Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't that , meant we , we say that I know time goes on but in years they took to pay the loan . |
| 2 | Their conversation starts slowly and in ritual fashion . |
| 3 | Because the communities are so stable in relation to a centre which is largely in their imagination , it matters little whether in fact the real centre is itself actually in turmoil . |
| 4 | As we have already noted , the explanation for the post-war uniformity of local politics perhaps lies elsewhere than in a simple appeal to non-local forces . |
| 5 | In the latter Frodo and his Shire companions play a similar part , though the world they move in has also and in more complex ways been ‘ mediated ’ , turned into a Limbo . |
| 6 | One fact stands out that in spite of " persuasion " by the British government that electors could be well advised to support power sharing , voters continued to support anti-power sharing candidates . |
| 7 | Further , ‘ there exists considerable uncertainty in the medical and legal professions as to the legality of terminating the use or application of life-sustaining procedures where the patient has voluntarily and in sound mind evidenced a desire that such procedures be withheld or withdrawn . ’ |
| 8 | The change also raises important theoretical questions because reading by touch involves the same cognitive and linguistic skills as visual reading but uses a system which differs physically and in modality . |
| 9 | A depressive reaction of psychotic proportion frequently occurs alone but in other cases it may be replaced by a state of mania which may also , though more rarely , be found without swings into depression . |
| 10 | In my wanderings to the Staff Colleges and branches of the Royal Aeronautical Society all over the world , the USAF Academy , Colorado Springs , and also that incredible edifice of aeronautical and technical learning — the Smithsonian in Washington , the main question that always crops up and in almost entirely the same way is " how was it possible to maintain morale ? " |
| 11 | Section 7 provides : 7 – ( 1 ) Where the possession or ownership of goods passes under or in pursuance of a contract not governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , subsections ( 2 ) to ( 4 ) below apply as regards the effect ( if any ) to be given to contract terms excluding or restricting liability for breach of obligation arising by implication of law from the nature of the contract . |
| 12 | Again , it is , as Sen puts it , ‘ the tradition of thinking in terms of what exists rather than in terms of who can command what ’ ( Sen 1981 : 8 , quoted in Redclift 1982 : 1 ) which ignores the vital question of access to food production and the fuel to cook it . |
| 13 | It shows nonetheless that in matters of scandal , women had everything to lose , and men almost nothing . |
| 14 | Chisholm comments correctly that in this argument the error is the step from ( a ) to ( b ) . |
| 15 | Well when the sirens went at the beginning , what few rifles we 'd got , he 'd er take us out and string we out along this brook , a rifle every so often and and facing one way and looking round to see when anything goes up and in case anybody come over or anything come over and er that was the initial start . |
| 16 | So in enclosed areas like that this breaks down but in the open ocean system you 've got this very strong constant ratio . |
| 17 | The hon. Lady persists — I do not think that it is because she does not understand — in making the bogus comparison between in-patient and out-patient waits now and in 1979 . |
| 18 | Tracing this back to the seventeenth century , he points out that in such times , it is ‘ always those crimes that are associated with the materially disadvantaged underclass which have provided the continuing thread within this history of respectable fears … |
| 19 | It points out that in 1989 government revenue was £18.1 billion , made up of £2.9 billion from road tax , £1.5 billion from car tax , £5 billion from VAT and £8.7 billion from fuel taxes . |
| 20 | The trial was streamlined : Mr Dixon 's own lawyer points out that in a $1.3 billion S$L failure , the government came up with charges involving only $600,000 . |
| 21 | Mr Erik Sondén , the managing director of SIPA , points out that in the tiny Swedish market values of investment properties have gone only one way over the past ten years : up . |
| 22 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |
| 23 | Joseph Rothschild points out that in the inter-war period , the whole of Eastern Europe , excluding Russia , produced only eight per cent of European industrial production and that a third of that came from Czechoslovakia . |
| 24 | Nigel Haigh of the IEEP points out that in 1979 the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution reported that evidence for the other major health worry — the potential for nitrite , which is formed from nitrate in certain conditions , to create ‘ nitrosamines ’ and cause stomach cancer — was only ‘ weak and equivocal ’ . |
| 25 | He points out that in many areas , especially service industries , organisations have improved their efficiency and effectiveness and increased the perception of quality by getting the clients to do the work — self-service outlets are an obvious example . |
| 26 | Gyford points out that in their earliest days , the politics of local government assumed ‘ a somewhat kaleidoscopic form . |
| 27 | Friedman points out that in this economy , workers are suffering from money illusion : they believe that real wages are rising when in fact both money wages and prices are rising , leaving real wages unchanged . |
| 28 | Holroyd points out that in his time Shaw appealed to young people . |
| 29 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 30 | Nevertheless he points out that in Britain we appear to have industrial malaise , adversary politics and a society that is different in quality compared to other developed European countries . |