Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the [noun sg] 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 | ‘ Did you know about the heroin in those tubes of toothpaste ? ’ he asked . |
| 7 | ‘ Did you know about the heroin in those tubes of toothpaste ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The government believes that the informal , voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 1 Does the photographer specialise in the area in which you need to commission photography " ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Shore crabs may predominate in the catch in estuaries and harbours , and sometimes better results can be obtained after dark . |
| 15 | Did Marsilid act on the enzyme in the brain and protect a transmitter amine from premature destruction ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Because of the obvious symmetry , we may concentrate on the singularity in region II . |
| 19 | She would concentrate on the job in hand instead , and get it done as quickly and cleanly as possible . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I was relieved when the daylight came and I could surrender to the exhaustion in my brain . |
| 22 | Much attention will focus on the inclusion in the census for the first time of the self reported limiting , longstanding sickness item . |
| 23 | It does focus on the person in a way that perhaps a crime series does n't . |
| 24 | Such studies should focus on the workload in comparable practices — for example , practices in high and low deprivation areas with similar levels of commitment . |
| 25 | So any explanation of why it started must focus on the collapse in investment . |
| 26 | In a way , I 'm interested at the Engineering Prize Federation and C B I have also began to realise that we ca n't survive , and I 'm sorry if you 're retailers , ca n't survive on the service in this country , we got ta survive on a manufacturing industry in this country and the only way you can do that is by having , really a pool of trained people . |
| 27 | It is extremely important at this stage to take unlimited amounts of time and trouble , as the success of your design will stand or fall by the way in which it is finished . |
| 28 | Given that this is so , what sense can we make of the way in which God , as opposed to John or Jane Smith , is personal ? |
| 29 | One can think of the DNA in the nucleus as an enormous reference library containing the instructions for making all the proteins . |
| 30 | What do you think of the Council in Harlow ? |