Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [art] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Not an easy tongue to master at such short notice , but she had always felt it was a basic courtesy for a tourist to make some attempt , however feeble , to communicate in the tongue of the host country .
2 But just as the security net began to tighten in the grounds of the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh yesterday a group of Japanese tourists made an unscheduled appearance .
3 Landau and Boorsch agreed to differ in the catalogue to the extent that the former proposed adding four further prints to the canon of seven generally accepted autograph works while Ms Boorsch felt strongly that none of them was by his hand .
4 However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes .
5 She 's going to have to work in a museum for the rest of her life !
6 After a week 's crash course in teaching English to foreign students , she and a girl from Lincoln went out to Cracow , Poland 's second largest city , to work in a school for the blind and partially sighted .
7 In fact , the uncertain times of Terris ' appearances have had such an effect on workmen that the Maintenance Department do not allow their staff to work in the station through the night in case the ghost interferes with their potentially dangerous work .
8 Young male groups in primitive societies are seen as early proof of the formation of co-operative groups in which individuals learn to work in the interests of the wider group .
9 Therefore , the sort of person attracted to work in the bureaucracy on the implementation of such programmes was likely to be sympathetic to them and their commitment to the programmes was likely to grow rather than diminish with time .
10 That is the dynamic , historical revelation of the Father 's love , which draws us into the community of faith and sets us to work in the service of the kingdom .
11 He went to back to work in the factory in the big cabinet making factory , and there was a fire and he went up to help some of the girls and he was trapped in the lift .
12 Next month he travels to Nuremburg to do parish work before going on to work in the archives in the Papal capital .
13 The man managed to disappear in the cellar beneath the kitchen .
14 Top ( needle ) thread and bottom ( bobbin ) threads have to meet in the middle of the materials being sewn .
15 He had raised his glass civilly enough in recognition of Vernon 's presence whenever their eyes had met across the floral displays , and he had always been very effusive if they chanced to meet in the queue for the cloakroom or on the pavement outside the State Restaurant , but he had held his distance in mixed company , had never introduced him , for instance , to Mrs Harcourt .
16 It may be appropriate to establish in the course of the discussions the information on the potential acquiror which may be conveyed back to the client .
17 Their job was to hold on as long as they could against impossible odds , so as to give the rest of the army time to concentrate in a hammer-blow at the enemy centre .
18 For another year , the Genoese could continue to squat in the wreck of the city , clutching the rights to their ruined , foundering colony ; promoting nothing ; permitting nothing to flourish , either of theirs or the Bastard 's .
19 Were British workmen to show themselves willing to suffer in the pursuit of the Peace Terms or War Aims which Labour had laid down ?
20 No admission offer promise payment or indemnity shall be made or given by or on behalf of the Policyholder without the written consent of the Corporation which shall be entitled if it so desires to take over and conduct in the name of the Policyholder the defence or settlement of any claim or to prosecute in the name of the Policyholder for its own benefit any claim for indemnity or damages or otherwise and shall have full discretion in the conduct of any proceedings or in the settlement of any claim and the Policyholder shall give all such information and assistance as the Corporation may require .
21 No admission offer promise payment or indemnity shall be made or given by or on behalf of the Policyholder or any person claiming to be indemnified without the written consent of the Corporation which shall be entitled if it so desires to take over and conduct in the name of the Policyholder or such person the defence or settlement of any claim or to prosecute in the name of the Policyholder or such person for its own benefit any claim for indemnity or damages or otherwise and shall have full discretion in the conduct of any proceedings or in the settlement of any claim and the Policyholder or such person shall give all such information and assistance as the Corporation may require .
22 If there is no machinery for trying to limit the length of sentence , Rangers will need to trust in the fairness of the committee members .
23 ‘ But they seem to trust in the power of the nine-tailed whip , and they will continue in that until a regiment breaks out of its barracks and makes its own way home . ’
24 For Mrs Bujok it was argued that the 1936 Act was designed to secure in the interests of the community at large that statutory nuisances did not exist .
25 With the cable connected all that remains is to plug in the stylus to the socket at the side of the tablet , load the program and start drawing .
26 My American ‘ friend ’ basked in this small lonely pool and appeared to revel in the uncertainties of the traveller 's life .
27 Dacourt , angry that Benjamin had gone to Sir Robert , slurped noisily from a wine cup , then threw the dregs to hiss in the flames of the fire .
28 Each babe emerges folded in two , head to tail , the size of a small tea-leaf , and swims away to hide in the leaves of the water plants .
29 Tasks ( c ) and ( d ) are , however , complex and daunting , and easy to neglect in the light of the more clamorous needs of ( a ) and ( b ) .
30 She looked both wary and defiant ; well , people often did , faced with the police , but it was an unusual combination to find in a girl from the confident middle class .
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