Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eating the right kind of food and having a balanced diet is important not only for weight control but for the well-being of skin , hair and every other part of us that we tend to treat in terms of beauty rather than health care . |
| 2 | Bruce was pale with the deep pallor that overworked CID tend to acquire in London in the dead of winter , seriously overtired and overweight . |
| 3 | Opposition politicians on Sept. 5 alleged that senior officials were involved in corruption and influence peddling in relation to the privatization of state assets . |
| 4 | A I suspect the worms are Planarian Flatworms , which tend to appear in aquariums with large amounts of organic matter , particularly in the filter bed . |
| 5 | We intend to work in conjunction with the Musée des Arts de la Mode . |
| 6 | Although he talked about how ‘ we , as communists , essentially intend to work in harmony with nature ’ , he made it clear that this meant ‘ understanding and controlling the laws of nature … to place them at man 's service ’ . |
| 7 | Accordingly , we intend to provide in regulations for direct payments to start once that 100 per cent . |
| 8 | But if , like me , you just want to fall in love with a beautiful island , give Kuta a miss and try the fantastic resorts of Nusa Dua and Sanur . |
| 9 | If groups of American men want to gather in clearings in the forest , drumming , sharing their pain and getting in touch with the damaged child within , good luck to them . |
| 10 | The photofits of the men police want to interview in connection with the death of Doris Shelley |
| 11 | By Caroline Storah crime reporter THE search for a man police want to interview in connection with the murder of a Liverpool pub landlady today switched back to Merseyside . |
| 12 | There 's other associates who like to know beforehand roughly how much they can provide for people by way of life cover and living assurance , so that they can give the people some idea , or maybe want to sit in front of them and use the rate book to give them some idea . |
| 13 | It said : ‘ The council has written to a number of stores requesting undertakings that they cease trading in contravention of the Sunday trading provisions of the Shops Act . |
| 14 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 15 | when you want to put in highlights at the end of your painting , the paint will tend to sink in each time you put on a pale colour if the paper is still damp . |
| 16 | For example , it could be argued that a boom and slump lasting in total from about 1790 to 1840 was initiated by the Industrial Revolution 's typical innovations ( cotton spinning and weaving ; new methods of iron production ; steam power ) ; that from the mid-1840s a new boom was generated by the development of railways which initiated a fifty-year cycle ; that from the 1890s a new boom and long cycle stemmed from electrification . |
| 17 | Police have released a video fit picture of a man they want to question in connection with three sex-attacks in Oxford . |
| 18 | This spreadsheet is to be used to keep weekly scores for 16 boys and the problem it posed is that when you want to type in scores for weeks in the second half of the year or for Harry , Ian and John and so on whose names are entered to the right of the spreadsheet , you can no longer see the row and column labels — unless you freeze these titles . |
| 19 | In proceedings under the Children Act 1989 the parties must disclose the substance of any oral evidence they propose to call in advance of the hearing . |
| 20 | However , we want to argue in favour of thinking in terms of something other than a sentence as being the major psychological processing unit ; and , as we will see , a more appropriate processing unit is probably the clause . |
| 21 | Despite this interesting parallel with our own cultural heritage , the emphasis and indeed the trust which the Zande appear to place in witchcraft as a prime mover seems bizarre and even absurd . |
| 22 | That 's because you , you want to , everyone does , you want to think in terms of conductances , so it 's hard to get over this problem , so do n't get over it . |
| 23 | I have found more difficulty teaching the relational model to computer students ( who want to think in terms of computer jargon and are looking for complications that do not exist ) than to management students . |
| 24 | That 's what I 'm saying , they need , they need just a little , in fact we do here you could argue , er , I feel that all the elements there are of a turning into something a bit ugly , I think , I think they were very quick to drop those statues down , now I know , I know the fellow who in , who set up the K G B could have been the most popular bloke in the Soviet Union , but nonetheless , er he was down within a day , I hear this morning that Yeltsin 's talking about border changes and quite frankly they 're moving too quick and Gorbachev at least was providing a bit of restraint , and I think it , they want to think in terms of decade . |
| 25 | IF you want to get in trim for summer and raise money for a good cause , sign up for sponsored aerobics at the Dolphin Centre later this month . |
| 26 | ‘ Who 's my contact if I want to get in touch with you ? ’ |
| 27 | I 'm going to get an address for Sam anyway cos I I want to get in touch with him |
| 28 | And if you want to get in touch with the Samaritans , that Glasgow number again is oh four one , two four eight , four four eight oh . |
| 29 | POLICE last night named a man they want to quiz in connection with the murder of Michael Huntington at a nurses ' home party 11 days ago . |
| 30 | In real life , we move our heads , and foreground objects appear to move in front of background objects because of parallax . |