Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significance lies in what can be done with it . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Swindon drew in what could be a dress rehersal for the Division one play offs . |
| 3 | It is time , now , to offer a conspectus of the positions which English adjectives may take , and what the functions of the adjectives appearing in them may be . |
| 4 | If the incorrect code was programmed in it would activate a canister of lethal nerve gas which was secreted in the ceiling directly above the door . |
| 5 | ‘ It would have been unfair to deny the Arbroath support the opportunity to revel in what will be the biggest day in the club 's history , ’ McGrain said . |
| 6 | ‘ What is most exciting about this project is that the people in the communities will have the major say in what will be done , ’ said , NEAR Project Manager . |
| 7 | Although their child will not be characterised by a recognisable physical appearance , the child will still often behave in what might be termed an abnormal fashion . |
| 8 | Where it is expected that circulars , advertisements and other public documents will be used as part of the takeover process it will be important that all statements contained in them can be substantiated with adequate fact . |
| 9 | In Sweden , it is claimed that nearly 10,000 lakes have such high concentrations of mercury that any fish caught in them should not be eaten . |
| 10 | He was living in what would traditionally be described as reduced circumstances . |
| 11 | We are living in what may well come to be known as the age of the American soprano , with Norman , Studer , Millo , Vaness , Hendricks , Battle , Bonney and Upshaw all doing conspicuously well for themselves on disc . |
| 12 | If the community itself becomes prosperous , the people living in it will have more money to spend on the goods and services being provided by the companies . |
| 13 | If they narrowly miss death themselves and their shadow is " hit " by a car , or " gored " by a buffalo , they believe the evil spirit living in it will be destroyed . |
| 14 | Those trapped in the crush at Hillsborough who were fortunate enough to escape without injury have no claim in respect of the distress they suffered in what must have been a truly terrifying experience . |
| 15 | The other man was found dead nearby , he too had been shot in what may have been a drugs related killing . |
| 16 | The books are written in what would seem to some today to be a slow and overly elaborate way — who after all uses words such as ‘ eleemosynary ’ ? — but he explores all of his characters thoroughly and gives lots of detail which , though not absolutely necessary and sometimes totally irrelevant , make the novel more personal and make the readers feel that they know the characters . |
| 17 | it 's written in You can do the word search Yeah I do n't do you want to do the word search now ? |
| 18 | You 're just looking to see if there are any aspects of a person 's drive where , you know , one or two habits might have crept in which could possibly encroach upon safety margins to some extent . |
| 19 | Many great rivers — the Ganges and the Indus , the Amazon and the Yangtze — are so muddy that the animals swimming in them can not see more than a few inches ahead . |
| 20 | Support the Report and let's see if we can succeed in what must be the greatest enterprise in the trade union Movement since the nineteen twenties . |
| 21 | Once the European Economic Area arrangements are implemented in any EFTA state , that state is treated as a Member State of the EC for this purpose and banks incorporated in it will also be able to use the passport and will thus also be relevant European institutions . |
| 22 | In carbonates preferential solution of some grain types ( e.g. Harris & kendall , 1986 ) occurs in what would otherwise appear to be a chemically homogeneous sediment . |
| 23 | An animal sheltering in them can only too easily be cornered and many hole-dwellers take steps to reduce that risk . |
| 24 | Another reason is that I thought writing in it might be like having someone to talk to , and if I read it back later it would be like someone talking to me . |
| 25 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 26 | It would have been nice to go into partnership with my son Paul , but he deals in what used to be called the avant-garde , the most difficult stuff to sell , and wants to be in New York . |
| 27 | I welcome this book on two major counts : first , because it succeeds in what should be the aim of every author , that is to educate and entertain , and secondly because it has been written by a very knowledgeable person who genuinely cares for his dogs , has bred a consistent type for many years and has put as much into the ‘ dog game ’ as he has taken out . |
| 28 | Because these histories did n't have any singularities or any beginning or end , what happened in them would be determined entirely by the laws of physics . |
| 29 | And no sympathy at all for the well-fed hordes who stand in what should be his way . |
| 30 | Cos when the well as soon as you could walk in the summer er you know when weather permitting my mam 'd take us down on the beach there and , Here you are , sink or swim in you 'd go into the water . |