Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surface waters in contact with melting ice tend to be very thinly populated with zooplankton . |
| 2 | Instead he insisted that God as revealed in Jesus is he who has freely bound himself to be God for man , and that his primary essential characteristics are therefore love and freedom , ‘ God is he who loves in freedom ! ’ |
| 3 | He does n't love in word only , he loves in deed ! |
| 4 | He admits that having taken the decision to box again , the regime of the work seems harder , the magnet of other interests and causes in life seems stronger . |
| 5 | The echo of that street-market record stall still lingers in Street 's insatiable appetite for new music , for , unlike many in-demand producers , Stephen is not of the opinion that music stopped evolving in 1975 ! |
| 6 | Demands to abandon an existing shibboleth in order to replace it with an even older one . |
| 7 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 8 | 11 The use of citation counts in performance assessment may influence citing behaviour . |
| 9 | SUPERMARKET chain Kwik Save was yesterday fined more than £19,000 for offences which included selling rancid and mouldy meat and having high bacteria counts in cheese . |
| 10 | The range of possible scientometric measures involving the use of citation counts in association with other factors is large , but the field is so fluid at present that many recent papers suggest new combinations of factors , whereas there is often no theoretical basis for these measures . |
| 11 | No doubt there are a few places where Stornoway citizens get drunk at Sunday lunchtime , indeed , there are quite a few of them , but their doors are shut to the public ; sin goes private on the Sabbath for it is public morality which counts in Sabbath observance . |
| 12 | He counts in time with each step : one-two-three-four , following a pace behind Babur . |
| 13 | The significance of the find lies in identification of the villa with the Lucrezi family and the evidence that this area once formed part of Pompeii 's suburbs . |
| 14 | Escape from this bind lies in involvement of whole communities in expanding post-16 experience of quality — a huge development ground for partnership . |
| 15 | The answer , in part , lies in gastrulation . |
| 16 | The primary remedy of the purchaser of a defective product lies in contract against the retailer . |
| 17 | Having considered the intrinsic nature of the problem presented in this appeal , and having consulted the relevant authorities , my conclusion … is that an action lies in negligence for damages in respect of purely economic loss , provided that it was a reasonably foreseeable and direct consequence of failure in a duty of care . |
| 18 | ‘ The real solution lies in cooperation to eliminate the causes of illegal migration , in easing the situation of countries from where migrants flow through economic assistance , training and other means , ’ Mr Boross said . |
| 19 | ‘ The real solution lies in cooperation to eliminate the causes of illegal migration , in easing the situation of countries from where migrants flow through economic assistance , training and other means , ’ Boross said . |
| 20 | Perhaps the answer lies in diversity and in that the very existence of different organizational structures in different countries is a very positive attribute and that when diverse arrangements exist within a single country this also may be highly desirable . |
| 21 | The Act does not as a matter of law preclude a court from holding that an action for negligence lies in favour of a person who could formerly have brought an action based on loss of services but in view of the current law on economic loss it seems most unlikely that such a development will occur . |
| 22 | If the value is large and positive the equilibrium lies in favour of the reactants . |
| 23 | The third area of co-operative effort lies in interoperability testing . |
| 24 | Confirmation of the value of the activity lies in prevention and alleviation of discomfort and in the responses of those for whom they care . |
| 25 | Underwater , their nymph is just as efficient a predator and unlike the roaming adult , it lies in ambush for other insect nymphs , and larvae , for other aquatic bugs , and even for young fish fry . |
| 26 | So why have these workers been so keen to graft their ambitions on to terminology , the Latin root of which lies in patrician — plebian ; master — slave ; patron — dependant subservience ? |
| 27 | The answer probably lies in economics . |
| 28 | Part of the answer lies in experience . |
| 29 | For Mailer , Lawrence 's greatness lies in part in his heroic struggle against his destiny , which was to be homosexual : ‘ he had become a man by an act of will , he was bone and blood of the classic family stuff out of which homosexuals are made , he had lifted himself out of his natural destiny which was probably to have the sexual life of a woman ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 30 | The answer lies in part in the social position of the reformers who belonged to the professional rather than the employing middle class : they were social workers , teachers , social scientists , philosophers , clerics , doctors , and psychologists , the majority of whom were distanced from the realities of the labour-market . |