Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You take men from their homes or their chosen occupations , you confine them in insalubrious conditions upon a wholly inadequate diet , you subject them to the tyranny of bosun 's mates , you expose them to unimagined perils ; what is more , you defraud them of their meagre food , pay and allowances — everything but this sacred rum of yours . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to make shoes and sell them in large quantities and yet I would like them to be different , individual , and to achieve that , I require a designer . ’ |
| 3 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 4 | Now , are we sticking with the allocation that we had in the past , peoples responsibility , or when we change them in this sort of way are we mucking them about ? 'Cos I like to know what I am responsible for and what I 'm not . |
| 5 | The nationalist movements and the new nations which made their appearance after the Second World War thus displayed features which distinguish them in some ways from the earlier movements which led to the formation of nation states in Western Europe , because they arose in a very different international context — in a highly developed capitalist world economy , in the aftermath of a division of the world among powerful imperialist nations , and in the midst of political transformations resulting from the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 6 | If you are prepared to live dangerously , you can take many of the techniques above and combine them in one image , or , you may even discover completely new applications for this superb medium . |
| 7 | To do this , it has to not only come up with single products but be able to place them in product systems and even combine them in innovative ways . |
| 8 | A truly usable recognition system would have to learn from whole word recognition techniques and combine them in some fashion with existing segmentation techniques ( Ho et al , 1991 ; Hull et al , 1991 ) . |
| 9 | Fence Them In British soccer 's first spiked steel fence will form an impenetrable barrier to unruly … fans next season . |
| 10 | Immediately prior to use rinse the coverslips two or three times in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer pH 7.4 and place them in individual wells of a multi-well plastic tissue culture dish ( Nunc ) containing 0.1 M cacodylate buffer pH 7.4 . |
| 11 | Place them in similar positions in your new home so that the growing conditions remain as consistent as possible . |
| 12 | In 1879 she visited repealers in Plymouth to canvass support for the new bill , which proposed that the courts should remove children living in the society of depraved and disorderly persons and place them in industrial schools . |
| 13 | Only the Faroese now still hunt them in large numbers . |
| 14 | People always will want horses but they want them in different forms at different times . |
| 15 | One intuitively powerful argument , for instance , is that since animals regularly face problems and solve them in sensible ways , they must have some intellectual grasp of the problem . |
| 16 | ‘ Expect me in ten minutes . ’ |
| 17 | To double the recipe , cook them in two pans . |
| 18 | In each of the two Ranges of the New Forest there is a Head Keeper , with six beat keepers under him , who take censuses of the deer , cull them in due season , guard against poachers and check pests . |
| 19 | Nerves afflict everyone in some way , and without them acting would be the poorer . |
| 20 | This type of microphone is very small and very sensitive , but requires a d.c. supply which in this circuit is provided by resistor R1 . |
| 21 | As well as sharing Chris Brokaw — Come 's guitarist and Codeine 's drummer until recently when the umbilical chord was reluctantly severed — both envelop you in bleak vulnerability , put you under mild anaesthetic . |
| 22 | If you want something in this world you have to be positive , she reflected , so , instead of quelling the emotions which arose within her , perhaps she should agree to become Vitor 's bride and attempt to capture his heart ? |
| 23 | I want him in this evening . |
| 24 | Why not come out arid say it in this day and age , she muttered to herself as she dialled the number . |
| 25 | ‘ Now fetch me some towelling , wet it in that bowl of water and hand it to me … ’ |
| 26 | Even more insulation is given by looking at all things from the transcendent level , for then each event is looked at as if it is seen through coloured lenses that transfigure it and place it in another dimension and time . |
| 27 | If the dog continues , then place it in another room on its own , re-emphasizing the word quiet . |
| 28 | Place it in some water in a saucer and it will soon grow new feathery leaves . |
| 29 | But er there is a a and I wouldn inevitably er one does stray into I know want it in particular points at the moment , but there is a policy consideration to be borne in mind as well , which erm does suggest that past trends should not necessarily be projected into the future . |
| 30 | I want it simplified , I want it in big letters this is good for you , this is not so good , or this is bad |