Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the quarto labels ‘ the First SONG ’ runs right through from ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ to ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ Purcell divided this into no fewer than five separate numbers : the countertenor solo ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ ; the trio ‘ May the god of wit inspire ’ — without the chorus repeat specified in the quarto , but duly followed by what it labels ‘ a Composition of Instrumental Musick , in imitation of an Eccho ’ ; a chorus which , instead of repeating ‘ May the god of wit ’ , sets the first line of the second stanza , ‘ Now join your warbling voices all ’ ; and finally a solo , ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ , this time with the specified chorus repeat . |
| 2 | However , when the opportunity arose to participate in the Programme as a SCOTVEC National Development Officer , the changes began again to figure fairly prominently . |
| 3 | In both types of chromatography , portions of each component remain dissolved in the mobile phase . |
| 4 | But there was to be no repeat performance as the 2-5 favourite failed to sparkle in the two and a quarter mile Haldon Gold Cup . |
| 5 | Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration . |
| 6 | Technology has improved our hairstyles , but our hair has suffered in the process . |
| 7 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 8 | It is very clear from the findings of the Survey that little or no change has occurred in the patterns of demand for the major categories of material studied on earlier occasions : the overwhelming majority of items requested are still modern publications , and the demand for foreign-language publications ( and , indeed , for publications in particular foreign languages ) has remained constant . |
| 9 | Poor countries , rather than banning imports of hazardous waste — as the Organisation of African Unity tried to do in the 1989 Bamako convention — should accept it and legalise it . |
| 10 | The division has followed in the footsteps of Pochin 's mobile concrete pumping division who achieved the accreditation last year . |
| 11 | Every other improvement for the guitar has occurred in the realms of hardware and pickups . |
| 12 | The Ministry of Defence has declared in the past that people up to 10 kilometres from an accident could be affected . |
| 13 | If the scatter dice is an arrow the shell has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown by the artillery dice . |
| 14 | If the scatter dice is an arrow the shell has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown by the artillery dice . |
| 15 | Furthermore , by means of various statutes , e.g. the Fire Safety and Places of Sport Act 1987 , etc. , Parliament has placed in the hands of local authorities the power to control the condition and usage of business premises . |
| 16 | Our Parliament has prevailed in the face of fascism , Marxism and communism , where others succumbed . |
| 17 | Dick Spelman , general manager of marketing for the Halifax , Britain 's biggest mortgage lender , said the current recession has resulted in the first post-war collapse of house prices . |
| 18 | They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia . |
| 19 | The application of systematic thinking to , for instance , the courses offered by the Open University has resulted in the production of syllabuses , learning methods and study materials which are not only of extremely high quality but are profoundly influencing the approach of teachers and administrators all over the world and at many levels of educational activity . |
| 20 | Lautro should reconsider its practice of issuing a press notice and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had an opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded , to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board has ruled in the application ( post , pp. 581F–G , 582A ) . |
| 21 | Both prism and grating spectrographs are simple to construct and operate , and many decades of experience has resulted in the development of reliable instruments . |
| 22 | The colt 's sheer presence has resulted in the smallest field for many years which could count against him . |
| 23 | Mark Clayton 's cooking has progressed in the year he has been head chef at Eastwell Manor , near Ashford , Kent . |
| 24 | A significant part of the other third of its income has come in the past from moneys from the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 25 | ‘ This connection is particularly important at the current time when we know the numbers of women on low income has doubled in the last decade . ’ |
| 26 | The observer pegs one end of a string of length r to a fixed point O and then makes a circuit round O so that the string is all the while fully stretched , but of course confined to lie in the surface . |
| 27 | With uncertain optimism , the report concludes that ‘ if this were to be achieved , we consider that prosperity , once created , could spread in the same way as blight has done in the past ’ . |
| 28 | As demand for the drug has grown in the developed North , cocaine production has skyrocketed — up 600 per cent since 1980 . |
| 29 | A survey has shown that pocket money has increased in the past year by almost double the rate of inflation . |
| 30 | The trial has resulted in the development of a programme of internal evaluation . |