Example sentences of "in [noun sg] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Physical and mental stress between the ages of 2 and 3 years cause a significant increase in persistence of bedwetting after the age of 4 years ( Stein and Susser 1967 ) . |
| 2 | In defence of concentrating on the sentence , different teachers and different learners might give different answers . |
| 3 | Here again I think that you 're in danger of drifting from the essential feature , which is that in the absence of a requirement to take land out of the greenbelt , the whole of the area er within the general extent of the greenbelt as approved by the Secretary of State erm has a greenbelt function . |
| 4 | The Zambian capital of Lusaka , and surrounding towns , may be in danger of sinking into the ground because of the increasing numbers of water boreholes being drilled in the area . |
| 5 | We have to answer an er your Lordships are in danger of getting into the mood of treating this debate as a charge with a single issue to be decided on a single voter . |
| 6 | He came across as a weak , indecisive leader wracked by doubt and in danger of drowning in the complexities of the problems that faced him . |
| 7 | Your first-class generalist , especially your Oxford first-class generalist , is always in danger of retreating to the mediaeval schoolmen and wondering how many Flying Scotsmen could be delayed on the head of a pin . |
| 8 | The ruling Gaullists and the Communists alike were in danger of cracking under the strain of the May Events . |
| 9 | Any teacher who tries to devise a syllabus for a music class that will appeal to the members of the class for its relevance , or who attempts to attract the English class by giving them things to read or act that will speak to them in their own language is in danger of falling into the trap of ‘ thinking down ’ to his pupils , of condescending to them . |
| 10 | Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha ! |
| 11 | In Bangladesh , Oral Rehydration Therapy was in danger of falling into the trap of being inappropriate for the people that it was intended to help . |
| 12 | It nearly over , we were in danger of going off the road with it . |
| 13 | He lost five of the first seven holes in the afternoon and was in danger of going into the record books as Wentworth 's bloodiest casualty . |
| 14 | Seen in this light , both Cairns-Smith 's theory and the primeval-soup theory seem if anything in danger of erring on the side of being too plausible ! |
| 15 | Jean Richet , director in charge of restructuring at the Montpellier plant sums it up when he says : ‘ if we are able to sell outside then we are competitive and if we are competitive we can demonstrate this to IBM ’ . |
| 16 | Ian 's mother-in-law , Mrs Jan Waller , is in charge of catering for the four walkers and 17 back-up crew . |
| 17 | This account , in spite of beginning with the faculties of the knowing subject , leaves no room for an account of the individual as creative — as having any autonomy of agency . |
| 18 | She had very delicate ways and inch-long silver fingernails , in spite of serving in the shop . |
| 19 | John Chilvers , 21 , died in hospital , in spite of escaping from the explosion . |
| 20 | Third , he could not have failed to be reassured by the rising trend in his own popularity , which suggested ( to him at least ) that , in spite of grumbling about the stabilization plan , the people were still ready for the " high road " . |
| 21 | Not that she was anything to write home about , in spite of coming from the Wirral . |
| 22 | It undertook out-of-area activities in respect of minesweeping in the Iran-Iraq war , and of the sanction stopping of ships during the Gulf war . |
| 23 | Cohen 's results showed that masking produced a significant decrement in the left visual field but not in the right visual field , thus implying a superiority in rate of encoding for the left hemisphere . |
| 24 | Divisional Conferences held in January and February 1932 , though recording greater support for disaffiliation , nevertheless gave a two to one vote in favour of staying inside the Labour Party . |
| 25 | The Attorney General , Sir Hartley Shawcross , agreed with the Lord Chancellor that the grading of murders would be unworkable , adding that he still remained in favour of providing for the abolition of capital punishment in the Bill . |
| 26 | Yet the committee voted four-to-two in favour of smoking in the directors ' suites — though they reckoned the air-conditioning would need fixing . |
| 27 | Although reports indicated that there continued to be widespread resistance to any dilution of the CSCE 's unanimity rule [ see p. 38314 ; 38366 ] , questions about its merits resurfaced after the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd on Sept. 10 urged the conference to seek ways of strengthening the CSCE 's mechanisms for the protection of human rights , adding that the UK was " certainly in favour of moving beyond the present situation where everything happens by consensus " . |
| 28 | Demographic and economic trends make higher rates of owner-occupation increasingly difficult to achieve without further selective measures in favour of owing at the expense of renting . |
| 29 | After 1981 government opinion shifted in favour of focusing on the monetary base , as this is more easily controlled by the authorities , and after 1984 the government started targeting M0 as well as M3 in its medium-term financial strategy . |
| 30 | Although the tapes had been in the possession of the Walsh investigating team for some time , their significance concerning Fiers had apparently surfaced only recently when the investigators turned their attention away from members of the administration of former President Ronald Reagan in favour of concentrating on the connection between senior CIA officials and the Iran-contra affair . |