , and understanding of , the poor . |
| 10 | It used to be common for agreements for the supply of crude oil to do the same , but these have gone out of fashion in recent years with the volatility of oil prices : they may reappear if the oil price settles down . |
| 11 | Though the subjects available as part of law degree courses have increased enormously in range in recent years , the balance of courses offered is still weighted considerably in favour of ‘ practical ’ subjects reflecting traditional private law concepts of property rather than the ‘ new property ’ in the many entitlements deriving from the public law that regulates the welfare state ( Abel , 1982 ; Zander , 1978 ) . |