Example sentences of "of [pron] in [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will comment , as I repeatedly do , on the determination of everyone in Ulster to end violence and to ensure that they can get back to living normal lives . |
| 2 | Some 2.7 million people still live in affected areas--400,000 of them in areas made unfit for human habitation because of radiation levels or in areas from which they should have been moved . |
| 3 | The government agreed on Sept. 24 to the creation of five transport corridors , by which means UN agencies and other groups could reach an estimated 250,000 people in danger of starvation in drought- and war-affected zones in the south , some of them in areas controlled by UNITA . |
| 4 | While he was with the Palace , Peter gained four England Under 23 caps ( two of them in matches staged at Selhurst Park ) and scored in every game . |
| 5 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 6 | A major producer of sales training films organises regional demonstrations of a selection of them in order to prove their quality to training managers . |
| 7 | If not really bad , certain conformational faults need not bar a mare from breeding but it is important to be aware of them in order to make sure the stallion you choose is strong in the areas where the mare is weak . |
| 8 | At that time , we , we received a petition from the tenants erm very much along the lines of the one that erm erm , er Mr has read out , at that time there was a petition from a hundred and eight county council tenants and one hundred and five of them in fact signed it and they , they asked for it to be allowed to keep the erm to have the freedom to decide whether or not hunting takes place . |
| 9 | Some of our , some of our er community centres are in fact run by volunteers , some of them are run , er most of them in fact have a very large substantial volunteer input . |
| 10 | The safety diver had clambered onto the iceberg , risking a tear in his suit and the possibility of tipping the iceberg over on top of himself in order to signal his presence in the deepening gloom . |
| 11 | By now the four 807 Squadron Fulmars had made contact with the S.79s , Lt. N.G. Hallett and his No. 2 — P.O. ( A ) A.G. Johnson — hitting one bomber but the gunner of which in return hit Hallett 's engine , forcing him to ditch ; both he and his Australian observer , Lt. V.A . |
| 12 | The artist had three sittings at Highgrove , each supposedly an hour in length , but each of which in fact lasted throughout each of the three mornings . |
| 13 | There must be a myriad ruses and devices in the pursuit of happiness , and I could think of none in order to conjure up a complementary question . |
| 14 | Now we need to look at one lot of something in brackets add another lot , well let's , let's forget about the first one being in brackets , let's say we 're doing ten take away six . |
| 15 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 16 | A friend of mine in Holland runs a psycho-geriatric hospital and he says that approximately twenty per cent of the patients sent to him suffering from seeming senility , i.e. confusion , some incontinence , and anxiety attacks , are in fact suffering from prolonged overdoses of tea . |
| 17 | ‘ Friends of mine in London recommended you . |
| 18 | A colleague of mine in Buckinghamshire had great difficulty in selling his little terraced house ; after months on the market not one person had come further than the front door and he was about to lower the already modest asking price . |
| 19 | ‘ Yeah , ’ the man tells him , ‘ a friend of mine in Kenya sent them over to me . |
| 20 | Alternatively , if the beaker of water was previously at a higher temperature energy would have been transferred out of it in order to reach a temperature of 50°C . |
| 21 | Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon Inc puts the need to fire 15% of its workforce — and the consequent $2.7m loss for the quarter to April 3 ( CI No 2,156 ) down to the fact that — in common with most other manufacturers in its area — is now doing little of its own manufacturing but sub-contracts most of it in order to benefit from application of the latest techniques in areas such as surface mounting . |
| 22 | Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today . |
| 23 | However , Joyce did return to the work , and in 1938 he ‘ cannibalised ’ the text , incorporating parts of it in Finnegans Wake . |
| 24 | ‘ Some neighbours of ours in Scotland had unnaturally cosmopolitan views about the best way to bring up their daughters and they had all been sent to stay with family friends in both Paris and Florence when they were about seventeen . |
| 25 | This is not a complete statement of what in fact happened . |
| 26 | In that context , what has been particularly difficult for all of us in Scotland to deal with has been the Government 's secrecy . |
| 27 | Many of us in Britain see it as our duty , now . |
| 28 | I had prepared an unimaginative tunafish salad for the two of us in order to show off my new personal austerity programme . |
| 29 | All of us in leadership know something of that . |
| 30 | Most of us in England find the present French attitude despicable . |