Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The court 's decision cleared the way for the university authorities to approve in principal the raising of up to £5 million through the disposal of either a 16th-century bronze , Cain and Abel by de Vries , or a 17th-century landscape , The Banks of a River by van Ruisdael . |
2 | A Farmland and Rural Development Act was passed in 1988 and farmers now have access to grant aid to help in diversification projects . |
3 | He repeated an earlier offer to the opposition parties to participate in government . |
4 | ‘ I invite the Government to set up a review body to investigate in depth the whole of our system of administration of justice . |
5 | It was , however , often necessary for the owners to cut their carriage rates to remain in competition with the railways . |
6 | We have a responsibility to our companies , our staff , our customers and the north-east economy to stay in business . ’ |
7 | A non-confrontational policy designed to persuade drug cartel leaders to surrender in exchange for the banning of their extradition to stand trial in the USA had some success in Colombia [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37957-58 ; 38345 ] . |
8 | It was also trying to persuade large drug companies to invest in rainforest protection ; investment which would not stem from any sense of altruism on their behalf but because , for the industrialised world , the value of medicines derived from the rainforest runs at over forty billion dollars per year . |
9 | She 's bought an exercise bike to keep in shape . |
10 | If you do not arrange a CheckOver and go ‘ into the red ’ , or borrow more than your agreed CheckOver limit , it is more expensive as there may be a management fee to pay in addition to the Current Account and interest charges . |
11 | A £2 million investment in new component repair facilities has enabled the company to handle greater volumes of work in-house and allowed space for the RB211 and Olympus workshops to double in size . |
12 | The idea of using social network as a speaker variable was developed in Belfast in response to an explicit hypothesis concerning the capacity of closeknit networks to function in society as a norm enforcement mechanism . |
13 | Gradual changes of attitude make it easier for the glider pilot to follow in position behind the tow plane . |
14 | This duty is derived from the constable 's common law duty to act in protection of life and property . |
15 | When planning objectives there are various management points to bear in mind and these will be outlined in the ensuing paragraphs . |
16 | Other groups are studying rural development opportunities , farm forestry and other environmentally sensitive farming practices , the economics of low input and organic farming systems , the optimal utilisation of agricultural investment and the creation of expert systems to aid in decision-making for the management of the natural and farmed environment . |
17 | Queen Mother to remain in hospital |
18 | It is obvious that for any group of companies to grow , a good balance is required between those which continually need cash injections to stay in business ( the capital-intensive type of enterprise which is typical of much of the chemical industry ) and those which can generate very high profits and throw off cash when things are going well . |
19 | He sees it as a weakness of international law that no such machinery exists , and argues that an internationally authorised force should be set up by the UN Security Council to intervene in rogue states on various continents . |
20 | I think I 'll I 'll not wait for Er if nothing comes in the post tomorrow I wo n't wait for the conference centre to get in touch with me , I 'll write to them tomorrow and drop it in . |
21 | Standing by her place with an endearing air of domestic pride , she explained that her husband was away with the other men , spreading the meat strips on the higher thorn bushes to dry in safety . |
22 | An attenuation of latent inhibition with a long interval between exposure and conditioning has not always been found , even in flavour-aversion learning — Nachman and Jones ( 1974 ) and Siegel ( 1974 ) have found the latent inhibition effect to persist in strength at intervals of much more than 3.5 h . |
23 | De Klerk did not specify the length of the executive council 's term in office , but he had previously indicated his desire for the interim leadership body to remain in power for several years [ see p. 38798 ] . |
24 | Yes , as soon as she was through sunbathing she would amble into the village , which she knew reasonably well , and she would use the public phone box to get in touch with her father . |
25 | Alpha is a group is University of Ulster graduates who feel it would benefit all Northern Ireland graduates in the catering and tourism fields to keep in touch , both socially and on a professional level . |
26 | There was surprise in some quarters at the decision taken by SCOTVEC 's Education Policy Committee to agree in principle to the introduction of ‘ named awards ’ involving National Certificate and other modules . |
27 | Whilst such experimentation in community education may be small-scale it does provide the opportunity for adult education to demonstrate in microcosm the potential for change that inheres within the adult education framework , given the right political context . |
28 | On the facts of the case , even assuming the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur to operate in favour of the plaintiff , Rees J. was compelled to hold that the expert evidence adduced by the defendants rebutted any prima facie case in negligence . |
29 | Synergia is a self-install driver , written in C , which enables conventional Unix programs to run in viewdata mode ; it links the programs to the viewdata communications front-end processor , and to the user terminal . |
30 | The fact that subsequent legislation has removed the right of a registered trade union to sue in libel does not affect the principle enunciated in the Gillian case . |