Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The control of resources by the landowner usually means that the sites are impressive , dominant , and have had a lot of labour and/or money invested in them . |
| 2 | In the London sample , one-tenth of classrooms had tables or desks arranged in rows : in Leeds we observed none ( though that is not to say that none existed ) . |
| 3 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 4 | Applications relating to former wards of court in care should be made to the High Court if the order sought may have the effect of varying or discharging an order or direction made in wardship ( In Re C ( a Minor ) , CA ( 1991 ) , The Times , 16 December and see 5(c) below ) . |
| 5 | A paragraph , on the other hand , has its main point or direction indicated in the opening sentence , which is sometimes called a TOPIC SENTENCE . |
| 6 | the thickness of sheet of paper or board expressed in microns ( millionths of a metre ) . |
| 7 | The paper says that former IBM chief outside auditor Donald Chandler of Price Waterhouse & Co wrote in a 1988 memo that IBM was reporting revenues that it might never realise by booking sales when products were shipped — to its own warehouses for onward staging to customers , or to dealers who could return them . |
| 8 | A hand feeling blindly for throat or arm or hair landed in the middle of Gabriel 's face , and Garvey 's fingers clung on like a starfish , pressing it out of shape . |
| 9 | The main premise in FSP theory is that the communicative goals of an interaction cause the structure of a clause or sentence to function in different kinds of perspective . |
| 10 | We now come to a question that causes a great deal of difficulty , particularly to foreign learners ( who can not simply dismiss it as an academic question ) : how can one select the correct syllable or syllables to stress in an English word ? |
| 11 | These may combine programmes of SCOTVEC 's National Certificate modules or Higher National Units with skills or competences gained in the workplace , building on the experience of joint certification agreements which SCOTVEC has already established with several industry bodies . |
| 12 | The process only terminates when no more entities or groups remain in the temporary work layers . |
| 13 | A combination of vulnerable classes or groups living in vulnerable and ecologically marginal areas in many cases causes a failure to create sufficient income for food to feed themselves . |
| 14 | The Companies Act 1981 also provided that in determining the aggregate amount of any item in a company 's balance sheet or profit and loss account , the amount of each individual asset or liability included in that amount shall be determined separately . |
| 15 | Valuables or money left in other parts of an unattended vehicle or in an open top vehicle such as a jeep are not , therefore , insured under the policy . |
| 16 | The return of a Fianna Fáil government under Jack Lynch meant something of a decline in Anglo-Irish cordiality or willingness to collaborate in security matters , while the end of the constitutional assembly in early 1977 had removed any prospect of finding any viable Ulster administration to modify the picture of direct rule from Westminster . |
| 17 | ‘ The court may grant the application if — ( a ) the debtor appears to have a counterclaim , set-off or cross demand which equals or exceeds the amount of the debt or debts specified in the statutory demand ; or ( b ) the debt is disputed on grounds which appear to the court to be substantial ; or … ( d ) the court is satisfied , on other grounds , that the demand ought to be set aside . |
| 18 | The fourth session of the seventh National People 's Congress ( NPC ) or parliament opened in Beijing on March 25 . |
| 19 | Evidently it was one of Marcel Boulestin 's favourite sweetmeats ; a recipe for tomato jam or preserve appears in every one of his cookery books . |
| 20 | Spell correctly any names or titles used in an advertisement or you will give the impression that you are careless and slipshod ( if you are a weak speller get someone to check the letter over for you ) . |
| 21 | The Honours degree in Classics and Medieval History allows for specialisation in Ancient History , Classical Archaeology , Greek , Latin or literature studied in translation , or combinations of these . |
| 22 | In the structure of water the basic components or molecules exist in a free flowing state loosely bound together by forces of mutual attraction . |
| 23 | We have traditional defences on , for example , diminished responsibility which allow murder to be reduced to manslaughter , or defences introduced in Acts that have been passed in the last couple of years . |
| 24 | Occasionally , courts and tribunals take the view that a dismissal or resignation given in the heat of the moment can be withdrawn . |
| 25 | where coins disappeared in the lining ; |
| 26 | The first project was a film on Scapa Flow made with a director whose talent in obtaining striking images of light on water , cloud formation , or reeds bending in the wind I had greatly admired in his previous work . |
| 27 | We would get back the two and a half thousand members the T & G poached in Liverpool City Council . |
| 28 | In either case , relationships may or may not be specified across the boundaries or entities defined in the intersecting zones . |
| 29 | Some groups of animals found in nature are simple ‘ associations ’ assembled either through overwhelming influences of nature , such as tide-washed plankton on a sandy shore , or through responses to temperature or light held in common by all participants . |
| 30 | Intensive rearing practices have been blamed , where animals kept in cramped and often unhygienic conditions are fed on high protein feeds often containing the remnants of slaughtered chickens contaminated with salmonella . |