Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Home video shows him enjoying a family Christmas but detectives believe he did n't live long enough to see in the New Year . |
| 3 | The adults are viviparous , producing active microfilariae that rest in the lungs during the day only to appear in the peripheral blood at night when the culex mosquito host is active . |
| 4 | Michael Hughes — bright new star Nigel Worthington believes the developing Northern Ireland side is good enough to challenge in the next World Cup |
| 5 | as if the jungle and the heat and the blasted " yellows " were not enough to endure in the godforsaken tropics ! |
| 6 | The new line ranges from the 99/711 , 721 and 731 with one , two and three processors , available next quarter , through the dyadic and two-plus-one 822 and 832 for the fourth quarter to the 941 , with four processors in single image configuration , and the 99/982 doubled-up version of that , plus two-plus-two , three-plus-two , three-plus-three and four-plus-three variants , the 942 , 952 , 962 , 972 and 982 , all to ship in the third quarter . |
| 7 | It 's quite amusing , the England players have erm , got a second row and he 's not big enough to play in the second row for England |
| 8 | He had felt no pain , nor had any indication that , even though he appeared fit enough to play in the First Division , he was about to become a victim of coronary problems . |
| 9 | Mr Van de Velde stresses than any player not fit enough to play in the first round of the Premiership on April 26 will not be considered for the final . |
| 10 | Their lordships held that ‘ they had jurisdiction so to do in the exceptional circumstances of the case provided the conditions were specific ’ ( The Times , 24 Oct. , 1974 , p. 10 ) . |
| 11 | In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass . |
| 12 | Let us pass the word along and come together to fight in the only way left open to us — the way the church has always been meant to fight — behind enemy lines . |
| 13 | — When Manjiku comes , she shuts her eyes and lets herself fall down his throat past the barbed teeth and come down to land in the foul bilgewater in his gut . |
| 14 | A merger is defined to be a business combination in which , rather than one party acquiring control of another , the parties come together to share in the future risks and benefits of the combined entity . |
| 15 | It is a curious fact that the poor benighted people who were unfortunate enough to live in the rural wetlands did not seem to share the prejudices of their visitors at all . |
| 16 | I can say this because I am lucky enough to live in the other gulf — the gulf between the personal and the political — that such events open up . |
| 17 | The very aromatic nature of the Arbanne suggests it might well be an ancient variant of the Chardonnay Blanc Musque or , possibly , the Muscadelle of Bordeaux , both of which ripen early enough to survive in the southern extremities of Champagne . |
| 18 | She put her name down to speak in the great debate about the state of the English Faculty that was held in the University Senate ; and in the Cambridge University Reporter for the 18th February , 1981 , occupying a column and a half of small print , sandwiched between contributions from two of the University 's most distinguished professors , you may find Robyn 's impassioned plea for a radical theorization of the syllabus . |
| 19 | The primary aim of the central bank is to work closely with the government and so to operate in the public interest . |
| 20 | In making this grant to Charles , Louis the Pious was asserting this son 's special status within the family : though the last-born , Charles was now , so to speak in the primogenitus slot . |
| 21 | Drifting outside to sit in the cooler evening air , Ace , Benny and Petion chatted together . |
| 22 | Basinger had testified in the civil lawsuit that no contract existed and that she had chosen not to appear in the unreleased film because she would have been required to perform in gratuitous sex scenes . |
| 23 | If he acts solely from self-interest , then there are good reasons for expecting him not to participate in the democratic process . |
| 24 | General Etienne not only had to duck , but also had to hunch his shoulders in , just to fit in the narrow tunnel that led from the palace cellars . |
| 25 | This was a figure of actual spending that a department was not to overshoot in the coming year whatever happened to prices or the wages and salaries of its employees in the interim . |
| 26 | The heir tossed the creature in a well and went away to fight in the Holy Land . |
| 27 | Those lacking this knowledge tended not to succeed in the first graduation step and usually were to be seen a year or so later in either group D or E. |
| 28 | Just like it 's common sense not to lie in the Caribbean sun too long . ’ |
| 29 | The reasons for failure in these projects tend not to lie in the technical side , though the technology is complex , nor in the economic side , though the cost of these systems is very high . |
| 30 | Comrades were unlucky not to score in the 11th minute , Colin Crawford picking out Eddie Patterson whose snap shot was turned for a corner by Mark Gillespie , in for the dropped Stephen Eachus . |