Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | How far do select committees influence the general atmosphere in the House of Commons ? |
| 2 | Whereas the aim of social advancement is to reduce individual inequalities but the social environment which produced them is left intact ( on the assumption that these inequalities are due to inadequate education effort on the part of individuals , the state or to inequality of ‘ education gifts ’ ) , the aim of the collective advancement is to give individual education and , at the same time , influence the social context in which the individuals live : an effort is made to involve as many persons as possible in the education campaign . |
| 3 | The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form . |
| 4 | He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements . |
| 5 | She flushed as she met the quizzical expression in Helen 's eyes . |
| 6 | Theda 's eyes met the scorching flame in his as she rose shakily to her feet to face him . |
| 7 | Then Benedict raised his head from where it rested in the wild disorder of her flaming hair , and his gaze met the misty love in the deep grey of her eyes . |
| 8 | Her eyes flashed coldly as they met the blank astonishment in his . |
| 9 | As she met the clinical look in Penry Vaughan 's eyes she stiffened , the reason for his change of mood suddenly , mortifyingly , obvious . |
| 10 | In England , the reluctance of the police to take action in domestic violence cases has contributed to a situation in which women do not generally invoke the criminal process in such circumstances . |
| 11 | However with respect to the ground for invalidity which is most pertinent to the community interest , conflict with a norm of jus cogens , only the ‘ parties to a dispute ’ can invoke the special procedure in Article 66 ( a ) , although that procedure is compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice . |
| 12 | One of the things Namibia 's new president must accept is that he lacked the two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly he would have needed to push through plans supported only by his party , SWAPO . |
| 13 | Their power lacked the firm basis in widespread territorial possessions and lordship over men that had made Lancaster such a formidable opponent of the king ; they were essentially courtiers , who depended for their influence on royal favour . |
| 14 | It was a mistake ; her gown fell open , and he went very still , his eyes leaping with fire as he devoured the slender form in front of him . |
| 15 | ‘ As no one could have foreseen the sharp fall in the base rate after Black Wednesday , it would have been impossible to predict that variable rates and the cost of fixed rate mortgages would have fallen so far . ’ |
| 16 | It is less sure that anyone in 1975 could have foreseen the dramatic increase in the demand for places in the ten years to follow . |
| 17 | For instance , when the government sold British Telecom to private shareholders in 1984 , it set up the Office of Telecommunications as the regulatory agency and limited the permitted rise in telephone charges to 3 per cent below the rate of inflation . |
| 18 | We have witnessed the massive growth in unemployment , a huge increase in the number of part-time and home workers , many of them accepting a grotesquely low rate of pay . |
| 19 | I am delighted to be able to tell the hon. Gentleman that our policy on capital expenditure is to encourage and enable higher education institutions to invest , as they need to do , to accommodate the dramatic increase in student numbers as well as provide facilities for the research of remarkable quality which takes place in so many of our universities . |
| 20 | The skin covering the penis is loose in order to accommodate the considerable increase in volume of the organ when erection occurs . |
| 21 | But the rest of A View is formulated to transform readers ' approval to Irenius without loosing Spenser 's claims to be pursuing the Irish question in an impartial philosophic way . |
| 22 | When the Guggenheim Museum reopens on 28 June , Thomas Krens , its director , will have realised the first stage in his ambitious plan of expansion , seeking to establish new stations in North Adams , Massachusetts , Bilbao ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) and Salzburg , and to enlarge The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice . |
| 23 | But those more than hints of fine ensemble playing were amply realised the next night in the Dvorak , elegant and warm , crafted with care , and in Strauss 's Serenade from Capriccio . |
| 24 | When we 're using the fax facility and we get a series of policy numbers and a problem coming through to us erm that 's not so bad cos that 's being amalgamated by the branch secretaries , when it 's going back , and we do it on the same one single fax going back , they 're sitting there snipping up individual replies , you know putting individual replies into consultants ' baskets unless they photocopy the whole sheet in which case they 've got a confidentiality problem . |
| 25 | Charlie rejoins the shouted conversation in pidgin French and Lingala . |
| 26 | The mother may object and females have even been known to kill the complete litter in consequence . |
| 27 | On a Saturday in February 1698 , an attempt was made to kill the King by halting the Royal Coach in the muddy Turnham Green Lane on its way from hunting in Richmond Park . |
| 28 | this geezer from Bedlam yeah got stopped the other day in this car yeah , he was pissed , he was tripping and he was speeding yeah , no M O T , no licence , no tax , no ruddy insurance yeah |
| 29 | so so you 're proud of having stopped the oldest hunt in , in Scotland ? |
| 30 | It looks as though there lies behind D a chronicle which received additions in Christ Church Canterbury , and at least one of those additions , on Æthelnoth 's journey to Rome , was possibly present in a version which reached St Augustine 's , where it was copied in a slightly modified form into the predecessor of E. St Augustine 's may also have received the 1023 entry in D , but abbreviated it to the single sentence which E now contains . |