Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The return of a Fianna Fáil government under Jack Lynch meant something of a decline in Anglo-Irish cordiality or willingness to collaborate in security matters , while the end of the constitutional assembly in early 1977 had removed any prospect of finding any viable Ulster administration to modify the picture of direct rule from Westminster . |
| 2 | In particular , the myth of top-level political control over state decision-making is one which it is vital for incumbent presidents or premiers to maintain in order to reassure the mass public that someone is ‘ running the show ’ , and that ‘ the show ’ is still capable of being run coherently . |
| 3 | ‘ We would still appeal to any member of the public who has any suspicion or information to get in touch and talk to us in confidence . |
| 4 | If there are relative differences in the extent to which labour is mobile between jobs , in the extent of provision for retraining and in the ability and willingness to engage in retraining , in the provision of entrepreneurs to seize new opportunities , and in any other of the factors which influence the rate at which a region or country can innovate , then those regions/nations which are slow are likely to import unemployment from faster-innovating areas . |
| 5 | It also shows , however , that sluices judiciously placed , and a barrier across the lake to keep one area free of encroachment from the sea , could allow birds and agriculture to flourish in concert ; an ideal indeed , for all the world . |
| 6 | Mr Snoops arrives at the Hotel Bograte on 1 April and demands to stay in room 214 , which has already been let for the night to Mr and Mrs Bunn . |
| 7 | These problems may be recited in a familiar litany cited for all service sectors concerned with all dependency groups : services are remote from individuals and their families ; services are difficult for families and clients to get in touch with or access ; services are organisationally and professionallY fragmented , So that families and clients are unclear about who was doing what ; furthermore , services are unconnected or discontinuous , so that families and clients fall into gaps between services ; finally , the statutory agencies were not able to liaise extensively with voluntary or informal care networks However , these general observations do not point precisely to operational tasks . |
| 8 | In practice , most men thought that each had his own place and function ; and though the boundary lines were very variously drawn , most men assumed that it was the duty of regnum and sacerdotium to co-operate in doing Christ 's work . |
| 9 | It is helpful for the candidate and department to identify in advance any special conditions that the department may decide should apply in the proposed candidate 's area of study . |
| 10 | Relegation-haunted Nottingham , who must beat leaders Northampton and Orrell to stay in League One , first discussed the appointment of a paid official in January . |
| 11 | Like all of God 's gifts , they are meant to be used for a good purpose and to assist individuals and communities to grow in knowledge and appreciation of the truth , as well as in sensitivity to the dignity and needs of others . |
| 12 | The artist Jacqueline Black has led a career that shows , perhaps more radically than many , the necessity and capacity to adapt in order to raise a family and work as a professional artist . |
| 13 | Chechen President Dzhakhar Dudayev called on the oil-producing republics of Azerbaijan , Tatarstan , Bashkortostan and Turkmenistan to unite in defence of their interests against Russia . |
| 14 | The concerns here are with the internal efficiency of organisations : the design of structure and the motivation of groups and individuals to perform in line with stated goals . |
| 15 | Given the appellant 's failure to comply with the requirements of the hostel regime , the court was entitled to leave that alternative out of account and assess the dangerousness of the appellant on the basis of his offences and reluctance to participate in treatment . |
| 16 | I 'd like to see erm there is still in this country a reluctance on the part of erm the lower social and economic class children and families to continue in education erm This leads to a position in which , a situation in which in , in the workplace and elsewhere the educated person is still regarded as a , as a sort of rather strange and alien minority person . |
| 17 | Moreover the Keynesian analysis of the labour market as set out in Chapter 5 should have made it fairly clear that Keynes was not denying any of the neoclassical assumptions motivating self-interested households and firms to engage in trade in attempts to achieve Pareto-efficiency . |
| 18 | Businessmen and elderly women picked their way over the broken concrete and steel to stare in disbelief at the crippled buildings with their bulging walls and blackened balconies . |
| 19 | Hearing a slight sound , a scraping noise through the wall , Alida , though she ignored it , stiffened her corseted thighs , Aunt Fosters , her mother 's last surviving sister , might have had the wit and grace to die in time but it was not a family trait . |
| 20 | ‘ A policy must now be announced which makes it clear that the UN will recognise the rights of Croatia , Slovenia and Bosnia to live in peace , each keeping their own borders intact . |
| 21 | But what mattered , as Bernard well knew , was that she was young and energetic and would feel charged with enormous responsibility and will to succeed in return for being offered this opportunity to take ‘ Laura Ashley ’ to the States . |
| 22 | When looking for prey they will hover up to 300ft above the ground , using their tail and wings to stay in position . |
| 23 | The study will select , on the basis of a general preliminary investigation , a number of NRLs in both the UK and US to investigate in detail . |
| 24 | graphical pre- and post-processors to assist in set up , grid generation , and rapid interpretation of results . |
| 25 | Indeed it is remarkable that transferring males have the persistence and strength to rise in rank and gain mates for themselves in the face of such opposition . |
| 26 | Recent experience suggests that these advantages of existing firms can only be offset if there is a large savings surplus in the home country , where entrants have strong relationships with investors and issuers , where there is a desire and ability to invest in euromarket instruments and/or a lower cost of capital , as is the case for Japanese firms . |
| 27 | Providing that the castration is restricted to cutting off the testicles alone ( sometimes the whole kit would go ) , it is possible for a man 's libido and ability to indulge in intercourse not to be reduced at all . |
| 28 | That is to say , houses , hospitals , schools and so forth were needed to reproduce a workforce which had the capacity and ability to engage in labour . |
| 29 | In an incident in Cetekovac in eastern Croatia , more than 20 are said to have been killed , including unarmed civilians , by Serbian insurgents who attacked the village on 4 September 1991 ; an old man described to a visiting journalist how the insurgents had forced him and others to stand in line and shot dead one villager who tried to flee . |
| 30 | ‘ Officials must concentrate on popularising and organising the game and not on personal relations and politics to stay in power . |