Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another cliché that persists is that chefs work in contract catering only to avoid long hours and the tough competition of hotel and restaurant kitchens . |
| 2 | In 1954 he became president of the Generalitat in exile vowing never to return until Spain accepted the principle of autonomy for Catalonia . |
| 3 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 4 | The officer in charge went forward to check that all was well and with a Permanent Staff Instructor laid out the electrical initiation cable and applied the detonators to the ring main they had fitted up the previous afternoon . |
| 5 | When I reach its head the man in charge goes away to conduct a transaction involving cardboard boxes . |
| 6 | Moreover , the Tibetan Plateau transmits further pressure to the stable Tarim Basin to the north and this in turn pushes northwards to produce thrusting and uplift in the Tien Shan range ( Fig. 3.24 ) . |
| 7 | The plasterwork has peeled to reveal the red sandstone underneath ; and in places that sandstone has in turn crumbled away to reveal the intricate brickwork that lies at the core of the structure . |
| 8 | And erm I think Road is the key element of this traffic because not only is it a question of the estate but it 's the main through road from the up to Gatwick Airport and this is why er I understand that the calming proposal in road has yet to receive the M O T authority to use it because scheme . |
| 9 | Anybody who 's worked in graduate or postgraduate level in science likes almost to continue that mystique . |
| 10 | Anybody who 's worked in graduate or postgraduate level in science likes almost to continue that mystique . |
| 11 | Nothing in psychology hopes ever to work perfectly . |
| 12 | If , for example , your company uses PCs extensively but the obvious choice in software happens only to run on a Unix workstation then so long as the files can be transported between the two systems there is no penalty in selecting an ‘ alien ’ hardware platform . |
| 13 | This has its origin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Japan realised it needed natural resources from overseas in order to industrialise effectively to compete with the West . |
| 14 | It was in fact hoped eventually to build a new Hall to cater properly for the ever-expanding School , and to convert the Ha/lam Hall into a Chapel . |
| 15 | Franca had in fact tried vainly to waken him that morning , stirring him a little and calling his name . |
| 16 | This is because the areas of women 's greatest visibility in sociology tend also to contain examples of the most rampant sexism . |