Example sentences of "[n mass] [to-vb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephanie Middleton was yesterday voted one of the two runners-up in the 1992 Livewire UK Business Start Up Awards , winning herself £1,000 to invest in the business . |
| 2 | The 28-year-old great double champion twice failed to clear 5.70m and then , when he tried 5.75m to stay in the competition , he again knocked off the bar . |
| 3 | This is a difficult fish to spawn in the aquarium , and when it spawned successfully , few eggs may be produced . |
| 4 | and in the summer when they were thirty nine P it 's to get people to go in the shop really |
| 5 | It might be a scene in the High Street , or it might be some particular local personality who it would entertain the people to see in the evening , erm their faces on the screen . |
| 6 | The government had concluded ‘ that it is quite wrong that we should build up artificial hopes ’ by allowing boat people to remain in the colony in the belief that they would be resettled . |
| 7 | Roger Kelly is convinced that there are enough people to invest in the centre : ‘ Five years ago this would have been a pipe-dream , but with the rise of the ethical investment movement it 's become a real possibility . |
| 8 | In fact , the uncertain times of Terris ' appearances have had such an effect on workmen that the Maintenance Department do not allow their staff to work in the station through the night in case the ghost interferes with their potentially dangerous work . |
| 9 | That night he set his people to work in the darkness , filling holes in the trenches and moving the cannon forwards again . |
| 10 | Indeed , when he had solutions to problems , he sometimes went to the lab late at night and left his ideas on slips of paper for people to find in the morning — without knowing how they got there . |
| 11 | Leaving the punchbowl lying there for the clearup people to find in the morning , Wayne followed her . |
| 12 | Elected local government enables ‘ ordinary ’ people to participate in the work of government without the disruption to their careers and domestic life that national office usually involves . |
| 13 | Secondly , it enables community people to participate in the beginning of creating the program or plan of action . |
| 14 | In a letter to Survival , he states that : " We will ask the local people to participate in the project , and we will teach them and upgrade their lives . |
| 15 | That would considerably reduce the turnover of personnel , encourage people to serve in the force and enable us to use their expertise in it for much longer , so that less time will be spent on training . |
| 16 | And women have not been present in those circles with the result that they have been deprived of the means to participate in the construction of forms of thought which are relevant or adequate to express their own experience , ( Spender , 1981 , p. 3 ) . |
| 17 | We feel called to help to equip people to function in the mission or ministry God has called them to . |
| 18 | CRCs will identify priorities and seek out people to help in the revision of those priority areas . |
| 19 | The Ramblers ' Association said it welcomed any measures that allowed more people to walk in the countryside , and assistant director David Baskine said : ‘ It is important that the proposals will not offer payment to farmers who own land where public access is already allowed . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I totally accept that what you need is the ability to get people to believe in the vision that you put forward of the company , to accept it and to be willing to work towards it . |
| 21 | They may of course enable people to live in the community longer before a prolonged and expensive period of institutionalized decline until death ; or they may fail to bring about any significant changes . |
| 22 | The city council recognises the need to re-inject life into the potentially deserted central area , particularly after business hours , and it is considered that there is no surer means of achieving this aim than by encouraging young people to live in the city centre again . |
| 23 | The Minister will remember that the Stopover project in my constituency , which was designed to allow 16 young homeless people to stay in the area , was rejected by the Scottish Office last year . |
| 24 | Yesterday chief executive of Essex Rivers Healthcare Dr Alan Davison said : ‘ We have issued some guidelines to our own medical and nursing staff to assist in the diagnosis and management of head injury patients who also have a mental handicap . |
| 25 | The long term objective of this research is to develop a means to assist in the selection of appropriate problems . |
| 26 | It tells how the attractions of the women of Moab , a region to the east of the Dead Sea in which the Israelites were encamped , led the people to join in the worship of their gods , and how ‘ Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor ’ , the chief of the local deities ( 25.3 ) . |
| 27 | What they can do is refuse to answer questions , not allow MPs to speak in the House , stop people going on visits overseas . |
| 28 | The first prize winner will get £500 to spend in the shop , and there are two second prizes of £100 spending sprees . |