Example sentences of "[vb base] in [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tender green beans grow in soil which could be better employed providing food for Kenya 's peasants . |
| 2 | There are many people who appear in court who are basically conveyancers who are not competent to give other than initial advice . |
| 3 | Discipline means having an agenda , starting and finishing the meeting when you said you would , answering the client 's questions with authority ( and if you can not give an answer , say you do not know but you will find out ) ; having your paperwork neat and easily at hand ; offering the best hospitality you can provide , such as telephones , a cup of coffee , a comfortable chair and a pad and pencil in case he did n't bring his own . |
| 4 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 5 | It provides subordinates with greater job satisfaction by giving them more say in decision-making which affects their work . |
| 6 | But I do not think it was open to them to state a sum constituting the … deficit and then say in effect they were not sure if the sum was correct . |
| 7 | if you say in Playback there is an added night performance |
| 8 | There can be no doubt that Sewell 's efforts in assisting Palace to retain that place in Division One were magnificent . |
| 9 | And I worry in case someone needs to ring me . ’ |
| 10 | But actually ’ — Agnes 's voice became pure Oxford ( the university not the town ) — ‘ that was just Track One was n't it ? — cover in case we noticed anything on Track Two which was a small destabilisation group . |
| 11 | Erm b but there was no reason why we should sit in wait in case they might go up because they might have gone down further . |
| 12 | When we look in detail we find — it would be worrying if we did n't — that the convergence is not total . |
| 13 | Later in this chapter we examine in detail their major characteristics and the nature of the courses which they offer . |
| 14 | It is covered in ivy by day and by night in mystery and when I lie in bed I see men and women through it passing by . |
| 15 | We describe in detail our proposals for knowledge about language in the secondary curriculum in chapter 6 . |
| 16 | Everything that he greatly cares about demands order , proportion , measure and control In poetry he considers decorum the grand masterpiece . |
| 17 | You know in case there was any inspector or anybody but er I do n't remember anybody ever coming . |
| 18 | you know in case he were ill |
| 19 | The actors of The Bill replace the real police so we know in advance who the bad eggs are straight away . |
| 20 | once you get in bed you 'll be like |
| 21 | that Jackie will tell you the same , I told her mother anything from thirty to forty years ago I said , that do n't matter some toss what political power they get in power you 'll find the unions will run the country |
| 22 | ‘ If we get in front we wo n't make the same mistake of lying back and letting them in as we did in Belfast , ’ said captain and centre back Alan McDonald ( Queens Park Rangers ) . |
| 23 | If they get in front it is difficult to contain them . ’ |
| 24 | You 're sure to meet er , get in touch somebody who 's doing |
| 25 | If we presuppose in practice what is true in fact , then our faith in God is focussed clearly and our picture of God is true — that is , it allows God to be God . |
| 26 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 27 | From the foregoing work that Tim Grant and I set in motion I believe that we have gained certain value . |
| 28 | As you gain in confidence you and the children will probably soon find that there is never enough time to do all the things you want to do . |
| 29 | On the other hand , what they gain in power they lose in speed and mobility . |
| 30 | The remainder comes mostly from the countries around the Mediterranean , but what the original almond growers lack in quantity they apparently make up for in quality . |