Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion of a lead agency with overall responsibility for developing services or for buying in the necessary services from local statutory , private or voluntary agencies would make clear where responsibility should lie . |
| 2 | They are pieces of writing which are distinct in law ; the author of the one could not be sued for the other , or for collaborating in it . |
| 3 | For restoring old leather or for breaking in new boots . |
| 4 | You can give many commands before or after typing in text . |
| 5 | If there are distinct separate explosions taking place during the eruption , then a fresh ash cloud will develop after each explosion , just like the ones produced by the explosion of a bomb , or after blasting in a quarry . |
| 6 | Without it he can not attain to full powers either of learning or of teaching in any . |
| 7 | The rest of us travel those kinds of journeys vicariously , slumped in a winter armchair reading accounts of Himalayan kingdoms reached only by months of walking , or of chucking in the job , mortgaging the house and sailing to the spice islands with oriental pirates . |
| 8 | The CBI report ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ rejected the notion that the Government could or should ’ be in the business of picking winners , or of engaging in direct intervention in the strategic direction and management of companies ’ . |
| 9 | The CBI report ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ rejected the notion that Government could or should ’ be in the business of picking winers , or of engaging in direct intervention in the strategic direction and management of companies ’ . |
| 10 | Specialisation could be in terms of industry , for instance , financial services ; experience in a particular area of banking ; in high technology ; in consumer products ; in working for the international general consultancies ; or in working in chemicals , engineering or pharmaceuticals . |
| 11 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 12 | The priests of the old deities had emerged from the desert or from hiding in neglected provincial cities in Shemau and To-mehu , and established themselves again , without difficulty , the people grateful to have the old gods returned to them , who demanded no more than unquestioning duty , propitiation and sacrifice ; gods who did not require a man to think for himself ; gods who forgave sin if the price was right , and who guaranteed a good time in the Hereafter . |
| 13 | NATO proposed to the Warsaw Treaty states a joint declaration " in which we solemnly state that we are no longer adversaries and reaffirm our intention to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state or from acting in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and with the CSCE [ Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ] Final Act . |
| 14 | A solicitor who personally receives financial benefits as the director ( appointed as a result of his connection with the firm ) of a company for whom the firm has acted , or from buying property from or through the agency of a client of the firm or from investing in a business run by a client of the firm will , unless he has cleared matters ( after full disclosure ) with his co-partners , be accountable under this head . |
| 15 | The universe sampled was adults aged 18 or over living in Great Britain ( i.e. excluding Northern Ireland ) at the time of the survey . |
| 16 | What is more important than gender is the personality and skill of the fieldworker in overcoming the feelings of suspicion the police have of all outsiders , especially in the more enclosed and threatened world of the RUC , and in our case the field-worker 's gender seemed no bar to her obtaining access to the masculine ‘ canteen culture ’ of the men or to participating in conversations on the topics which are popular in that culture , which van Maanen describes as ‘ sports , cars and sex ’ ( 1981 : 476 ) . |
| 17 | Döldissen reports typical reductions of five to six dB(A) in the experimental areas , a fall of such magnitude that it is equivalent to either halving the traffic volume or to sealing in the motors of all passing vehicles . |
| 18 | It can be started from seed sown outdoors in spring , or by dividing in autumn , as the stems die down , and should be allowed 60cm ( 2ft ) of space from its neighbour . |
| 19 | Although microspectrophotometric measurements are usually made by passing the beam transversely through the outer segment , our measurements of cells in these foveal patches were necessarily axial ; the absorption spectra may thus be subject to minor distortion by inert pigments in the inner segments , by waveguide effects , or by scattering in other retinal tissue . |
| 20 | One leg lay slightly askew , broken either when she drowned or by mishandling in death . |
| 21 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 22 | It concentrated on the curriculum and organization of Inner London secondary schools and focused on those pupils who were underachieving , took few or no public examinations and showed their dissatisfaction with school by absenting themselves or by behaving in an uncooperative manner ( ILEA 1984 ) . |
| 23 | When used with the bare infinitive , it denotes a direct experiencing of , and so contemporaneity in time with , an occurrence and can often be replaced by see — although it denotes perception in a more abstract way than the latter — or by have in its experiential sense : ( 93 ) Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season . |
| 24 | If you have cavity walls , these can be insulated by injecting foam , or by blowing in polystyrene beads or mineral wool fibres through holes drilled in the outside walls . |
| 25 | Many of the South-Asians responded to this crisis by organising self-employment or by working in new small or medium sized businesses set up , owned and run by members of their own communities or by members of extended families . |
| 26 | The coming battle for the soul of Central Europe will not be decided on the playing fields of EMU , nor by throwing in the sheepmeat regime at the decisive moment . |
| 27 | Clearly , you can not inherit a taste for it by coming from a separatist family , nor by living in a separatist neighbourhood . |
| 28 | ‘ J.K. has been a great help — he knows so much about left-arm swing bowling and about playing in India . |
| 29 | The availability of telephone , radio and television is often dependent however on services provided by government , so politicoeconomic decisions are involved and some would even maintain that the mass media provide opportunities for political pressure , and for communicating in the form of propaganda . |
| 30 | People interested in agricultural improvement in the nineteenth century — in improving farming methods , in increasing the potential yield of land and in methods of improving the manner of storage of its produce — saw the formal lease as a mechanism for spelling out in advance precisely who was responsible for what , and for enshrining in legal terms how the land was to be utilised . |