Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [to-vb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guerilla campaigns and non-established religions tend to operate in this way . |
| 2 | Simply nervous trainers tend to stand in one spot , feeted feet rooted like a tree to the ground . |
| 3 | It is as if strict legal considerations seem to pull in one direction , while supposedly practical policy considerations point in another . |
| 4 | International : KGB signs up for Hollywood After the success of JFK , Russian spies start to trade in undercover past for over-the-counter assets |
| 5 | ‘ That 's exactly why Limnititzkers have to survive in this world . |
| 6 | Far Eastern companies continue to invest in promising fledgling US companies , and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has taken a 20% stake in Colorado Springs , Colorado-based Array Microsystems Inc ; the value of the investment was not disclosed . |
| 7 | ‘ The goodies have to travel in one coach , the baddies in another , ’ Harvey Goldsmith admitted . |
| 8 | He declared that the economic and political crisis had nothing to do with the " war of laws " with the republics [ see above ; pp. 37862-63 ] , commenting : " Republican governments refuse to work in blind obedience , but the central government has failed to see this , and by inertia it has pursued its policy of diktat . " |
| 9 | But as one leading ecologist pointed out , close-knit communities and their traditions tend to stay in greater harmony with the environment than modern urban society . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , left , battling Wedgwood Barlaston manage to smile in gracious defeat . |
| 11 | Evaluating the options will involve you in trying to make sense of builder 's estimates and technical specifications , but this is very much what managers have to do in real life , and we make no apology for getting you to do it too . |
| 12 | If you are involved in a business with overseas investments — and more and more businesses have to think in global market terms — you need to be conscious of the very rapidly changing international scene . |
| 13 | The jury will be ‘ death qualified ’ ( in the case of Alabama capital law ) : all jurors have to believe in capital punishment , and be prepared to sentence someone to death . |
| 14 | The system is also generally successful in keeping prisoners under control — except when prisoners decide to engage in collective protest action or riot . |
| 15 | Accepting that subordinates need to participate in objective setting since this produces motivation and commitment . |
| 16 | Does the Under-Secretary of State ever ask in relation to competitive tendering about the price patients have to pay in poorer food and dirtier hospitals ? |
| 17 | Children appear to wet in any phase of sleep except during REM ( rapid eye movement ) sleep ( Graham 1973 ) . |
| 18 | What did the German writers of the century preceding Nietzsche 's book hope to find in Greek antiquity ? |
| 19 | These issues continue to lurk in social experience today , but they do so in profoundly different ways . |
| 20 | The telling of the story is an inescapable mandate for the whole Church ; word accompanies deed as the kingdom throws its light ahead of its arrival and men and women seek to live in that light . |
| 21 | Not all students wish to specialize in one area of Art and Design ; some seek to make an informed study of several aspects of the disciplines . |
| 22 | The Labour Party like to indulge in political rhetoric concerning training and enterprise . |
| 23 | WACC 's Latin American/Caribbean Regional Association sent a strong message to the Haïtian authorities soon after the coup , and WACC-LA/C representatives continue to keep in close touch with the situation . |