Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [noun pl] in [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Instead , the strategies suitable for obtaining housing of different tenures appear to encourage differences in family formation , especially early fertility or its postponement . |
2 | All the shades of the same colour spectrum blend together well : for example , if you have selected a walnut or mahogany finished frame and you want to use flowers in shades of orange , cream and yellow , then a mid-brown mount with a beige or cream backing would tone very well with your design . |
3 | At a meeting organised by Cheshire-based Barclays Computer Operations , the facilities management division of the Barclays group , Peter Eldridge , IBM 's IT Infrastructure Consultant , said that this contradicted industry speculation that users want to ditch mainframes in favour of mid range systems and that recession was preventing new investment . |
4 | If you mean ‘ pirate ’ , you can get lost , but if you want to analyse programs in order to get reset pokes , for example , you 'll need to learn machine code first . |
5 | ‘ The US may find it fairly unfriendly when some of its carriers want to make deals in Europe , ’ said Jon Ash of Global Aviation , an airline consulting firm . |
6 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
7 | 11 Walk to see lambs in summertime in the Yorkshire Dales National Park . |
8 | Sometimes taxpayers who have discretionary trusts created before 18 March 1986 seek to create interests in possession perhaps in favour of the settlor in order to have an advantageous income tax position if , for instance , the trust holds shares in a UK company and dividends are paid . |
9 | In order to save transport costs they seek to have factories in positions near to the major ports of Britain . |
10 | We hope to resume lessons in October . |
11 | Those with high ROI tend to experience falls in ROI and those with low ROI tend to have increases , taken across the whole population . |
12 | When the British Academy gives scholarships for methodological research and applications as well as for historical inquiries of a more familiar kind , when universities begin to make appointments in humanities computing or , dare I say it , even in history and computing , then , it seems to me , we will be in a better position to bemoan our inability to secure more in the way of government and private funding . |
13 | ‘ You know me , Ruth , I like to do things in comfort . ’ |
14 | I intend to start alterations in spring and am determined not to be thwarted by cancer ( far less , the mere lack of money ) . |
15 | The radicals were also concerned about detail whereas Ferguson could see that ‘ movie people tend to understand things in surface terms ’ and that their ‘ command of surfaces is supreme ’ . |
16 | Dr Ian Rolfe , then of the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow snapped him up as supervisor of YOPs on a Manpower Services scheme to develop fossils in rock which had been excavated in Australia in the 1960s . |
17 | They are rather like the markers teachers use to signal transitions in lessons : ‘ Right ! ’ , or ‘ OK , let's get started ! ’ |
18 | Subsequently , schools , universities and colleges attempt to assess differences in abilities as predictors of student performance . |
19 | Many graduates proceed to research posts in universities , often working much of the time in international laboratories , such as CERN in Geneva . |
20 | We need to consider how people respond to tax changes in terms not just of their labour supply and savings decisions but also of their actions as voters . |
21 | The very newspapers which subsequently pilloried our ‘ cowardice — or worse ’ are constantly bemoaning the deaths of people who rashly attempt to rescue swimmers in distress , only to perish themselves as well . |
22 | When newspapers start to report falls in Labour 's opinion-poll lead to 15% as a setback and Conservatives claim as a triumph Labour 's best-ever local-government result , we can safely conclude that the political landscape in Britain has changed . |
23 | It 's at times like this you start to see things in perspective . ’ |
24 | Lesbian women can expect to lose their jobs , their children and their community support because they choose to love women in preference to men . |
25 | Strive to see things in proportion . |
26 | In this sense they also help to pin-point gaps in experience or competence , when a child is considered to have some areas of developmental concern … |
27 | If we wish to discuss changes in punishment it is perhaps more helpful to look at the percentage of those found guilty receiving different types of sentence . |
28 | Family , kin , and the more extensive institution of Biraderi therefore serve to help Pakistanis in Britain and to forge a strong sense of community . |
29 | Er people did not , in fact , wish to pay taxes in order to allow erm their rulers to play the game of war and the limited sums of money available for these wars was soon expended so when your cash ran out , then you sued for peace you , you engaged in negotiations . |
30 | The labour market in the UK , therefore , consists of all the people who wish to work ( whether currently employed or not ) and all the firms who wish to employ workers in order to produce goods and services . |