Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province . |
| 2 | Tonics , restoratives and health remedies provide an opportunity to invest in the non-toxic remedies of the future . |
| 3 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 4 | Lawyers and a shorthand writer gathered in the front room of his home in Beith , Strathclyde , to take his evidence before a court-appointed Commissioner . |
| 5 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 6 | In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light . |
| 7 | The larger processor fits in the main processor slot the smaller in the coprocessor slot . |
| 8 | The enthusiasm aroused in the other four members by the time of the Hague Congress was one indication that Britain was in danger of becoming rather isolated . |
| 9 | Special finishes are of course completed in the time-honoured fashion ; sunbursts and other fancy finishes are carried out by hand . |
| 10 | Only one copy of Section 1 needs to be filled in , but ideally separate copies of Sections 2 , 3 and 4 should be filled in for each course taught in the appropriate field . |
| 11 | That was fine , but I had not reckoned with the excitement the case aroused in the popular press . |
| 12 | But at the same time , if there is a God , it is perfectly plausible to argue that He would desire the discussion of His existence to proceed in the argumentative , confused and doubting way in which it currently does . |
| 13 | J. D. North has succeeded in reconstructing the St Albans escapement from the purely verbal description given in the surviving manuscript . |
| 14 | Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution . |
| 15 | It would undoubtedly cost a lot on money to implement in the short run , as would some of the more conventional changes proposed by that Frenchman who claims to run the sport with an impartial hand . |
| 16 | amd next week we 'll be back on the football trail to see in the new season |
| 17 | But there are fears that any hiccup in Christmas trading could lead to it having problems maintaining its banking covenants in the new year . |
| 18 | One day on the weary way up from school a truck stacked with furniture ground past Martha ; when she reached Nana 's house she found the truck stopped in the overgrown yard next door , and a fat woman in a pink dress buying soda pop for a brood of children who stood around her looking fearfully at their new home . |
| 19 | A split developed in the Independent Smallholders ' Party on Dec. 29 , 1989 , with the founding session of the National Smallholders and Bourgeois Party , attended by 150 members from Smallholders ' Party branches . |
| 20 | The difficulty arose in the present case because of the Divisional Court 's decision in R v Board of Inland Revenue , Ex parte Goldberg ( 1989 ) QB 267 . |
| 21 | Video Plan 14 is taken from a course developed in the Free University of Berlin which used a range of texts drawn from different media . |
| 22 | A simple grab rail placed in the correct place can make a considerable difference to how you cope , especially with the bath or toilet . |
| 23 | On April 11 ( mid-way through Easter Passion week ) 150 orthodox Jewish settlers moved into the St John 's Hospice , a building situated in the Christian Quarter whose ownership was the subject of a dispute between the Greek Orthodox Church and the Ataret Cohanim yeshiva ( a Jewish religious seminary and one of the main settler groups ) , the latter having reportedly paid up to US$4,500,000 for the lease . |
| 24 | She could see him vaguely now , white shirt gleaming in the pale moonlight . |
| 25 | Most nations ' note issues are now entirely fiduciary , i.e. based on faith placed in the issuing authority . |
| 26 | The Dover Harbour Board argued in the early 1980s that ferries would be both cheaper and more reliable than a fixed link , a stance later adopted by the Flexilink consortium of ferry companies in its attempts to convince Parliament that the Channel Tunnel would be a financial disaster . |
| 27 | There 's even more ammunition for the Limited driver to unload in the performance-over-a-pint discussion at the local pub . |
| 28 | All peers of England have retained entitlement to sit in the appropriate House of Lords throughout . |
| 29 | That evening , some 400 guests and members of the University gathered in the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building to hear the Vice-Chancellor and the Chairman of Council , Mrs Stella Clarke , introduce the Campaign for Resource to the Bristol community and to listen to Sir Michael Angus explain why he supported the University and had agreed to lead the Campaign . |
| 30 | The common law can develop in an evolutionary way in the light of the experience developed in the regulatory system . |