Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , if the incentives are too high , they may themselves distort the market , by giving the beneficiaries an unfair advantage or enabling them to operate in a way which does not reflect genuine supply and demand . |
| 2 | Residents are now anxiously awaiting the decision which will either give Mappleton a future or condemn it to perish in the North Sea . |
| 3 | As Britain 's number-one manufacturer of heavy contract fibre-bonded carpets and carpet tiles we have a continual research and development programme that ensures we stay in tune with the latest production methods , design trends and quality control . |
| 4 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 5 | They put the stranger down on the outskirts and left him standing in the middle of the road , his face in shadow under his cap and just a glimmer of those white , pebbly eyes . |
| 6 | Whilst the conflict over Reagan 's diaries was in progress , a parallel struggle was being fought over Poindexter 's efforts to subpoena Reagan as a witness and to force him to testify in person at the trial . |
| 7 | He lifted his shoulders and let them fall in a dismissive shrug . |
| 8 | Putting down his glass and removing hers , he gripped her shoulders and propelled her to stand in front of the mirror . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's better , ’ said Joe , ‘ in that kind of mood I could put you on a horse and let you join in the charge of the Light Brigade . ’ |
| 10 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 11 | I try yelling in a Rasta 's earhole while waving her snap in front of his eyes . |
| 12 | Goldner toyed with the offer , but decided to stay on at the Getty after negotiating a new contract that allowed him to remain in his hometown of New York most of the year ( with short stays in Malibu ) , in effect managing and adding to the Getty 's collection in absentia . |
| 13 | The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince . |
| 14 | To her dismay , hot tears burned her eyes in frustration at the physical weakness that kept her kneeling in such a submissive attitude at his feet for several more seconds . |
| 15 | THIS is such a delicious offering , of the kind that makes you chuckle in recollection on the way home , that I do not really want to give the game away by saying too much about what goes on . |
| 16 | Ingrid believes it was fate that enabled her to work in Orkney , near her family , with her friends , and on an island she loves . |
| 17 | ‘ The price of a common press was only about one-tenth of the cost of the 1,000 kg of type that kept it occupied in a busy shop … so that the master could afford to own more presses than he would normally need . ’ |
| 18 | This would run counter to the very informal information exchange that gives it meaning in this internal context . |
| 19 | Do n't go off to the sun and leave it parked in the street . |
| 20 | Scrolling through documents is noticeably faster , but the main boost is noticed when moving big chunks around the screen — grabbing a window and shifting it results in a much faster update than you would see with a bog standard VGA card — even a Tseng Labs ET4000 chip set unit ( the ET4000 chipset is probably the fastest of the non-accelerated chipsets ) . |
| 21 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |
| 22 | Clement 's final assistance to Edward came in 1306 when , resisting the king 's call to deprive or translate Winchelsey , he suspended the primate and summoned him to exile in the Curia . |
| 23 | ‘ We try to compensate for missed experiences and help them behave in age-appropriate ways . |
| 24 | I would turn my back a second and find him sitting in the sand tray . |
| 25 | The first trap is a sentimental romanticism that turns our attention away from the present battle and leaves us wallowing in nostalgia for the past . |
| 26 | The factory farm doors are now being flung open and the terrible truth behind them is driving shoppers away from chops and steaks and poultry of unknown origin and sending them flocking in search of free-range eggs and chickens . |
| 27 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 28 | PEEL the potatoes and leave them covered in water in a cool place . |
| 29 | The other way of practising theological science is to start with a system of dogmatic theology and find it confirmed in the experience of life . |
| 30 | My screams of terror awoke my parents and brought them rushing in panic to my room . |