Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he repeated his promise that there would be extra help for poor pensioners and families on income support to assist them in meeting increased heating bills . |
| 2 | The monitoring function helps us in making decisions by comparing past situations to the current situation . |
| 3 | The aspirations of a record company go towards mass hysteria but I do n't think The Wedding Present see it in those terms . |
| 4 | The song writer , the hymn writer reminds us in those tremendous words of that other old hymn , when he says nothing in my hand I bring , simply to your cross I cling . |
| 5 | The civil service , the House of Lords , the Monarch , the judges , the police , the military , the security services , the Bank of England , a host of Quangos , and even the cabinet and the absolute premiership , are all seen as enjoying varying degrees of political power without any balancing responsibility to hold them in check — as we ourselves will suggest in Chapter 5 . |
| 6 | British fashion slaves , who would n't venture into Waitrose without a tasteful mélange of Gaultier , Joseph and Alaïa ( or nearest decent copies ) clamped to their backs , still pack the floral swimsuit Mum bought them in 1976 for a Guide camp trip . |
| 7 | Tim Renton , Minister for the Arts , has caused a storm by calling into question one of the main dogmas of British arts administration , the so-called arm's-length principle ‘ government funding through semi-independent institutions ’ , as Lord Keynes , the architect of the Arts Council put it in 1945 . |
| 8 | She challenged the opposition leader to join her in urging them to accept the ‘ generous ’ pay offer ranging from 9 to 16.3 per cent over 18 months ‘ or at least to have a truce over Christmas ’ . |
| 9 | In February 1973 his geography teacher warned him in his report to : ‘ Be more aware of the influence of ‘ friends ’ who might adversely affect your future progress . ’ |
| 10 | These mages of Saphery and their personal guards are often summoned by the Phoenix King to aid him in his wars . |
| 11 | Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type . |
| 12 | I was crouched in the tin bath soaping myself in front of the range . |
| 13 | But relations between the quiet , let's-get-on-with-it Cooder and the not entirely sane Captain proved too much of a strain , and after this brief walk on the wild side Ry immersed himself in session work — much of it bread-and-butter stuff , although he did play for Randy Newman and Phil Ochs , began to learn about music for films , and became a friend of The Stones , a period he does not generally discuss . |
| 14 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 15 | Each year it starts about 15 new research projects , in 1991 these will address such problems as the association between smoking and cervical cancer and why high blood pressure affects one in 10 pregnant women . |
| 16 | Zerrer tells me that the mind gym relaxes you in a very deep way — ’ Like an advanced set of tribal drums ’ . |
| 17 | Others have been concerned about the possible politically destabilising consequences of the overproduction of university and college graduates relative to the capacities of the labour market to absorb them in positions appropriate to their qualifications . |
| 18 | The NatWest Hospital Income Plan covers you in the event of hospitalisation and pays out from the first day you 're admitted . |
| 19 | The fate awaiting someone pitched from his horse in such a place might be blood-poisoning , ‘ being dreadfully venom 'd by rolling in slake ’ , as William Hall put it in his nineteenth-century fen doggerel . |
| 20 | It would be a disservice to Denis Law to mention him in the same breath as some of Scotland 's more notorious hell-raisers . |
| 21 | The former England striker injured himself in the Coca-Cola Cup replay with Everton on Tuesday and a specialist has advised complete rest . |
| 22 | Institutions which do produce more complex programmes as a regular feature of their work need to have someone in charge of the operation to ensure that proper planning is done . |
| 23 | Overall , at the end of the trial , 20% of the fluticasone propionate group considered themselves in complete remission , compared with 39% of the prednisolone group ( p=0.003 ) . |
| 24 | As one law lord put it in 1967 , it can be ‘ very unpleasant ’ and ‘ hard ’ for the advocate ‘ to explain to a client why he is indulging in what seems treachery to his client because of an abstract duty to justice and professional honour ’ . |
| 25 | The Home Secretary told me in an answer to a written question recently that he has no plans to remove young people from the penal system . |
| 26 | Yet when Ruksana Khan was attacked , the Home Secretary visited her in hospital and everything . |
| 27 | May history preserve them in venom . |
| 28 | His scholarship was extended , but he was without maintenance until Bloomsbury House put him in touch with a sponsor . |
| 29 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 30 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |