Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 2 | Lind ( 1983 : 270 ) has pointed out that in his corpus the to infinitive is six times more frequent than the bare form with inanimates . |
| 3 | In this country , under his Government , unemployment is going up faster , investment is lower and production has fallen more than in any other European country . |
| 4 | Productivity in manufacturing has risen faster than in the past . |
| 5 | If he could relive that shot I 'm sure he 'd never take a driver there off the tee ( Azinger has said just that in print ) because it lost him the Open . |
| 6 | In the birds , the brain has evolved so that in some groups it is comparable in size and complexity to that found in primates . |
| 7 | Haran has suggested however that in a few cases " the intended number is the first of the two " ; 29 but in Job 33.14 and Ps 62.12 , which he cites , it can be maintained much more convincingly that it is the second number that is " intended " or the more precise . |
| 8 | He ca n't have just disappeared like that , oh God what if he 's gone upstairs and in the middle of the night |