Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the numbers are sufficient to precipitate Type I disease in calves 3-4 weeks after they are turned out to graze in the spring . |
| 2 | She was given a parasol against the sun and when she had been shown how to recline in the litter , six dark-faced bearers lifted her up and began trotting barefoot through the city with guards running before and behind . |
| 3 | After their first encounter , the couple began seeing one another regularly , but the romance fizzled out after Mr Clinton returned to America , believing he had been called up to fight in the Vietnam war . |
| 4 | She had showered and put on a tracksuit , having been called down to help in the kitchen before getting into something more elegant . |
| 5 | This group of NFL stalwarts were in Scotland as part of the World Partnership programme which has been set up to assist in the development of American football at amateur level in Europe . |
| 6 | It argues , in no uncertain terms , that levels of exploitation undreamed of outside the sweatshops of the Third World are coming home to roost in the depressed urban ghettos of the West . |
| 7 | ‘ People are coming back to work in the office downstairs from Monday , you know . |
| 8 | Today we may find his attitude most approachable when it is oblique , as it is in Mr Midshipman Easy , when the sense and reason behind naval rules and regulations are stated through the absurd mistakes , misconceptions and malfeasances of a youth who has been brought up to believe in the ideal of total equality . |
| 9 | I 'm going back to live in the studio , Klein . |
| 10 | Almost 1 million people will be helped back to work in the coming year by employment and training programmes . |
| 11 | Secondly the allowance for inflation was based on a three per cent price increase and because of the very competitive nature of the prices we receive for maintenance work a sum of two hundred and seventy thousand pounds can be carried forward into next year from this allowance , in other words the real purchasing power of the budget have been maintained and two hundred and seventy thousand pounds can be put aside to stand in the future . |
| 12 | And , since he took as starting points the avoidance of waste and of idleness , he argued : let care be taken not to leave in the instance of any individual whatever the smallest fragment of ability unemployed . " |
| 13 | The degradation of many soils such as those in East Anglia , England , to the extent that they are scarcely more than a physical retention medium for chemical fertiliser and moisture ( Kirkby 1980 ) , does not have the same social and economic impact as degradation of soils where the land users do not have , and may be predicted not to have in the future , the resources to make good the degradation by the application of massive doses of fertiliser ( see also Heathcote 1980 , Rennie 1982 ) . |
| 14 | They were instructed not to interfere in the internal politics of Indonesia but to hand over , in due time , to the legitimate authority : that is , the Netherlands . |
| 15 | The men called to pick up their holiday pay and were told not to return in the New Year . |
| 16 | As late as 1792 , Sir Robert Ainslie , Murray 's successor , complained that by not being called on to mediate in the peace negotiations which had just produced the Russo-Turkish treaty of Jassy he had lost the opportunity to make about £30,000 in presents from both sides , though this was probably a great exaggeration . |
| 17 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 18 | The Secretary-General was asked to organize an air bridge for food aid as a matter of urgency , and all parties and factions were called on to co-operate in the deployment of UN security personnel . |
| 19 | Claudia felt as if she were running hard to remain in the same place . |
| 20 | The pair were pitched together to play in the opening two rounds , and while Couples collapsed with a 77 , Faldo reduced their duel in the sun to a calculated ambush . |
| 21 | But he wants all the facts to be presented to the committee before a corporate decision is made not to invest in the UK . ’ |
| 22 | It is used primarily to assist in the UK ‘ Grand Challenge ’ , a government initiative designed to have computers solve some of the fundamental problems in physics and engineering . |
| 23 | Microsoft is fighting hard to compete in the PC network market with their Lan Manager . |
| 24 | What was really getting to him was the fact that alien-fever was proving hard to eradicate in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 25 | ‘ I was starting to make the Sunday dinner and Brian said he was going out to play in the park . |
| 26 | If she misbehaved , she was packed off to sleep in the old people 's home in another part of the building — a terrifying prospect for a girl with such a vivid imagination . |
| 27 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 28 | A policy decision was taken not to bid in the standard commercial power electronics market , but to concentrate in the more specialised nuclear and petrochemical sector where the company 's strengths lie . |
| 29 | ‘ In the primary-school playground , of course , when I was singled out to stand in the centre of a ring while a dozen sweet-faced little girls danced round me chanting ‘ Shannon 's dad 's a robber . ’ ' |