Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] in [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THOUSANDS of students could have their studies disrupted following the decision by the largest lecturers ' union last night to reject the latest pay offers for staff in further and higher education colleges and polytechnics . |
| 2 | Rubber and plastic boots are intended for use in very wet places but will not allow the feet to breathe . |
| 3 | Anaglypta SupaDurable is even more hard-wearing , made from a ‘ recipe ’ of wood pulp , cotton , china , clay and side , designed for use in more heavily used areas like hallways . |
| 4 | Older workers tend to be at an advantage when applying for jobs in today 's labour market simply because they belong to a generation which had fewer years of schooling . |
| 5 | Stinks of dog in here , dun n it ? |
| 6 | And erm , one day we had friends round , and I went into the loo it stinks of smoke in here , it was really bizarre , and I , I went , and sort of just thought oh , and then I went in again , and I really did smell , and I thought , this is really odd , and so when I came out here I said , did anyone else smell smoke in the ba in the bathroom , and they said oh yeah , I could smell cigarette smoke , and then , it must have just been upstairs , and it wafted down , and in through ours , cos there was no one else really around . |
| 7 | These vary greatly in approach — from Adam Bruce Thomson 's light touch and heightened sense of intricate design ( The River Tweed at Kelso ) and ( Cattle by the River Tweed ) to William Johnstone 's simplified near abstraction in sparsely annotated washes . |
| 8 | Whilst it would be an exaggeration to say that the part played by remains true that it is only in an exceptional case that a Government Bill fails to pass into law in substantially the form in which it entered Parliament . |
| 9 | In continuous speech the lack of acoustic cues to word boundaries , together with phonological variations in pronunciation , means that many stretches of speech can be parsed into words in more than one way . |
| 10 | Could one fall in love in so short a time ? |
| 11 | True Brit Christie 's first action after storming to victory in just 9.96 seconds was to snatch a giant Union Jack flag from British fans and drape it around his shoulders for his rousing lap of honour . |
| 12 | The successful introduction of a rationalised and acceptable meaning to the word ‘ god ‘ would destroy the dominance of those people , often of superior intelligence , who from time to time have come to power in nearly all civilisations , by exploiting the fear of the unknown among their fellows . |
| 13 | This violent event , described at length in hysterically colourful terms , is the only piece of history to be woven convincingly into the plot . |
| 14 | Staff cuts and reductions in overtime , both introduced as part of the Authority 's attempts to increase book profits , were blamed by Lewis in more than one confidential memo for procedures which cut corners and increased the risk of accidents . |
| 15 | This suggests that one priority is a general initial training supplemented by training in more specific skills relating to the presenting difficulties of the children being supported . |
| 16 | The validity of this scale has been considered by studies in both hospital ( Pattie and Gilleard 1975 , 1976 ) and community settings ( Morgan et al . |
| 17 | If we were pushed to the fringes of power we would be stripped of influence in both Europe and the world . |
| 18 | Instead , the corporation is hunting for stakes in both cable and satellite services . |
| 19 | The G M B has argued for change in how the T U C operates . |
| 20 | The House of Lords , to which the LEA appealed after defeat in both the High Court and Court of Appeal , held that the denial of selective single-sex education to a higher proportion of girls than boys was unlawful sex discrimination . |
| 21 | We can claim that the theology of the Cross forces us now to talk of God in very different ways . |
| 22 | The feminist parallel is again evident : it was all too easy to have massive walls built against women in practically every walk of life . |
| 23 | Mr Evans came under attack in yesterday 's report of the official Jockey Club inquiry for standing too close to the starting line , and thus being primarily concerned with escaping the thunder of dozens of pairs of hooves for his own safety , rather than waving his flag . |
| 24 | Tony Foreman , a tax partner in Pannell Kerr Forster , said the BES assured tenancy schemes with non-recourse loans provided a good return for top rate taxpayers ; their 60p in the pound net outlay after tax relief was turned into 72p in as little as six months by a loan . |
| 25 | DEAN REYNOLDS , whitewashed by Steve Davis in the Rothmans Grand Prix final , made a break of 112 to clinch his 9-7 win over Tony Meo last night which gives him a return meeting with Davis in today 's quarter-final of the Everest World Matchplay Championship at the Brentwood Centre . |
| 26 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
| 27 | He was transferred from Liverpool in around ‘ 87 . |
| 28 | Example 98 is made from elements in both ( a ) and ( b ) of the above — i.e. the notes B and B♭ , E and E♭ are used : |
| 29 | The suite was made in Nancy in around 1900 and is now expected to fetch FF1.2–1.8m ( £120–180,000 ; $215–320,000 ) . |
| 30 | Some are mainly of laboratory interest but others are clearly related to substances in more or less widespread use . |