Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister has again defended the Maastricht Treaty warning that Britain faces isolation in Europe if it does not go through . |
| 2 | Coolness was his stock in trade as he was a scientist on our side . |
| 3 | It was to his girlfriend in Harare and he told her straight away that he was showing the French a thing or two , but it still was n't like the old days with the Rhodesian Light Infantry . |
| 4 | He followed this with a traditional French bakery in Oxford while he set about converting a 15th century Cotswold manor house into Le Manoir , which opened in 1984 and has since become one of Britain 's most exclusive restaurants . |
| 5 | My hand groped for the light in terror as I wondered what this object could be . |
| 6 | He was reviled as a so-called atheist but otherwise his thought received little attention , only becoming a main force in philosophy when it was rediscovered by German philosophers in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | It would , however , be a great mistake to dismiss the event as an act of folly without any serious consequences , for the proof of the existence of a serious candidate led to the definite rebirth of Bonapartism as a political force in France and it was this movement which was later to carry Louis-Napoleon to power . |
| 8 | All this makes television an exciting and immense force in society and it is approached with dogged zeal by those ambitious for money and fame . |
| 9 | Fred Sharpe is beginning to regret the decision to buy this ingredient in advance as it will deteriorate in store and may become dangerous before the end of the budget period . |
| 10 | A painting of a garden at Auvers-sur-Oise by Van Gogh , finished only days before he killed himself , will become the first historical monument to go under the hammer in France when it is sold at Drouot salerooms on 6 December by Paris auctioneer Maître Jean-Claude Binoche of the firm Binoche et Godeau . |
| 11 | An alternative — and theoretically the more sound approach — is a ‘ demand-led ’ strategy in which general managers are committed to investment in development because they can see its importance . |
| 12 | I agree with my honourable friend er one of the er satisfactory features of the C B I er survey last week , one of the many , was that eighty four percent of firms er in the U K intend to increase or maintain their spending on training and of course she 's absolutely right , they will be the firms that will benefit most from that investment in training as we continue through recovery into growth in the longer term . |
| 13 | At a total cost of over £25 million , KITEC is Johnson Matthey 's biggest single investment in Asia and it reflects our company 's commitment of major human and financial resources to the development of its business in Asia . |
| 14 | Suppose that before he looks to the legal record he thinks it would be best to decide for the defendant in McLoughlin because it would be cheaper for the community as a whole if prospective victims insure against emotional injury than if drivers insure against causing it . |
| 15 | defendant in belief that it was necessary to enter an appearance before a payment into court could be made was not estopped when he sought to have the case dismissed for want of prosecution on discovering that the writ had not9 been served . |
| 16 | Lady Pomfret had been an excellent wife and mother and an efficient Lady of the Bedchamber , but she exposed herself to constant ridicule in society because she was so desperate to be thought of as a learned woman . |
| 17 | If anything should happen to him , there could well be a collapse in Indo-China and it was for this reason that Collins recommended that the US should continue to extend military and economic aid ‘ in order to check the spread of communism in South-East Asia ’ — but only as long as de Lattre was in Indo-China . |
| 18 | ( or smartdrv.exe as the first command in AUTOEXEC.BAT if you 're using Windows 3.1 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Through one acquisition or a combination of acquisitions , I would like to be in excess of $100m in revenue in Italy when we go into next year , but that will only happen if we find the right match . |
| 20 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 21 | Usually I keep two buckets full of water but that 's no good in winter because they are plastic and will not stand the frost . |
| 22 | ‘ Jo came to the club in May and I joined a little later , ’ he says . |
| 23 | When we played at his club in Westwood and I beat him comfortably , he discussed the result with his friends in such a way that it was clear that he had deliberately thrown the match in order to contribute to our personal relationship . |
| 24 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 25 | There was no female suffrage in Paris that she could observe . |
| 26 | ‘ We had looked at the agent in March and it seemed OK , ’ spokesman John Garner says . |
| 27 | I even read the same book , Being Happy , that Faldo reads to get my mind in tune but I realise it 's your ability to put those thoughts into practice that counts . |
| 28 | In other words , the note patterns of a series serve as a stimulus to the imagination , and creative ideas leap to the mind in abundance once we begin to work . |
| 29 | Pinned suddenly by the man 's dark gaze , Leith was all at once certain that Travis 's cousin had made up his mind in advance that she was more interested in Travis 's financial status than Travis himself . |
| 30 | He seemed to have made up his mind in advance that he could reveal a certain amount of information about the past rather than the present . |