Example sentences of "[conj] in [pos pn] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leads to a final consideration , namely whether politicians behave in the way Niskanen and others assume they do , either in their sensitivity to the costs and benefits of public expenditure or in their inability to obtain adequate information for the monitoring job they are required to do . |
| 2 | We sipped — or in my case gulped — the weak but tasty punch , nibbled on Aunt Tone 's buffet-bits , and played Alternative Charades ; an invention of my father 's in which one first has to guess the category of the thing one is being asked to decipher . |
| 3 | This must be found in his powers to prevent a breach of the peace , or in his powers to prevent an obstruction to the highway . |
| 4 | He shifted to the West Coast and Los Angeles at 16 , sleeping rough on the beach or in his car to save dollars . |
| 5 | Although in his work using transformational grammar , Ohmann neglected this function , he has concentrated on it in subsequent work . ) " |
| 6 | It is acknowledged , however , that in its efforts to support the capitalist system , politically and economically , the capitalist state creates and expands public and social services only to find that it does not have the required resources to meet the growing cost of the public sector . |
| 7 | The one that in its day attracted most attention was The Mortal Storm , about the Nazis : though Phyllis Bottome herself seems to have preferred Old Wine , set in Vienna . |
| 8 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Sept. 7 reported that in its memorandum submitted to the UN Security Council , Jordan had claimed that the Iraqi embargo would cost Jordan some US$4,000 million during the first 12 months and that the country 's foreign debt would become virtually unmanageable . |
| 9 | The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen . |
| 10 | The Chamber of Deputies passed the bill on Aug. 31 after modifying some of its provisions , so that in its final form the law cut state subsidies by only 50 per cent and these would be restored in full on expiry of the 180 days ; provisions for a moratorium on unpaid taxes and greater flexibility on contracts and salaries for senior government employees were voted out . |
| 11 | Animals in turn live by eating the organic materials that plants have produced by photosynthesis ; or by eating other animals that in their turn have eaten plants . |
| 12 | On the other side , critics ( including some Conservatives ) claim that in their zeal to break the consensus the governments have destroyed much of manufacturing industry , starved the welfare state of resources , and divided British society . |
| 13 | It must be very hard for those fresh-faced New Georgians to realise that in their wake comes first the ruched blind , then the office use , followed by a bevy of Sock Shops , Tie Racks and Knickerboxes . |
| 14 | My basic criticism of all three judgments in the Court of Appeal is that in their desire to do justice the court failed to do justice according to law . |
| 15 | How much more pleasing to the eye and the higher senses were the gleaming unbroached jars in the pantry , and how I suddenly hated the men who had assured me that in their attentions lay my fulfilment . |
| 16 | And to her horror she could see that in her haste to come and speak to him she had only buttoned the bottom two buttons , and the way she was sitting , crouching forward slightly , one smooth , firm breast was entirely exposed . |
| 17 | Had he understood that in her desperation to avert financial tragedy she might be willing to barter her body ? |
| 18 | Later , much later , she learned that in his haste to come after her , Fen had not secured their mooring properly and Water Gypsy had drifted , blocking the path of another boat . |
| 19 | There are some who would question his recording of details on site suggesting that in his eagerness to move on to the next find he may neglect to tidy up the details left behind . |
| 20 | However , Mr. Thornton made clear that in his submission requesting the receipt was merely an incident in the operation of the shop . |
| 21 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
| 22 | It was flooded with water that in my case came up to my armpits and in Jeff 's case the back of his knees . |
| 23 | But the time has come to admit that in my efforts to explain this one valid point I may have misled the reader in other ways . |
| 24 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has starred in what can be collectively described as a ‘ crap ’ of movies since his twelve-year-old big Hollywood hits 10 and Arthur , his own personal jerky series of ‘ Carry On ’ movies — films that in my mind have no titles and are n't short enough — it seems only fair that I point out to Moore that he has made a ‘ crap ’ of movies since his twelve-yearold big Hollywood hits and I ca n't remember their titles . |
| 25 | What is it that happens on the ground that in your view makes it not far enough ? |
| 26 | It reflects the inviolability of family life that in our society helps to mask the darker side of caring and dependency . |
| 27 | Despite this , the LNU invested its hopes less in the efficacy of a transnational effort to sustain a people 's peace — no other country had an organized public opinion remotely comparable to Britain 's — than in its capacity to influence British Governments . |
| 28 | The open space in the middle had been carefully brushed and in its centre squatted two men about five feet apart ; by their sides stood two cages , each containing a pair of birds . |
| 29 | In one country at least — the Cameroon — a research institute , The Institute for the Reform of Primary Education at Buea , was set up in 1974 with reasonable resources in terms of personnel ( a team of twelve to fifteen nationals and experts has been employed ) , adequate funding jointly from Government and UNESCO/UNDP , and in its initial stages a sensible time scale to work to . |
| 30 | And in its attempts to obey , the Anglican branch had evolved ad hoc , adding to itself bits and pieces to meet needs it thought it perceived . |