Example sentences of "[verb] in a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , since intervention is often directed at the areas of relative weakness in a child 's linguistic abilities , it may be helpful to identify what these are and to what extent they are likely to impair the child 's ability to communicate in a variety of settings . |
| 2 | They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations . |
| 3 | Hunt suggests that conflict of this kind may act in a group of individuals to : |
| 4 | If cost has been determined using FIFO , LIFO , weighted average cost or a similar method , and the difference between historical cost and replacement cost of stocks is material , this amount should be disclosed in a note to the accounts . |
| 5 | If cost has been determined using FIFO , LIFO , weighted average cost or a similar method , and the difference between historical cost and replacement cost of stock is material , this amount should be disclosed in a note to the accounts . |
| 6 | The changes in the system were disclosed in a letter to employees of National Power , one of the two big generating companies being created in the sell-off , from its chairman , Lord Marshall . |
| 7 | It had been designed in a period of relative economic stability and was not fitted for such tumultuous times . |
| 8 | There is a large heated indoor pool with sunroof in the hotel 's main entrance lobby , with a large outdoor Pool designed in a figure of eight for sunny days . |
| 9 | The Equal Opportunities Commission , which backed Mrs Weston 's 18-month battle , said : ‘ It is probably the most unreserved victory we have ever won in a case of this kind . ’ |
| 10 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 11 | He was walking in a sea of urine and faeces . |
| 12 | Last year , walking in a forest above Lake Geneva , I saw terrible evidence of this as acre after acre of trees seemed to be dying from the top down . |
| 13 | The local bands have not been altogether ousted ; some were taking part in the contests after playing and walking in a procession in the morning and playing at the sports in the afternoon . |
| 14 | Thus Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia , walking in a garden with McFarlane , could hear — naturally as birdsong — that the contras needed $1m a month ; he could pass the word to his uncle , the King ; the King could give the money ; and Reagan would release the Stinger anti-aircraft missiles needed by Saudi Arabia , not in explicit exchange ( nothing so crude ) , but as a reciprocal gesture of princely generosity . |
| 15 | This can be approached in a variety of ways : |
| 16 | School self-evaluation has been approached in a number of systematic ways during the 1980s — for example , Guidelines for Review and Internal Development in Schools . |
| 17 | The intention is that this theme should be approached in a number of ways , involving a variety of approaches to the photographic medium and the exhibition will also include archive material from the collection of Summerlee and other sources . |
| 18 | The intention is that this theme should be approached in a number of ways , involving a variety of approaches to the photographic medium and the exhibition will also include archive material from the collection of Summerlee and other sources . |
| 19 | He was also carrying £70,000 which he was depositing in a bank for payment for the work that had just been completed . |
| 20 | Strain the custard to remove lumps or whiz in a blender for 60 seconds . |
| 21 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 22 | He was , however , arrested on one occasion and , on another , found himself one of a group of men being attacked in a lavatory by a crowd of youths ( Humphreys 1970 ) . |
| 23 | Edgar Prais QC , for the defence , said the offence was committed in a climate of food poisoning scares . |
| 24 | India 's major government policy is set and its large-scale capital expenditure is committed in a series of Five Year Plans . |
| 25 | Section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 creates a serious offence which may be committed in a number of different ways . |
| 26 | This yield will fall in a period of inflation because a progressively larger amount of money will be needed to pay for the same quantity of goods and services . |
| 27 | Birmingham lies in a wealth of beautiful countryside , historic houses , interesting towns and pretty villages . |
| 28 | It lies in a quarter of an acre of secluded garden in the delightful village of Rockbourne . |
| 29 | He argued the future for transport lies in a marriage of private and public money . |
| 30 | It is Switzerland 's largest port on the Bodensee , and lies in a bay beneath the pine forests of the 3,000ft-high Rorschacherberg . |