Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when the opportunity arose to participate in the Programme as a SCOTVEC National Development Officer , the changes began again to figure fairly prominently . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This season has a side struggling to stay in the second divison . |
| 7 | ( Recall Keynes 's retention of the ‘ real wage equals marginal product ’ principle , so that only the first marginal condition failed to hold in the General Theory model . ) |
| 8 | When a Palestinian delegation asked to participate in the armistice negotiations , its request was rejected and the armistice was signed only by East Bankers . |
| 9 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
| 10 | With some telepathy at work , his questing glance came to rest in the exact square of window in which her face appeared . |
| 11 | The chief superintendent seemed to revel in the reprimand he issued to her . |
| 12 | The billhook had sliced into his naked thigh and , turning , she saw the great curve of red blood begin to bubble in the air , saw him slowly sink like a wounded animal , his hands plucking the air . |
| 13 | They were running through thickly forested country , and tension began to mount in the car . |
| 14 | Mmm … only a few players Id like to see in the side to be honest . |
| 15 | G. Thomas Horsley ( page 52 ) saw industry starting to grow in the region . |
| 16 | When Batty comes back , why not preserve the current formation and make him the fifth defender , seeing as Speed seems to revel in the central midfield . |
| 17 | He lets the silence linger for ten endless seconds , during which his bulk seems to swell in the room . |
| 18 | Each MELA was divided into three zones — cores , with minimum employment sizes and densities ; metropolitan rings , with 15 per cent or more of their labour force commuting to work in the cores ; and outer rings , with up to 15 per cent of their economically active labour force employed in a core . |
| 19 | After all the outsider chose to engage in the share transaction and accepted the price offered . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher was concerned not simply that fewer than half the electorate bothered to participate in the choosing of their local council , but that many eligible electors were not themselves local taxpayers . |
| 21 | Romanians called pigs ' trotters ‘ patriots ’ because they were the only bits of the pig allowed to remain in the country . |
| 22 | For a time Soviet rule appeared to collapse in the face of support for the nationalist Azerbaijan Popular Front . |
| 23 | The total loss of these aircraft and crews was the bitterest blow Bomber Command had to suffer in the entire war , and it is difficult to understand why it happened . |
| 24 | The necessary appearance of friendship had to be maintained at all times , and patronage continued to flow in the direction of the town of Perth from which the unfortunate Mr. Robinson came . |
| 25 | Still the stitch continued to drop in the same area . |
| 26 | As the Ottoman Empire in Europe disintegrated in the late nineteenth century , leaving a number of small successor states , hostility mounted between Russia and Austria-Hungary over their rival claims to influence in the Balkans . |
| 27 | Season ticket holders will get a FREE pass for the 1993–4 campaign if the club fails to figure in the promotion frame next year . |
| 28 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 29 | As you know , blood begins to settle in the lowest part of the body as soon as the heart stops pumping it around . |
| 30 | Only 12 per cent of parents interviewed chose a different school from the one currently attended ; the majority opted to remain in the maintained sector . |