Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News . |
| 2 | The Medical Research Council 's Common Cold Research Unit showed that it is not the person who gets caught in the rain or sits in a draught who is likely to develop a cold but the one who has to work in the air-conditioned , centrally-heated , artificially-lit atmosphere found in many modern office blocks . |
| 3 | It is not unlikely either that the formation of the desire will be closely linked with current experiences and will therefore probably be fulfilled by providing more of whatever is salient in the context — porridge , or rides in a plastic tub , etc . |
| 4 | Uneaten food , and anything once living that dies or lies in the tank will break down in a similar fashion . |
| 5 | Moreover , it varies according to style , purpose and audience : no one speaks or writes in the same way on all occasions . |
| 6 | The operator syllable implies ( or specifies in a subfield ) how many syllables are required for the instruction . |
| 7 | Until 15 or so years ago most of us knew pineapple only from cans — who has n't used chunks to make sweet and sour pork , or rings in an upside down cake ? |
| 8 | Despite the fact that trespass is actionable per se , there is some authority to the effect that trespass to goods requires proof of some damage or asportation but the general view of textbook writers is to the contrary and there must be many instances where , if mere touching of objects like waxworks or exhibits in a gallery or museum be not trespass , their possessor would be without remedy . |
| 9 | Telling a story means making what is false ( or at least largely invented ) seem true , so ‘ realism ’ ( a term hard to define but impossible to avoid ) becomes a crucial yardstick of success , a measure of whether the film wins or loses in the game of make-believe , which may also be the serious game of box-office success or failure ( though this in turn relates only erratically to the quality of a film in general or its SFX in particular ) . |
| 10 | This means that if a person intends to cause a policeman to react unlawfully , and uses threats , abuse or insults in an attempt to cause the policeman to overreact , he commits the offence if the other ingredients are proved to have occurred . |
| 11 | The consequences for some nations or subgroups in a population of being without access to environmental data or the tools for analysing them while others have such access are potentially profound — as the European Commission has recognized in issuing a directive on public access to environmental data ( CEC 1990d ) — yet space limitations have also precluded their discussion . |
| 12 | If taxation finance is not available to cover public expenditure , governments must resort to debt finance or increases in the money supply to finance their activities . |
| 13 | The terms of the agreement were as follows : that political prisoners were to be released and the relevant ordinances withdrawn ; that civil disobedience was to be stopped ; that the boycott of British goods would cease , though ‘ peaceful picketing ’ could continue ; that there would be no change in the salt laws , though people living by the sea could make some for personal consumption ; and that Congress was to be represented at future sessions of the Round Table conference , the agreed agenda being federation , ‘ Indian responsibility ’ , and ‘ reservations or safeguards in the interests of India for such matters as , for instance , defence ; external affairs ; the position of minorities ; the financial credit of India , and the discharge of obligations ’ . |
| 14 | But he needs cuts to announce on Wednesday — an end to some bizarre farm subsidies to anyone running cattle on federal land , or cuts in the super-collider programme , but not the space station . |
| 15 | Sudden surges or dips in the mains supply are more common than blackouts , and you might not notice what 's causing the glitches in your work . |
| 16 | If there are any holes or dips in the cake , these can be filled in now with a little marzipan and glaze . |
| 17 | SELECT and PROJECT statements are important because many queries will require information from only some of the tuples or attributes in a relation . |
| 18 | There are , in criminal investigations , a number of situations in which the police adopt ruses or tricks in the public interest to obtain evidence . |
| 19 | Postnatal problems can make breastfeeding difficult because sitting is so painful ; for example , if you have haemorrhoids from bearing down during delivery or long labour , or stitches in the perineum . |
| 20 | No anomalous migration is seen for the unbound fragments confirming the absence of intrinsic curvature or bends in the GMSA probes used . |
| 21 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 22 | Someone , somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine . |
| 23 | Someone , somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine . |
| 24 | ‘ Model number one , ’ the vendeuse said , as a mannequin appeared in a slate grey tweed suit , ‘ The Pennines ’ , an informal suit equally at ease for drinks at Claridges or walks in the hills . ’ |
| 25 | Whether we avoid certain foods because God has told us to , or whether it 's simply because of the E numbers ; whether our purification rituals are there to chase out demons in the name of spiritual purity , or germs in the name of hygiene … we all have a sense that beyond the boundaries of our lives lurks Chaos . |
| 26 | Volcanic lines are most abundant in the Pacific Ocean and comprise series of volcanic islands ( or seamounts in the case of submarine volcanoes ) which typically become progressively younger along a line and often terminate in an active volcano . |
| 27 | DELOITTE Haskins & Sells in the UK has firmly established itself as the Zsa Zsa Gabor of the accountancy profession . |
| 28 | The move follows Wednesday 's announcement of a merger between Coopers and Deloitte Haskins & Sells in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | Mention is made of how in the viewing of the mountains " … it is to be seen how the very naturall working of those flood falling from the height in winter stormes have broken down & worn such rifts & slitts in the rocks as hereby the dead leaders or mettall finnes or vaine have appeared unto us above ground which before were hid by the earth & stones formerly covring the rocks some 2 or 3 fathomes deep … " |
| 30 | Everybody living in a country obtains the benefits ( or disbenefits in the case of pacifists ) of national defence and can not be excluded from them . |