Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pos pn] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd better answer your questions in case you 're tempted to make up the answers . ’ |
| 2 | As an American I can only hang my head in shame over the Bill Clinton sex scandal . |
| 3 | The CML also queried the legal basis of grant limitation in view of ‘ the Law Society 's duty not to unjustifiably fetter its discretion in respect of the operation of the fund ’ . |
| 4 | He finished the glass of Kir and decided that he had better see his controller in person . |
| 5 | A discourse analyst may regularly work with extended extracts of conversational speech , for example , but he does not consider his data in isolation from the descriptions and insights provided by sentence-grammarians . |
| 6 | The young in West Belfast know their rights in relation to the RUC and British army , but they do not know their rights in relation to jobs . |
| 7 | He would not neglect his wife in favour of his work , nor his work in favour of his wife . |
| 8 | She will leave , take the children with her and is often in no hurry to take on another man who can not give her caring in return . |
| 9 | The visibility was so bad even after dawn that ‘ you could not see your fingers in front of your face ’ . |
| 10 | What I did not realise when I bought the house was that in the winter , and sometimes in the summer , the fog rolls thickly in and you can not see your hand in front of your face . |
| 11 | David Howell did not remember his time in Cabinet with much pleasure — ‘ some arguments just left such acrimony and ill-feeling that I ca n't believe they really could have been enjoyable … |
| 12 | File it alongside ‘ I 'll put you in motion pictures ’ , ‘ I could immortalise you in paint ’ , ‘ I can just see your neck in marble ’ , etc , etc . |
| 13 | But it is useless to start deciding which aspects of behaviour did or did not have their origin in sex . |
| 14 | I ca n't swear to the following but the headmaster said Basil was undoubtedly a gentleman , but he 'd rather not have his brother in case he turned out the same . |
| 15 | But Tudor sovereigns did not take their decisions in isolation from pressure and advice . |
| 16 | Haydn was ill and could not complete his commission in time , so Mozart finished it for him . |
| 17 | ‘ We can be certain that the designer of Class AA ( an undergraduate student ) did not read your article in Wireless World unless it was translated into Japanese ; he can not , read , write or speak English . |
| 18 | You will not mention our name in connection with this order or disclose the existence of this order in any publicity material or other similar communication to third parties without our prior consent in writing . |
| 19 | Solicitors who do not tell their clients in advance as much as they can about the likely cost of a piece of work — or exceed an estimate without notice — are now at risk of having their charges reduced by the Law Society under its powers to penalise Inadequate Professional Services . |
| 20 | Do not disguise your intentions in order to achieve your own ends as doing this only feeds the negativity within you . |
| 21 | The Romanian students were prevented from attending by their communist rulers , while the Irish could not solve their differences in order to send a team . |
| 22 | And we had best get our fences in order , you and I. ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Might I just put my ego in formalin and send it to him ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You can not live your life in fear that someone is going to attack you . |
| 25 | Yet we must not get their faith in witchcraft and magic out of proportion . |
| 26 | He must not put his life in danger by staying here . ’ |
| 27 | Bradl does not mince his words in German though . |
| 28 | But if artists and art critics go on nursing their grudge against everything Soviet and do not combine their efforts in order to organise a museum of Soviet culture , which would highlight the Soviet variant of Socialism , this artistic phenomenon will inevitably disappear like the notorious armoured car . |
| 29 | May we not waste our lives in jealousy and greed , but play our part in working towards a more just and equitable future where resources can be divided equally between all the peoples of the world . |
| 30 | Consequently it is important to critically examine its basis in reality . |