Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 2 | If , for example , you want to know about punctuation in the seventeenth century , marriage laws in nineteenth-century Canada , the history of the Elizabethan stage , or current theories of myth or symbol , this is one place well worth looking . |
| 3 | We tend to talk about unemployment in terms of purely economic factors ; |
| 4 | Under the 1985 Representation of the People Act , as amended in 1989 , Britons overseas may , for up to 20 years after their departure , register to vote by proxy in the constituency where they last lived . |
| 5 | We would like you to use your expectations and the resultant negotiations as a basis for stating some of the objectives you hope to use for direction in your marriage . |
| 6 | Hence equation ( 8.2 ) defines a price determined real wage ( PRW ) which employers seek to defend from erosion in the face of money-wage demands by insiders in order to protect their real profitability . |
| 7 | In both Britain and America , the educational preparation of librarians includes all these aspects and more , although individual librarians naturally tend to specialize in depth in only a selection . |
| 8 | Some species manage to live on land in humid tropical forests , undulating on mucus that they secrete from their undersides . |
| 9 | Electricity users set to benefit from leap in profit |
| 10 | A COMIC behind-the-scenes look at what it 's really like to run for President in the United States is offered in Feed ( BBC-2 , 11.55pm ) . |
| 11 | If you decide to opt for carpet in the bathroom , choose one specially designed for the purpose — like The Bathroom Bliss range from Lancaster that has a waterproof waffle backing . |
| 12 | The promises on human rights seemed as tenuous as the Declaration on Liberated Europe , issued at Yalta 30 years before , and it was difficult to reconcile the Helsinki pledge to refrain from interference in other countries ' affairs with the Brezhnev doctrine . |
| 13 | Confronted with a bronze picture , we can locate its image on the relevant computer screen and , having read its precise history , proceed to learn about tableware in general , the social system of Pompeii , and even the precise recipes of the time . |
| 14 | Boys are expected to be assertive go-getters , so parents tend to approve of aggression in their male offspring as ‘ manly ’ . |
| 15 | We er we intend to break into profit in year three when we should have recuperated our expenditure . |
| 16 | ‘ It may be said that the duty is difficult to define , because when the act of negligence in manufacture occurs there was no specific person towards whom the duty could be said to exist : the thing might never be used : it might be destroyed by accident , or it might be scrapped , or in many ways fail to come into use in the normal way : in other words the duty can not at the time of manufacture be other than potential or contingent , and only can become vested by the fact of actual use by a particular person . |
| 17 | Right now , for example , all the digital media we have considered fail to compete with videodisc in an area of functionality general considered highly important in many areas of the IMT sector : the delivery of high quality , full screen , full motion video . |
| 18 | Costs tend to decrease as expertise in accessing data develops . |
| 19 | Important decisions are made by key people , and other employees tend to rely on precedent in the absence of other guidelines as to what to do . |
| 20 | Such symbolic markets for artistic goods and their corresponding ‘ fields ’ do not exist in traditional , ‘ un-differentiated ’ societies , but only come to exist with differentiation in the process of modernization . |
| 21 | It includes also those who wish to speak of uniqueness in some other way . |
| 22 | Moreover , you 're now at that age when you have to Go Into Hospital in a way which was unthinkable ten years back . |
| 23 | One of the things that I think is most unfortunate is that parents sometimes say to their youngsters ‘ You need to go to school in order to learn how to behave ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've got to decide whether it 's … freer atmosphere and rowdyism or silence and total obedience , because I do n't think you … have any feelings towards somebody in schools where you just have to sit in silence in sort of neat rows … |
| 25 | You need to know about side-slipping in the aircraft that you fly . |
| 26 | When the ship goes down , the actors all have to come on stage in wet clothes . |
| 27 | He perceived that he was ‘ up against ’ the position of having to carry on his life not as an emotion , but as a scientific game ; that he was committed by circumstances to novel writing as a regular trade , as much as he had formerly been to architecture ; and that hence he would , he deemed , have to look for material in manners — in ordinary social and fashionable life as the other novelists did . |
| 28 | Others have behavioural problems and need to let off steam in a safe and controlled setting . |
| 29 | I promise to return to sleep in my own bed ! ’ |