Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | How suitable , as a preparation for teaching in secondary school , is a degree course in which the student 's reading is almost entirely confined to imaginative literature and which entails no systematic study of any other register in the foreign language … |
| 2 | Years of moving from one home to another , having meals cooked for you , never having to think twice about leaving lights on or taps dripping is hardly the best preparation for surviving in a bedsit on a YTS wage of £29.50 a week ( trainees do n't qualify for income support ) . |
| 3 | These personal responses to discussions of parental figures should be recognised by social workers in preparation for working in this area . |
| 4 | He says : ‘ Although I 've played next to no club rugby , I 've got lots of big match experience through playing in all the age-group teams England now run . ’ |
| 5 | It has been well argued that the great procession , headed by the Host and including the orders of the Church and social guilds , interrupted by the plays performed by the guild members reminding followers of the archetypal story of God 's plan of salvation from the Creation to the Last Judgement , provided opportunity for participating in that sense of unity beyond division which is the heart of Christian belief , and which underpins the social value put on the more isolated lives of contemplatives . |
| 6 | There is a powerful case for moving in successive Budgets towards eliminating the irrational nature of Britain 's alcohol taxes and to taxing all alcoholic drinks on the same basis , whatever the kind of bottle in which it comes . |
| 7 | The most basic case for charging is the general case for pricing in a competitive economy ( Seldon , 1977 ) . |
| 8 | Before 1099 he had made no difficulty about acting in a contrary sense . |
| 9 | Nails lit a cigarette , an excuse for staying in the warehouse . |
| 10 | ‘ But I have n't been able to think of an excuse for getting in touch with her , ’ she admitted . |
| 11 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 12 | She had n't given a thought to her lack of coif ; her mind was too occupied with trying to think of an excuse for remaining in her gown , and failing dismally . |
| 13 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 14 | Oh , Leo ! ’ she exclaimed helplessly as she looked at him , a plea for understanding in her lovely eyes . |
| 15 | There is always a trivial algorithm for searching in a finite space — just list all nodes , and examine them in turn . |
| 16 | When these methods work well ( and I write from experience ) such schools are places of tremendous enthusiasm for learning in which the great majority of children make rapid progress in academic studies and in social skills . |
| 17 | Lech Walesa was probably more popular when he was a freedom-fighter in Poland than when he came here recently and complained about the low level of enthusiasm for investing in his country.Today the only country to spend more than 1 per cent of its output on aid is Norway , with Holland and Denmark close behind . |
| 18 | It creates a common link between teaching in schools and learning at home . |
| 19 | We 've demonstrated the direct link between investing in community support and reduced crime levels and we believe that programme , valued as it is in local communities , has a message larger and wider for policy makers in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | In the same spirit he supervised the harnessing of the horses , the carrying down of the dressing-case and boots and clothes and papers , the safe depositing of the plate and linen and two locked trunks — it was the hour for promenading in Keswick and Mr Wood 's conducting of this orchestra was not to go unremarked . |
| 21 | ( 6 ) No partner shall be entitled to remuneration for acting in the partnership business . |
| 22 | The trend towards criterion-referencing signals an increasing interest in assessment for learning in contrast with assessment for selection . |
| 23 | And although none of the critics called him a genius for playing in them , none argued about the extent of his talent either . |
| 24 | The franchising of services with total responsibility for pricing in the hands of operators may well bring many new local marketing ideas . |
| 25 | ‘ For instance , the man who , up to a short time ago , was chosen to select films from the West for showing in Slovakia , and to attend festivals like Cannes and Venice , was a butcher by trade . |
| 26 | Well it 's a special technique for getting in Dan 's house without annoying his parents . |
| 27 | Part of his technique for staying in power has been to ensure that all the people closest to him get their hands bloody by sharing in the hangman 's work ; he calls it ‘ democratic execution ’ |
| 28 | The technique for landing in wave conditions is different . |
| 29 | It 's sad , is n't it ? … that people 's heroes are just a bunch of pansies who get paid extortionate amounts of money for kicking in a poor ball who has n't done anyone any harm ! |
| 30 | Still , it is good to know that British boxers can now command as much money for fighting in London as they once would have received only when topping the bill in the United States . |