Example sentences of "in [conj] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) Notwithstanding paragraphs ( 2 ) and ( 5 ) ( a ) of this rule , a registered foreign lawyer will not be in breach of these rules by virtue of setting up , operating , actively participating in or controlling a business outside England and Wales , provided : |
| 2 | Mr Jack Hayward , the wealthy benefactor , claimed that the article meant that he was guilty of participating in or condoning a murder plot . |
| 3 | There is an optional metering scheme , and if you do live in a higher rateable value property , and you do n't use er above average amounts of water , you 'd probably you 'd probably benefit from put a water in or have a water meter installed . |
| 4 | And then we can pull in or have a stop , probably at the delivery if it 's a delivery involved , we can have a little chat about any areas which we can discuss . |
| 5 | If Lahore symbolized military power , Victoria Terminus represented a scientific and commercial dominance which could suck in and re-process a whole range of other cultures . |
| 6 | Oil had leaked in and formed a rainbow sheen on the surface . |
| 7 | President Nicéphore Soglo , who was flown to hospital in Paris on March 28 after defeating Mathieu Kérékou in the presidential elections [ see p. 38084 ] , flew home on April 3 to be sworn in and to appoint a provisional government , before returning to Paris for further treatment on April 13 . |
| 8 | But Alexander could not hold it against the Edoni , local tribesmen , which may have given the Athenians the idea that they could move in and plant a colony ( 465 ) . |
| 9 | The first note , Disqualification of Directors — Statutory Reports , provides an explanation of the procedures involved in filling in and submitting a D-form to the disqualification unit at the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 10 | Liverpool have got to play him against Middlesbrough and it is my belief that if someone comes in and does a turn for you , stick by them . |
| 11 | She will say : ’ Having been through music school , I 've seen so many people who really play their instruments — I mean , they did n't just plug in and press a button . |
| 12 | Locals predicted that it would be allowed to fall down and then the property developing Mafia would move in and build a housing estate on the fourteen acres , by means of a considerable backhander to the Council . |
| 13 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 14 | If past conflicts can be spirited away , it is tempting for the religious apologist to step in and to paint a more harmonious picture . |
| 15 | Feeling a bit of a jape coming on , they went in and ordered a veggie omelette . |
| 16 | Crowds of people went out and a young clergyman came in and ordered a pint of bitter . |
| 17 | It 's just a question of finding the right people to bring in and form a fashion-design group . |
| 18 | Barcelona went 2–0 up after 31 minutes , but the Russians refused to give in and produced a stunning three goals in 16 minutes to steal the tie . |
| 19 | As Robin said to me later , ‘ suddenly to walk in and to see a sea of faces , all of whom I knew well , was the most tremendously stirring moment . |
| 20 | Joe looked in and saw a dark stairway . |
| 21 | Catastrophes would serve a useful function in killing off the old species just as the conditions were changing , leaving the world clear for the Creator to step in and design a whole new population adapted to the environment that would stabilize after the upheaval . |
| 22 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |
| 23 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 24 | Finally , his son stepped in and wrote a song , ‘ Not Out ’ , that would become an anthem for the new generation of active centenarians . |
| 25 | The only person to have both competed in and managed a British Olympic team , to have become that sport 's national president , and to have held virtually every administrative office from keeper of the records to team coach , and from time keeper to national selector . |
| 26 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 27 | If we 're going to go in and make a positive impact in certain parts of the region , erm then both my staff and myself and our colleagues who are working in the arts in the region have got to pull even harder together to make sure that we can make the partnership between us bureaucrats and the artist really be as effective as possible for the broadest range of the community . |
| 28 | ‘ I even went in and had a meal on the spot where Ruth was killed . |
| 29 | No , no , I come in the car , I was coming on the bus when I had this bloke next door doing some work like , I used to go out with him years ago , so he come in and had a cup of tea , I said , come in about half past eleven went home at one , he come |
| 30 | And then we went in and had a caravan somewhere up by Aberystwyth , Ginnie and me , and you kids . |