Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What will tend to happen is for example , erm , in my section to deal with public courses , I would have information about the venues that I 'm going to use this year , I would have information about the mailing lists I 'm going to use , and information about the mailing lists of my office I 'm going to use , I would have prospects that I 'm going to call , you know , it 's all stuff that I would tend to plan out on a pad of paper and then insert into the particular data section , and refer to as I need to . |
| 2 | The 28-year-old central defender said : ‘ It will be a step up in my career to play against continental sides in the UEFA Cup . |
| 3 | Different fish species differ markedly in their ability to deal with different water types . |
| 4 | It is probable that eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century law , custom and employment encouraged women 's confidence in their ability to deal with pre-marital sex , but increasingly the transformations of the nineteenth century altered the picture . |
| 5 | This is particularly important for elementary students as it helps them keep pace with the programme and therefore gives them confidence in their ability to cope with longer stretches of language . |
| 6 | Many of the children in care were young , and unless positive steps to plan for their future were taken , they would continue like the older children in their sample to wait for lengthy periods in care . |
| 7 | Further , once women get themselves into the position of dependent housewives , they have a vested interest in the maintenance of the status quo since it is too late in their lives to think of independent careers , and sexual freedom merely means the freedom for their husbands to seek younger women . |
| 8 | We are glad to see that the Government continue in their efforts to press for long-term middle east peace and the settlement of the Palestinian problem . |
| 9 | The section on structural adjustment detailed means of supporting ACP countries in their efforts to adjust to short-term economic fluctuations . |
| 10 | For example when , as a journalist , I visited couples in their homes to ask about local events , my conversations with women would often be interrupted by their husbands holding up their hands in the direction of their wives and saying in the most matter of fact way ‘ Be quiet , ’ and then turning to me and saying ‘ There is no point in asking my wife . |
| 11 | The notion of cartoons is important to Elena Sisto , too , in that images from popular illustration and comics often pop up in her paintings to comment on various social issues . |
| 12 | This afternoon , however , she was too much perturbed in her mind to trouble about such things , and she rounded the corner at a run which would have spelt disaster had anyone been coming in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | Poetry is unique in its ability to comment on such things in a classroom . |
| 14 | Where desktop publishing begins to score , even over its close cousin corporate electronic publishing , CEPS as it is known , is in its ability to integrate with current personal computer systems . |
| 15 | THE timeless fascination of Sophocles 's Antigone has many explanations , not least in its ability to present in dramatic form many of the most delicate , painful questions concerning government and politics , and with the uncertain ability of human beings to co-exist in society . |
| 16 | A new trust has been formed with more than £100,000 in its coffers to spend on visual arts , it was announced yesterday . |
| 17 | Luckily , the social-climbing medico found space in his guidebook to record in some detail how the top people of that early Victorian era spent their time when not imbibing the chalybeate or soaking in the sulphur . |
| 18 | A good player — Wilko would nt have paid 2M for him otherwise — but limited in his ability to play in different positions . |
| 19 | Carter had done his best in his campaign to capitalize on this negative mood , yet the margin of his success at the polls had been small . |
| 20 | He was wise enough in his broadcasts to refrain from one tactic , the inspiration of that chill fear which some of his political ranting achieved in the 193()s . |
| 21 | In the laboratory he did undoubtedly think with his hands thoughts which he could not clearly express in words , or in the more accurate language of mathematics ( which he distrusted ) ; but he did try in his lectures to put across some of his underlying convictions . |
| 22 | The king is absolute only in his power to pass from one slavery to another . |
| 23 | Ruffled , and pent-up in his urge to plump for some outright and decisive plan , he grabbed the poker and hit the smouldering coals . |
| 24 | We would have to develop an ingrained self-confidence in our ability to navigate across featureless terrain without any back-up whatsoever and using maps that gave little or no detail . |
| 25 | This intuition was confirmed in a study in which we asked graduate students and other members of staff in our department to comment on short passages derived from examples in our corpus . |
| 26 | You need £100 in your account to qualify for free banking . |