Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the second of Billy Roche 's Wexford trilogy plays about small-town life in Wexford , southern Ireland . |
| 2 | I spent an exhilarating day cruising the River Ord , speeding through spectacular scenery in a high-powered boat . |
| 3 | The Conservatives turned to protection disguised as imperial preference in 1933 , and adopted a series of state measures to aid the reduction and consolidation of the declining heavy industries . |
| 4 | The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s , when water from its tributaries began to be diverted for agricultural irrigation in what were then the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . |
| 5 | The suspicions which Englishmen voiced about papal intervention in the realm had various roots , but one of them was surely the disproportionately small representation of the English church in the Curia . |
| 6 | With bad luck , the phenomenon could even develop into the sort of cash-cow that speakeasies became for organised crime in the United States under Prohibition . |
| 7 | The Lake District 's Herdwick sheep are threatened by the reduction of an EC subsidy concession allowing for late lambing in the cold climatePHOTOGRAPHS : DON McPHEE Tyson Hartley … |
| 8 | Awards are given for outstanding achievement in the protection and enhancement of the architectural and natural heritage , the improvement of the environment and the encouragement of high standards of architecture in town and country planning throughout Europe . |
| 9 | Wallace 's line existed because there was one particular strait , between the islands of Bali and Lombok , that was so deep that it could never have been exposed as dry land in recent geological times . |
| 10 | This time £24 million ( £40 million × 0.6 ) will be absorbed in leakages and £16 million will be received as additional income in the circular flow . |
| 11 | * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America . |
| 12 | A study by the OECD tries to forecast what all these extra grey heads mean for public spending in different countries over the next 40 years , assuming that government policies remain unchanged . |
| 13 | Evidence from Re-Os isotopes for plume-lithosphere mixing in Karoo flood basalt genesis |
| 14 | A sample of all juvenile cases referred for criminal behaviour in one calendar month in two police force areas collected and followed up to examine the decisions taken about them . |
| 15 | These included inner-city offices for the Small Firms Service of the Department of Trade and Industry ; grants for inner-city Local Enterprise Agencies ( see Chapter 8 ) ; higher loan guarantees for small business in the Task Force ( see Chapter 4 ) ; and investment of about £10 million in managed workshops by English Estates — a development agency of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 16 | Now she asked for white wine in her charged voice . |
| 17 | Hrawi asked Hoss to continue as Prime Minister in a caretaker capacity until a new government was formed . |
| 18 | It should be noted that liability is confined to " consumer goods " intended for private use in the course of a business . |
| 19 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |
| 20 | Cultivation grants for non-pasture land in the UK under development plans have been withdrawn and drainage reduced from 70% to 50% since December 1984 . |
| 21 | ( A similar way of finding the best power for transformation will be explained for median polishing in chapter 15 . ) |
| 22 | It appears that some at least of the variation in the cyanogenesis polymorphism over the field can be explained as local micro-evolution in response to locally patchy selection . |
| 23 | In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector . |
| 24 | Chodorow ( 1978 ) and Dinnerstein ( 1976 ) use psychoanalysis to provide a detailed account of how gendered subjectivities develop through unconscious socialization in the nuclear family . |
| 25 | In addition Gen. Herminio Fuenmayor , the Director of Military Intelligence ( DIM ) , was dismissed for alleged involvement in drug trafficking . |
| 26 | I still possess a tape-recording of a news report I made for Irish radio in which — to a background of Palestinian rifle fire — I hear my own voice informing listeners in the furthest villages of County Mayo that they are listening to ‘ the last shots of the Lebanese civil war ’ . |
| 27 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 28 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 29 | The Germans argued for increased centralization in order to fight the empire . |
| 30 | She argued that , if she could show that what was regarded as normal behaviour in the United States in fact varies from one society to another , then it followed that such behaviour could not be the result of people 's biological characteristics but rather of their culture . |