Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [coord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More cavalry came by and then his three principal generals , in chains and dressed like the Negus , but each carrying on his shoulder a large stone as a mark of servitude . |
| 2 | Grants in respect of capital expenditure incurred after 31st March 1991 are included in creditors and released to the profit and loss account in equal instalments over the expected useful lives of the related assets . |
| 3 | The distributions of the ACE genotypes ( Table 1 ) in cases and controls in the different populations were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium , except in the control group of Toulouse where , for unknown reasons , an excess of heterozygotes was observed . |
| 4 | His assailant reaches over , pulls the cash drawer from the till , empties it of its £12 in notes and walks into the sunlit Reading streets . |
| 5 | The order is received by the sales office ; checks are made in the warehouse to see if the sub-assemblies are in stock ; a schedule is made in the production department and the products manufactured ; the goods are despatched by the distribution department ; and the invoice typed up in accounts and sent to the customer . |
| 6 | The customers were all men , heavily robed , standing in groups or leaning on the counter with no apparent desire to be served . |
| 7 | Thus the government announced sweeping increases in taxes and cuts in the public sector ; it aimed to scrap all the remaining state subsidies , sell off state assets , and fire about 80,000 workers ( a small proportion of public employees ) . |
| 8 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 9 | This was viewed as crucial to end the long period of disruption in schools and to deal with the problems of student demotivation . |
| 10 | The interpellation ‘ you know ’ is not considered appropriate in standard written styles of the kind taught in schools and used in the ‘ essayist tradition ’ nor in certain formal situations , for example in a television interview . |
| 11 | It 's been said he 's got a bigger investment in bricks and mortar in the Pas de Calais than Hitler had . |
| 12 | Part of the answer is that the vast majority of service personnel who answer telephones , serve in shops and deal with the great British public are female . |
| 13 | Lucenzo 's brother touched Lucenzo 's arm in thanks and vanished through the crowd . |
| 14 | A lot of the women , young girls for the most part , came overland as I had , packed in steamers and trains like the fish they were to gut . |
| 15 | What fired the stock market , however , is a belief that corporate profits should start to improve before consumer spending rises , thanks to the reduction in stocks and costs over the past year . |
| 16 | In 1369 a trebuchet , used for slinging stones , was employed at the siege of La-Roche-sur-Yon , and in 1356–7 another was in evidence at the siege of Rennes ; as late as 1378 another was in use before Cherbourg , having been brought there in pieces and assembled on the spot . |
| 17 | He also published a novel , acted in movies and assisted on the screen plays of others ; but he did not direct again after 1974 , perhaps because a much-anticipated family saga , La Maison des Bories , reveals many of the faults of those film-makers swept away by the nouvelle vague , and none of the movement 's freshness . |
| 18 | They furiously denounced a so-called ‘ Economist ’ heresy among Social Democrats for fostering such a switch in priorities and insisted on the primacy of the political task . |
| 19 | When Alexander the Great ( 356–323BC ) was invading the cities of India he found therein may sacred snakes which were kept in caves and worshipped by the Indians with great devotion . |
| 20 | Figure 1 shows that individual secretory volumes were reasonably constant in patients and controls during the four hour infusion study , showing effective continual hormonal stimulation and satisfactory recovery . |
| 21 | The Principal Subject Assessors , as well as carrying out team leaders in their cognate group , undertake staff development work in centres and assist in the training of new subject assessors . |
| 22 | The plants can be planted in flower-pots and embedded in the gravel . |
| 23 | There is no doubt that certain species have been successfully bred in zoos and released in the wild . |
| 24 | But unless quality and productivity can be improved in leaps and bounds by the early 1990s , then Dagenham is unlikely to have a future as a car production plant . |
| 25 | The yeast then produces haemoglobin which could be used , in a suitable formulation , to treat people seriously injured in accidents and assist in the treatment of heart disease and tumours . |
| 26 | The Zambia-based United Front for Multi-Party Democracy declared on April 21 that it was ready to participate in elections and called on the President to delay the election date to allow for the registration of opposition parties . |
| 27 | Fertility could remain high and mortality continue to decline without population growth being stifled by a fall in wages and increases in the cost of subsistence . |
| 28 | It is able to recycle material which is now being expensively destroyed in incinerators or dumped into the sea , where it may act as a source of marine pollution . |
| 29 | Learning by rote lines which , with their unexpected changes of stress and metre , might baffle a teenager confronting the printed page , combined forces found strength in numbers and support from the resourceful accompaniment . |
| 30 | An unfinished water-colour was on the easel , but it was a canvas done in oils and propped against the wall that seized and riveted her attention . |