Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the children in care were young , and unless positive steps to plan for their future were taken , they would continue like the older children in their sample to wait for lengthy periods in care . |
| 2 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 3 | They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called . |
| 4 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 5 | Captain Mark Phillips had been expected to remain for some time in his cottage on the estate , where he has lived since the marriage broke up three years ago . |
| 6 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 7 | The only concession forced through before the critical days in September was on the tax allowance to foster parents who were now able to claim for any child in their care under the age of sixteen or in full-time education . |
| 8 | Crime does not stop at county borders when it is possible to drive through three counties in an hour . |
| 9 | I left her , and went to search for more information in a different place . |
| 10 | But by coming clean and staying clean , North Korea could look forward to much in return : the right to poke about military installations in South Korea , a better relationship with America , more outside help and investment for its decrepit economy . |
| 11 | Schools will therefore have to plan for possible alterations in price and salary changes throughout the year . |
| 12 | The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems . |
| 13 | Though any help is better than none , it is only when the enhancement is one extra teacher or more that schools really acquire the flexibility in staffing that they need if they are to carry through major reforms in curriculum and classroom practice . |
| 14 | Hrawi asked Hoss to continue as Prime Minister in a caretaker capacity until a new government was formed . |
| 15 | ( It has to go through all stages in both Houses and receive the Royal Assent . ) |
| 16 | It is important to go through these documents in order to check what you have got , so that you will know at which stage they should be completed . |
| 17 | Now er I 'm thinking in in the case of er perhaps a young accountant advising on financial management who finds something odd and perhaps he reports it direct to the authorities , will he be covered or will he have to go through some procedure in order to bring himself within the protection ? |
| 18 | The fixture was won by Mandale , who had Anthony Borsumato to thank for fine victories in the 400 metres hurdles ( 56.7 secs ) and long jump ( 6.52 metres ) . |
| 19 | But a definitive package is unlikely before their meeting in April , which member states of the European Free Trade Association have been invited to attend as prospective participants in the European Economic Area . |
| 20 | PHONE bills are set to fall for four years in a row from next August , it was announced yesterday . |
| 21 | Efforts were made in late August to arrange for high-level talks in September between the ANC and Inkatha , two weeks of severe township violence in Transvaal having claimed over 500 lives . |
| 22 | In this vein we are seeking a mandate from you to continue after this conference in the task of monitoring government employment and training policies in the area , encouraging open debate on these policies , and publicising our findings . |
| 23 | He toured Britain in 1955 and competed in the British Grand Prix at Aintree but had to retire after 34 laps in his Cooper-Bristol that was just not up to the task of Formula One racing against the likes of Moss and Fangio 's Mercedes . |
| 24 | He speaks of a kind of intellectual pessimism , a ‘ despair of knowing anything ’ , into which it is possible to fall after repeated failures in the search for knowledge . |
| 25 | Only true-born eunuchs are believed to have the power to cast a curse , But as that is not easy to establish through casual meetings in the street , people are usually not prepared to gamble . |
| 26 | Maria replied that she was to be allowed to come for two days in the week following her letter . |
| 27 | Five years ago I hired an aircraft to tour for two weeks in the USA and was briefed on the possibility of radio thefts and the method used . |
| 28 | This requires choosing the time to switch from the near to the next near contract , and how to adjust for any differences in price level between the near and the next near contracts . |
| 29 | When , in 1856 , Nikolai Pirogov began to write about educational matters in the press , the government responded by re-establishing the long-dead Academic Committee of the Ministry of Education . |
| 30 | The critic may choose to write about common features in the work of the artists exhibiting ; this may lead to generalisations about the group which take little account of the individual qualities of the artists . |