Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it would be a mistake to believe that from the beginning Baldwin exercised all the power and merely allowed MacDonald to sit in impotent glory in 10 Downing Street . |
| 2 | A resident at the C.I.C. hut could easily do a spot of rock-climbing , nip into Fort William to indulge in some leisurely shopping for tartan gonks and still be back in time for a sing-song round the primus stove . |
| 3 | Klaus was a boy with a good school certificate who wanted to join ICI to work in chemical engineering . |
| 4 | The letter is about the vexed question of ‘ unmet need ’ and whether to record it and employ extra solicitors or whether to ignore it and allow the DoH to remain in blissful ignorance . |
| 5 | Edwina Currie to fight in Euro election |
| 6 | Under this treaty , a vast area from Calais in the north to Aquitaine in the south was to be ceded to Edward to hold in full sovereignty . |
| 7 | He also allowed Salan to remain in sole possession of military and civilian authority , and treated him with ostentatious respect and cordiality . |
| 8 | There was no Reg Pybus to stand in this time , he too had left for pastures new . |
| 9 | Leicestershire finished on 289 for 9 … quite a total for Buckinghamshire to chase in sixty overs , , their start was slow but sure … |
| 10 | Since the rest of India will go to the polls between May 20th and 26th , Mr Shekhar had wanted Punjab and Assam to vote in that same week . |
| 11 | They are required by the Bank of England to deal in all outstanding gilt-edged stocks including index-linked stocks and may , if they so choose , deal in other sterling fixed-interest securities ; in certain sterling money-market instruments ; and in derivatives of these securities and instruments , e.g. futures and options on gilts . |
| 12 | The training and equipping of the police in Northern Ireland to respond in quasi-military fashion was later to serve as a model for police on mainland Britain . |
| 13 | Our only non-biological scientist was Elizabeth Stewart ( Mrs Fyfe ) who returned to Aberdeen to marry in 1943 and later emigrated to Halifax , Nova Scotia where her husband became Professor of Anatomy . |
| 14 | Against that background , what assurances can the Minister give that contracts are not being pursued with other east European countries such as Bulgaria and the Ukraine to take in spent fuel and nuclear waste — given that the Iraqi contract was shrouded in secrecy for four months ? |
| 15 | Deprived of six senior defenders , they had to ask Nigel Clough to play in central defence and winger Gary Crosby at right-back . |
| 16 | [ John Bell had already persuaded Fred Allcock to help in this emergency and the boxes of ‘ Maranyl ’ were by the side of the vehicle , ready to load . ] |
| 17 | ‘ I never expected Maurice to die in such a way . |
| 18 | We 'd come to Bristol to live in 1964 and four years later moved into the house in Frenchay where we still live today . |
| 19 | In 1978 Moscow 's imports from the area outweighed exports by a ratio of four to one , obliging the USSR to pay in hard currency for most of its Latin American purchases . |
| 20 | I got Ashenden to collect in all their passports this morning . ’ |
| 21 | Ill health obliged Brooke to retire in 1813 . |
| 22 | Decision by Rawlings to stand in presidential elections |
| 23 | WITH the forthcoming visit by the South Africans looming large , the RFU have taken the opportunity given them by the All Black and Wallaby tours to South Africa to get in some early homework on the Boks . |
| 24 | Another prerequisite therefore may be a closer matching of political and military strength which would oblige Israel to think in new ways . |
| 25 | He wants people to make their own choices , and not pay too much tax , and the United Kingdom to stay in one piece . |
| 26 | In Keeton 's words , ‘ it was left to Dicey to formulate in general principles the assumptions on which political association was founded ’ . |
| 27 | They were welcome for what they could help China to achieve in practical terms , but their politics and social attitudes were reviled . |
| 28 | Furthermore , a battle was regarded by many as an invitation to God to intervene in human affairs , and God had the disconcerting habit of bringing defeat upon those who faced the prospect of victory with overconfidence . |
| 29 | On April 21 another FIS leader , Abdelkader Hachani , was sentenced by the accusation chamber of the Court of Algiers to remain in preventive detention , having been charged with " incitement … to crimes against state security " . |
| 30 | Further modifications led Iraq to claim in 1989 the development of a second missile , the al-Abbas , with a 900-km range . |