Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [art] [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 2 | The English government maintained a small military force in the islands but it was not large enough to guarantee the English population against slave revolt or foreign invasion , and the settlers had to make an effort on their own account as well . |
| 3 | According to Mr Hoare the Middlesbrough company attracted Suter 's biggest single investment in a plant because it is the market leader in the supply of certain chemical intermediates . |
| 4 | The written down value has no relation to the market value of an asset and thus there can be a profit or loss in the accounts when it is sold . |
| 5 | The written down value has no relation to the market value of an asset and thus there can be a profit or loss in the accounts when it is sold . |
| 6 | Some 40 per cent of women with gonorrhoea are found to harbour the bug in the rectum and it is clear that in only a minority of cases has the gonococcus been ‘ placed ’ there . |
| 7 | There was considerable irony in the fact that it was Baden-Powell , the maverick hero of Mafeking , who should come to rescue England from its Hooligans , if only because the feverish excitement of the jingo crowds and the ‘ Mafficking ’ that accompanied the South African campaign was thought to be no less of an affront to the English sang froid than ‘ Hooliganism ’ itself . |
| 8 | There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole . |
| 9 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 10 | So the weaver rocks from side to side in the float as it is transported down the road , the cribber latches on to a fence post between mouthfuls of food , and the wind-sucker , out in a large paddock with other horses , may prefer to swallow air rather than eat the grass . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't even talk about his future in the game because it 's too early to say . |
| 12 | It is however a fundamental requirement of a review notice that it leaves the recipient in no doubt that it is intended to be the formal document invoking the landlord 's right to review the rent ( Schirlcar Properties Ltd v Heinitz ( 1983 ) 268 EG 362 ) . |
| 13 | no , that 's a bad one , the er power supply to the machine , the lead it was , there was a break in the circuit and it kept going on and off , so actually I was switching it on right , it just was n't coming on , so she says oh use it by the battery cos its battery as well as electric |
| 14 | If a fork results from repeats in the genome ( and is therefore likely to violate the neighbourhood rules given below ) , it is reasonable simply to make a break in the contig because it represents a limit of the experimental technique used and other approaches using longer probes or clones may help to close the gap . |
| 15 | The permission of the Chief Constable was also a disadvantage in the field because it raised doubts among respondents about the purpose of the researcher 's questions over and above those that naturally arise from the political situation in Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | Leave the wool in the dye until it cools , rinse the wool , wash it in soapy water , rinse again and hang to dry . |
| 17 | However , this counter-argument in turn assumes that the requirement of sufficient interest is a liberal standing rule in the sense that it makes access to the courts to challenge administrative action very easy , and so shifts the burden of weeding out weak cases to other mechanisms . |
| 18 | Consumers pay prices equal to marginal costs and this brings forth exactly enough output from the industry in the sense that it makes just sufficient firms viable . |
| 19 | Yo you know sleep in the , you sort of have a night 's sleeping in the coach while it 's travelling but |
| 20 | Their argument has been based on the fact that in general any specific single mutation will result in the alteration or absence of a single protein in the organism as it develops . |
| 21 | He fails to spot that the core element of consent is action in the belief that it changes the normative situation , and that the justification of the binding force of valid consents is the desirability of enabling people purposefully to change the normative situation in certain circumstances . |
| 22 | She said er it makes me wonder if I 'd left my purse in the car if it had of been our car that might have been dumped . |
| 23 | It did n't drip water and there was no wind in the cave so it did n't move . |
| 24 | Thus , even where a sexual assault involves no significant physical force , it constitutes harm in the sense that it invades a deeply personal zone , gaining non-consensually that which should only be shared consensually . |
| 25 | I WANT now to move to a more detailed consideration of Flame in the Streets as it contains many of the features with which I am concerned . |
| 26 | Oxford University 's presence has led to claims that this seat has the most sophisticated electorate in the country and it 's what makes the contest in Oxford West and Abingdon so interesting . |
| 27 | This does not mean that the interviewer becomes a cold clinical robot , but it does mean that he or she uses a particular instrument in the way that it is designed to be used — for objective study . |
| 28 | If a bank is not recognized , it can not use the word ‘ bank ’ in its title ( unless it is an overseas bank operating in the UK and it is made clear that it is using the title ‘ bank ’ because it is entitled to do so in its country of origin ) . |
| 29 | Freelancer Tihomir Tunukovic , 25 , a Croatian known as ‘ Tuna ’ , was driving the BBC armoured vehicle in a convoy when it was attacked near Travnik as fierce fighting shattered the start of a UN-brokered ‘ Week of Tranquillity ’ . |
| 30 | The company explains its performance by saying that 1989 was the first year that the US contributed the majority of its sales , 61% of the total , and that it was hit that year by a 35% fall in the UK because it was too reliant on one customer ; it raised £1.5m in a rights issue . |