Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the accident , sponsors were impressed with the PJC-1 's performance , and the first PJC-2 was soon built , modified so that the crossed-controls which resulted in the earlier accident , could not again occur . |
| 2 | ‘ I wish to impress on you that the rules I made in London still stand . |
| 3 | ‘ This means that we must concentrate on our most worthwhile projects to make sure that the things we do in the future are profitable at $19 a barrel . |
| 4 | Yes , I do believe in trying to persuade people that the things I believe in are the things they should follow … |
| 5 | That boy Ronan could convince even his own mother that the wounds he got in a playground were superficial , that the dirt on his clothes would easily wash out . |
| 6 | Yeah I mean what you actually well you 'll find that what you repay erm you know that the benefits you receive in your pension lump sum will far outweigh the cost of repaying those contributions . |
| 7 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 8 | Braque , on the other hand , although he was only six months younger than Picasso , was slower in his development and had not yet established himself as a particularly original or significant painter ; indeed , Braque subsequently came to feel that the paintings he executed in Antwerp during the summer of 1906 were his first creative works . |
| 9 | When , however , we examine her definitions and her evidence we find that the differences she discovers in performance skills are no more than differences in explicitness , of the kind noted by Labov . |
| 10 | The second is that the rhynchosaurs themselves declined in association with the seed-fern Dicroidium which was being ousted by the global spread of conifers . |
| 11 | In its extreme form , as enunciated by Brandon Carter , a cosmologist now at the Paris Observatory , it says that the conditions we observe in the universe must include the various electrical and gravitational constants that hold all planetary matter together and thus give rise to intelligent terrestrial life . |
| 12 | The evidence they yield does not just quantify the token occurrence of existing category types , for the most part derived from intuition , but also suggests that the types themselves stand in need of revision so that the language as abstractly conceived by the linguist is brought into closer correspondence with the language as actually realized by the user . |
| 13 | It was not that the athletes who won in 1924 were any less determined or committed in their approach . |
| 14 | Again he felt himself thinking brilliantly , knowing at the same time that the words he heard in his head would sound ridiculous if used in speech . |
| 15 | Modern biblical scholars concur that the churches which evolved in Syria , in Asia Minor and in Egypt embodied a form of ‘ Christianity ’ no less valid than Rome 's , different from Rome 's though it was . |
| 16 | Slater and Woodside found that the couples they interviewed in the 1940s showed ‘ a mutual liking canalised by prudential and social considerations ’ . |
| 17 | Can it be that the tales I heard in Geneva were true ? |
| 18 | Mesmer claimed that the convulsions he induced in his patients were due to an ‘ animal magnetism ’ he exuded . |
| 19 | But they are also nervous that the calculations they make in the next two weeks may determine who will win and lose the political battles of the next two years . |
| 20 | He said that the workers who remained in the public sector with CalMac were assured continuity of pension provision and that their pension arrangements would be unaffected . |
| 21 | ‘ It is not surprising , ’ writes A J Lubin , ‘ that the pictures he drew in Holland ( and in Belgium ) had Dutch qualities , for he was thoroughly saturated in his youth with knowledge of Dutch artists of the past and the present … . |
| 22 | In my opinion , these acts were equally if not more severe than the ones we saw in Paris , but there was no sign of any dismissal by the referee . |
| 23 | Just as the interpretation of the token α in the child 's representation of ‘ without to disturb the lion ’ and the token [ p ] in [ greipbritn ] are determined by the context in which they appear , so the words which occur in discourse are constrained by what , following Halliday , we shall call their co-text . |
| 24 | For some weeks now , Rusty had been in that peculiarly unreal state when words leap out from pages , voices or one 's own thoughts , and rudely rattle their bones about , or shove their meanings under one 's nose like exhibitionists until the meanings themselves vanish in a dance of death . |
| 25 | The harshness of the new poor law of 1830 , and the fears it instilled in the minds of the working class , can scarcely be comprehended by the " poor " of the present times . |
| 26 | I do not want the reader to underestimate the prodigious works of nature and the problems we face in explaining them . |
| 27 | The main purpose of the play is not only to show the murder of Claudius , but also , and more significantly , to show the character of Hamlet and the problems he has in accepting what he has to do . |
| 28 | One of the most crucial prerogatives of the Directorate is the control of all military publications and the articles which appear in them . |
| 29 | They 're the same now as they were in the fifties when making presentations and that 's about the skills you need when you stand up to speak and the skills you need in the preparation phase so the two towers of presentation skills are about the preparation and the presentation itself . |
| 30 | The existing data-base covers over 10,000 experimental high-energy physics papers produced worldwide in the 11 main international journals in the field over the period 1960-82 and the citations they received in the Science Citation Index up to 1982 . |