Example sentences of "of the [noun] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the House of Commons he could at least rely upon one of the whips to put him in a cab , and pay the driver . |
| 2 | We were well aware of the problems facing us in the future , and the pressing need was for more and more information about the operations of the big smuggling syndicates . |
| 3 | The refusal of the members to commit themselves in controversial matters certainly made it possible to achieve uniformity , and to make a powerful contribution to the debate on curricular diversity . |
| 4 | This has always been a problem for heads because the structure of the service puts them in an isolated position . |
| 5 | Watching the dismantling of the Do 24 with great interest will be a team of Dutch engineers from the Militaire Luchvaart Museum , who will be making a video of the event to aid them in the task of reassembling the flying boat in Holland . |
| 6 | This research indicated that I should be able to obtain my tank , complete with cover glasses , for , though I might have manages even cheaper if I had asked someone who was a good customer of the tank-builder to order it in his own name rather than mine . |
| 7 | Evening fell early over Lydia 's garden while the rest of the valley preened itself in the setting sun . |
| 8 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 9 | This provides the timetable for the meeting and allows members of the committee to prepare themselves in advance for the discussions that will take place . |
| 10 | The chairman of the committee telephoned me in the late spring of 1976 to say that they were organising a series of public meetings at Wapping when the committee 's plans for the area would be disclosed to the local population for the purpose of hearing their comments and enquiries . |
| 11 | FOURTEEN-year-old Manoel Jorge Santos had no idea of the perils awaiting him in Sao Paulo when he fled from a broken home and brawling stepfather , trudging 50 miles to the city 's cathedral square in search of a new life . |
| 12 | I always knew I would be apprenticed to Joe as soon as I was old enough , and so I used to spend most of the day helping him in the forge . |
| 13 | He stood greeting guests in his dinner jacket , standing alongside Balestre , whose presidency of the FIA kept him in the limelight . |
| 14 | What you have seen today may well be the best lesson you will ever learn of the difficulties facing us in the outside world . |
| 15 | Stories which Richard Burton brought out again and again because he was proud to celebrate his past and would not let any bounty or glamour of the present put it in the shade . |
| 16 | One of the women pierced it in its tenderest place . |
| 17 | Earlier in the day the spokesman had forecast that talks of some form could take place this week after the first week of the strike produced nothing in the way of dialogue . |
| 18 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 19 | His initial unease is indicated in his hesitant reference to being on the way to an engagement ( p. 65 ) , and his fear and powerlessness at the end of the scene reflects itself in his abandonment of his turn as he " decides abruptly to leave " ( p. 73 ) . |
| 20 | At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault . |
| 21 | In the last year of his life Carleton 's connections with the tightly knit Puritan gentry of the midlands involved him in the Puritan literary conspiracy of the Marprelate tracts . |
| 22 | In Wordsworth 's case , as we might expect , most of the paintings show him in middle or old age after he had become famous . |
| 23 | In the second case , there will need to be an original and a duplicate ( or examined copy ) of each document so that the husband has a record of the release from the first mortgage and of the indemnity given him in respect of the second mortgage . |
| 24 | The completion of the exercises involves them in an active learning experience . |
| 25 | He 's a good passer of the ball have him in the middle . |
| 26 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 27 | The glow of the bonfire outlined her in gold . |
| 28 | None the less the king did summon the officers of the Exchequer to join him in Oxford ; Pye 's colleague , who was also his ‘ comptroller ’ and administrative rival , the clerk of the pells , obeyed this call . |
| 29 | When she finished there was a second 's silence , then the warmth of the company expressed itself in a burst of applause . |
| 30 | The formal definition of these classes in the SGML syntax used to express the TEI scheme makes it possible for users of the scheme to extend it in a simple and controlled way : new elements may be added into existing classes , and existing elements renamed or undefined , without any need for extensive revision of the TEI document type definitions — though this is perhaps a benefit which only those who have ever tried to modify an existing dtd by hand will truly appreciate . |