Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court 's decision cleared the way for the university authorities to approve in principal the raising of up to £5 million through the disposal of either a 16th-century bronze , Cain and Abel by de Vries , or a 17th-century landscape , The Banks of a River by van Ruisdael . |
| 2 | but , erm , she was hoping to come to the meeting this evening , but she phoned at the last minute and said she could n't make it , but erm , I do n't know if it would be more appropriate perhaps for the schools groups to get in touch with her and I |
| 3 | He repeated an earlier offer to the opposition parties to participate in government . |
| 4 | It was , however , often necessary for the owners to cut their carriage rates to remain in competition with the railways . |
| 5 | A non-confrontational policy designed to persuade drug cartel leaders to surrender in exchange for the banning of their extradition to stand trial in the USA had some success in Colombia [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37957-58 ; 38345 ] . |
| 6 | It was also trying to persuade large drug companies to invest in rainforest protection ; investment which would not stem from any sense of altruism on their behalf but because , for the industrialised world , the value of medicines derived from the rainforest runs at over forty billion dollars per year . |
| 7 | A £2 million investment in new component repair facilities has enabled the company to handle greater volumes of work in-house and allowed space for the RB211 and Olympus workshops to double in size . |
| 8 | The idea of using social network as a speaker variable was developed in Belfast in response to an explicit hypothesis concerning the capacity of closeknit networks to function in society as a norm enforcement mechanism . |
| 9 | When planning objectives there are various management points to bear in mind and these will be outlined in the ensuing paragraphs . |
| 10 | Other groups are studying rural development opportunities , farm forestry and other environmentally sensitive farming practices , the economics of low input and organic farming systems , the optimal utilisation of agricultural investment and the creation of expert systems to aid in decision-making for the management of the natural and farmed environment . |
| 11 | It is obvious that for any group of companies to grow , a good balance is required between those which continually need cash injections to stay in business ( the capital-intensive type of enterprise which is typical of much of the chemical industry ) and those which can generate very high profits and throw off cash when things are going well . |
| 12 | Standing by her place with an endearing air of domestic pride , she explained that her husband was away with the other men , spreading the meat strips on the higher thorn bushes to dry in safety . |
| 13 | It is clearly of the utmost importance to UK businesses to know in competition matters the status of communications with their lawyers , given the Commission 's wide powers of investigation . |
| 14 | Alpha is a group is University of Ulster graduates who feel it would benefit all Northern Ireland graduates in the catering and tourism fields to keep in touch , both socially and on a professional level . |
| 15 | Synergia is a self-install driver , written in C , which enables conventional Unix programs to run in viewdata mode ; it links the programs to the viewdata communications front-end processor , and to the user terminal . |
| 16 | She invested in up-to-date equipment , took out a subscription to hairdressing magazines to keep in touch with the latest ideas , and took clients at the weekends and evenings . |
| 17 | His report also noted that in order to obtain information some valuers have subpoenaed surveyors bound by confidentiality clauses to appear in arbitration hearings . |
| 18 | We can not ignore the nation-state , but this book attempts to offer in addition a conception of the global system based on transnational practices ( TNPs ) . |
| 19 | Housing Minister Sir George Young is drawing up plans to encourage banks , building societies and pension funds to invest in rental properties . |
| 20 | Choose dwarf varieties to plant in rock gardens . |
| 21 | In their initiation into both the craft and culture of pedagogy , it is in the interests of novice teachers to conform in order to place their relations with pupils and fellow teachers on a secure base and so to get established in their role . |
| 22 | As confidence grew , partly as a result of the student impression studies , so techniques were employed which permitted cross-institutional comparison , which enabled graduate employer samples to participate in evaluation , and which allowed the appraisal of course realities such as grading patterns and resources to be set alongside the studies of course perceptions . |
| 23 | We will require the gas and electricity companies to invest in insulation and other energy-saving measures . |
| 24 | It is possible however for orbitals of different principal quantum numbers to overlap in energy , so that E 3d > E 4s for example . |
| 25 | My time would only be impressive if clocked by sundial but I was pleased with it , though I could have done with a couple of gym sessions to get in shape . |
| 26 | We will require the energy companies to invest in R&D , and encourage the development of clean-burn coal technology . |