Example sentences of "in a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jorge Amado and the Mexican muralists ( José Orozco , David Siquieros — who was involved in a plot to kill Trotsky — and Diego Rivera , who was Trotsky 's main protector in Mexico ) were all active . |
| 2 | Things could n't get any worse until they all get involved in a plot to forge Hitler 's letters … |
| 3 | DR AHMAD OSMAN SIRAJ : a 46-year-old senior lecturer at the University of Khartoum 's medical school , he is serving a 15 year sentence for his alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow the military government of General Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir . |
| 4 | Police said that the company 's records showed that the Moslem Brotherhood had been involved in a plot to overthrow the Egyptian government and create an Islamic state , with the support of foreign countries including Afghanistan , Iran , Iraq , Pakistan and Turkey . |
| 5 | Manipulative Maria teams up with hell-raisers Sir Toby Belch , Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Feste , Olivia 's jester , in a plot to humiliate Malvolio ( Timothy Davies ) , a John Cleese-type character who would seem more suited to Faulty Towers than Darlington Civic Theatre . |
| 6 | Jews or Zionists are seen as prime movers in a plot to take over the world , by destroying nations and manipulating the minds of ordinary people . |
| 7 | In mid-January the police said that they had arrested under the Internal Security Act a sixth man allegedly involved in a plot to take Sabah out of the Malaysian federation ; he was named as Vincent Chung , group manager of a company controlled by the Sabah Foundation . |
| 8 | Only a few months earlier he had , as she was soon to discover , been involved in a plot to murder her secretary and musician David Rizzio , believing or half-believing that the two of them were lovers . |
| 9 | During a visit to him there , Mary is supposed to have written a letter to Bothwell which , discovered later in a silver casket with some poems in French and a written agreement to marry Bothwell , pointed clearly to her complicity in a plot to murder her husband . |
| 10 | Mark Evans has denied any part in a plot to kidnap the couple and stage an accident in a burning car at Birdlip in Gloucestershire in 1991 . |
| 11 | The report suggested that corruption had reached such a point that several officers had connived in a plot to topple the government in the early 1980s . |
| 12 | Jeffrey Kitingan , the younger brother of Sabah 's Chief Minister Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan , was arrested on May 13 on charges of " involvement in a plot to pull Sabah out of Malaysia " . |
| 13 | In May Jeffrey Kitangan was again arrested on charges of involvement in a plot to pull Sabah out of Malaysia . |
| 14 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |
| 15 | He turned in a performance to cherish against Surrey in the NatWest at Swansea , and the locals are still attempting to work out and why he did n't pocket the match award . |
| 16 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 17 | But I 'm in a fever to try it . |
| 18 | POLICEMAN Dave Pick will today leave the North-East for Romania in a mission to save a mother 's life . |
| 19 | In a licence to assign a lease the potential assignee , a company , had covenanted with the landlord to pay the rent and perform the covenants in the lease , and that covenant had been reinforced by a covenant given by a surety . |
| 20 | One former detainee said he saw Jacqueline Droully using the sun 's reflection in a mirror to send messages to her husband in another cell . |
| 21 | In most varieties of British English , you know what I mean ? and you know ? are used by parties in a conversation to elicit agreement , as in the following ( made up ) example : ( 1 ) A : I ca n't make head nor tail of this , you know what I mean ? |
| 22 | The Conversation Analytic approach to code switching taken here relies on the responses of the participants in a conversation to warrant claims about the work which a particular code switch is doing . |
| 23 | The travellers have now left their sites in Milton Keynes … but police are keeping track of their movements in case they 're soon in a popsition to make an arrest . |
| 24 | Clare was told she was in for a long stay in bed , and Mother moved in a divan to sleep next to her . |
| 25 | Council workmen checking for land subsidence found the horrible remains close to the tunnel 's mouth and ran off in a panic to raise the alarm with their screams . |
| 26 | These are still early days in which , it might be argued , the professional choirs and vocal consorts in England are engaged in a quest to discover how much ‘ interpretation ’ the various early-music repertories actually require when a high level of accuracy in tuning and ensemble is guaranteed them . |
| 27 | We 'd come in a coach to study Baltravers Hall , about twenty miles from our town . |
| 28 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 29 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 30 | The commemorative demonstration featured calls for the dozens of Georgian nationalist groups to unite in a struggle to achieve Georgia 's independence , and for Georgians to boycott compulsory military service . |