Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Distance from Shanariah , coupled with enormous tithes to the Church and the fact that many of the Ixmarite hierarchy owned estates in the district and were therefore friends and neighbours , guaranteed the residents a certain freedom of belief . |
| 2 | He made patterns in the space , first up and down , then diagonally across , always within the open area between the stream and the thicket . |
| 3 | Suzi made patterns in the sugar with her spoon . |
| 4 | Rohmer tried to hit Cardiff in the face with his other free fist , but Cardiff was expecting it . |
| 5 | Including ACT , they pay more UK tax than they make money in the UK . |
| 6 | The Government has indicated it will make provision in the Bill for such an amendment . |
| 7 | The parties can make provision in the agreement for a different measure of damages which , for example , may be appropriate if the acquirer is to invest large amounts of money in the offeree and hence could lose much more than merely the purchase consideration . |
| 8 | DULÉ SKIMMED INTO shore silently , under cover of darkness , and threaded through the banana fronds and mango groves to Ariel 's cabin ; a leaf here , a twig there gave under him , but the English sailor posted watch in the clearing was fast asleep and the others would not have woken from their stone weariness if Dulé had hallooed at them . |
| 9 | Strange to see Swindon in the snow and Sweden in bright sunshine . |
| 10 | But as the week wore on and Damian made no attempt to see her at night , spend time with her or try to kiss her , she realised he was seeing Domino in the dark , humid hours when Rachel sat alone at home , tortured by jealousy , consumed with it , imagining them together and burning with impotent rage . |
| 11 | Literature is an innovative resource book which offers the teacher a wide variety of interesting and practical ideas for using literature in the language class . |
| 12 | Our ‘ Aspects of Landscape ’ series , for example , continues on pages 15–17 with Martin Taylor describing how acrylic colours can be used with watercolours to achieve a convincing representation of landscape details such as grasses and tree branches , while on pages 18–21 Peter Partlington demonstrates how to simplify drawing birds in the start of a fascinating new series . |
| 13 | After a rally lasting several weeks , the spot price of gold met resistance in the $180s . |
| 14 | Indeed , can legislation , of itself , change attitudes in the way that clearly is intended ? |
| 15 | The government agreed , at the end of talks with Prince Sadruddin , to extend by six months a " memorandum of understanding " , due to expire in December , permitting UN relief agencies to continue operations in the north and south of the country . |
| 16 | HUTCHISON Telecommunications has promised to invest £500m in the UK over the next four years , part of which will be used to increase the customer service department in Darlington . |
| 17 | It is one of the ways in which the Spirit evokes prayer in the people of the Messiah . |
| 18 | The bill attacked discrimination in the workplace by : |
| 19 | We produced mutations in the MetJ subunit to disrupt the contacts for DNA binding or the interaction between dimers ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 20 | Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity . |
| 21 | The relationship between use of linguistic variables and various other speaker characteristics is illustrated in table 5.2 , which summarizes patterns in the realization of the vowel variable ( ai ) by Belfast working-class speakers . |
| 22 | Opportunities to take seriously such issues as girls and science or the merits of negotiated assessment , or to acquire skills in the areas of active tutorial work or special educational needs are few and far between , and often have to be carved out of evenings and weekends . |
| 23 | Hugh Gaitskell countered by promising that the Labour Party would make improvements in the Welfare State and increase pensions without increasing taxation . |
| 24 | The most useful section of the book is the detailed and exhaustive list of suppliers , which points artists in the direction of the cheapest yet most reliable materials . |
| 25 | Relative advantage over other existing products — the importance here is whether the potential consumers perceive advantage in the product , which can be for many reasons |
| 26 | Unfortunately having the son of the most powerful man in the world did n't seem to do the Eagles much good — they stumbled against Argentina and finally fell flat on their faces when they met Tonga in the Plate quarter-final . |
| 27 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 28 | Lizzie Stroud for whom Miss Lockwood made provision in the form of an annuity , is to continue to live on the top floor for as long as she chooses . |
| 29 | Well I have to tell the minister that the firms are advertising for detection services all the time , K P M G Peter Marwick advertising this , they will er investigate financial frauds and rectify and recover from them that requires specialised accounting skills , K P M G forensic accounting offers experience in the techniques of fraudsters and the procedures er they may have followed . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the national New Forum political movement — founded in September 1989 — began to sprout off-shoots in the provinces , including Lauchhammer . |