Example sentences of "[verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally I treated myself to a half hour browse in a bookshop . |
| 2 | Second , since intervention is often directed at the areas of relative weakness in a child 's linguistic abilities , it may be helpful to identify what these are and to what extent they are likely to impair the child 's ability to communicate in a variety of settings . |
| 3 | They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations . |
| 4 | There are types of language use which demand the ability to formulate grammatical , correctly bounded sentences , and being able to exploit the formal sentence grammar is one of the most important elements in being able to communicate in a language . |
| 5 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 6 | ‘ When dancers sleep in a bed , |
| 7 | to slump in a heap or sleep in a hump . |
| 8 | Once when I had thought Nour loved me I had delighted in a garden full of roses surrounding a villa where his aunts lived . |
| 9 | And every day of those five weeks has been a knife slowly twisting in a wound . |
| 10 | And the agreement may insist that the duchess should never act in a way that brings the royal family into disrepute . |
| 11 | On the other hand , such an authority must act in good faith , use the powers for the purpose for which they were given , take into account relevant matters and disregard the irrelevant , and must not act in a way so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could have so acted . |
| 12 | Thus the government may spend money on compulsory education or compulsory vaccination because is recognizes that , left to their own decisions , individuals will act in a way they will subsequently regret . |
| 13 | Needs have to be met to enable active citizenship as without education , welfare , health care , self-respect , and law we can not act in a way we would like to . |
| 14 | It was clear , however , that an unwise or ill-advised Monarch might conceivably act in a manner which could be construed as partial , in that it appeared to reflect a royal preference for one particular group within the party . |
| 15 | Hunt suggests that conflict of this kind may act in a group of individuals to : |
| 16 | What the studious schoolboy of Looe learned in 1801 is disclosed in a handbill published that year by Mr. Clement Triggs , the school 's last master . |
| 17 | Very often irregularities are disclosed in a government department or in a business house : and a man may be suspended on full pay pending inquiries . |
| 18 | If cost has been determined using FIFO , LIFO , weighted average cost or a similar method , and the difference between historical cost and replacement cost of stocks is material , this amount should be disclosed in a note to the accounts . |
| 19 | If cost has been determined using FIFO , LIFO , weighted average cost or a similar method , and the difference between historical cost and replacement cost of stock is material , this amount should be disclosed in a note to the accounts . |
| 20 | The changes in the system were disclosed in a letter to employees of National Power , one of the two big generating companies being created in the sell-off , from its chairman , Lord Marshall . |
| 21 | However , the study was not designed in a way that would allow the conclusion that physicians were as accurate as psychiatrists in their diagnoses and recommendations . |
| 22 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 23 | They 've designed in a bearing which which which is stupidly expensive . |
| 24 | The Ringdufferin golf course has been designed in a manner which does not harm the heritage and natural beauty of the area . |
| 25 | White , in this issue , notes that while much has been achieved by deregulation in the US since the 1970s , regulation with anticompetitive effects remains common in the services sector , and much health-safety-environmental regulation is designed in a manner which gives an advantage to incumbent firms . |
| 26 | It had been designed in a period of relative economic stability and was not fitted for such tumultuous times . |
| 27 | There is a large heated indoor pool with sunroof in the hotel 's main entrance lobby , with a large outdoor Pool designed in a figure of eight for sunny days . |
| 28 | This latter task was not as trivial as may be supposed in a society where wood and straw huts burnt down regularly . |
| 29 | Finally they found a cheap bottle of sherry , which had been won in a church bazaar , lying forgotten in a drawer . |
| 30 | Up to £1,000 can be won in a competition organised by the Cleveland Police Crime Prevention Department . |