Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When geometry is being described , rather than function , we find it easiest to communicate in pictures . |
| 2 | Gradually weight loss occurs despite a good diet , and in the final stages the person ceases to recognise the family or even the self in the mirror , loses bladder and bowel control , any capacity for self-care or ability to communicate in words . |
| 3 | Obviously a great deal will depend on the ability the clergyman to communicate in ways the family find helpful so that they feel they are central to these arrangements . |
| 4 | Coulommiers is a small Brie , eaten very young when the surface mould is only just starting to appear , and Fongeru is similar but ripened in fronds of bracken and very difficult to obtain . |
| 5 | The model suggests that during this step the entire gamut of issues embedded in the defined change problem must be identified , analyzed , and prioritized in terms of any probable domino effects . |
| 6 | Throughout RX each problem is analysed in the same way , with possible solutions evaluated and prioritized in terms of the relative costs of conformance and non-conformance . |
| 7 | The kind of things that they make may reflect ideas that they encounter in stories , rhymes or visits . |
| 8 | Our thoughts are with the circles of family and friends that you have given us , and we pray for those we meet , our neighbours , the people we work with , those we encounter in shops and businesses . |
| 9 | The socialisation process pupils encounter in schools therefore involves not only the acquisition of formally defined skills , but also the gaining of many other social skills , such as learning how to live in a group and how to respond to those in authority . |
| 10 | This becomes evident if one considers the goods we encounter in terms of some fairly simple criteria . |
| 11 | Cool pastry for 5mins , then beat in eggs one at a time until mixture is firm , glossy and elastic . |
| 12 | Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy , then beat in eggs , a little at a time . |
| 13 | Gradually beat in yolks . |
| 14 | Remove from heat and beat in sugars , syrup , eggs , milk and peanuts . |
| 15 | Many birds nest and sleep in hedges and eat insect pests . |
| 16 | After the Macleods ' modest grandeur and great hospitality , Raasay House became a hotel , and now the bare boards of the Adventure School thud with young feet ; they sleep in bunks and merry community where Johnson had a room to himself , which , as he told Mrs Thrale , ‘ in eleven rooms to forty people was more than my share ’ . |
| 17 | Group members keep up a complicated running commentary of grunts , squeaks and squeals , often huddle up together , and sometimes sleep in heaps . |
| 18 | If possible they sleep in cots near the computer . ’ |
| 19 | However , Mandela in an address to the General Assembly on Dec. 3 called for the maintenance of economic sanctions , arguing that they should only be lifted in phases corresponding to actual progress . |
| 20 | They should be carefully lifted in clumps , teased apart , and then pricked out into conventional plastic trays and submerged so that the compost is about 2.5 cm ( 1 in ) beneath the surface of the water . |
| 21 | Size ( patella-tibia measured under a binocular microscope ) ranged in males from 2.3 to 8.1mm with a mean ( s.d. ) of 4.9 1.5mm ( n =24 ) ; dominant males were larger : 6.1 0.9mm ( n =10 ) . |
| 22 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 23 | Even so , it was agony to shuffle in slippers into the chapel for Compline . |
| 24 | Will did n't act in plays now . |
| 25 | Atoms and molecules do not act in terms of meanings , they simply react to external stimuli . |
| 26 | Yes , Mr Gorbachev would say , but look at the capitalist misery it causes in places like Poland and eastern Germany . |
| 27 | The increasing collection of different species of trees and plants , skilfully grouped by season or by collections of single types of trees , and designed in glades , avenues , and drives caused the eventual expansion of the arboretum to 600 acres . |
| 28 | A room laid out in rows with the teacher 's desk centre front suggests a more didactic approach than one designed in groups with the teacher 's desk less prominent . |
| 29 | All subsequent sections of colour for the background must be designed in multiples of two , but the last section , where the upper portion of the pattern will join the first section , must also be an odd number . |
| 30 | We believe the scheme is well designed in terms of both its objectives and its means of delivery . |