Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chicken Plucker is a starting point because everybody loved Letter To Brezhnev , and some of the favourite lines from that appear in the show . ’ |
| 2 | A move from consensus management , where a small , but arguably representative nucleus of people had at least some say in the decision-making , to a more dictatorial style known as ‘ general management ’ now means that decisions are made by one man or woman who may accept or reject the advice of interested parties , including nursing and medical advisers . |
| 3 | Unveiling details of the £1.7m deal , Ed WAllis , PowerGen 's chief executive , candidly said he would expect some say in the way the weather was presented . |
| 4 | Stockbrokers W I Carr are aiming the Helmsman Self-Managed Personal Pension at controlling directors , partners , self-employed and senior executives who want some say in the control of their investments . |
| 5 | Indeed , to invite him to do so , it seems to me , can only be misleading in suggesting that the driver is entitled to some say in the matter . |
| 6 | Now if you relate that to other things the government does like , for example , financing a fighter aeroplane , which costs £30 million , the sums are so small , one would hope there would be some shift in the allocation of resources towards the museums sector and the arts generally , because they are such extraordinarily important features of British life , not least in commercial terms . |
| 7 | Know can also be followed by the bare infinitive , however , in a sense which is different from the one just discussed : ( 108 ) I 've not known anything like this happen in the College before . |
| 8 | There is probably some wear in the pump body where the actuating mechanism is . |
| 9 | Some people go in the legs and some go in the head . |
| 10 | By leaving him a half share in the house , I feel I am achieving two objects . |
| 11 | In spite of his admiration for Baron of Buchlyvie , and having been so keen to purchase it , Kilpatrick sold a half share in the horse to his rival , William Dunlop . |
| 12 | More fundamentally there was no guarantee that a once-and-for-all increase in the price of gold ( a doubling was frequently suggested ) would suffice . |
| 13 | Only a return to US price stability would allow a once-and-for-all rise in the gold price to work , and there was nothing in the act of raising the price of gold which would make that more likely ( indeed , the improved gold backing for the dollar would relax such pressure as there was on the US government to maintain price stability in order to defend the dollar ) . |
| 14 | Sutton 's writings are difficult to identify and to date , and some have in the past been confused with writings of Thomas Aquinas . |
| 15 | There 's not much support in the village apart from the non-stipendiary , Deaconess Tilley , who does half-time at the primary school and a bit in the parish if she feels like it . |
| 16 | It seems surprising , but there is n't much talk in the refuge about marriage or men . |
| 17 | Because there was n't much love in the house otherwise , from what I hear . ’ |
| 18 | Many of these hide in the day to avoid desiccation , and gather their food during the damper night . |
| 19 | Sometimes , these remain in the landscape or are incorporated into complex village plans ; elsewhere , they were abandoned in what seems to have been wholescale replanning and resiting of villages . |
| 20 | Wistfully , Jaq quoted to himself the words of an ancient leader of the middle kingdom on bygone Earth : ‘ In the land of a thousand million people , what does the death of one million of these count in the cause of purity ? ’ |
| 21 | These vary in the way that the set of binary patterns is mapped onto the negative numbers ; the positive numbers are represented in the same way in all three methods . |
| 22 | It is important to remember that these vary in the amount of energy they provide . |
| 23 | These lie in the soil — entangled in grass roots , beneath fallen leaves , under snow , or covered by sand — in vast quantities . |
| 24 | It is important to discuss the various explanations briefly , if only because these surface in the press in a variety of forms . |
| 25 | The study will examine contrasting concepts of personhood and moral conduct in relation to the body , gender and gender relationships caste and political leadership , as these emerge in the context of religious and political debates and in the expressed beliefs of religious and lay members of the community . |
| 26 | Most of these live in the province of Sichuan with others in Gansu and Shaanxi . |
| 27 | Millions of these live in the bowel , where they help digestion , so it 's quite normal for them to be present , and all too easy for them to spread — in fact half of all cases of Cystitis are caused by bacterial infection . |
| 28 | These culminate in the prayer that was also used at each Canonical Hour of the Cross and that brings to mind the glory , joy and life which was man 's birthright , forfeited at the Fall but renewed by Incarnation . |
| 29 | These come in the guise of short-term and temporary contracts , agency staff and contracting out , rolling contracts and extended trial periods , right across the employment scene . |
| 30 | These take in the law ( Brothers in Law , 1956 ) , the redbrick universities ( Lucky Jim , 1957 ) , the foreign office ( Carlton-Browne of the FO , 1958 ) and the trade unions ( I 'm All Right Jack , 1959 ) . |