Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Donnington now produces the only beer on the Cotswolds and , with the possible exception of Uley , is the smallest working brewery to survive in the county . |
| 3 | The Church in Wales is soon to appoint a full-time priest to help in the area . |
| 4 | If the concentration of production and distribution units becomes a major force in the transition to the SEM , there will be an inevitable tendency for that concentration to occur in the core regions which will probably not only contain relevant headquarters and production units , but will also guarantee proximity to markets and immediate access to a range of supporting service functions . |
| 5 | Comparing the post-acute pancreatitis patients with the controls , the time taken for labelled total protein to appear in the duodenal juice was significantly ( p<0.05 ) longer in the post-acute pancreatitis patients ( Table II , Fig 3 ) . |
| 6 | Sir Derek will resist pressure from some shareholders to resign in the belief that this is largely a minority view . |
| 7 | Consequently , other market members ( and their customers ) may not have had a proper opportunity to participate in the trade . |
| 8 | I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon ( Mr Amess ) on taking this opportunity to raise in the House the granting of trust status to the Basildon and Thurrock hospitals and on providing the House with the opportunity to mark the granting of trust status . |
| 9 | Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period , as will be seen in the next chapter . |
| 10 | Some used this expertise to work in the private sector as consultants advising on urban policy ; in one case a firm that employed no Black people was selected for its ‘ inner city expertise ’ to evaluate the Handsworth Task Force in inner Birmingham which it had previously also been paid to advise but which was now being shut down to make room for a newly fashionable Urban Development Corporation , this time in the Birmingham Heartlands ( sic ) . |
| 11 | Early last November , invitations were issued to 12 institutions to participate in the project . |
| 12 | Penny went shopping with Rowan , into one of those very expensive boutiques shops , yeah , and between them they bought this dress , and when they got it home , Rowan 's mother would n't let her have it because it was too revealing and so Penny was stuck with it and then her mother would n't let her have it either , but the shop would n't refund , it would only give them credit so she 's got all this money to spend in the shop . |
| 13 | Each faction seems prima facie to have chosen a different side to support in the Arab-Israeli conflict . |
| 14 | But this readiness to intervene in the Philippines was a useful message to send to a Soviet leader still exploring the thinking and the reactions of the new US President . |
| 15 | THE mother of the only British soldier to die in the Bosnian conflict will receive a posthumous United Nations medal on his behalf tomorrow . |
| 16 | THE youngest defendant to appear in the dock at the Old Bailey in more than 150 years was cleared yesterday of killing a blind 93-year-old widow . |
| 17 | It seems that even if you have loved and been loved , there could well have been some loss to bear in the recent past . |
| 18 | This presentation allows the hint of primitive ritual to remain in the background , just as later Eliot was to imply with deliberate provocation that behind the High Mass lay , if one went back far enough , ‘ the Australian ceremonies described by Spencer and Gillen and Hewett [ sic ] ’ . |
| 19 | But … there were tacos and pound cake from the school catering truck , a eucalyptus tree in the park at recess to nap beneath , reruns of old sitcoms to watch in the evening . |
| 20 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
| 21 | Yes , well , I had things to think about and some work to finish in the office . |
| 22 | ‘ No , I had some work to do in the kitchen and I left them here . ’ |
| 23 | There are a small but not insignificant group of people who will be moved by this issue to vote in the General Election even though apathetic about other policies and the Prime Minister needs every vote he can get . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the choir will visit LLangollen , in Wales , this July to compete in the chamber section of the International World choir contest . |
| 25 | As you know , the Society has accepted an invitation from BAGA to send a team to Amsterdam in 1991 as part of the British Team to participate in the 9th World Gymnaestrada . |
| 26 | Steve Smith 's 2.33 metres high jump in the British League match at Havering and Dave Grindley 's 45.44 seconds over 400 metres in Rome on Wednesday have placed both youngsters in line for selection for the British team to compete in the Europa Cup in Rome at the end of the month . |
| 27 | FOUR Scots are included in the British team to compete in the Challenge Martini World Cup Series to be held in London : Alasdair Baker , from Dunfermline , Eric Usher ( Edinburgh ) , Kyle MacDonald ( Stirling ) and Todd Lindsay ( Dalkeith ) . |
| 28 | This programme of research has already brought to light unnoticed phenomena of children 's different abilities to communicate in the classroom . |
| 29 | A diminishing fear of loss allows some separateness to develop in the partnership ; a two-person relationship which is more substantially based on how things really are between the partners begins to emerge . |
| 30 | There would be untold anguish to purge in the group sessions . |