Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the combined efforts of Richard Acland , Liberal MP for a neighbouring constituency , and the local Left Book Club helped to persuade the local Liberal and Labour parties to stand down in favour of Vernon Bartlett , a journalist , broadcaster and former employee of the LNU . |
| 2 | This is a cut-and-thrust spectacle where as many as 24 kites out of 25 have been cast off , their lines to float down in defeat within twenty minutes . |
| 3 | He did n't want his sons to grow up in Germany . |
| 4 | The defence counsel , Mark Stewart , said that Forman , a self-employed painter and decorator , had borrowed money from Glasgow loan-sharks to set up in business . |
| 5 | This causes onlookers to despair , and TV schedules to go up in smoke , which ca n't please Philip Morris , the sponsor . |
| 6 | Such policies would involve government intervention to provide better training and job information to reduce occupational immobility , and grants to firms to set up in areas of high unemployment to reduce regional imbalances . |
| 7 | It reads like a confirmation present specially written by a malicious , rakehell uncle for a serious-minded adolescent with ambitions to get on in society . |
| 8 | The muscles of your larynx , taut with anxiety , cause the sweet nothings to come out in semi-castrato squeak . |
| 9 | Because that elephant is going to probably require an environmental assessment or environmental statement erm and there would be infinite numbers of details to tie up in section one O sixes and goodness knows what else specific to that user or users , those users when they the came in the frame . |
| 10 | Set up in agreement with the Board of Trade and the Department of Social Security , the ER scheme allows new entrepreneurs to set up in business for three months without losing any state benefits . |
| 11 | Firstly , the study will look at the effect of earning on decisions to stay on in education , at a time when more young people are postponing their entry into full-time work and when the financing of Higher Education is under discussion . |
| 12 | No point could be served by preserving ‘ bourgeois ’ freedoms or accountability mechanisms , nor was there any need for socialists to work out in detail how their post-revolutionary state could be run . |
| 13 | At the same time a gentle bell sounded , causing both men to look round in surprise . |
| 14 | Initially , an attempt was made to fill the labour shortages by allowing over 100,000 Poles to stay on in Britain and by encouraging immigration from other European countries , but soon it was felt necessary to look to other sources of cheap labour , and immigration from the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent was encouraged . |
| 15 | Locate in Scotland , the agency charged with luring foreign multinationals to set up in Scotland , is generally seen as competing with the Welsh Development Agency and the Irish Development Authority to secure these coveted new tenants . |
| 16 | With AAS , new firms can be given cash incentives to set up in Tendring , or established ones can be helped to expand and create more jobs and opportunities . |
| 17 | For them Christine keeps a list of phone numbers for animal homes which might have the animal ; she sends them posters to put up in schools , vets ' surgeries and newsagents ; and tells them to check sheds and garages in case their pet is locked inside . |
| 18 | For preaching he would sit cross-legged on the chancel step , there would be bells to make up in sound what was missing in sight , and incense to enlist a further sense . |
| 19 | ‘ In the past , I 've used researchers to dig around in libraries , but I 've always done all the hard work myself , and certainly all the major interviews . |
| 20 | Mudhoney 's move from hardcore grunge to quite melodic ( with a serrated edge ) pop has caused a few followers to bail out in search of more ‘ serious ’ stuff . |