Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] in " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Even Marks & Spencer stands in awe .
3 The letter from Coopers & Lybrand included in the circular says that the 1990/91 financial statements were prepared in accordance with FRED 1 .
4 She 's talking about a funeral next Monday or Tuesday up in Bolton .
5 I pushed them away with a shudder , but when I looked up I saw , lying on a shelf opposite , an infant or Cupid carved in black marble .
6 Dustin and Schisgal had met earlier in August 1966 at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge , Massachusetts , where Dustin acted in a number of Schisgal plays — the Old Jew in the play of that name , Max in Reverberations ( changed later to The Basement ) and Jax in Fragments .
7 Elkin , in his compelling book Aboriginal Men of High Degree , cites the ritual procedures which a potential medicine man or Karadji undergoes in awakening his latent paranormal powers :
8 This will describe the nature and operation of the Core Software of Adam & Eve described in Part 1(1) of this Schedule .
9 Where Jackson had in mind a playful swipe at other people 's romantic success , some of those other people read a venomous resentment .
10 In the hall , turning to Martin , she said , ‘ Come and see the table before you go upstairs , ’ and hurried forward to the dining-room , where Martin exclaimed in genuine appreciation of the table , beautifully decorated with flowers , glass , and silver and set for sixteen people .
11 To think of a traitor amongst their own people lacerated him as much as the thought of Iain or Donald lying in some cell .
12 But Ludens was not concerned now with writing his ‘ next book ’ , or rushing off to Rome or Paris to read in libraries .
13 Where Amanda discovered in the world divine intent , benevolent order and rigorous justice , her father had seen only chaos , hazard and malice .
14 Where Mallet began in agreement with Blauner but came to different conclusions , Naville starts from a quite different position , arguing that work itself , under automated technology , is inherently unsatisfying .
15 The affiliated Hanbury bank in London merged in 1864 with another London bank of Quaker origins , Barnett , Hoare & Co. ; the new Barnetts , Hoares , Hanburys & Lloyd merged in turn with the main Lloyd bank of Birmingham in 1884 , bringing under one corporate roof connections that had their origins in the marriages more than a century before of the children of Sampson Lloyd II .
16 Fares for a return journey starting at Oxford or Didcot purchased in advance are £12 for adults , £5 for children aged 5–15 ; tickets will be sold on the day subject to space being available at £13 adult , £6 child .
17 R.24(2) provides that any solicitor or RFL participating in a recognised body must not cause any breach of the Rules or other conduct requirements .
18 The city itself , with more than a million people , is America 's seventh largest and where California began in 1542 .
19 Where Britain stands in this bullish picture is less encouraging .
20 Where Leila groped in the dark , this man emanated light .
21 Many of the verses on the subject of Growltiger or Macavity had in fact originally been written for the children of the Fabers and the Morleys ; Eliot 's own affection for small rather than large animals is sufficiently well known , and he was the owner ( or patron ) of a succession of cats with names like Pettipaws , Wiscus and George Pushdragon — he used the latter name when entering crossword competitions in Time and Tide .
22 It 's a choice between you and them , either they die or Turry explodes in a spectacular fashion .
23 The discovery of mirror-image patterns of magnetic field reversal in rocks on the seabed off Iceland by Vine & Matthews reported in Nature in 1963 , combined with the earlier theoretical ideas and led to the concept of sea-floor spreading .
24 The newer of the Waterstones ( 7,700 sq ft , 24 full time , 17 full time equivalents ) is a converted Sherratt & Hughes lying in the enclave of Princes Square — for which , says manager Robert Kinnear , the catchment area is the whole of central Scotland , plus Iceland and Norway .
25 We had some discussion about competition , if I can use that word , between ourselves and and Leeds , but where Selby sits in in North Yorkshire we are in competition with with more than just West Yorkshire .
26 CUT AND THRUST Hughes & Kettner Attax/CF-200 Rack Adding to the mind-boggling maze of equipment available in the never-ending search for the best compact rack setup , Hughes & Kettner add in their few pfennigs worth …
27 The right sort of literary experience can be like a nuclear explosion , whereas the ‘ human expressiveness ’ that Scholes detects in the humblest graffito is more like the low-level radioactivity that is always present in the natural environment .
28 Others said that Horsley saw in Hayling the image of what he had always wanted to be — idealistic , full of derring-do , glamorous , and free from the tedious baggage of conventional business life .
29 It 's true that this was not the only experience of ridicule that Ian faced in childhood .
30 Lorna Woodroffe gave them a great send off by defeating Mandy Wainwright ( Essex ) , the National 's 16 's champion , 6–3 , 6–4 , Wainwright gained revenge in the doubles , which was the only reverse that Woodroffe suffered in the series .
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