Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Since May 1977 Labour no longer had an overall majority in the House of Commons , depending on Liberal or Nationalist support to remain in office .
2 Without prior purchase there was little opportunity to invest in land , except for those " professionals " tapping its rising value indirectly through offering mortgages .
3 That 's that remains our intention , we would n't want this article fourteen direction to remain in force indefinitely , even though g the G D O said that we can do that .
4 One Opposition MP , whose constituency includes Cowley , is calling on Aerospace to invest in car-making the money it would have spent on paying back the Government .
5 Messrs Fiddle and Perks have indicated their willingness to continue in office as auditors and a resolution to re-appoint them will be proposed at the forthcoming annual general meeting .
6 Stoy Hayward have expressed their willingness to continue in office and a resolution to re-appoint them will be proposed at the annual general meeting .
7 Stoy Hayward have expressed their willingness to continue in office and a resolution to re-appoint them will be proposed at the annual general meeting .
8 Ernst & Young have expressed their willingness to continue in office as auditors and resolutions proposing their reappointment , and authorising the directors to fix their remuneration , will be submitted at the Annual General Meeting .
9 Touche Ross & Co have expressed their willingness to continue in office and a resolution to reappoint them will be prosposed at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting .
10 The latter , fully engaged in this process , has little opportunity to go in pursuit of relevant insights from the informing disciplines .
11 An inept clearance by Wright , who was in the left-back position , gave Celtic an unexpected opportunity to go in front .
12 The decision to agree in principle came at a Labour group meeting at the start of COSLA 's annual conference .
13 Resistance to flow in polymer systems is even greater , because now the molecules are covalently bonded into long chains which are coiled and entangled and translational motion must , of necessity , be a co-operative process .
14 Knowledge of findings like these are an example of the kind of insight-promoting information which often helps to give teachers new heart to proceed in spite of seemingly overwhelming obstacles .
15 social phenomena exist because they have some positive function to perform in society ;
16 In general , however , GIS surely has a function to perform in simulation and role-playing exercises .
17 In the event of an unsuccessful application to the Crown Court on grounds of delay , the appropriate procedure will be for the trial to proceed in accordance with the trial judge 's ruling and , if necessary , the point should be argued as part of any appeal to the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) ( post , p. 19E–F ) .
18 In the event of an unsuccessful application to the Crown Court on such grounds , the appropriate procedure will be for the trial to proceed in accordance with the ruling of the trial judge and , if necessary , the point should be argued as part of any appeal to the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) .
19 In the event of an unsuccessful application to the Crown Court on such grounds , the appropriate procedure will be for the trial to proceed in accordance with the ruling of the trial judge and , if necessary , the point should be argued as part of any appeal to the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) .
20 The most is the invocation to light in book three , in which Milton speaks out of his blindness , uses that to place himself in a tradition , and again without foregoing his intensity of personal involvement .
21 F , options for benefits in payment to increase in line with inflation , do we have that ?
22 This is not simply to enable the vet to work in comfort , or even to reduce his rage when the first words are ‘ I will just go and try to get a rope on her ! ’
23 You will need to see the Head to ask him or her for permission to meet in school and for a room to meet in .
24 Beating drums and sticks and piping , with dancers and tumblers leaping ahead of them , the grave band of three old men and four younger ones in cloaks of feathers and aprons of leaves had approached him and they had parleyed , as far as their inability to communicate in language allowed .
25 It also shows , however , that sluices judiciously placed , and a barrier across the lake to keep one area free of encroachment from the sea , could allow birds and agriculture to flourish in concert ; an ideal indeed , for all the world .
26 Rebuck , now 38 , says that when Philip made the decision to work in advertising , his friends were shocked : ‘ It was the tail-end of the Sixties generation and most of us did n't have a clue about what we would do .
27 On the amount of damages , Mr Lightman said the Court of Appeal had a special responsibility to bear in mind the ‘ dangerous precedent ’ which could be set by such awards , and added that in this case the award was out of all proportion to the alleged libel .
28 We have a responsibility to bear in mind where the money paid out in benefits comes from .
29 ( A simple example of a missed chance would be a recent lesson in which the pupils were asked to write to Paris to buy a painting for a local authority : there was no consultation with the French Department , and no opportunity to write in French at all ! )
30 He did not see the failure as a consequence of the refusal to unite all opponents of Unionism , but of the NILP 's willingness to compromise in order to achieve such unity :
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