Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have always been a minority of wealthy older people and a majority struggling to survive in poverty . |
| 2 | Many other items could be added to this list ; reference 10 gives details of a number of considerations that the programmer needs to keep in mind . |
| 3 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 4 | Where the action is for unliquidated damages and the defendant delivers an admission of liability for the claim but disputes or does not admit the amount of the plaintiff 's dam ages , then : ( 1 ) if the defendant offers to pay in satisfaction of the claim a specific sum which the plaintiff accepts , the provisions of this rule shall apply as if the defendant had admitted part of the plaintiff 's claim ; and ( 2 ) in any other case , the plaintiff may apply to the court for such judgment as he may be entitled to upon the admission , and the court may give such judgment , including interlocutory judgment for damages to be assessed and costs , or make such other order on the application as it thinks just . |
| 5 | A translator has to bear in mind the additional meanings that these forms can assume in a Japanese text . |
| 6 | The degree of involvement which an employee has to demonstrate in order to fall foul of this duty need not always be very great . |
| 7 | For a time a chorus of bells from the monastery seemed to peel in celebration each time I finished a pitch . |
| 8 | Even the opposition seemed to slow in sympathy , but he still kept the ball and did quite well each time . |
| 9 | This study aimed to analyse in detail the serum lipid concentrations in patients with primary colorectal carcinoma drawn from such a population , with an evaluation of the influence of tumour activity on altered serum lipid values . |
| 10 | The cost of living continued to rise in wartime . |
| 11 | The coalition had to agree in principle to the report , announcing its determination to implement the report 's assumption that mass unemployment must be prevented . |
| 12 | A further — and connected — factor contributed to this change : the expense which the individual cavalryman had to incur in order to fulfil his proper role in war . |
| 13 | And her heart seemed to quicken in response . |
| 14 | I thought that this charity would appeal particularly to parents who have seen the effect it can have on family life when their child has to stay in hospital . |
| 15 | As usual the ‘ big race ’ will lure the top names and Lisburn Borough Council expect to have in action ‘ 26 miles ’ specialist Peter O'Donoghue of Omega , who had a PB last year and Annadale 's John Walsh … and they are also confident that last year 's winner , Jerry Kiernan of Clonliffe Harriers , will take the starter 's gun with the intention of making it a hat-trick . |
| 16 | His warning comes as the U N Security Council prepares to vote in favour of an air embargo against Iraq . |
| 17 | Naturalists shower us with intriguing accounts , both anecdotal and experimental , and their range tends to put in perspective the sense , if any , in which we might wish to claim that some were consciously purposive and others not . |
| 18 | Before turning to the work of Sayre , Dennett and Sloman , I should at least mention one major question that has been left unasked in this paper , and intentionally so : namely , what properties would a machine have to have in order to be sufficient for us to deem it conscious ? |
| 19 | It sets out what the council hopes to achieve in tourism , housing , the environment , arts and entertainment , and transport . |
| 20 | Kossoff 's work continues to decline in value : having previously changed hands in the London trade for around £20,000 , the beautiful ‘ Pauline II ’ coloured chalk and charcoal ( lot 22 ) was bought for a bargain £3,200 ( $4,800 ) by another London dealer . |
| 21 | The boy continued to stand in front of Alice , where he had been placed . |
| 22 | In the process whereby a child comes to act in accordance with the rules and values of society , becoming eventually a reasonably self-controlled , inner-directed member of the community , one of the first steps is the development of self-restraint . |
| 23 | I find this emphasis generally correct in that it describes what the anorexic girl believes to lie in store for her as a woman : a passive role , a position of helplessness , a loss of self . |
| 24 | I thought any well-known painter 's work tended to slump in market value for several years after his death . ’ |
| 25 | When wood begins to fail in compression little lines of buckled fibres can just be seen running diagonally or across the grain but these are easily missed unless the surface is clean and you know what to look for . |
| 26 | The arrogant princess refused to talk in English and Corbett had to use all his skill in French to conduct a conversation whilst ensuring he did not give offence . |
| 27 | There are of course references to work in progress — a letter from Matisse on the installation of ‘ La Danse ’ at the Barnes Foundation : ‘ the panel is installed and suits the architecture , from which it seems inseparable ’ , as well as a melancholy reflection on the nature of drawing by Matisse from 1940 : ‘ A colorist 's drawing is not a painting . |
| 28 | Rates on domestic property are essentially a regressive tax : the value of the house or other property occupied by a taxpayer tends to decline in relation to increased income . |
| 29 | The establishment undertakes to pay in advance for incoming calls . |
| 30 | For a moment Merrill 's enchantment seemed to hang in suspension , then she sat up quickly , pushing back her hair . |