Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 17.2 gain in the FT-SE 100 index turned into a 28.4 fall to 2,218.8 by the close . |
| 2 | The Chicken Plucker is a starting point because everybody loved Letter To Brezhnev , and some of the favourite lines from that appear in the show . ’ |
| 3 | A move from consensus management , where a small , but arguably representative nucleus of people had at least some say in the decision-making , to a more dictatorial style known as ‘ general management ’ now means that decisions are made by one man or woman who may accept or reject the advice of interested parties , including nursing and medical advisers . |
| 4 | Unveiling details of the £1.7m deal , Ed WAllis , PowerGen 's chief executive , candidly said he would expect some say in the way the weather was presented . |
| 5 | Stockbrokers W I Carr are aiming the Helmsman Self-Managed Personal Pension at controlling directors , partners , self-employed and senior executives who want some say in the control of their investments . |
| 6 | Indeed , to invite him to do so , it seems to me , can only be misleading in suggesting that the driver is entitled to some say in the matter . |
| 7 | Some say in the States got things moving first , others credit in Durham . |
| 8 | Now if you relate that to other things the government does like , for example , financing a fighter aeroplane , which costs £30 million , the sums are so small , one would hope there would be some shift in the allocation of resources towards the museums sector and the arts generally , because they are such extraordinarily important features of British life , not least in commercial terms . |
| 9 | We represent over four million levy paying members , the trade unions that is , and it 's only right that they should have a proper say in the election of the Lad Labour leader , not just the thirty percent as is being suggested here . |
| 10 | While neither the National Union nor the peers could have a direct say in the choice of leader it was nevertheless thought desirable , if only for reasons of tact , to know their views . |
| 11 | Know can also be followed by the bare infinitive , however , in a sense which is different from the one just discussed : ( 108 ) I 've not known anything like this happen in the College before . |
| 12 | There is probably some wear in the pump body where the actuating mechanism is . |
| 13 | Some people go in the legs and some go in the head . |
| 14 | By leaving him a half share in the house , I feel I am achieving two objects . |
| 15 | In spite of his admiration for Baron of Buchlyvie , and having been so keen to purchase it , Kilpatrick sold a half share in the horse to his rival , William Dunlop . |
| 16 | I can remember hardly anybody 's names that I served with in the Signal section in eh in Colchester , ca n't even remember the officer 's name , the if people left somewhere erm , south of Colchester in Essex well it was quite quite and eh , he , we use to go out there and play , play a village team football , you know and have a , have a right have a right old do in the evenings . |
| 17 | More fundamentally there was no guarantee that a once-and-for-all increase in the price of gold ( a doubling was frequently suggested ) would suffice . |
| 18 | Only a return to US price stability would allow a once-and-for-all rise in the gold price to work , and there was nothing in the act of raising the price of gold which would make that more likely ( indeed , the improved gold backing for the dollar would relax such pressure as there was on the US government to maintain price stability in order to defend the dollar ) . |
| 19 | 2 Stir in the tomatoes , onion , chilli and coriander and season to taste . |
| 20 | 2 Stir in the egg yolk , half a tablespoon of cold water and the vanilla essence . |
| 21 | ‘ I can only assure you that you have the wrong person , Mr Wyatt ; there are many models , and more than a few work in the Midlands , and several must have other business interests . |
| 22 | Sutton 's writings are difficult to identify and to date , and some have in the past been confused with writings of Thomas Aquinas . |
| 23 | Since 1976 the trend has been reversed , managerial values have again become predominant and the bureaucracy has expanded , albeit with some strengthening of the legislative role of the National People 's Congress and , since the Democracy Movement of 1978–80 , a strengthening of the role of ‘ workers representative congresses ’ to give workers a limited say in the management of enterprises ( White 1985 ) . |
| 24 | The idea that a player was bound to a company for the rest of his life , and could be bought and sold like a chattel with no real say in the matter , went out of the window because it offended against the principles of individuality . |
| 25 | When activists like the Cape Town Sixteen fight this system of oppression and exploitation , they are demanding a democratic say in the running of their lives and and the right to determine their own futures . |
| 26 | After two weeks we saw tiny fry in the aquarium approximately ten in number . |
| 27 | There 's not much support in the village apart from the non-stipendiary , Deaconess Tilley , who does half-time at the primary school and a bit in the parish if she feels like it . |
| 28 | ‘ Thou shalt believe ’ — the most absurd philosophical construct in the whole of human history . |
| 29 | It seems surprising , but there is n't much talk in the refuge about marriage or men . |
| 30 | CRP was added to a final concentration of 0.6 ng/µl , cAMP to a final concentration of 50 µM , CytR was added to a final concentration of 3.3 ng/µl in the reactions in lanes 4 and 9 , and a final concentration of 44 ng/µl in the reactions in lanes 5 and 10 . |