Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With few exceptions , such as franchising in hotels and fast foods , where the service can be ‘ packaged ’ and transferred to a third party under stringent conditions of control , most service firms find that they require equity control to ‘ internalise ’ the gains and recoup the high costs of developing the network in the first place . |
| 2 | My favourites are the seedless Thompson raisins for everyday baking and for including in salads and pilafs , and the larger lexia raisins from Australia , which are usually seeded and are ideal for special cakes and puddings . |
| 3 | At this stage they are probably too acidic for most palates to be eaten raw , but they are ideal for using in pies , tarts , jams and jellies . |
| 4 | However , it is well worth using in dishes which require the wine to be added at a later stage to give flavouring . |
| 5 | The use of " form " meaning an instrument for shaping in crafts , like a template or a cobbler 's last , was normal in the 1340s , the more modern usage of the word as " prescribed course " , " formative principle " , not being found until later . |
| 6 | Eating may not then be the main reason for gathering in parties . |
| 7 | Sir , i it was a terrible brief point about clad in jodhpurs , riding boots and hacking jacket but all the point that I was going to make that I 've heard about riding roughshod over Europe but Mr Deputy Speaker this is ridiculous , I the er the honourable |
| 8 | Any geneticist who objects to this language must , to be consistent , object to speaking of genes for eye colour , genes for wrinkling in peas and so on . |
| 9 | He opted for a job as an arc metalworker for a firm that allowed him plenty of time off for competing in meetings and , as he was an international , he travelled overseas often . |
| 10 | Licensed dealers may offer facilities for trading in options . |
| 11 | This is known as trading in maturities , but , however , it does involve an element of risk for a bank . |
| 12 | Hundreds of landings on one particular airfield or gliding site do not provide good training for landing in fields . |
| 13 | But errors crept into his game and , by the end of the opening session , world No 7 Wattana led 6-2 after knocking in breaks of 41 , 65 , 38 , 73 and 43 . |
| 14 | We preferred to evaluate overall clearance of the oesophagus rather than the specific effects of swallowing because the amplitude of contractions after swallowing in patients with abnormal peristalsis is below the minimum effective strength for clearance . |
| 15 | Julie , who will be familiar to viewers of Brookside , September Song , Luv , Taggart and A Word in Your Era , moved a couple of miles outside Bures last summer after living in Monks Eleigh for five years . |
| 16 | Peter Clarke , a pilot based at RAF Fairford , was captured 9 days after flying in supplies . |
| 17 | In certain cases , there may be deposition of solid matter from ground water on standing , such as occurs in supplies containing iron or manganese , where , on exposure to the atmosphere , the water picks up oxygen or loses carbon dioxide , which results in precipitation of insoluble hydroxides . |
| 18 | Fix the doctor or nurse up with white coats , stethoscope and little lights of the kind used for looking in ears . |
| 19 | There are essentially two views about understaffing in prisons . |
| 20 | He insists that in the last analysis there is a fundamental difference between believing in ahi sā , even though it is not possible to behave non-violently in all life 's circumstances , and believing in hi sā . |
| 21 | During counterinsurgency operations government forces sometimes used rape and sexual abuse to try and extract information from women suspected of involvement with the armed opposition , or even to punish women merely for living in areas known to be sympathetic to insurgents . |
| 22 | As the sense of self , they provide the basic attitudes and perspectives which are taken for granted in relations with the external world , by virtue of the extent to which they are models into which that world must be assimilated . |
| 23 | Social group work originated in the 1920s , and can be seen as a ‘ social movement ’ where group members , often new immigrants , were socialized into traditions of democratic participation through living in settlements . |
| 24 | Horses kept in small yards by themselves develop repetitive patterns of abnormal behaviour , such as whirling in circles and chasing their tails . |
| 25 | The Committee approved the trend towards cooking in sculleries rather than on open fires in living rooms although the latter remained the only option for many families living in rooms until well into the inter-war period . |
| 26 | ‘ Barley , ’ as Arthur Young noted , ‘ is everywhere in Suffolk mown and left loose , the neater method of binding in sheaves is not practised . |
| 27 | The tell-tale signs of poisoning in birds are lethargy , refusing to feed and discoloration of the eyes . |
| 28 | Some affirmative uses give a slightly different impression from that of being able to assert the occurrence of an event because of its having been perceived — a suggestion that there is a difference between what perception would lead one to think and the way things really are : ( 85 ) Once again the direction in which something is seen to move might depend upon the ratios of firing in cells sensitive to movement in different directions , and after prolonged movement in one direction a stationary image would produce less firing in the cell which had just been stimulated more than normally , hence apparent movement in the opposite direction would be seen to occur . |
| 29 | Instead of resting in dressing-rooms between shows , the Girls were burnt out coping with double and tripling . |
| 30 | Some critics are scathing about the vogue for ‘ child-centred ’ schemes that fail ( allegedly ) to provide young people with even the rudiments of human culture ; they believe that contemporary views of childhood and childcare are unequal to the task of producing in children such socially desirable qualities as competence , co-operation , responsibility , social sensitivity and moral awareness . |