Example sentences of "[vb base] in [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If possible they sleep in cots near the computer . ’ |
| 2 | They may stay in bed to all hours , slump in front of the television and expect to be waited on hand , foot and finger . |
| 3 | We find little solace at home but go out again in search of mass entertainment or slump in front of the television , seeking not to think but to forget . |
| 4 | Despite the egress of isolated specimens , museum collections grow in proportion to the director 's burden of deciding what to accept . |
| 5 | The four first grow in quantities on the steep banks of the rivers in Jamaica , and are generally supposed to drop into the water , and to be carried into the sea ; from thence , by tides and currents , and the predominency of the East wind , to he forced through the gulf of Florida , into the North-American ocean , in the same manner as the Saragosso , a plant growing on the rocks of the seas of Jamaica . |
| 6 | The four first grow in quantities on the steep banks of the rivers in Jamaica , and are generally supposed to drop into the water , and to be carried into the sea ; from thence , by tides and currents , and the predominency of the East wind , to he forced through the gulf of Florida , into the North-American ocean , in the same manner as the Saragosso , a plant growing on the rocks of the seas of Jamaica . |
| 7 | The slugs thus grow in length at the expense of the non-turbulent region . |
| 8 | A favourite plant in the frescoes is the papyrus , treated in various decorative ways : but the papyrus did not , as far as we know , grow in Crete in the Minoan period , so the frescoes do not factually depict the Cretan landscape . |
| 9 | The band also appear in Paris at the Bataclan . |
| 10 | This explains , incidentally , why CDs appear in definitions of the money supply such as M3 . |
| 11 | NB Add to this list any qualities which repeatedly appear in descriptions of the type of work you are interested in . |
| 12 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the megalomania of early divine kingships without , at the time , seeing its relation to the depressive aspects of the early agriculture on which these institutions were based.ll Nevertheless , it is now clear , as I hope to show , that the two opposite types of symptom do in fact appear in connection with the coming of agriculture and , which is more to the point for our present concerns , that this is a phenomenon not without relevance to the understanding of the modern world . |
| 13 | In living lizards and crocodiles , new teeth appear in sequence below the functional teeth , which are effectively dead , and force them out periodically . |
| 14 | It is important to note in particular that although much is said and written about directives ( as indeed will be the case later in this article ) , they are much less numerous than regulations , which appear in effect as the most frequently used Community legislative instrument . |
| 15 | Once provided , two general trends are obvious : first , the intra-mural zone remained or soon became relatively well built-up , and second , there was no obvious contraction or shift in emphasis within the extra-mural zone prior to the mid fourth century at least . |
| 16 | I had to promise mum I 'd write to each of them , and apologise in person at the first possible opportunity , and also that I 'd stop off at Lochgair before I returned to Glasgow , to see dad . |
| 17 | Physical gratification often plays a contributing role in the exercise of persuasion : what does the marketing manager expect in return for the expensive lunch she 's buying you ? |
| 18 | The Mazda club , based in Hiroshima , want in time for the start of their season . |
| 19 | Miss Taylor , I 've always wanted to ask you — what do you have to think of to make yourself cry in front of the camera ? |
| 20 | Tension over the status of the territory continued in 1990 , continuing allegations from Logologofolau that his elected colleagues , together with the traditional chiefs , were not being given a sufficient say in decision-making by the French-appointed Chief Administrator . |
| 21 | Sterling was given an office at the Department of Trade and Industry , where he advised on industrial policy , and had a big say in plans for the future of broadcasting . |
| 22 | well then my Lord ah my Lord not all objective criteria and this I think is very important because you can have objective criterias as I , as I submitted last week that would be erm in order to trade in this market you must have capital of twenty million pounds and ten years experience , but that 's uniform rule , it does n't discriminate it 's objective , but it would be anti competitive because here you are setting up the most important market er in this , erm as they say in Europe for the project futures market and you 're excluding people who could be in there trading and who could be effecting the market |
| 23 | No , I would n't say I did , and I would n't say that 's what I was looking for , particularly , because again I mean it 's a much abused notion that perhaps that class disappears in postwar Britain , I think that 's a political issue that was an attempt to make it look as if class was disappearing , class differences rather , but I think there is a lot of evening out , there 's not the stark differences of the quality of life of furnishings that you would have found say in homes before the war . |
| 24 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |
| 25 | The store manager has no say in objectives of the organisation . |
| 26 | Unions have a 40 per cent say in elections for the leader and deputy leader , and a stake of up to 40 per cent in the ballots for parliamentary candidates . |
| 27 | The Man 's model pop puppets pose in front of the model ( global ) village |
| 28 | Written by Dom Pérignon 's pupil and immediate successor at Hautvillers , the treatise must be regarded as the most authoritative contemporary account , not only of the state of viticulture and viniculture in Champagne in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries , but also of Dom Pérignon 's particular contribution to the art of winemaking . |
| 29 | Hoards of young fans descend in files through the traffic , their legs scissoring the dusty car beams into shafts of ever-changing swirls of marbled light . |
| 30 | Tap in place with the club hammer handle and check with a spirit level as work progresses . |