Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is reminiscent of the hypothetical primal horde where the tribal father kept the women to himself and allowed the sons to remain in the family on sufferance ’ |
| 2 | Clause 10.2 of Precedent 2 provides an express right for the buyer to cancel in the event of breach by the seller . |
| 3 | Stephanie Middleton was yesterday voted one of the two runners-up in the 1992 Livewire UK Business Start Up Awards , winning herself £1,000 to invest in the business . |
| 4 | Bratby had obtained permission to paint in the roof area of the Victoria and Albert Museum and there Minton visited him for tutorials . |
| 5 | The gap was about a foot and a half wide — wide enough for Sigarup to sit in the basket with his legs hanging down below . |
| 6 | For our purposes , however , enough has been said to describe how the institutional setting can cause expenditure patterns of local authorities to deviate in the direction indicated by empirical work of Gramlich . |
| 7 | They contract with hospitals to buy services on behalf of patients and can use any surpluses to invest in the practice . |
| 8 | What should Mr Major and the first media mogul to sit in the Cabinet , David Mellor , do ? |
| 9 | Waving to one side the 15–20- per cent changes in protein synthesis rates and enzyme activity I had reported , Francis Crick was explicit on this point at a Royal Society discussion meeting in London in 1977 when I presented the results we had by then obtained on imprinting in the chick and the effects of first exposure to light in the rat . |
| 10 | I am glad to have the opportunity to debate in the House today the White Paper which we published in July this year entitled ’ The Citizen 's Charter ’ . |
| 11 | Ruskin Spear , on the other hand , thought Minton 's decision to paint in the life room a mistake . |
| 12 | One Way Traffic No progress to report in the implementation of a one way traffic system in Viewfield Road . |
| 13 | One Way Traffic No progress to report in the implementation of a one way traffic system in Viewfield Road . |
| 14 | The condition affects the peripheral area of the retina , including the rod cells which help vision in poor light , and can result in progressive ‘ tunnel vision ’ and ‘ night blindness ’ , the inability to see in the dark . |
| 15 | Fourteen cities around the world are sending teams of young artists to perform in The Ark — designed by bOb ( sic ) van Reeth , the city 's leading architect — during the course of the year . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been given permission to swim in the pool when the family 's not using it . |
| 17 | He found an opportunity to work in the biochemistry laboratory at Cambridge , and then came to Florey . |
| 18 | After all , becoming a provisional member of Equity does n't give them work , it merely gives them the opportunity to work in the career for which they have trained . |
| 19 | The wife may be unable to get a job and may have little opportunity to work in the house especially if it is customary for servants to do all cooking and housework . |
| 20 | However a number of options are open to offer mentally handicapped people a comparable opportunity to work in the community . |
| 21 | The salt retains the extracted moisture , thus inhibiting the growth of bacteria which require moisture to flourish in the food . |
| 22 | The Video Guide gives advice on how to use the video and exciting ideas for activities to try in the classroom . |
| 23 | Hayling was pressuring Gerry Taylor to appear in the prospectus . |
| 24 | The attendant said there was a gentleman already undressing in No. 1 Frederica received no answer to her question about numéro sept , but was given permission to stand in the corridor of the train , which was already sliding away from its platform . |
| 25 | But this is not a time for personal pride and stubborn resistance to stand in the way of the cold , hard facts of life . |
| 26 | Aided by the media , who have never failed to find an opportunity to slip in the idea that it is Saddam Hussein who wo n't negotiate , the US and its Allies have led their people into a terrifying war which will claim the lives of so many of their sons and daughters . |
| 27 | Most shaikhs collected contributions ad hoc and sent out messengers to gather in the money . |
| 28 | They buy a cot , a changing table , a convertible buggy/pram , a baby seat to go in the back of the car , a changing mat , a night-light , a sterilizing unit , five large bottles plus teats , five small bottles plus teats , five baby-grows ( newborn size ) , three undervests ( newborn size ) , three pairs of socks ( newborn size ) , a mobile with four fluffy ducks dancing around a clockwork mechanism that plays the Brahms Lullaby , a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it which Paul has to put up in the nursery , a van-sized packet of newborn nappies , a tub of cream to put on the kid 's bottom , a bucket of white emulsion to freshen up the nursery walls , a lampshade with more chickens on it to brighten up the nursery light , a parasol to go on the buggy and a breast pump for expressing milk . |
| 29 | How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse ? |
| 30 | The driving simulator at the Applied Psychology Unit allows subjects to sit in the shell of a car and watch videos of driving situations projected at near life size . |