Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleven days after he had taken Estabrook to the encampment in Streatham , Chant realized he would soon be having a visitor . |
| 2 | It takes a bit of an effort to get to the punchline in IBM Corp 's alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp to enable record stores to create compact disks on the spot at the request of the customer ( CI No 2,166 ) , because the deal is actually between IBM 's Fireworks Partners unit , which is buying a stake in Blockbuster 's NewLeaf Entertainment Corp subsidiary and creating a new company , Fairway Technology Associates , both in Deerfield Beach , Florida ; the latter has been formed to further the development of multimedia technologies and to operate the multimedia distribution system , which will consist of digital content databases , interfaces to broadband telecommunications networks , audio and video servers and content production and display devices — and we were all wrong in suggesting that the point of the system was to enable retailers to eliminate the problem of needing to stock thousands of slow-moving titles — the partners say the aim is ‘ to create a more enticing retail experience ’ . |
| 3 | It is intended to develop a number of approaches to the assessment in the work place of competences , that arise as an integral part of the role of personnel managers . |
| 4 | It remains to be seen whether the Revenue will seek amendments to the legislation in next year 's Finance Bill . |
| 5 | It is not concerned with the merits of the instruments but rather with whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to the legislation in that it : ( a ) imposes a tax or fee on the public or a charge on the public revenue ; ( b ) is made pursuant of an enactment containing specific provisions excluding it from challenge in the courts ; ( c ) purports to have retrospective effect when there is no express authority in the enabling statute ; ( d ) has been unduly delayed in publication or laying before Parliament ; ( e ) has come into operation before being laid before Parliament and there has been unjustifiable delay in informing the Speaker ; ( f ) is of doubtful vires or makes some unusual or unexpected use of the powers conferred by the enabling statute ; ( g ) calls for any special reason of form or content , for elucidation ; ( h ) is defective in its drafting . |
| 6 | Furthermore , it might be argued from Case 131/86 United Kingdom v. Council , where the Court looked at the preparatory measures to the legislation in question in order to determine whether it was genuinely intended to be agricultural legislation , that the Court might investigate whether there had been a genuine consideration of the question of subsidiarity . |
| 7 | you can give further encouragement by holding on to the leash in the early stages of teaching this command . |
| 8 | The hand attached to the shoulder in some thalidomide children is just like the isolated ‘ hand ’ that develops from chick embryos whose cells in the progress zone have been damaged . |
| 9 | The Collector watched with admiration as Lucy 's deft fingers dipped a cartridge up to the shoulder in the grease and then set it neatly in a row with the others she had made . |
| 10 | The girls no longer curtsied to the vicar in an Oxfordshire village , but the grammar school powerfully survived as the symbol of ‘ the happy combination of privilege and opportunity ’ . |
| 11 | His Mum went to the drawer in his Dad 's bureau and took out some papers , leafing through them . |
| 12 | He pushed his chair back from the table and walked over to the drawer in the dresser where they kept the cash-box . |
| 13 | Byron Georgiadis , counsel for the dead Englishwoman 's family , making his closing submissions to the inquest in Nairobi , said : ‘ He had the mobility and authority to drive around the reserve after dark and an intimate knowledge of the area — his kingdom . ’ |
| 14 | Today they took their case to the inquest in Cirencester . |
| 15 | The angular attenuation of scattering is measured by the particle scattering factor which is simply the ratio of the scattering intensity to the intensity in the absence of interference , measured at the same angle θ . |
| 16 | Mr Karimov justifies his hard line by pointing to the chaos in neighbouring Tajikistan , where a war between rival clans has left about 20,000 dead and displaced some 600,000 people from their homes . |
| 17 | This is not surprising since different numbers were assigned to the year in different places . |
| 18 | On the coat of arms over the main entrance of the College in Camden Town the dates shown are 1785–1937 : the latter refers to the year in which the new Camden Town buildings were royally opened . |
| 19 | For instance , a pupil with hemianopia or a diminished visual field may have to sit at an angle rather than square to the blackboard in order to use remaining vision usefully to discriminate what is on it . |
| 20 | Roof-bolt technology is the key to the leap in productivity that BC will need if it is to beat off the challenge from gas and imported coal and prevent the industry being reduced to a handful of pits . |
| 21 | Another building , similar to the annexe in the first phase was erected in the compound adjacent to its end wall . |
| 22 | Since a van service , operating at fixed times , transports call-slips to the Annexe in batches , and brings the items requested back to the Main Building in batches , the time taken for straightforward deliveries of outhoused publications depends entirely on the time at which the request is submitted . |
| 23 | For instance , interactionists point to the evidence in the Kinsey report on sexual behaviour that over one-third of male adults have had a homosexual experience to the point of orgasm , and that only one in twenty goes on to adopt a continuing homosexual role . |
| 24 | We have to attend to the evidence in four broad areas . |
| 25 | The PSOE government at first tried to break the pattern by appointing a ‘ professional ’ businessman to the chairmanship in 1983 , and by purging those who had come to RENFE as a result of their political connections with earlier governments ( see Diario 16 , 4 , 5 February 1983 ) ; about twenty people who had held senior posts in the previous UCD administration were on RENFE 's pay roll when the PSOE came to power ( Cinco Días , 2 November 1983 ) . |
| 26 | The pathname is the name of the directory or the path to the directory in which the file will be found or created . |
| 27 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 28 | Just give the floppy disc to the Editor in good time — and yes , you will get it back again quickly ) . |
| 29 | This will alert us to the error in assuming that the sole way of justifying spending money on courses in the Arts must lie in claims about their utility for ends beyond themselves . |
| 30 | It means helping counsellees to recognize the situations , the events or the people that provoke stress , and how they react to the stress in their lives . |