Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 2 | Slopes may lead but they do not break off or fall in the standard language . |
| 3 | Glass , however , may crystallize out or devitrify in the solid state if it 's left long enough , with myriads of tiny crystals forming and making it opaque . |
| 4 | Something like seventy five percent or sixty six or seventy five percent of the , of the units which we actually let , of the houses that we actually let , go to homeless families you know , it is a complete fiction to suggest , or even try and suggest as this does that somehow or other houses are being allocated willy-nilly to people who have massive resources who could go out and buy or rent in the private sector . |
| 5 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
| 6 | Possible definitions of co-ordinate are , to place or classify in the same order or rank ; to combine or integrate harmoniously . |
| 7 | She should be introduced with an air of pride and affection to your friends and neighbours if she does not know them already , accompanied to all the places locally which will be of special interest to her in the future : the public library , the shopping centre , the best places to go for morning coffee , and any small parks where she might like to walk or sit in the fine weather . |
| 8 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 9 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 10 | Nor was there a satisfactory body of analysis on matters of this kind : too many of the scholars concerned had preferred to write works that were ‘ reminiscent at times of complimentary toasts ’ rather than engage in the difficult task of examining the complex nature of nationality relations in real life . |
| 11 | Make suggestions for people I can go out and hassle in the first couple of days of the week . |
| 12 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 13 | It was enthralling entertainment prompted by United 's need to gamble and attack in the second half . |
| 14 | ‘ Because everybody goes and jumps in the river is no reason why we have to go and jump in the same river . ’ |
| 15 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |
| 16 | Central to our vision of the New Europe , therefore , is an industrial strategy which can enable us to compete and succeed in the modern world . |
| 17 | It is possible to land and look in the micro eddy to the right . |
| 18 | Grieco 's work is based on a detailed case study in the Northamptonshire steel town of Corby , and smaller studies of women in the fisheries industry in Aberdeen and of people migrating from the East End of London to live and work in the new town of Basildon , on London 's outer fringes . |
| 19 | I 'd like to go and work in the Old Bailey with a barrister |
| 20 | Turnout at general elections is seldom more than about 75 per cent so Gallup asked voters : How likely is it that you will go out and vote in the General Election ? |
| 21 | Nothing else would change , though , the north geographic pole would n't move , and if we were to go outside to check up , the sun would still rise and set in the same place , and the Pole Star would appear at night over the local gas works . |
| 22 | The second job of the day is to light the stove , a monument in itself , taking up a quarter of the thatched hut with its various extensions — a sill ( pod ) with an area for keeping dishes warm ( chestok ) , niches ( pechurki ) for small objects and matches , holes on the side for drying out leg and foot wrappings ( for lack of shoes ) , holes near the summit for reviving chilled hens in winter , and on the triumphal summit worn clothing on which to stretch out and sleep in the delicious warmth — ‘ U hholodnoi pechi ne sogreesh'sia ’ ( ‘ You ca n't heat yourself at a cold stove ’ ) . |
| 23 | try to arrange to live and sleep in the same room |
| 24 | Many will be eaten by other fish in the sea , but eventually the survivors will fight their way back up their own river to spawn and die in the very place where they were hatched . |
| 25 | I 'm going to have to clear up and go in the other room . |
| 26 | In six weeks , people gained the literacy skills to vote and participate in the political process ( Freire , 1973 ) . |
| 27 | It was n't as if I even wanted to sit down and write in the first place . |
| 28 | As in his earlier anthology , The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse ( 1984 ) , he sets out ‘ to question some of the deeply ingrained preconceptions about what it was possible to feel , think , and write in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 29 | Jan says he has a good feeling about swindon and is hungry to do well and play in the premier league |
| 30 | She slept deeply while they were on the motorway , but woke as he came into London and had to stop and start in the heavy evening traffic . |