Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed Robert Hathaway suggests that the universalist wording of the Truman Doctrine was in part designed to disarm those who suspected a British manoeuvre at America 's expense . |
| 2 | While programs already exist for many of these topics it is sometimes more satisfying if one has sufficient ability in computer programming to modify existing simulations or create alternative programs . |
| 3 | Travellers ' tales , especially from traders , had in addition begun to circulate fictitious images of African peoples with bizarre physical features ( no mouths or noses ! ) ; accounts of the supposed promiscuity and general beastly immorality of African societies mingled with more accurate descriptions of the wealth and refinement to be found on the continent ( Walvin , 1973 ; Jordan , 1974 ; Husband , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | It is to be hoped that education will counteract these requests which are in total opposition to the idea of sexual equality , and in addition seek to use medical and nursing resources which are required to combat disease . |
| 5 | Economists have taken it for granted that to get round it , creditors will in practice need to get most of the benefit from debt relief . |
| 6 | Suppose a seller with just 12 bottles of port in stock agrees to sell 12 bottles of port to a particular buyer . |
| 7 | This was nowhere more true than on the northern border , where the nobles who held office as Wardens of the Marches , a system that had reached full development by the end of Edward III 's reign , were in effect allowed to maintain permanent standing armies at the Exchequer 's expense . |
| 8 | From that mistaken belief springs the evil of social engineering , which , at its worst , results in bureaucracy seeking to manipulate entire populations . |
| 9 | In that time , they fed exclusively on carrion ; specimens kept in captivity refused to sample any living thing . |
| 10 | When it grew dark the Feldwebel in charge began to get restive about escaping . |
| 11 | I thought that was terrific , but the sergeant in charge had to take 5 months over paperwork to get them into court . |
| 12 | Those in charge need to impose some objective , explicitly or implicitly ( for example , by imposing a breakeven constraint ) in order for the size of the business to be determined . |
| 13 | Constitutions are infected with dynamism ; they will develop , willy-nilly , and if the necessity for development becomes obvious to courts , as to other law-creating agencies of the constitution , and the steps which they take in consequence come to enjoy widespread acquiescence , it is pointlessly academic in the worst sense to argue that such steps are , in some technical sense , wrong . |
| 14 | The Rules of the Supreme Court were in consequence changed to allow general use of documents read in open court — an ironic example of how the European Convention can still be necessary to enforce a principle which derives from , and should be fundamental to , British domestic law . |
| 15 | A life in art began to make real sense . |
| 16 | People working in tourism need to understand many different sorts of English . |
| 17 | Instead , I shall draw on some of what has evolved over the last half century as ‘ curriculum theory ’ in education to try to suggest some frameworks and perspectives for analysing the wealth of detail which the system displays . |
| 18 | But the libertine who turned to religion in maturity seemed to get undue credit . |
| 19 | And that old theory that animals ca n't see colours is just not true because any vehicle which is black or red in colour appears to get more attention that any other . |
| 20 | For a moment , the centuries seemed to roll away , and she could visualise grim-faced men in chain-mail racing to answer some alarm , while women in wimpled head-dresses leaned down from the Gothic windows to bid them Godspeed . |
| 21 | A consortium led by Spanish state airline Iberia had reportedly deposited US$130,000,000 in a New York bank on Sept. 28 as part of a July 16 agreement whereby it would come up with $260,000,000 in cash and $2,100 million in debt-for-equity swaps to buy 85 per cent of the state airline Aerolíneas Argentinas [ see p. 37608 ] . |
| 22 | Some very early work in AI attempted to model parallel processing , but the machines available were so primitive that little was learnt from this exercise . |
| 23 | By the end of the month Israeli leaders were reported effectively to have withdrawn their controversial request for some US$10,000 million in loan guarantees to finance immigrant absorbtion programmes , in the face of persistent US demands linking the loans with a cessation of settlement construction in the occupied territories . |
| 24 | This contrast in rhyming helps to emphasise important points in each stanza as this difference makes these lines stand out . |
| 25 | A report from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate , claiming that at least five per cent of pigs are contaminated with drug residues , has resulted in government moves to prosecute offending farmers . |
| 26 | But even the lowliest appointment might oblige a freeholder who in turn desired to serve some obscure relative or other dependent , while in those appointments which demanded legal training , young advocates could establish their reputation as jurists , which in turn might attract business to their law practices in Edinburgh . |
| 27 | It also greatly improved blood circulation which in turn helps to induce peaceful , deep , relaxing sleep . |
| 28 | Newson ( 1979 ) has argued that process studies in geomorphology seek to quantify three systems ; the mechanical sediment system , the chemical system , and the hydrological system , and it is notable that progress towards the quantification of these systems has been achieved by greater cooperation of physical geographers with scientists in other disciplines and in response to requirements of engineers and planners for resource information . |
| 29 | Then he remembered something and knew he was in duty bound to take that risk . |
| 30 | Feminists in psychology began to investigate these gendered subjectivities , and to challenge their discipline 's gender biases . |