Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there was the time Joe Hulme asked if he could stay for the weekend in his native Lancashire after an away match at Bolton . |
| 2 | You could eat off the floor in her house . |
| 3 | Emma closed her eyes but for the moment she could n't answer for the throbbing in her throat . |
| 4 | I feel that the doctors might accidentally tear me up , or that I might flap off the bed in a gust of wind and float away . |
| 5 | The developer or his land buyer should act as the catalyst in such situations . |
| 6 | ‘ How did you know about the boxes in the freezer ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Did you know about the heroin in those tubes of toothpaste ? ’ he asked . |
| 8 | ‘ Did you know about the heroin in those tubes of toothpaste ? ’ |
| 9 | 2 In psychology , generalisation refers to the process that occurs when one stimulus , which is to some degree equivalent to another , can substitute for the other in arousing a conditioned response ( behaviourist psychology ) . |
| 10 | The government believes that the informal , voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision . |
| 11 | In the case of a request by a person other than an individual natural person that the licensing board shall declare the provisional grant of a licence final , that person shall include in the notice in subsection ( 5 ) above the name of the employee or agent whom it is intended should have the day to day running of the premises , and the board shall not declare the provisional grant final if it finds that the employee or agent so named in the notice is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence . |
| 12 | Estimating comparative levels of per capita GNP between various nations is probably best done by assessing relative levels of purchasing power — what a currency will buy in the country in which it is issued , using comparisons between particular products . |
| 13 | 1 Does the photographer specialise in the area in which you need to commission photography " ? |
| 14 | And it 's not fair to say it 's because of the beard because the beard 's not my fault , they just did n't shave in the jungle in whatever century it 's going to be when we get there and I know I grew it early but that 's the way I am , I like to start thinking myself into the part as soon as possible . |
| 15 | Shore crabs may predominate in the catch in estuaries and harbours , and sometimes better results can be obtained after dark . |
| 16 | This conference will concentrate upon the ways in which teacher-research can be supported . |
| 17 | The parliamentary reserve is lifted , and the Government can act on the proposals in the Council without further reference to the House . |
| 18 | Did Marsilid act on the enzyme in the brain and protect a transmitter amine from premature destruction ? |
| 19 | He feared the advantages which might fall to the USSR in the resultant confusion . |
| 20 | For there is a formula which generates the ‘ deviant ’ continuation from the same early stages ; since both series start in the same way , we can not appeal to the way in which one starts in order to justify our preference for its way of going on . |
| 21 | The judge in determining those issues held , inter alia , that under the terms of the mortgage deeds and other securities the defendants were entitled to a full indemnity against their costs , charges and expenses and the plaintiffs could not object to the items in the accounts on the ground that they were unreasonable except where the items referred to costs in the litigation subject to an order for taxation . |
| 22 | This was enough to show that he did not object to the aid in principle ; but it was not enough to satisfy the king , who refused his offer and demanded £1000 . |
| 23 | Because of the obvious symmetry , we may concentrate on the singularity in region II . |
| 24 | She would concentrate on the job in hand instead , and get it done as quickly and cleanly as possible . |
| 25 | Sunderland have lost their last five League matches , and there is a growing danger that the FA Cup finalists might find themselves in deep relegation trouble if they do no concentrate on the matter in hand Second Division survival . |
| 26 | I was relieved when the daylight came and I could surrender to the exhaustion in my brain . |
| 27 | Much attention will focus on the inclusion in the census for the first time of the self reported limiting , longstanding sickness item . |
| 28 | It does focus on the person in a way that perhaps a crime series does n't . |
| 29 | All curriculums shall focus on the basics in high school requirements and it shall be inundated with advanced sciences and additional applied math , English and writing skills . |
| 30 | But if The Order of Things is thus concerned to analyse ‘ ensembles of discourses ’ that do not form a totality , it does not focus on the ways in which such forms of knowledges relate to the institutions in which and through which they are produced . |