Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Parents who do n't want their kids taught about homosexuality in the first grade are not bigots . |
| 2 | Shankill player Cowan , the former Irish Junior number one , is no longer eligible for Junior events and welcomes the opportunity to share the team bench with the legendary Slevin , now competing for Lubeck in the German National League . |
| 3 | Despite the wealth of evidence that nuclear power can never under-price fossil fuel-generated electricity , BNFL is looking at ways of competing for supply in the open market . |
| 4 | There had been fears that the entry of SeaCat into the cross-Channel route would mean more companies competing for business in a static market . |
| 5 | They were schools , therefore , where progress in matching library provision to curriculum need had already begun , and where it was hoped that this impetus could be further developed through participation in the project and a grant in the region of £2,500 . |
| 6 | Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar . |
| 7 | Shock and indignation jostle for position in the following quote from a speech of the president of the Royal Society , delivered in 1978 : ‘ Ominously , voices have been raised claiming that limits should be set to scientific inquiry — that there are questions which should not be asked and research which should not be undertaken . ’ |
| 8 | This compromise distinguished between fault in the navigation and management of the vessel versus fault in the custody and care of the goods and in equipping the vessel . |
| 9 | I was not short of students who applied for help in the most distressing of circumstances : mature students with spouses and children , who had been denied housing benefit and income support to which they had previously been entitled ; landlords pressing for rent payments and students with no money to pay ; arrears of rent building up ; poll tax arrears building up ; overdrafts being extended ; electricity supplies being cut off , in some cases to parents and children . |
| 10 | It is usually to relatives that the peasant migrating to the city turns for help in the new and frightening environment . |
| 11 | But beneath his flippancy was a real sympathy for what we were trying to do and an appreciation of the common aims we shared for work in the schools . |
| 12 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 13 | Dogs charged about like lunatics , scattering the chickens and geese which pecked for food in the hard-packed soil . |
| 14 | More to the point , the passage has a rhythmic regularity which enables it to be written out and scanned as poetry in a quasi-blank-verse metre : He has learned an alphabet of arch and aisle : The language of dim stairs and moth-hung rafters . |
| 15 | Mr Hawkins 's name arose during evidence in the trial , but yesterday friends insisted he had no connection with drugs . |
| 16 | At the end of 1990 , the latest date for which figures are available , the number of businesses registered for VAT in the United Kingdom was 1.7 million , compared with 1.3 million at the end of 1979 — an increase of almost a third . |
| 17 | Hyman , on the other hand , gives a functional definition of browsing : " Browsing is the activity subsumed in the direct shelf approach whereby materials arranged for use in a library are bed in the reasonable expectation that desired or valuable items or information might be found among those materials as arranged on the shelves ! " |
| 18 | I felt her hand rooting for mine in the pocket of my jacket . |
| 19 | An explanation has been given for aggregation in the dark in terms of a simple behavioural response . |
| 20 | Texts are sometimes altered editorially for particular purposes , and in this respect , for example , you could compare Shakespeare 's play Henry V with a version of the play revised for performance in the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | These ‘ centre-devised ’ modules are sent out to specialist advisers for comment and then checked by a small committee , the Catalogue sub-committee , to see whether it makes sense to have the proposal developed for inclusion in the Catalogue . |
| 22 | Less well known perhaps are the systems which have been developed for assessment in the workplace . |
| 23 | The male ruff is a long-legged wading bird whose head and neck feathers are specially developed for use in a jumping display on a lek display ground . |
| 24 | But a much looser style of interviewing was developed for use in a series of neighbourhood studies . |
| 25 | The result is that ‘ international judicial assistance ’ now comprises well-established techniques and procedures for co-operation in civil and commercial proceedings , together with a very much more recent growth of international agreements , bilateral regional and multilateral , in which those techniques and procedures are extended and developed for use in the field of criminal investigations , prosecutions , and to trace and seize the proceeds of crimes . |
| 26 | Firstly , the chart parser was an existing framework , originally developed for use in the syntactic domain , but also used in other areas of the speech chain , e.g. acoustic-phonetic analysis ( Church 1983 ) It was specifically designed for automatically building a graph of possibilities , these possibilities being determined by the component knowledge sources , not by the parser . |
| 27 | A Recovery Scrubber , developed for use in the cement industry by the Passamaquoddy native American tribe , is set to transform the way the world burns coal . |
| 28 | We had all been promised that the National Lottery money would be additional to what we receive and that there would been linkage to the funds we will obtain if all goes well and the Lottery Bill goes through Parliament in the next few months . |
| 29 | Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence . |
| 30 | However , the regression coefficients relating birth weight and systolic pressure in those children , once adjusted for variation in the standard deviation of systolic pressure at different ages , do not become consistently stronger with age ( figure ) . |