Example sentences of "in [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonard could be fastidious to the nth degree in completing his own work — he has always said that he works ‘ one word at a time , ’ and can spend months , even years , in adding finesse to it ; he is nevertheless dismissive of anything approaching scholarly exactitude , still more so pedantry . |
| 2 | Founded in 1759 upon the highest standards of design , craftsmanship and quality , the company continues to uphold these essential factors in maintaining its leading position throughout the markets of the world . |
| 3 | THE mother of North Wales schoolteacher Fiona Jones yesterday broke her silence to condemn a three-year delay in bringing her French killer to trial . |
| 4 | Thankfully she did not persist in pursuing her mad idea . |
| 5 | An additional source of business has been the increased use of external bank finance by non-oil LDCs in financing their economic development . |
| 6 | If ever they lose the ability to scavenge energy , and put it to use in repairing their own fabric , then they are said to be dead ; and they begin immediately to fall apart . |
| 7 | He sent his parents a letter promising that ‘ if the good Lord God be merciful unto me and bring me safe home again , I will all the days of my life serve Him in praising His Holy name and exhorting others ’ . |
| 8 | Although Nizan 's writings of the period are suffused with acerbic communist ideology , although he was chosen as communist party candidate in Bourg-en-Bresse for the general election of 1932 , although he participated fully in the Universite Ouvriere from its opening in 1932 , during the same period he was also involved in finalising his bourgeois education ( 1927–9 ) , he was also a philosophy teacher at the Lycee Lalande in Bourg-en-Bresse ( 1931–2 ) . |
| 9 | People working in these professions often take pleasure in describing a sales campaign in which surplus stocks of milk were dispersed by persuading the public that it had a taste for a new mass product , such as yoghurt , or in reminding us that ploughman 's lunches could be invented to persuade a new group to patronize pubs . |
| 10 | The green alliance of the Green party and the Generation Ecologie , which only a couple of months ago was being credited with nearly 20 per cent of the vote , suffered a severe disappointment in seeing its projected score drop to 8.5 per cent — five less than its vote in last year 's regional elections . |
| 11 | I thought you might be interested in seeing my adorable mutt , Bubbles , pictured ( below ) with her superior companion our Yorkshire Terrier , Boswell . |
| 12 | The first of these errors lay in devoting their whole strength , defensively , to the ‘ aerial barrage ’ that was notionally to seal the air space above the German lines . |
| 13 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 14 | If changes are to command public support , Londoners must play an active part in shaping their local service mix to meet needs which they have helped identify . |
| 15 | I 'm a firm believer in trusting your initial response to something . ’ |
| 16 | She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . |
| 17 | He succeeded in winning Stansfield 's confidence and in stamping his personal authority on all areas of the new department , including Simon 's , by intercepting correspondence and seizing responsibility for the smallest details of policy . |
| 18 | Wood Group Engineering Contractors were recently successful in re-tendering their existing contract with Amoco . |
| 19 | Six months after their initial media blitz , the BROTHER Movement 's ‘ Ghettogedden EP ’ finally emerges this month , having overcome difficulties in gathering their enormous roster of artists together . |
| 20 | Although Sag & Hankamer 's theory provides the basis of an excellent account of the considered judgement of literate people , it does not fare so well in explaining their ordinary language comprehension . |
| 21 | Or perhaps not , if she retained enough satisfaction in keeping her boring husband on the hook . |
| 22 | What 's more , the law is on Littlewoods ' side in keeping its dominant position . |
| 23 | Sadly , the Warnock majority is confused as to its basic philosophical argument , condemning utilitarianism in its foreword but relying on it in justifying its crucial recommendation to allow experiments up to 14 days , only to reject it again in opposing the routine testing of drugs on human embryos at any stage from conception . |
| 24 | At the same time , he was engaged in disliking his own state of intellect at the moment , which appeared to own no responsibility for the production of that sentence and buzzed around small problems without much resource or repose . |
| 25 | The Business Start-Up scheme , which helps the unemployed in launching their own business , will be extended with the creation of 10,000 new places . |
| 26 | Students are also given a substantial introduction to a range of practical skills which assist them in applying their academic understanding of the problems of peace and conflict more effectively in their future careers . |
| 27 | There are two basic concepts of financial accounting which it will be useful to define before we discuss users and their needs , particularly because their use in ordinary language is often not helpful in understanding their technical meaning . |
| 28 | Its future , like the future of Europe , lies in understanding its immanent past . |
| 29 | I can understand your outrage at your sister taking your place ; what I do n't see is why you persist in denying your own relationship with Garry . ’ |
| 30 | Appalled , she pushed back , but the movement only succeeded in pressing her lower body more closely to fitzAlan 's hard thighs . |