Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This job also involves assisting in the organisation of promotional events in the UK and overseas . |
| 2 | The section prohibits canvassing in the sense of the attempt of an applicant or of another person at his instigation to influence a member of a licensing board to support his application for a grant , renewal or permanent transfer of a licence , or for a regular extension of permitted hours before the application is considered by the board ( subs . |
| 3 | If they dream up a bright profit-winning idea , even if it involves walking in the dirty waters of pornography as the 0898 service does , the Government are unable or unwilling to do anything about it , even over a six-year period . |
| 4 | The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published . |
| 5 | Grenada was the last tiny but bitter dreg in the constitutional cup which the United Kingdom has drained in the past thirty-five years ; and bravely , though not without a grimace of disgust , did we swallow it . |
| 6 | needs to sit in the printer and things like that erm so you do n't you know |
| 7 | ‘ The problem is that Knighton wants to sit in the chairman 's seat , at least for a while , ’ one confidant said . |
| 8 | Book Packagers & Marketing is floating a new series on classic fruit and flowers in response to the interest that Martin Marix Evans has received in the preservation of traditional varieties . |
| 9 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 10 | Father Giles reflected on the Beatitudes — their original meaning and the meaning that has developed in the course of time , up to the present day . |
| 11 | In contrast , the state has played little role in the protection of women against domestic violence although a very active voluntary sector has developed in the past 20 years . |
| 12 | ‘ Looking at how the franchise industry has developed in the United States and the diversity of franchises offered there , we can expect that much greater growth is still to take place in the UK market . ’ |
| 13 | Thereafter , male mortality rates in the last decades of life have been so much greater than those for females that a significant disparity has developed in the numbers of men and women in the older age-groups . |
| 14 | Hansen ( 1980 ) makes it very clear that signed Danish is not the same as the Signed English that has developed in the USA , and she believes it to be a more flexible and efficient natural language form . |
| 15 | Althusser 's answer to this most pressing query has developed in the course of his work . |
| 16 | The significance of this event was not so much that it was government interfering in artistic freedom , as liberal would-be martyrs would have it , but that it showed how frightened the President was of the populist , anti-intellectual feeling which has developed in the US over the last few years . |
| 17 | There is little doubt that a relationship of this type has developed in the United States since the Second World War . |
| 18 | Although interest in soil erosion has developed in the late 1970s ( e.g. Morgan , 1979 ) it is a paradox that earlier work , for example developing from the Universal Soil Loss Equation ( Wischmeier , 1976 ) , did not materialize . |
| 19 | There has developed in the past decade or two a mass audience for previously specialized cultural forms . |
| 20 | The English that has developed in the country — certainly its spoken version — will not be readily comprehensible to those from outside the sub-continent . |
| 21 | This happens when tension , which has developed in the rectal wall , impedes further radial expansion . |
| 22 | Clearly , an unwholesome condition has developed in the previously productive , though often contentious , relationship between science and government . |
| 23 | It is more a standard , a form of self-reliance , a determination that if one has to go in the end , better be correctly dressed . |
| 24 | well what the first thing he do and he has to go in the |
| 25 | The mouse blastocyst starts to implant in the uterus on the 5th day of gestation . |
| 26 | Already another member of the nursing staff has enrolled in the 1993/94 course . |
| 27 | It needs to go in the oven really . |
| 28 | It needs to go in the oven really . |
| 29 | right that lot needs to go in the pan until |
| 30 | Ms Robinson 's first placement during teacher training was at Aclet Close School in Bishop Auckland and besides Teesdale , she has taught in the nursery class at Firthmoor , Darlington , and has run playgroups at Staindrop and Gainford . |