Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many clients became disillusioned with search in the 1970s , receiving some indifferent service and assuming that all headhunters were the same ; this view is rapidly disappearing in the 1980s , although many search practices current during the Big Bang gave search a bad name , such as wholesale movement of trading and broking teams , for instance . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what recent representations he has received about education in Northumberland . |
| 3 | His argument was based on personal opinion , feelings and intuition though it does have a loose connection to Carl Gustav Jung 's theory of racial memory , which has fallen into disuse in modern times . |
| 4 | But LibDem leader Paddy Ashdown says Major has reneged on assurance in 1990 that ministers were not dodging an arms ban . |
| 5 | Included in the exhibition will be a Kakiemon group of wrestlers , until recently used as a door-stop ; a selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century jewels found hidden under sawdust in bakers ' trays ; a small seventeenth-century Italian ivory copy of Bernini 's ‘ Apollo and Daphne ’ group and a silver penstand by Phillip Syng who designed the penstand used in the signing of the Declaration of Independence . |
| 6 | It has differed from science in that the solution has also been the problem . |
| 7 | Please let Hilary Weedon have any ideas that you want considered for inclusion in the Training Programme for next year by the middle of June . |
| 8 | By summer evenings the Great Bear is descending in the north-west , while Leo has almost gone ; the Square of Pegasus has come into view in the east . |
| 9 | Boar has come into fashion in recent years as farmers diversify to beat the recession . |
| 10 | Since then , however , this fundamental premise has come under attack in a variety of ways and it is true to say that ‘ evolutionism ’ is considered unacceptable by most modern Western anthropologists . |
| 11 | This secrecy has come under attack in recent years , and ‘ slowly , but surely , the secrecy behind the prison walls is being breached , as alternative sources of information about the prisons are more securely established ’ ( Fitzgerald and Sim , 1992 : 11 ) . |
| 12 | Such a view has come under attack in recent years . |
| 13 | This is an area that has come to prominence in recent years as new kinds of instruments such as auction market preferred shares ( AMPS ) , convertible debt with premium put options and convertible capital bonds have appeared . |
| 14 | EXACTLY 200 years after the birth of Shelley , a secret diary kept by the poet has come to light in a Dorset attic . |
| 15 | The only really significant inroad into the dominance of English in recent years has come from Spanish in the southern states of the US . |
| 16 | Anyone who has dabbled with paint in a school art room knows that mixing two colours together results in a third colour . |
| 17 | The travel agency business has slumped into loss in the face of disappearing package holidays and market leader Lunn Poly 's price-cutting tactics . |
| 18 | Given that public expenditure has grown over time in the UK , how do we compare with other countries ? |
| 19 | The system has grown in popularity in recent years . |
| 20 | Labour whips have been told that the offer of opposition co-operation has met with suspicion in the Government whips ' office . |
| 21 | In Demy 's Lola ( 1961 ) , a story of love , time and chance , the teenage girl Cécile ( Annie Duperoux ) goes to the September Fair in Nantes with an American sailor , Frankie ( Alan Scott ) whom she has met by chance in a newsagent 's shop , buying a comic . |
| 22 | H. S. Cowper , who has written in detail in his book Hawkshead , 1899 , gives a lively picture of the village . |
| 23 | ( 1 ) Where a body corporate has applied for recognition in accordance with Rule 15 the Council may recognise the body as a suitable body to undertake the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships where the Council is satisfied : |
| 24 | The G M B has argued for change in how the T U C operates . |
| 25 | But subsequent protests by local farmers , whose land has suffered from drought in recent years , prompted it to reverse the decision . |
| 26 | ‘ Missing Eccentric Scientist found stabbed to death in doorway . ’ |
| 27 | ( A 48-hour lull in violence in the occupied territories ended on June 25 when three Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed in a gun battle in the West Bank , and two Jews were reported stabbed to death in the Gaza Strip . ) |
| 28 | Gloom has turned to boom in the aerodustry during the past two years . |
| 29 | I think basically what I 'd like to say today is that I personally agree with what Ida 's saying that it is an attack on the Health Service , and it is the greatest achievement that the Labour Party has done in history in my opinion . |
| 30 | THE Taoiseach , Albert Reynolds , has appealed for restraint in the wake of the Castlerock murders . |