Example sentences of "[vb base] in the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they sleep in the shade of prohibitions for foreign goods , besides harming the Treasury and the Nation , they will harm themselves . |
| 2 | Only observation of parental intercourse is prohibited — a very significant exception in the light of basic psychoanalytic theory — but as these people sleep in the open around camp-fires and children can easily feign sleep , this rule is unenforceable . |
| 3 | What range of choice , for example , does English provide in the use of complements or for determiners ? |
| 4 | These cover a period from 1442 to 1560 and obviously do not represent the whole of the villagers at this time , but are of those whose names appear in the index of wills of the Rochester Consistory Court . |
| 5 | These specific figures appear in the Assessment of Resources Regulations and not in the Act , and so can be easily uprated as necessary . |
| 6 | Mendel deduced , from the way in which characteristics appear in the progeny of crosses , that these characteristics were caused by ‘ factors ’ which obeyed certain rules ( for example , that there are two factors in an individual , of which each gamete receives only one , at random ) . |
| 7 | They often appear in the form of socks and underwear left on the bedroom floor , lawn-mower left out in the rain , toilet seat left up , or bank account overdrawn . |
| 8 | They do not , however , appear in the dictionary of superstitions , so that might be a better day in future , if there is to be a future , for graveyard rambling . |
| 9 | Now if you relate that to other things the government does like , for example , financing a fighter aeroplane , which costs £30 million , the sums are so small , one would hope there would be some shift in the allocation of resources towards the museums sector and the arts generally , because they are such extraordinarily important features of British life , not least in commercial terms . |
| 10 | The projections build in the ability of farmers to adapt to climate change by changing crops and farming methods . |
| 11 | Since 1976 the trend has been reversed , managerial values have again become predominant and the bureaucracy has expanded , albeit with some strengthening of the legislative role of the National People 's Congress and , since the Democracy Movement of 1978–80 , a strengthening of the role of ‘ workers representative congresses ’ to give workers a limited say in the management of enterprises ( White 1985 ) . |
| 12 | In former days this emotional moment could not arise because archbishops had little say in the choice of bishops and no say at all in the choice of their successor . |
| 13 | But the sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards turned consultations with the archbishop into a constitutional convention ; so that now the Archbishop of Canterbury had the principal say in the choice of bishops and had a right to be consulted on the choice of his own successor ; or , if he had not a constitutional right , at least he had every right to proffer advice to the prime minister whether the prime minister asked for it or not . |
| 14 | A genuine global partnership must be struck between rich and poor in which all contribute and all have an equal say in the allocation of resources . |
| 15 | Refugee recipients had very little say in the administration of services and were insufficiently encouraged to do so . |
| 16 | Single and over forty , or as they say in the world of women executives , SINBAD ( Single Income , Neurotic , Bankable and Desperate ) . |
| 17 | Patients are at the bottom of the pecking order and have very little say in the running of services . |
| 18 | The Personnel Department is involved in the formulation and implementation of policies governing the organisation 's dealings with its existing and potential employees Here , too , microcomputers can make a valuable contribution They place in the hands of managers a powerful analytical tool which is available to them at any time . |
| 19 | The aim of this project is to answer some specific questions about how language , logic and memory interact in the interpretation of utterances . |
| 20 | ( 9 ) The directors of an offeror company and the target company must , in advising their respective shareholders , act in the interests of shareholders taken as a whole and the interests of employees and creditors and not have regard to their own interests or those of their families . |
| 21 | In many respects we act in the shoes of solicitors and legal advisers because we have gained great experience in dealing with these matters . |
| 22 | While these approaches may have a grain of truth in them , they founder in the evidence of women 's actual political activity around their own demands . |
| 23 | Educational goals … consist in the development of excellences . |
| 24 | The Japanese innovate at home and actively collaborate in the innovations of others . |
| 25 | If we look in The Cantos for traces left by this experience , we are surprised to find how few they are , and how meagre . |
| 26 | or stand in the way of sinners |
| 27 | There are little stations threaded on the lines like beads on a rosary ; they stand in the solitude like places of pilgrimage , far from the profane noises of the world ; they are the real chapels dedicated to the silent ceremony of Waiting . |
| 28 | By effective digits we mean those that vary in the list of numbers under consideration . |
| 29 | I read in the guide to Members of the House that he is the embodiment of the success of Government policies . |
| 30 | For example , while most meet in the absence of officers , Widdicombe ( 1986 , paras 6.173–77 ) found that the chief executive ‘ always ’ attended in I per cent of authorities and was present occasionally in 27 per cent . |