Example sentences of "in [noun] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Page make-up and graphics programs allow anybody able to use a computer to change a type-face or its size , to paste in pictures and to lay out the text in almost any manner . |
| 32 | The general purpose of exploratory statistics , as the name suggests , is to help investigators to take a good look at patterns in data and to search around for ideas about the form these patterns take . |
| 33 | Delegates hooted in disgust or yanked up their ties to imitate nooses . |
| 34 | At the end of the track the drummer throws down his sticks in disgust and stomps off — pretty punk rock or what ? |
| 35 | A growing proportion of children in care of the local authority are not actually placed in homes or boarded out but are left under the charge of parent , guardian , relative or friend with some supervision from the social workers . |
| 36 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |
| 37 | erm , er and I 'm have to take some time over this , so I think erm in the circumstances the better thing to do would be to adjourn this case till Monday morning and hope that Mr can so arrange his affairs to address me at half past ten on that day , er with Mr and with erm , whatever rights he has to erm deal with matters of this , come up a fresh in reply and to finish off , I 'm gon na leave it like that , a very much , and as I say as far , as far as tomorrow 's concerned that 's er not a difficulty with erm , either Mr informs me which is unlikely or I can , at least get a , make a start , er on the other aspects of the judgement , alright then half past ten on Monday morning |
| 38 | This seemed a far more promising environment , and we quickly accepted the couple 's invitation to abandon our base in Makassar and move in with them in Bira , since it would clearly take many more weeks of negotiating before we could be sure of coming up with a prahu , and a crew , reliable enough to carry us eastwards . |
| 39 | In Fig. 4 ( a ) has been brought out in readiness but cut back until required . |
| 40 | Hughie 's hopes were raised last year when it was suggested that a replica of one of Captain Cook 's ships , either Endeavour or Resolution , should be built in Indonesia and brought back to Whitby as a permanent reminder of the feats of the town 's most famous son of the sea . |
| 41 | An important area to bear in mind when drawing up a briefing programme is the need to supply briefing at the end of the employee 's period overseas . |
| 42 | There are several important points to bear in mind when setting up a reward menu : |
| 43 | It is important to keep this in mind when setting up intermediate targets . |
| 44 | Not only that , the recordings were made on the very instrument for which most of it had been written , so there 's no doubt that the sounds we hear are the very sounds he had in mind when setting out his very registration . |
| 45 | A few points need to be borne in mind when trying out this sequence . |
| 46 | Another point to bear in mind when working out your interview schedule is whether or not candidates are to be shown over the work place before the interview . |
| 47 | Whether the fish enjoy this operation is another matter , — bear this in mind when stirring up silt and syphoning it out . |
| 48 | If quick decisions are needed , say during the sales , then at least work out the approximate size of the spaces you have in mind and look out for pieces of furniture that will best fit into them . |
| 49 | THE UN Security Council voted unanimously last night to send a peacekeeping force to Central America to cut off infiltration by contra rebels , monitor elections in Nicaragua and watch over developments in other sensitive areas — especially Honduras and El Salvador . |
| 50 | The only thing to do was to hold her emotions in check and get on with her work . |
| 51 | ‘ Homesickness only strikes occasionally now , but when I first arrived in February and setting up home here seemed so alien I was often mopey . ’ |
| 52 | He was handed his first full England cap against France in February and shut out Eric Cantona so comprehensively that he held his place for the European Championship finals . |
| 53 | Watch your pockets , ’ we both said in unison and moved back to give the man space . |
| 54 | Then , abjectly , as if engaged in reflection that gave back only its own dullness , she completed the tasks she had been doing and , without saying a word to the expectant children , left the room . |
| 55 | Not surprisingly she got narky with this bumptious little turd giving her lectures in infant-theology and set about proving things with a prism . |
| 56 | He stopped the car where the road lost itself in sand and got out . |
| 57 | She hired one in Kyrenia and drove about recklessly — and very odd people were referring to her as ‘ Rosie ’ when I got there . |
| 58 | Rake For levelling dug soil , creating a fine surface tilth for sowing , working in fertiliser and raking up any plant debris . |
| 59 | All of this leads Fred and Beth to worry that the fatal combination of an explosion of ‘ free time ’ with a booming global market in consumer goods and leisure industries will spell the death of their great utopian dream that they have cherished for so long — individual self-realization , mutuality in work and levelling out of global economic inequalities . |
| 60 | Cancel the wedding or the holiday , sell the theatre/football/movie tickets , put the dog in kennels and get down to the Wembley Exhibition Centre … sharpish ! |