Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pos pn] [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These clubs did not necessarily take their sport in the spirit of fair play . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , Sarah , we can only put our trust in the Lord . ’ |
| 3 | Such a solution would only dilute their interest in the company . |
| 4 | The death of the Empress does not affect my opera in the least , for none of the theatres have been closed and plays are being performed as usual . |
| 5 | It is an uncontrolled shot and one which will definitely not enhance your reputation in the clubhouse ! |
| 6 | Yes , probably , but it did not lessen her joy in the past ten years of leisured , ladylike existence and in the arrival of innumerable small parcels . |
| 7 | With the spotlight on him , Mr Getty could no longer keep his bolt-hole in the Ritz private and was shortly settling into Sutton Place , the Duke of Sutherland 's Tudor manor house in Surrey , with seventy-two rooms and 750 acres . |
| 8 | No good asking Olga Stych ; she 'd just stick her nose in the air and say that Boyd was doing very well . |
| 9 | His friends could not see his face in the dark . |
| 10 | Their establishment is a matter for company policy rather than the salesperson 's discretion but , where offered , the salesperson should not under-estimate their importance in the sales presentation . |
| 11 | A LABOUR front-bencher has been told he can not marry his bride in the House of Commons crypt because they are both Roman Catholic . |
| 12 | Roscoe Boy , who won on his return a fortnight ago , has had a recurrence of foot problems and will not meet his engagement in the Puckeridge Ladies race . |
| 13 | Successive Labour spokesmen tried to establish that the Thatcher Government did not have its heart in the health service . |
| 14 | That is not to say that the other less thoroughbred horses do not have their place in the eventing world ! |
| 15 | Hence , his fifth wife , Yurike Sanger , did not have their status in the eyes of the Muslim community . |
| 16 | The trainer believes he still has time to get Rodrigo de Triano back to peak fitness for the 2,000 Guineas but stresses that the colt will not take his place in the Classic if the ground softens up : ‘ If there is even a touch of soft , he wo n't run ; he needs to have it like a road . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But what I ca n't understand is why they did n't just take our project in the first place . |
| 18 | It is a great burden for them if they can not share their uncertainty in the face of a complicated diagnosis , or their distress if they have to predict an inevitable death or permanent disability . |
| 19 | It is clear from the last sentence in the quotation that Mrs Whitehouse does not view her position in the way some of her critics have done in the past , as reactionary or illiberal . |
| 20 | It was symptomatic rather than part of the train of thought that led to his decision : Britain , as a great power , could not leave her security in the hands of the Americans , who , however friendly , could veer so unpredictably from generous international collaboration to self-centred isolationism . |
| 21 | Many teachers express concern that even their more able pupils do not fulfil their potential in the subject . |
| 22 | The Messianic Age will shortly reach its culmination in the return of Christ . |
| 23 | Would you be kind enough to just raise your hand in the air if you feel a little bit clearer . |
| 24 | You could just put your initial in the corner . |
| 25 | He added that Saudi Arabia would not reduce its output in the coming quarter , even if world oil prices were to fall . |
| 26 | Of course a certain amount of caution is necessary , for how else is the child to learn that he should not put his hand in the fire or stick his finger into an electric socket ? |
| 27 | Institutional shareholders prefer an employee trust to an option scheme , as it will not dilute their equity in the company ; this is because an option scheme established by a company usually provides for options to subscribe shares , whereas an employee trust can be empowered to grant options over shares already in issue and which come to be held by the trust , as where an employee leaves and sells his shares to the trustees . |
| 28 | Awareness of the social reality of the USSR , recognition that Soviet men and women experienced the same angst as those peoples living in pre-revolutionary societies disturbed Nizan but did not shake his faith in the ultimate justice and morality of the Soviet cause . |
| 29 | In Emendatio Vitae he deals with prayer , meditation and reading in that order , but in the actual chapter on contemplation he spells out a sequence which agrees with what he tells us of his own experience and which does not contradict his account in The Form . |
| 30 | He could still see her painting in the garden . |