Example sentences of "[prep] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 2 | Although the qualification was very much sought after in the beginning with the burgeoning of more centres running it up and down the country , the trainees soon realised that in spite of the skills they gained , the diploma was not recognised by the DES even as a first stage towards further accreditation . |
| 3 | It is clearly undesirable and often more expensive to admit or keep in district general hospitals or long stay hospitals old or mentally ill or mentally handicapped people who could be properly looked after in the community . |
| 4 | This may be appropriate , not only because hospital beds are usually expensive but also because most people prefer to be looked after in the community . |
| 5 | For most mentally-ill people are being looked after in the community anyway , by relatives and friends who can not bring themselves to have the people they love locked away . |
| 6 | He would prefer not to come back on to my patch , and he has his own investments to look after in the City . |
| 7 | What there 's a handbook that he 's after in the bookshop . |
| 8 | They do live happily ever after in the end . |
| 9 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 10 | Now and then , waiters would serve us refreshing drinks from the bar and while we were busy unwinding , we were happy to know that the children were being well looked after in the Children 's Club . |
| 11 | … John and I , flattered at first by the sweet smell of success , had to get out of it , into another language , forgotten in the House of Fame but happy ever after in the House of Fiction . |
| 12 | Now Wedgwood generously agreed to waive the buy-back clause in return for a series of covenants ensuring that the house would be restored and looked after in the future . |
| 13 | To take one 's finger off the bounding narrative pulse of Crime and Punishment and to open The Possessed — to open it anywhere — is to find oneself out in the sticks once again : the ‘ our town ’ of the novel and the voice relating its affairs bring back the ‘ we ’ of convict life in The House of the Dead and the more sketchy collective of that remote Siberian community outside the prison walls . |
| 14 | It was a very difficult period in my career , and the problem with the transfer was that everything was done out in the open . |
| 15 | What they are capable of in the way of understanding and manipulating their own situation is itself determined by the whole structured in dominance , and the idea of strategy itself must be understood in holist terms . |
| 16 | We have shown that polynomials can be thought of in the way we have always thought of them , secure in the knowledge that uncomfortable questions about x can be circumvented . |
| 17 | Erm it may be some will be not so easy need a bit more work and some of them 'll be sort of in the middle . |
| 18 | The controls were on the left instead of in the middle . |
| 19 | Put it sort of in the middle . |
| 20 | Yeah but there is n't a flat top it divides sort of in the middle |
| 21 | Down the middle so put the pencil sort of in the middle |
| 22 | And then these overall evaluations change too , so you have a long evolutionary process here , you see , the working out of human evaluations , and while you wo n't get you wo n't get total agreement that the you will erm some sort of co-ordination and the particularly I argue that while there 's an area sort of in the middle , as it were , where you can get away with all sorts of things , you see , there are cliffs . |
| 23 | They 're more often thought of in the DTP world , where they are more or less mandatory . |
| 24 | Signed by on behalf of in the presence of |
| 25 | SIGNED BY on behalf of in the presence of : |
| 26 | SIGNED BY on behalf of in the presence of : |
| 27 | SIGNED BY SIGNED BY on behalf of OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS on behalf of in the presence of : in the presence of : |
| 28 | The police began to believe that the dead man must have been a foreigner , killed on some ship visiting London 's river , his body disposed of in the darkness , leaving the ship to sail away . |
| 29 | The view of the prosecution that this is matter could be dealt with quite satisfactorily by the way of in the court were minded to do that , if the court would accept that course of action . |
| 30 | The market is less active , people are less likely to take risks with things they know nothing of in the hope of growth so perhaps the recession has affected the USM more severely than people have given credit for . |