Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the extension in claimable hours alone account for the increase in the number of night visits ? |
| 2 | Could this increase in liver protein synthesis , however , account for the increase in whole body protein synthesis that Powell-Tuck et al reported in their series of patients ? |
| 3 | You will have to apply para 41 if you are to equity account for the associate in accordance with standard practice . |
| 4 | The raising of the compulsory school-leaving age , first to 15 and then to 16 , and the expansion of further education account for the growth in education . |
| 5 | ‘ If you mean about the girl in the car , she says there was no girl . |
| 6 | You can ride in the mountains , play tennis and squash , go swimming , enjoy a round or two of mini-golf or simply head for the hills in the company of a guide and a picnic . |
| 7 | I apologise for the delay in response — we had to track down which university you were at ! |
| 8 | I apologise for the delay in replying , but I have only just got to the bottom of my ‘ in tray ’ after months of chasing deadlines ! |
| 9 | I apologise for the delay in replying to you . |
| 10 | I apologise for the delay in replying . |
| 11 | I apologise for the delay in replying to you . |
| 12 | I apologise for the delay in arriving . |
| 13 | While 83 international beauties battle for the title in Bophuthatswana 's ‘ Lost City , ’ Alan meets visiting celebrities like Jerry Hall , Richard Branson and Brigitte Nielsen . |
| 14 | The famous case of Derek Bentley , who was hanged in Britain , was a classic example of the kind of people who slip through the cracks in the US and end up being executed , says Mr Stafford Smith . |
| 15 | 11.8 Plot in the s-plane of the poles of the Laplace transform of the current in a series resonant circuit subjected to a step e.m.f . |
| 16 | The poles , , of the Laplace transform of the current in a series resonant circuit subjected to a step e.m.f. , which were deduced in the previous section , exhibit interesting behaviour . |
| 17 | A Gestalt is a mode of perception of a group of objects — say of the dots in a printed picture — so that they are seen as one thing . |
| 18 | We mingle with the ladies in black velvet evening gloves selling Moet and the photographer promising to make the plain into cover girls for a day . |
| 19 | It is worth noting that many of the most interesting studies of the language/ethnicity relationship are not quantitative at all , but focus qualitatively on the social meaning which bi- and multi-lingual speakers associate with the codes in their repertoire ( see further 8.3 ) . |
| 20 | Press into the hole in the boat . |
| 21 | Cut the rubber seals to size and press into the slots in the seal carriers . |
| 22 | You battle with the Treasury in public spending negotiations and you battle with the health service to make best use of the resources that are available . |
| 23 | 16.7 Reading is also one of the means by which we interact with the society in which we live . |
| 24 | We shall begin our investigation of how causative verbs interact with the infinitive in English by looking at the contrast between make and cause because , although these two verbs seem quite similar in meaning , they are not followed by the same form of the infinitive : ( 134 ) While most enzymes can not make a reaction occur that would not take place in their absence , they speed up reactions so that they occur at the temperatures and other conditions which prevail within living organisms . |
| 25 | Bacteria grow in the water in pore space , and precipitation of concretionary cement in pore space in the mud reduces the volume of fluid available . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw two holes appear in the windscreen in front of me and I felt pain in my chest . |
| 27 | The Pharisees who appear in the gospels in Jesus 's time seem to have some distorted ideas about God . |
| 28 | Make sure that all the question numbers on the front of the paper correspond with the questions that you have answered , and appear in the order in which you have answered them . |
| 29 | non-descriptors or terms which are not to be used in the index but which appear in the thesaurus in order to expand the entry vocabulary ( terms through which the user can enter the thesaurus and be directed to the appropriate term ) of the indexing language . |
| 30 | Curtis felt a searing pain lance across the right side of his neck , and saw a small starred hole appear in the glass in front of him . |