Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is reminiscent of the hypothetical primal horde where the tribal father kept the women to himself and allowed the sons to remain in the family on sufferance ’ |
| 2 | For our purposes , however , enough has been said to describe how the institutional setting can cause expenditure patterns of local authorities to deviate in the direction indicated by empirical work of Gramlich . |
| 3 | They contract with hospitals to buy services on behalf of patients and can use any surpluses to invest in the practice . |
| 4 | Fourteen cities around the world are sending teams of young artists to perform in The Ark — designed by bOb ( sic ) van Reeth , the city 's leading architect — during the course of the year . |
| 5 | The Video Guide gives advice on how to use the video and exciting ideas for activities to try in the classroom . |
| 6 | Most shaikhs collected contributions ad hoc and sent out messengers to gather in the money . |
| 7 | How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse ? |
| 8 | The driving simulator at the Applied Psychology Unit allows subjects to sit in the shell of a car and watch videos of driving situations projected at near life size . |
| 9 | It included funding to employ 414,000 teenagers to work in the summer of 1992 in jobs administered through the Department of Labour . |
| 10 | Over these last nine years , I have had opportunities to participate in the exercise of more power than I ever imagined I would have . |
| 11 | You could feel the dismay amongst the Leeds players and their fans as it thundered past John Lukic and into the back of the net , leaving them searching for three goals to progress in the competition . |
| 12 | Secondly , it moisturises and protects your skin and finally , it contains vitamin E and sunscreens to help in the battle against ageing . |
| 13 | Add a few more pieces of grass that have not been boiled : these will provide spores of small animals to grow in the soup . |
| 14 | Teachers will have diverse roles to play in the development of young writers : they will be observers , facilitators , modellers , readers and supporters . |
| 15 | The accountant , and for that matter any other professional persons , have very important roles to play in the lease and for this purpose alone the tenant will wish to ensure that they are suitably qualified . |
| 16 | In the glow the lazy blue smoke of a cigarette folds in slow waves to vanish in the sepia shadows of the room Everything about us says come here , you , and our fingertips are first to arc between us and hover on cheeks , lips , chin . |
| 17 | It can provide a precis only where the topic is something that it knows about , so that it has some sense of what conceptual relationships to expect in the story . |
| 18 | And Abbot Suger of St Denis thought of bringing back ancient Roman columns from Diocletian 's baths to use in the construction of his new abbey church outside Paris . |
| 19 | On the other hand , to allow county councillors from the larger districts to vote in the county council on matters which were a district responsibility in their own areas would be deeply resented by the smaller districts . |
| 20 | This is an important aspect of the process of developing a school 's strategy of in-service education but it also enables other parties to share in the awareness of what has been achieved and what needs improvement . |
| 21 | Most people feel an obligation to keep in contact with their siblings , but beyond that it is regarded as quite proper for relationships to vary in the level of intimacy and the type of support offered ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 ; Allan , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | Jefferson allowed the words to hang in the air . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We like roller-skating and this is nice and flat with not too many cars to get in the way . |
| 25 | Thus an attempt is made to harness data from course perception questionnaires to assist in the self-development of staff . |
| 26 | She took herself off for long walks to ponder in the ice and wind and snow . |
| 27 | Many organisations will face the problem of which goals to prioritise in the light of competing goals . |
| 28 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 29 | He recommended such celebration both by summarizing the history of Jason of Cyrene — who gave an account of the events — and by introducing the two letters of the Palestinian Jews who invited the Egyptian Jews to join in the celebration . |
| 30 | Early last November , invitations were issued to 12 institutions to participate in the project . |