Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circumstantial evidence may include that the defendant was the only person with the car keys ; he was seen getting out of the vehicle ; he was seen going towards or getting in the vehicle and/or he said he was going to drive the vehicle . |
| 2 | The signing and completion of this Agreement by the Vendor will not violate any provision of or result in the acceleration of any obligation under or the termination of any such Contract . |
| 3 | Another reason for the prominence of And waited in the above example is that it repeats verbatim information that has already been established in the previous sentence . |
| 4 | It was a paper devoid of politics and did n't represent any of the spirit they had thought of and encapsulated in the Charter . |
| 5 | The declaration stated that the testator in his lifetime ( in consideration that the plaintiff would marry Ellen Nicholl ) agreed with and promised the plaintiff , then unmarried , in the terms of and contained in the following letter : August 11 , 1838 , Gray 's Inn |
| 6 | Second replication to the fourth plea , that the agreement was in the terms of and contained in the letter set out above . |
| 7 | This chapter focuses on the ways in which age discrimination is both a product of and manifested in the social security system . |
| 8 | ‘ In this way everyone can contribute towards and share in the future of Wearside , ’ says Wright . |
| 9 | In this chapter I shall be considering some of the great historical Western moral philosophers of the past , confining myself , however , to the period of modern philosophy , which is usually conceived of as starting in the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | At the same time as the US sought to stiffen French resolve , at least to continue the war , it had to persuade France in effect to let go because , at the very least , it had recognized that the forces of what was nominally ‘ the French Union ’ in Indo-China in reality needed men : and these men would have to be found for and fight in the National Army of Vietnam . |
| 11 | It is a collective expression of extensive opposition to — even outrage at — the attempt by Henry VIII and Arran to stampede the Scots , the moment the opportunity appeared to present itself , into a complete denial of their long tradition of independence fought for and achieved in the teeth of English aggression . |
| 12 | It seems to me that we are having to fight all over again to keep many things that we have already fought for and gained in the past . |
| 13 | Which is not to say he 's a hippy soul surfer , a revivalist sporting a long Malibu board and casually riding a wave 's length as if strolling in the park . |
| 14 | So it has been held that a provision in a statute that regulations made under the statute will take effect as if enacted in the statute ( that is , they will be unchallengeable as if they were made by Parliament ) does not prevent the courts holding the regulation to be ultra vires . |
| 15 | ‘ Hand In Glove ’ , as if written in the euphoric condition of a new found love affair , holds all the ecstasy of that irrational condition with a typical defeatist twist in the tail . |
| 16 | And suddenly a sharp pain as if stabbed in the gut . |
| 17 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 18 | In principle , an applicant who should have brought his or her case under Ord. 53 , but did not , will lose : there is no provision under which the case can continue as if begun in the correct way . |
| 19 | They lingered a few moments more to admire the Palladian house which stood before them , beyond an ornamental lake crossed by a fine stone bridge , lying in a fold of the rolling parkland , as if held in the palm of a vast green hand . |
| 20 | The matrons with their marked brows , hooped earrings and prominent noses had hardly altered , though the scarlet and mulberry cloaks painted in the tombs had vanished from all but the youngest and luckiest women among Davide 's kin , for a single death in the family charred them all , turning young and old into sable-winged crow-women — in churches , at the threshing , at the well , as if flocking in the turned field . |
| 21 | Duncan McCrea was still in residence , as if overlooked in the mayhem of the past few days . |
| 22 | Each man in the picture was staring blankly at the photographer , a bar of soap in each hand as if caught in the act of some doubtful ritual . |
| 23 | She felt compassionate like a mother and wanted to help him but the wheel had slowed down until its glow had died and she stood paralysed as if frozen in the aftermath of the death of the sun . |
| 24 | Yet all her looks , even the boy , seemed still to be summarised in her present being ; even their very first meeting and the dreadful scene at the fence were somehow gathered in , redeemed and graced , as if reflected in the golden eyes of the ram . |
| 25 | Rather — for years — he had denied himself banality , as if disbelieving in the possibility of such physical transcendence . |
| 26 | The ‘ supply ’ curve is constructed from the relationship between and shown in the left-hand part of the diagram and that between and ( not shown ) . |
| 27 | And there are many more up and coming in the wings — thankfully . |
| 28 | By praying with and sharing in the enthusiasm of the Elect there is an opportunity for all to turn to God and find the Holy Spirit anew . |
| 29 | As fast as the stuff is dealt with and shoved in the out-tray , in comes another load . |
| 30 | Studies of cognition which seek to elucidate the nature or that cultural order which we might impose upon or recognize in the world may well be concerned with the classification of objects , but they generally fail to acknowledge , let alone address , the difference between artefacts such as cutlery which already incorporate categorization in their manufac-turer , and objects such as trees which do not ( e.g. Rosch 1978 : 30–5 ) . |