Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There never were 6,000 knights in England ; and it was rare in the twelfth century for more than a thousand knights to gather in answer to a feudal summons . |
| 2 | A MOSCOW dating agency claims couples need three minutes to fall in love . |
| 3 | Initially , we assume that there is only one basic factor , labour , with perfect competition and constant returns to scale in production . |
| 4 | The POA is also concerned about plans to draft in prison officers to help Group 4 security guards if there is any trouble at the Wolds . |
| 5 | He already has plans to appear in Death Wish Six and Seven . |
| 6 | The complainant considered that the advertisement was likely to encourage drivers to drive in excess of the legal speed limit . |
| 7 | CAPEL-Cure Myers has launched a service which monitors the opportunities to invest in Business Expansion Scheme companies before the end of the current tax year . |
| 8 | Housing Minister Sir George Young is drawing up plans to encourage banks , building societies and pension funds to invest in rental properties . |
| 9 | Arbitan persuades the time-travellers to go in search of the keys . |
| 10 | It allows exporters to borrow in advance an agreed percentage ( up to 75 per cent ) of importers ' debts outstanding and unpaid . |
| 11 | There may not be many opportunities to aviate in winter , but those that do appear can provide the best flying of the year — light winds , excellent power and density altitude conditions and a razor sharp horizon . |
| 12 | Three Blue Sisters have now been sent as Missionaries to work in North West Atlanta , USA . |
| 13 | Their action let stand a decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond , Virginia , that property lost at sea can be abandoned only through the failure of insurers to appear in court or through a written statement relinquishing title . |
| 14 | It is my intention to prepare a further paper taking account of the comments received , and then to invite interested parties to meet in order to discuss the way forward . |
| 15 | One knows that governments have other considerations to bear in mind , including the legislative process itself . |
| 16 | As you may know the Cardinal has already taken steps to set in train a thorough investigation into the moral implications of the Law Lords ' decision . |
| 17 | He repeated an earlier offer to the opposition parties to participate in government . |
| 18 | Angled at business applications of information technology , the course covers such relatively novel ideas as office automation , the human aspects of computing , computer aided design and the use of computers to aid in management decision making . |
| 19 | Third , although some comparison between my present experience and others is necessary for me to know what words to use in description , and although such comparison , especially in the case where the objects compared are a past and a present experience , is fallible ( since memory is fallible ) , still the comparison is not what I am trying to express when I try to express my beliefs about my present experience alone . |
| 20 | They take in surplus funds from other institutions and use the funds to deal in treasury and commercial bills . |
| 21 | The profit to the discount houses comes from using the funds to deal in treasury and commercial bills . |
| 22 | Swift Transport , for example , has 300 trucks equipped with Cellnet phones to enable drivers to keep in touch with depots and customers to confirm times of arrival . |
| 23 | In May 1688 Ken was urgently summoned to London by Sancroft , the Archbishop of Canterbury , to consult with his fellow bishops in response to an Order in Council requiring them to instruct their clergy to read in Church a Declaration of Indulgence ; under this , Roman Catholics and Dissenters would no longer be required to subscribe to oaths under the Test Acts . |
| 24 | In the eleventh and twelfth centuries to build in stone , granite or marble was a prodigious undertaking , particularly if the area concerned did not possess the materials close to hand . |
| 25 | Such cries should not cause feminist liturgists to retreat in fear . |
| 26 | It is obvious that for any group of companies to grow , a good balance is required between those which continually need cash injections to stay in business ( the capital-intensive type of enterprise which is typical of much of the chemical industry ) and those which can generate very high profits and throw off cash when things are going well . |
| 27 | Last year I set an agenda which said that ’ we needed eighteen months to get in shape for the eventual economic upturn ’ . |
| 28 | It is currently taking steps to develop in detail a long-term strategy for research in the Biosciences ( see para. 3.4 below ) . |
| 29 | These problems may be recited in a familiar litany cited for all service sectors concerned with all dependency groups : services are remote from individuals and their families ; services are difficult for families and clients to get in touch with or access ; services are organisationally and professionallY fragmented , So that families and clients are unclear about who was doing what ; furthermore , services are unconnected or discontinuous , so that families and clients fall into gaps between services ; finally , the statutory agencies were not able to liaise extensively with voluntary or informal care networks However , these general observations do not point precisely to operational tasks . |
| 30 | Standing by her place with an endearing air of domestic pride , she explained that her husband was away with the other men , spreading the meat strips on the higher thorn bushes to dry in safety . |