Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | EVERYONE agrees that computing in the 1990s will be dominated by client-server networks , but there is no agreement about the form these will take . |
| 2 | ‘ To allow me to see that woman in the land . |
| 3 | Hoffmann J. declared that in each case the beneficial interest in the property was owned by the bankrupt and his wife in equal shares and he made orders for possession and sale but , after considering the circumstances of the two wives and their children and , in particular , that the half shares to which they would be entitled would be insufficient for them to acquire other accommodation in the area and the educational problems of the children , imposed a provision for postponement until the youngest child in each case attained the age of sixteen . |
| 4 | We must also consider the opportunity that some occupations have for deliberately restricting access to the acquisition of the skills needed to do the job , thereby keeping down their distribution amongst the population , and enabling them to claim higher rewards in the market place . |
| 5 | We use the same A , B , C , as in Example 1 , but select as our starting vector submatrix unc In choosing Yo we have selected simple vectors which are clearly linearly independent , and which between them bring all elements in A into operation in the formation of Wo . |
| 6 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 7 | Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that he is setting an obstacle course for the courts which will make it more difficult for them to pass tough sentences in serious cases ? |
| 8 | Only three of the 13 Democrats originally pledged to vote for Thomas changed sides in the final Senate vote as a result of Hill 's charges , but 11 others ( eight of them representing Southern states in which they depended heavily on black support ) joined with all but two of the Republicans to confirm him by a slim majority . |
| 9 | Sainteny tried to persuade them to accept French fighters in their advance , but he was given a brush-off . |
| 10 | The agricultural working class , deprived of a subsistence on the land by the enclosures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , thronged to the cities of the Midlands and the North where the economics of laissez-faire forced them to work long hours in wretched conditions for miserable wages , and threw them out of employment altogether as soon as there was a downturn in the market . |
| 11 | Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition . |
| 12 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
| 13 | Due to unforeseen problems , they became so heavily involved in the project that both found it necessary to develop new skills which led to them becoming competent programmers in their own right . |
| 14 | Two months before his departure he wrote to twelve or fifteen poets , requesting their public support for Pound and asking them to provide private testimonials in the event that he should be tried and sentenced for his crime : there was , at this stage , a strong possibility that Pound would be condemned to death . |
| 15 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 16 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
| 17 | I became head chef in a kitchen with two cordon bleu chefs at The Rose Revived in Oxford . |
| 18 | May I make two points in reply to the hon. Gentleman ? |
| 19 | For example , I perceive this flower in front of me because light which has been reflected from it impinges on my retina and causes trains of nerve impulses to travel along the visual pathways to the visual cortex . |
| 20 | To get a more general view of how the Health Service departments treat their Asian women patients , I asked social workers in different parts of London what their experiences had been in dealing with hospitals , Health Visitors and Area Health Authorities . |
| 21 | For the more experienced I commend Still Life in Oils by Paul Millichip ( John Hemson Associates ) and the various demonstration films by Harley Crossley on palette knife techniques ( Rainbow Art Images ) . |
| 22 | The Doctrine is at best a circular re-statement of the obvious : Why did I experience those vibrations in the air as sounds ? |
| 23 | Of course , I made many mistakes in my new life as King . |
| 24 | Well Roger I , I made great pains in the presentation to make clear that this is not a standard , because we do n't have a standard . |
| 25 | Ye yes it it does , and I think I made this point in erm in my evidence that it lies at the extreme erm southeastern corner of the paddock erm and if if , This is making an assumption . |
| 26 | For the next two or three years , I made elaborate paintings in which figures struck wooden postures and confronted each other in profile . |
| 27 | I made those notes in crude capital letters . |
| 28 | I made several speeches in the Lords propounding my belief that the Biafran side should have had our support , and I still believe we would have been very much better off had that ensued . |
| 29 | Erm can I throw another spanner in the works er sir . |
| 30 | I mean one person in particular , who is very good and always does the work , but I feel is probably — ok , she babies people too much , she does everything for them , rather than allow them to do it themselves . |