Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They therefore consulted their solicitor to see if it was necessary for them to remain in this country for the purpose of attending the hearing in August . |
| 2 | Therefore either the customers must continually be changing identity ( so it is sensible for them to engage in some search ) and some expectation must have been built up about potential high benefits to search , or else search costs must be truly trivial , in order for the potential incumbent to stand a chance of usurping the established firm . |
| 3 | This fact in itself may be a symptom of the illness , particularly if it is not usual for them to behave in that way . |
| 4 | A degree of interaction between themselves and their source is required for them to act in this capacity . |
| 5 | Rocastle , Leeds ' £2 million signing from Arsenal , said before his Elland Road debut against Stuttgart : ‘ It 's becoming a habit for me to play in this competition . |
| 6 | both of whom phoned in this afternoon . |
| 7 | Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey . |
| 8 | A batch of them came in this morning . ’ |
| 9 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 10 | The differing styles of these articles mean they are not all suited to publication in similar outlets , but it is hoped that unlike past years ' winners we shall see all of them published in some form or other in the coming year . |
| 11 | Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts . |
| 12 | The work as a whole reflects the experience and preoccupations of a palatine cleric , and it addresses the questions of someone reared in that milieu . |
| 13 | Those in search of the classical paradise of golden beaches and tranquillity must treat Tahiti merely as a landing stage , and move on to better things , to nearby coral islands , lagoons and atolls , all of which abound in this part of the Pacific . |
| 14 | The pair , who work in the Process Studies department at Harwell , made a lot of contacts — a few of which resulted in more work for AEA — when researching the manual . |
| 15 | Recent reports following scandals and appalling practice have made recommendations on how to improve the service , most of which remain in some minister 's waste bin . |
| 16 | Can erm one of you look in this week 's Advertiser , and any sort of talks and things that are on this week if they 've got a phone number to contact , give them a buzz and see if they mind us recording it . |
| 17 | The casualness , and implicit disvaluation of her contained in that form , are exposed by her reply in verse : Even after her thirty-line speech of pathos and wifely love , describing his disturbed dreams , when Hotspur answers it is in the verse of public business , ignoring all that she has said : ‘ What ho ! |
| 18 | ‘ Makes no difference in this case Lofty , ’ interrupted Yanto , quietly trying to defuse the situation ; a sturgeon is a royal fish , and all of 'em caught in this country must be offered to the King , that 's the law . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd been out and I was out of it sitting in this shop doorway having this conversation with myself . |
| 20 | Kelman stands much closer to the new hero , and more is made of what happens in that hero 's head . |
| 21 | Despite the lack of studies , much of what follows in this book derives from the application of theories of play to the study of reading . |
| 22 | However , a discipline 's interest in this world , and any discipline will do as an example here , is not like the interest that any of us show in that world as a world in which we have to do , and know about , the quite ordinary and mundane things that we do . |
| 23 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 24 | To some extent the majority of us behave in this way . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , do you first need to form a picture of the two of us sitting in that café discussing your father — an eidetic image — before the words come to you , or not ? ’ |
| 26 | Lyons added : ‘ This proves that football does not start and end in England , which is what most of us think in this country . |
| 27 | But dozens of representatives shouted ‘ Yes ’ when he recalled the European election campaign and asked them : ‘ Can any of us say in all honesty that we did everything we could ? ’ |
| 28 | I do hope that it will be possible for you to participate in this exercise , even though I realise that many demands are made on people 's time . |
| 29 | But it 's more convenient for you to go in that church if anybody else |
| 30 | Like everything mentioned in this article , it 's worthwhile experimenting with RAMdrive — it can use both expanded and extended memory , with the same provisos as smartdrv as regards EMM386 , so can be useful on any machine that has enough RAM . |