Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 , the Argyll group of companies and Guinness were rival bidders in attempts to take over Distillers Ltd . |
| 2 | He also confirmed that France , which left NATO 's military structure in 1966 [ see pp. 21605-10 ] , would be invited to participate in plans to set up multinational units . |
| 3 | Alternatively , and in the long term , plan building in cities to cut down on travel overall . |
| 4 | We need some bananas in pyjamas to come out here |
| 5 | In a fiery speech at the " peace summit " on May 24 , the king had warned the ANC against verbal attacks on his people , which he called " killing talk " , and said that he would not acquiesce in demands to give up the bearing of traditional weapons . |
| 6 | Gulls gather in flocks to peck out eyes and strip the yellowing flesh . |
| 7 | Pigs are used in experiments to find out more about gastric ulcers , muscular dystrophy , alcoholism and obesity . |
| 8 | While householders fumed in queues to find out how they should pay , he was sunning himself on an Indian Ocean holiday . |
| 9 | In some ways a continuation of the drive against bourgeois liberalism which began after the 1980 elections , it mobilised the media , the CYL and other official agencies in efforts to stamp out undesirable imports . |
| 10 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 11 | ‘ It should be very much easier for the elderly , people with pushchairs and those in wheelchairs to get along safely , ’ said Mrs Bosanquet . |
| 12 | As soon as steam trains were invented , up and running , they became the tools of the industrialist and of the punter on holiday , noisy , smelly , usually late , and the last word in ways to go down the coast . |
| 13 | Grant was removed from those authorities , so that any increase in spending brought a fall in income and , therefore , implied a further increase in rates to make up for that loss . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've had a few hasty assignations in lay-bys to pass over pots of prepared food that no one must know were n't prepared by the hostess , ’ says Mrs Anderson . |
| 15 | First , that both sides had ‘ second strike capability ’ , i.e. , enough weapons buried in silos or submerged in submarines to hit back devastatingly after a nuclear attack . |
| 16 | The sudden gathering overhead of ominous clouds left them unmoved , although they shewed a healthy respect for the mists which could appear in seconds to blot out everything in sight . |
| 17 | There was also , I am told , an explosive ‘ dead dog ’ which floated in canals to fetch up against a lock gate . |