Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are acting for the above named in connection with a claim for damages in respect of injuries sustained in a [ ] accident . |
| 2 | It would be impossible for the affluent to live in peace if conflict after conflict exploded in the third world . |
| 3 | One lady who 's gone for the 90's set in a big way is Lisa Stansfield — her sleek , kiss-curl style has been replaced with this fabulous mass of casual curls by a stylist in Paris . |
| 4 | An appreciation of the whys and wherefores of nursing research is fundamental to good practice and an introduction to this for the uninitiated appears in chapter 7 . |
| 5 | In Britain , for the Irish entering in search of a new life , Liverpool and London stations were their gateways to the streets more often paved with misery than with gold . |
| 6 | What does this legislation do for the low paid in Britain ? |
| 7 | It will not be pleasant for the elderly to live in the town centre . |
| 8 | Methodist Homes for the Aged moved in December 1990 to the following address : Epworth House , Stuart Street , Derby DE1 2EQ . |
| 9 | Nautical William are a band for the Nineties steeped in three decades of pop star culture : Sly Stone meets Marc Bolan in an Adam And The Ants video . |
| 10 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 11 | Both trousers are cut to be loose fitting and this is a tremendous benefit for the fair skinned in hot climates . |
| 12 | Camp Marash , where perhaps 150,000 Armenians now live , spawned its own gunmen in the 1980s , the ‘ Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ’ , whose assassination campaign against Turkish diplomats has provided a violent epitaph for the calcified remains in the Antelyas ossuary . |
| 13 | She saw him lift his head , alert as a hunter for the slightest weakening in his quarry . |
| 14 | ‘ This car sucks ! ’ evokes no sexual image , even when comically revived in the ‘ commercial ’ for the 6000 SUX in Robo Cop ( 1987 ) . |
| 15 | The rapid development of social movements during the 1960s depended in part upon sustained economic growth , full employment , the expansion of higher education , and a general feeling that these societies had entered what was often called a ‘ post-scarcity ’ era in which the fundamental problems of production had been solved and the conditions created for the development of a new society of leisure and enjoyment . |
| 16 | The golden boy of the sport during the 1970s died in bed at his semi-detached home in Wimbledon , southwest London , on Monday night . |
| 17 | Though Mustakimzade asserts that Fahreddin Acemi studied under al-Taftazani , this seems unlikely as the latter died in 792/1389–90 , and one suspects that his statement derives either from a misreading of the genealogy or from a faulty genealogy . |
| 18 | The distance estimate is important because astronomers use it as the first rung in the distance ladder they extend across the Universe . |
| 19 | And in Bardera , where the population has swelled from 10,000 to 60,000 as the hungry arrive in search of food , huge sacks of maize and cereal are reaching thousands more . |
| 20 | It may also be our ability to respond to energies in the landscape , such as the Chinese describe in their concept of ch'i ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 21 | In the wake of the crisis summit meetings between the Six lessened in frequency . |
| 22 | These include : the postmodern as a tendency within the modern ; a notion of the ‘ sublime ’ and postmodernism 's related freedom from dependence on the concept of totality ; a distinction between the postmodern conceived in terms of the externalised and impersonal as against a view of the modern as characterised by the internal and ‘ impressionist ’ ; and a claim that it is the characteristic of the postmodern to signify figurally rather than discursively ( ? ) . |
| 23 | The question about the first category was the same as the 1984 survey , but that about the second differed in that it was concerned with the use of agency workers in the previous month rather than the previous 12 months . |
| 24 | Fifteen years were lost after the 1966 flood in sterile discussion , while the first special law for Venice ( no. 171 , 16 April 1973 ) proved completely unworkable . |
| 25 | Luo had served nearly two years of a five-year sentence on charges of trying to help Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming to escape from China after the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square . |
| 26 | A year after the MX-5 arrived in the UK , Mazda had another niche car to present — the V6 engined but ( unexpectedly ) modestly powered MX-3 . |
| 27 | They were entitled to eat after the last sitting in the central dining car , Emil said , rinsing glasses , but usually they went only for dinner , if then ; I could see why , as after the sandwiches on that first day we ate the all-too-few left-over portions of the Lucullan lunch we had served . |
| 28 | Because we were one of the lowest pays in the factory which we do n't , our section does n't think it 's right because |
| 29 | She would not think of the pitiful remains in the corner . |
| 30 | Only the proprietor of the six left in the room had a clear idea of what the concept meant . |