Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This rather piecemeal approach has been paralleled in terms of how the NHS has acquired hardware and software systems . |
| 2 | Pupils too might be included in discussions of where the school is going . |
| 3 | The need to spread the word both within and between systems is accepted in theory by almost every educationist within Africa . |
| 4 | Learning is therefore seen in terms of where the child is rather than where we hope he might be . |
| 5 | BRAVE Peter Carman played in goal for nearly an hour during an FA Cup match … with a broken leg . |
| 6 | The columns of men that splintered from the Kitchen to their huts were first frozen still , then drawn in concert to where the lights were brilliant , where the knees hung between the blackness and the snow . |
| 7 | In both Britain and America , the educational preparation of librarians includes all these aspects and more , although individual librarians naturally tend to specialize in depth in only a selection . |
| 8 | I arrived in Oxfordshire with only the clothes I was standing in . |
| 9 | We walked in silence to where the car was waiting . |
| 10 | Crime such as theft from cars and cars themslves , has rocketed in Gloucestershire by almost a third ; up so much that detectives ca n't cope . |
| 11 | Rather important that one you know , a street lamp out for six weeks , though I know it 's difficult getting in touch with exactly the right department and whose responsibility it is . |
| 12 | When recently I asked an enthusiastic practitioner to test the technique in maths , although they were themselves enthusiastic about language , I received confirmation of insecurity , of a self-confessed distraction from the task of teaching in favour of essentially a technician-type reliance on the scheme , and a domination of the teacher by the process of recording progress . |
| 13 | She was she taught in Pennycook for quite a while , then she went down to Birmingham . |
| 14 | He read in silence for perhaps a minute , and then turned the scroll over to examine minutely the seal on the obverse . |
| 15 | Russell devoted a whole chapter to the topic , where he argued in favour of both the narrow , imposed variety and the more important ‘ constructive self-discipline ’ . |
| 16 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 17 | Opposition sources reacted favourably to a statement by the former Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to about a third of the cabinet seats . |
| 18 | The sources also reacted favourably to a statement published yesterday by the erstwhile Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to around a third of a new cabinet . |
| 19 | They cause objects to seem to shift in position by only a small amount , which is what objects plausibly can be expected to do in the real world . |
| 20 | I picked some black carbon fibre frames which had been signed by an Italian designer , made in Japan and retailed in England for over a hundred quid . |
| 21 | ‘ Where will our exporters be if one day the foreign shipowners find it cheaper only to call in Rotterdam with just a few feeder services to this country ? ’ |
| 22 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 23 | He spoke in English with only the trace of an accent . |
| 24 | In the Far East , the future of Hong Kong , an immensely important financial and manufacturing centre , where the British lease was due to run out in 1997 , was left in abeyance by both the British and the Chinese governments , in the post-Mao era . |
| 25 | The speeder froze in mid-air for just a moment , while its computers coped with the sudden assault on the automatic systems . |
| 26 | Overstocking took place on the Somerset Levels in the Middle Ages , aggravated by the rights of some commoners to take in cattle from outside the Levels for a fee . |
| 27 | Interpol has been called in to try and help trace a man who 's been missing in Bosnia for almost a year . |
| 28 | The Maréchal de Cadenet , a French ambassador on a special mission who stayed in London for only a few days in 1621 , was given by James I jewellery said to be worth £2,500 , while the duke of Buckingham , the king 's favourite , presented him with ponies and four albino falcons , the latter much prized by huntsmen . |
| 29 | They will be staffed by teams of doctors and other professionals working in shifts in much the same way as hospitals are run . |
| 30 | Before making the offer it will be necessary to identify all the consents , clearances and notifications which will be required in relation to both the target company and the bidder : ( 1 ) If the takeover falls within the criteria for possible reference to a merger control authority ( eg under the FTA or the Merger Regulation ) then confidential guidance might be sought from , or pre-notification required to be made to , the relevant competent authority ( see Chapter 19 ) . |