Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NCC cited an allegation by Suffolk Citizen 's Advice Bureau of a woman on income support who telephoned the bailiff 's office to try to arrange payment in instalments of her Community Charge arrears . |
| 2 | Paola Buonadonna and Douglas Fraser look at the measures being taken to combat truancy in schools and colleges |
| 3 | The deeper they go , the more secure the vine will be in times of flood and the more able it will be to obtain moisture in times of drought . |
| 4 | They are required by the Law Society 's Training Regulations to provide experience in articles in a number of recognised areas of the law to give you the training necessary to qualify as a solicitor . |
| 5 | The second is that if , following the Francovich case , there was held to be a right to damages in such circumstances , the effect of requiring an undertaking from the council would be to impose liability in damages on the council instead of on the United Kingdom which , as I understand the position , would properly be the party so liable . |
| 6 | Generally , then , one would expect to find reciprocation in populations of highly social animals living in small intensely interactive groups . |
| 7 | The original , dark Magoi were farmed in flooded rice paddies to provide protein in areas whose remoteness meant that every community needed to be self-sufficient . |
| 8 | The question of access to the US public utility market in areas such as transport took on new interest with Mr Clinton 's plan to increase investment in areas such as high-speed railways and other transit systems as part of his recovery plan . |
| 9 | This led him to accept work in productions that really were n't up to his standard and the increased bookings resulted in a massive turnover of dancers . |
| 10 | When they leave school many of the young people depart to find work in factories or in trade in central Scotland , near Glasgow and |
| 11 | After the grim birthday outing , they could try to find solace in pictures of their little girl as they want to remember her . |
| 12 | Let me hasten to say that in many schools , particularly in the West Riding , fine education took place , but far from it helping to increase drama in schools , it had the reverse effect for two reasons : ( 1 ) it appeared once more to be something that could only be handled by a specialist — this time a P.E . |
| 13 | Times to find character in brawls . |
| 14 | Equation ( 5.4 ) is a respecification of the process driving the quantity of money : it assumes that the quantity of money in period t equals its value in period t - 1 plus a constant , g , plus a function of the shocks to aggregate demand in periods t - 1 and t - 2 . |
| 15 | ‘ We fall into a trap if we admit to the government 's right to pass legislation in areas concerning our own chemistry . |
| 16 | Shannon never knew how long she lay slumped on the floor , racked by the agony of Dane 's betrayal , immobilised by sheer unremitting pain , yet unable even to find relief in tears . |
| 17 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 18 | One of the aims of the newly introduced Crown Prosecution Service is to increase consistency in prosecutors ' policy across the country and thereby ensure a more consistent standard of justice . |
| 19 | Even in the so-called ‘ permissive ’ 1960s , there were no gay switchboards or lesbian lines , and Chad Varah made it part of his mission to encourage self-acceptance in lesbians , most of whom at that time felt ‘ guilty or freakish ’ . |
| 20 | Considered from a materialist perspective it has at least three damaging limitations : first it tends to construe sexuality in terms of an original pre-social plenitude , an initially unstructured natural energy ; second ( and consequently ) sexuality is conceived in certain of Freud 's central texts as a drive with hydraulic characteristics ; third , a phenomenon like homophobia , when it is not being blatantly disregarded , is explained too much in terms of the subjective , psychic repressions of its agents . |
| 21 | He objects that extension , by itself , is insufficient to constitute body ; this property of filling space , like the ability to communicate motion in collisions , must depend on something else . |
| 22 | If a small group has shown its work , try to encourage discussion in terms of meaning , rather than by judging it . |
| 23 | Middlesbrough Council is planning the event to increase interest in competitions throughout the town run by community and neighbourhood councils and residents ' associations . |
| 24 | Most of us seek to preserve independence in matters in which the bodily functions of urinating and excreting are concerned . |
| 25 | Cinestra is currently collaborating with the London Women 's Network of Media Resource Officers to support work in schools . |
| 26 | But it is possible for people growing up in a totally different culture to see kingship in terms of tyranny , in which case they would receive the statement that God is like a king as meaning that God is tyrannical , even some kind of dictator , so that religion resembles a prison rather than paradise . |
| 27 | Resist the temptation to deposit money in currencies with a high interest rate , or borrow in currencies with a low interest rate , if there is no matching underlying cash flow in that currency . |
| 28 | It might be thought that it should be possible to characterise hyponymy in terms of contextual normality . |
| 29 | The 1980 Act , however , which introduced the block grant ( see p. 162 ) , allowed the government to assess how much each authority needs to spend and to allocate grant in terms of how far those assessments were breached . |
| 30 | Despite a conspicuous absence of the merest shred of evidence that Nizan had " betrayed " the PCF in any sense other than resigning from the party itself , it was objectively impossible for a communist in postwar France to view Nizan in terms other than those of betrayal and treachery . |