Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government agreed , at the end of talks with Prince Sadruddin , to extend by six months a " memorandum of understanding " , due to expire in December , permitting UN relief agencies to continue operations in the north and south of the country . |
| 2 | National Westminster has announced four thousand redundancies and yet you still have to wait ages in the queue at the bank , why is that ? |
| 3 | If one writes and asks — or begs — British Rail to include improvements in the Bill which it could easily have done by extending part III , one gets the same treatment . |
| 4 | Editor , — In recent months dermatologists have been under increasing pressure from fundholding general practitioners to conduct clinics in the community . |
| 5 | Oh oh oh not really , but it was when this chanting came in that the young fellas seemed to like gangs in the crowd and this when all the trouble started |
| 6 | It said that it did not want the Government to channel funds in the direction of strategically selected industries . |
| 7 | A Northern Ireland careers week , held to promote opportunities in the hospitality and tourism industry , has been organised by the Province 's Hospitality Matters group . |
| 8 | Catherine Marshall , who did much of the day-to-day work of the NCF , placed humanity before principle , intervening with the authorities to secure improvements in the treatment of absolutists and ‘ alternativists ’ alike . |
| 9 | In " Beginnings , middles , and ends " Nash seeks to establish patterns in the writing of popfiction stories concerning plot development and characterisation . |
| 10 | Clearly , to store it as a character-based file involves a considerable storage requirement and much complex processing to relate words in the dictionary to words in the data . |
| 11 | Such attempts to find solutions in the discourse of everyday were more typical of lawyer C. |
| 12 | Zbo insisted on placing a bold and magnificent nude in the window to attract passers-by in the street . |
| 13 | He still needed to encourage supporters in the army and in the civilian population to keep up their pressure on the regime . |
| 14 | In fact , the whole discipline will become more applied in the sense that the emphasis will be shifted from laboratory studies , which seek to isolate variables in the abstract , towards being a social science , which examines socially shared beliefs , or social representations , in their actual social context . |
| 15 | The facility to obtain images in the sagittal plane also enables the relationship of tumours to the fourth ventricle to be readily seen . |
| 16 | Christians seem to believe themselves to be under a pressure to find texts in the bible which directly support their case . |
| 17 | Although government capacity to meet expectations has declined , its capacity to meet expectations in the past built up a body of diffuse support , support that now exists independently of particular failures to meet demands . |
| 18 | Therefore , it is in our interests to address the problem of maritime arms control , to secure reductions in the size of the Soviet fleet and to reach agreement on the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom gap area . |
| 19 | Keighley went into the Fixture Exchange Pool to find an opponent , only to find Hymerians in the pool too . |
| 20 | These led such Russian composers as Glinka and those known as ‘ The Mighty Little Heap ’ to create operas and tone poems on traditional stories , and Pushkin and Lermontov to write poems in the language spoken by the Russian people . |
| 21 | They rejoiced in the fervour of the Patarini , as the insurgents were called ; and they delighted to find allies in the war against simony and clerical marriage ( see p. 437 ) ; but they could not condone a consistent stand against the authority of the archbishop . |
| 22 | It 's enough to startle sparrows in the street . |
| 23 | Subsequent workshops were used to train participants in the use of these coding sheets , how to decipher taxation rolls , how to conduct interviews effectively etc . |
| 24 | Similarly the status of commas in the speech of the T(eacher) is not made explicit — presumably they are to indicate pauses in the stream of speech , but it may be that they simply indicate a complex of rhythmic and intonational cues which the analyst is responding to . |
| 25 | In the event , they entrusted Alexander Mackendrick with a colourful story , Sammy Going South ( 1963 , A Boy Ten Feet Tall in US ) , about the journey of a small boy , orphaned by an air-raid on his Port Said home , who crosses Africa on his own to find relatives in the south . |
| 26 | At the idea transfer level , machines have not yet demonstrated unequivocally the ability to process concepts in the way that human consciousness processes thought . |
| 27 | All burglars know that ninety-eight per cent of all housewives decide to hide things in the tea caddy . ’ |
| 28 | Heavy mechanical equipment was being used to punch holes in the structure that has divided the city for 28 years . |
| 29 | Men of genius — Dante , Leonardo , Milton , Blake , Turner , Wagner , for example — have attempted to punch holes in the box or to replace it by a stack of boxes . |
| 30 | First , it was particularly interesting to find changes in the IMHV after passive avoidance training because Gabriel Horn had already been able to identify this as a key brain region for imprinting . |