Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the persecutions those who had most to lose in terms of this world 's goods were the rich Christians , whose property was liable to confiscation unless they ‘ apostatized ’ . |
| 2 | If pensioners , with potentially the most to lose in the rationing process , do not participate in discussions about rationing who should ? |
| 3 | AS the self-proclaimed party of law and order the Tories appear to have the most to lose in the emotive debate on escalating crime . |
| 4 | ‘ It gives Aston somewhere to go in the family , ’ notes Gauntlett . |
| 5 | Rose had moved back a little to stand in front of one of the shop windows , scanning the crowd with knowing eyes . |
| 6 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 7 | Henry Smith did not , however , follow this new British school , but chose rather to work in the theory of numbers and elliptic functions , in which the Germans were pre-eminent . |
| 8 | An early contestant for the role of heir apparent , Aleke Banda , a minister in the 1960s , was restricted to his village for several years before being partially rehabilitated only to fall in disgrace again in the mid 1980s . |
| 9 | For when you are dry , empty , sick , or weak , at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to me though you find little enough to enjoy in it ’ ’ |
| 10 | The American pair built a seemingly impregnable 6-1 , 4-0 lead , only to lose in three dramatic sets . |
| 11 | From that moment they have gone from strength to strength and last year reached the final of the Pilkington Cup only to lose in extra time . |
| 12 | Looking back over this early venture , it is easy enough to see in it the seeds of what was to come . |
| 13 | Home video shows him enjoying a family Christmas but detectives believe he did n't live long enough to see in the New Year . |
| 14 | There are several cotton shirts on the market which are practical yet stylish enough to wear in the city . |
| 15 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 16 | Labour 's National Investment Bank , operating on strictly commercial lines , will bring public and private sector together to invest in long-term regional and national infrastructure projects . |
| 17 | It 's laughable , afraid of a storm but brave enough to wait in the dark down by the river and bash your friend over the head . |
| 18 | I 'll see that she gets the letters , if you 'll be good enough to wait in the guard-room . ’ |
| 19 | Some deliberate fixed capacitance is incorporated in parallel with R 1 , firstly to make the performance sufficiently independent of connections to the output and , secondly , to render the value of C 2 that satisfies equation ( 8.3 ) large enough to implement in practice , especially when the attenuation is large so that and . |
| 20 | Two large hotels , the Victoria and the Royal appeared , to accommodate those who flocked to take the waters for the treatment of rheumatism , or merely to holiday in this new , unusual and tranquil place . |
| 21 | Do you feel well enough to sit in a chair ? ’ |
| 22 | One was a former radical socialist , Bernie Cornfeld , whose IOS venture was to make him very rich , and many of those rash enough to invest in it extremely poor . |
| 23 | As the year progresses it is hoped that companies will begin to feel confident enough to invest in new production and distribution facilities but the construction of new offices will remain subdued reflecting the stock of vacant buildings which still exist . |
| 24 | ‘ So , here I am , Uncle Orrin , ’ she had said gaily , ‘ your naughty niece , exiled because she was silly enough to fall in love with a poor man who was only interested in her money . |
| 25 | And if she was naïve enough to fall in love with him — so much the better . |
| 26 | The whole thing was delightful , almost a perfect work of art , yet small enough to enclose in the palm of his hand . |
| 27 | I decided that I had not come all this way only to indulge in polite conversation . |
| 28 | For I have only to hear an opera discussed , I have only to sit in a theatre , hear the orchestra tuning their instruments — oh , I am quite beside myself at once . |
| 29 | He was not often given words to speak , and had only to sit in the shade of his massive wings and stare into the middle distance and drift in his imagination to the four corners of the sky . |
| 30 | On Tuesday the Soviet parliament refused to accept this blanket ban , which it wanted confined to the railways and to other key industries , and only to remain in force until the new law on strikes was promulgated . |