Example sentences of "in [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then southern and eastern England had been extensively ravaged , and £137,000 paid in attempts to rid it of the enemy . |
| 2 | It is called Macrae 's Monument and is one of the few things left in Ayrshire to remind us of a very remarkable man called James Macrae . |
| 3 | She prised Burton out of digs in Streatham to install him on the top floor of her house in Pelham Crescent — just a few doors down from Emlyn Williams . |
| 4 | Additional accommodation and travel expenses incurred as a consequence of accident or mechanical failure involving the motor vehicle in which you are travelling or failure of public transport services resulting in failure to deliver you to the International departure/return port or airport in time . |
| 5 | Despite this , the new president of the CSIC , José Mato , decided in November to exclude me from the examination and to cancel the competition . |
| 6 | He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season . |
| 7 | Mr de Klerk telephoned Mrs Thatcher at the Conservative conference in Blackpool to tell her of the decision before it was announced in South Africa . |
| 8 | Please ring me at the above number and I will meet you in Paris to escort you to the hospital . |
| 9 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ A contact I made when I was in Croatia got in touch to tell me about the efforts of the villagers of Sumet , which is between Split and Mostar . |
| 11 | They wore white uniforms in summer to distinguish them from the crowds that might throng their stations . |
| 12 | Field work staff should also be informed of such incidents in order to record them in the client index by actioning the appropriate ‘ flag ’ . |
| 13 | In the hypothetical case of his son and daughter Gandhi would consider that he was acting out of moral considerations in taking his son 's life in order to save him from unnecessary suffering , and his daughter 's life in order to save her from the threat of violation . |
| 14 | The virtue of the Prince must be ‘ secured , like Ulysses , to the mast of the law , in order to save it from the seductive voices of flattery and vanity ’ . |
| 15 | It is with the legitimacy of this discretion , and particularly with the form that the rules of company law should take in order to control it in the public interest , that this book is principally concerned . |
| 16 | Sometimes it is interesting to play speculative games by projecting historical events and characters forward or backward in time in order to view them in the context of a different time or place . |
| 17 | She therefore engages in a diagnostic experiment of identifying historically distinct meanings of the concept in order to use them as a measure against contemporary political usage . |
| 18 | There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’ |
| 19 | If the material is being used on a table or flat surface , it means that in order to use it at a close distance from the eye , the head is bent low over the book in order to try to discriminate the print . |
| 20 | Thus , the situation should not arise in which the writer of an option contract can not fulfil his obligations by buying securities in the stock market , or that an investor can not buy shares in order to sell them to the option writer . |
| 21 | If an object is annexed to land in order to enjoy it as a chattel ( eg a carpet nailed to the floor ) it will not become a fixture but will remain a chattel . |
| 22 | In us , each side has an area of about one square foot , so the crinkled appearance results from the need to crumple the sheet like a piece of paper in order to accommodate it within the skull . |
| 23 | As salt would have been a precious commodity , all their meat had to be air-dried in order to preserve it for the winter months , and this was done by the use of cleits . |
| 24 | Demands to abandon an existing shibboleth in order to replace it with an even older one . |
| 25 | Moreover , it is important to note that an SRO may modify or waive the core rules ( on a case by case basis ) in order to adapt them to the circumstances of a particular firm . |
| 26 | The Commission was instructed to prepare for December 1993 a report re-examining " certain Community rules in order to adapt them to the principle of subsidiarity " . |
| 27 | I mention this not in order to remind you of the central heating that you have left behind , but to warn you not to get ill . |
| 28 | Similarly , the trustees can be empowered to convene meetings of the holders in order to acquaint them with the position and to obtain their instructions . |
| 29 | The Spirit of God came upon the Christian community in order to unite them in a fellowship which could not be paralleled in any other group . |
| 30 | In those circumstances , it will be necessary to attempt to spell out the general laws , metaphysical and methodological principles , etc. involved in a paradigm in order to defend them against the alternatives involved in the threatening new paradigm . |