Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 This basically refers to success in spreading genes to later populations ; even if this means damage to an individual organism 's success .
2 It is precisely because of this view that we discover the highest purpose of PATTERN PRACTICE : TO REDUCE TO HABIT WHAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO HABIT IN THE NEW LANGUAGE , so that the mind and personality may be freed to dwell in their proper realm , that is on the meaning of the communication rather than the mechanics of grammar .
3 The Mother of Us All shows more continuity , but again much depends upon production in what is still a largely non-narrative opera .
4 The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies , or systems , seem to behave without any reference to actual people .
5 Where rejuvenation intervenes before the river has had sufficient time for lateral erosion to form a flat valley floor , there will not be river terraces at the side of the stream but merely breaks of slope in the valley sides ( Fig. 9.6 ) .
6 Their offer only applies to property in the home counties .
7 Example 4:11 Rent review machinery ; notice , counternotice reference to arbitration ( 1 ) the landlord may serve upon the tenant not earlier than one year before the review date in question a notice ( " a Review Notice " ) calling for a review of the rent ( 2 ) if the landlord serves a Review Notice then the rent payable with effect from the review date to which it relates shall be : ( a ) such sum as may be specified in the Review Notice or ( b ) the higher of the rent payable immediately before that review date and the Market Rent if ( but only if ) the tenant so elects by counternotice in writing served on the landlord not later than two months ( time being of essence ) after the service of a Review Notice ( 3 ) if the tenant serves a counternotice the Market Rent shall be determined in default of agreement within two months after the service of the counternotice by arbitration .
8 Example 4:12 Rent review machinery ; no notice ; determination by expert ( 1 ) if the landlord and the tenant have not agreed the Market rent three months before the relevant review date it shall be determined by an independent surveyor acting as an expert ( 2 ) the independent surveyor shall ( a ) be appointed in default of agreement by the President ( b ) give the landlord and the tenant an opportunity to make representations to him and to reply to each other 's representations ( but shall not be bound by them ) ( c ) have power to determine how the costs of the reference shall be borne ( d ) publish his decision within two months of his appointment ( 3 ) if the independent surveyor dies delays or becomes unwilling or incapable of acting or if for any reason the President thinks fit he may discharge the independent surveyor and appoint another in his place and may repeat this procedure as often as necessary Example 4:13 Landlord 's option to select method of resolving disputes if the landlord and the tenant have not agreed the Market Rent three months before the relevant review date it shall be determined by arbitration or ( if the landlord so elects by notice in writing given not later than one month before the relevant review date time being of the essence ) by an independent surveyor acting as an expert
9 You 've got to get the ball in the right area to take advantage of them and that knowledge only comes with practice in similar conditions . ’
10 I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard .
11 This does not mean that the mind just responds to information in the way in which a thermostat , for instance , transduces information about temperature and performs switching operations .
12 At 31 , he already suffers from arthritis in the mis-shapen left arm that is the legacy of his first National ride , which ended at the third fence .
13 Thus demands for change in the two spheres must interlink .
14 THE great showdown between Barbie and Sindy finally comes to court in January , with Barbie 's manufacturer Mattel claiming that Hasbro Industries has copied Barbie 's face for Sindy .
15 The Dalai Lama has sought to secure an agreement with the Chinese Government for the future autonomy of Tibet , which effectively exists at present in name only .
16 But she still goes to school in Soweto — a journey of two-and-a-half hours each way by train and bus .
17 Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving .
18 Paradise still tends towards blandness in places but overall this is a strong , proud piece of artistic solidarity which merits notice beyond the middle-of-the-road bargain bins to which it has already been consigned .
19 Thus , it is not surprising that interaction between the two can result in cumulative movements in income for example , if income is rising at an increasing rate , both investment and consumption will be rising , causing further rises in income in the next period .
20 HEV also differs with HAV in the increased frequency with which infection is observed in adults compared with children .
21 Architecture also differs from language in its strict observation of its own rules and conventions , and in its sense of detail .
22 Recently a German feminist art historian , Angela Rosenthal , ( who also writes on portraiture in the book ) has suggested that Angelica Kaufman 's paintings have to be read as a carefully constructed game of masking she claims that she is making , through her use of certain key subjects , for women 's artistic and intellectual intelligence .
23 The popular health movement also looks at health in a holistic way — the physical , mental and spiritual aspects .
24 It also calls for reduction in the amount of pollution , greater protection and planting of trees and easier access to greenspace .
25 Now although the law may be extremely complex it also aims for clarity in its pronouncements or it would fail to work .
26 But another modern man also comes to life in the eighteenth century : the ‘ collective man ’ .
27 At all times one is aware that the artist is also a composer — the conviction with which she untangles some of the more complicated , almost obscure pieces , has an unquestionable authority ( the enormous B flat minor Fugue from Book Two instantly comes to mind in this connection ) , whilst the famous pieces are often presented in a totally different manner — the A minor Prelude and Fugue ( Book One ) will surprise many as the Prelude is fearful and serious ( rather than light with the usual staccato touches ) , whilst the Fugue has clipped articulation at the end of each subject entry .
28 She married Allan Macdonald in 1750 and now lies at rest in the churchyard at Kilmuir , near Duntulm Castle ; beneath a white granite , Iona cross , and her winding sheet , the same sheet that softened Charles Edward Stewart 's rest during his first night on Skye .
29 For his own charges , the escape from the relegation quicksand now depends on success in their remaining two games — away against Edinburgh Acads and at home to fellow toilers , Stirling County .
30 Talcott Parsons argues that this inevitably leads to inequality in terms of power and prestige .
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