Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like thousands of others , he became fixated on the actor Montgomery Clift , going several times to see him in Red River Valley and detecting , accurately , homosexual tendencies behind Clift 's portrayal of the sensitive masculine ideal . |
| 2 | Evaluation of the McClellan system is difficult because there have been so few opportunities to see it in operation . |
| 3 | Extraordinary revenues derived from the general obligation of the King 's subjects to aid him in times of emergency . |
| 4 | The most obvious way of preventing cracks from spreading in brittle materials is not to use them in tension , in other words to use them in compression . |
| 5 | He persuaded her parents to give her in marriage to a friend of his and by constant threats and ill-treatment she was forced to consent . |
| 6 | 50mm x 25mm ( 2in x 1in ) to the finished width , plus angle brackets to fix it in position , and three large screw-eyes . |
| 7 | There are loads of baddies , and the world needs some goodies to keep them in hand . |
| 8 | Caledor raised his own standard and called for all true Elves to join him in defence of the realm . |
| 9 | At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault . |
| 10 | When I have used these texts in workshops , we have usually started by reading them through silently , before breaking into small groups to discuss them in detail . |
| 11 | By the late 1880s , however , Japan had growing interests in mainland Asia , and there was a danger that Japan 's attempts to assert herself in Korea and in Manchuria would bring her into direct confrontation with the expanding Russian empire . |
| 12 | Later in the month , however , acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar and other ministers most closely involved in economic reform policy met about 60 industrialists in Togliatti on Oct. 25 and gained their support in return for undertakings to consult them in policy-making . |
| 13 | He waited thirty years to use it in conversation . |
| 14 | It took 2 years to put it in place but I 've had 26 birds on the place . |
| 15 | Labour leaders had done well over the past few years to present themselves in Washington as solid members of the alliance and as social democrats more than socialists . |
| 16 | The evidence of these obstacles and resistances is plain enough , not only in the slow , uncertain and frequently subverted extension of the right to vote which I have already indicated , but in the bitter hostility and violence that has always been directed against the attempts of ordinary citizens and workers to organize themselves in trade unions , cooperatives , community action groups , and similar bodies . |
| 17 | ESKIMO women still observe the age-old tradition of inviting male guests to join them in bed — even if they 're married . |
| 18 | Pinot Noir , Burgundy 's top red grape , is less willing to travel and has not been entirely amenable to efforts to tame it in Australia . |
| 19 | It is relatively rare for accountants to find themselves in trouble , whether legal or ethical , because work they have done has been misinterpreted or misunderstood . |
| 20 | The nerve strain had been bad , and these were not men with the mental resources to immerse themselves in books or thought . |
| 21 | Plan B meant no plan , however , and having none we were free to react to whims , needing no more than this first glimpse for the wheels to set themselves in motion as we set off down for tea . |
| 22 | They all bought their tickets from an Abingdon based company , Sportsworld Travel , which held exclusive rights to sell them in Britain . |
| 23 | He says you need guns to protect yourself in cities . |
| 24 | They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut . |
| 25 | In addition , an input in posture is to be made into the training of officers to educate them in ways of preventing back injury . ’ |
| 26 | In particular , the annual flooding brought silt , which caused blooms of algae to develop which in turn supported a rich fishery . |
| 27 | She remembered with sadness all the neighbourly contacts they had had in the past — Lowell 's anxiety when Edward had gone missing on his new bike during a November fog and his tireless search until he was found — his ham-fisted efforts to assist her in Ben 's absence when the washing-machine had flooded the kitchen — his quiet piano-playing , when his hands were still capable , at the end of a noisy party when all the guests had gone home . |
| 28 | The number of second homes in existence is surprisingly uncertain , partly because of problems of definition and partly owing to a reticence on the part of owners to advertise themselves in view of the possible local opposition . |
| 29 | Although it had been conceived originally as a means of reducing illegal practices during the process of distillation , the ‘ Coffey still ’ had obvious commercial advantages , but his efforts to introduce it in Ireland met with little success , and it was in Scotland that it first became popular in the 1840s . |
| 30 | Elections , strikes , riots , pressure group lobbying , and decisions by law courts continuously serve to adjust state policies to keep them in touch with movements and realignments of multiple class fractions and strata . |