Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here I would suggest that if the beginner does not want to invest in a full set , he should settle for the 3 , 5 , 7 and 9-irons , sand wedge , plus a 3 and a 5-wood . |
| 2 | she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want |
| 3 | Frankly , neither looked like the kind of man that a woman would want to meet in a dark street … or even darker car park . |
| 4 | We 'll need to put in a new suite . ’ |
| 5 | To a certain extent the pamphlet states the obvious , but it does at least focus thinking in a formal manner to the issue of 1992 . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it is interesting to note that the risk elements used by Fuqua are very similar to some of the elements one might expect to see in a strategic analysis of market attractiveness and competitive strengths . |
| 7 | At first sight , he was the kind of big , bull-headed Irish-American you 'd expect to see in a blue uniform directing traffic , but he had Cyprus pretty much in his pocket and was planning to retire there after he 'd put in his twenty years . |
| 8 | A quite important task is to try to show why the set of intensional patterns is not , as might at first appear , a haphazard collection but in fact the natural set that one would expect to find in a human language . |
| 9 | If all scientists were and remained normal scientists then a particular science would become trapped in a single paradigm and would never progress beyond it . |
| 10 | If you would like to work in a striped pattern , how about working in variegated stripes ? |
| 11 | ‘ So you 're saying the beetle did keep driving in a straight line — a straight line as far as he was concerned — in his two dimensions , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 12 | It is relief , I think , and we must marry soon , I can not bear to wait , and you wo n't mind living in a little house in Vetch Street when you are used to this , will you ? ’ |
| 13 | He did n't keep going in a straight line . |
| 14 | I would like to help in a general way with Friends ' events |
| 15 | Having selected a remedy it must now be given , but first I would like to put in a little reassurance . |
| 16 | It will appeal to people who would like to live in a large country house but who ca n't at the moment , and also to foreign customers who do n't have a base in this country |
| 17 | A lengthy article appeared in the Daily Telegraph entitled ‘ Would you like to live in a listed ruin ? ’ ; then pieces appeared in all the rest of the newspapers . |
| 18 | She felt her pulses begin to beat in a different rhythm . |
| 19 | Most of your fans though , will remain condemned in a lonely monologue with their distant idol … |
| 20 | Wynne Godley has been consistently the gloomiest economist operating in Britain , believing that the UK economy is suffering from severe structural weaknesses , and it will remain locked in a low growth and high unemployment pattern for years . |
| 21 | Most people do not want to vote in a right-wing government so much as to get rid of a discredited and deeply unpopular Socialist government . |
| 22 | They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course . |
| 23 | Did she hope to stand in a winnable seat at the next election ? |
| 24 | It just proves that you ca n't hope to turn in a worthy performance if you have n't done sufficient preparation . ’ |
| 25 | Words are not the only type of information we may wish to include in a computerised record of museum collections . |
| 26 | It can not be argued so categorically that this was the sole source of the style in the twelfth century or that it would not soon have developed in a similar manner elsewhere if the Île de France had not then produced it . |
| 27 | You do n't have to stand in a classic karate or boxing stance to kick or punch someone . |
| 28 | The gang would have come in a high-powered motor launch , not in an ordinary punt , hired from the boat-yard half a mile upstream . |
| 29 | Public opinion , though skewed to the right on many issues , has not moved further right between 1979 and 1989 , and may actually have moved in a contrary direction . |
| 30 | Voluntary work in the community can be just as useful as anything you may have done in a paid capacity . |