Example sentences of "in [verb] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leon sucked his way carefully round his host 's person and joined him in gazing at the red plastic blob . |
| 2 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |
| 3 | I notice from the erm County Council 's own er document for today that they remind us that the Panel in looking at the present structure plan in nineteen eighty erm considered whether the county 's wish at that time to have this broad erm kind of sweeping up policy was appropriate . |
| 4 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 5 | The miraculous tales were set down in writing at the very beginning of literacy , even before the Homeric poems of the eighth century BC . |
| 6 | By providing several columns for the estimates , the stages in arriving at the final budget and any changes of mind during the working stages of the project , can be recorded . |
| 7 | By providing several columns for the estimates , the stages in arriving at the final budget and any changes of mind during the working stages of the project , can be recorded . |
| 8 | The last attempt undertaken by the DHSS concluded as much and observed that the judgement of the ward sister was fundamental in arriving at the appropriate mix of staffing ( 1 ) . |
| 9 | The direct costs incurred in connection with the issue of capital instruments should be deducted from the proceeds of the issue in arriving at the net amount . |
| 10 | In arriving at the correct mix of full-time to part-time staff the objective should be to determine the best fit between the staff required and the staff available . |
| 11 | Elaine a retired civil servant who had worked all her life , felt she made a mistake in retiring at the same time as her friend Louise who had always opted out of the cooking and cleaning in favour of gardening and doing the decorating . |