Example sentences of "[vb infin] in [adj] [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it is difficult to see why employers in all countries would behave in this way if it was not to their advantage . |
| 2 | Otherwise I fear you must wait in closer confinement till I come back , for I 'll trust no one but myself to keep you safe for me . |
| 3 | We are of course aware that educational levels may be important at some stage , but we do not pre-classify in this way because we do not assume beforehand that we know the sociolinguistic structure of the speech community : this is what we are trying to find out ! |
| 4 | It is evident that Ollier ( 1981 ) , although making a plea for a more evolutionary geomorphology , does not cite the quantitatively expressed geophysical research and it seems unlikely that geomorphology can contribute in such areas unless it is willing to adopt the methods and language of other practitioners . |
| 5 | Standing awkwardly on one leg , she looked round for her other shoe and could only watch in helpless despair as she saw it slowly sink . |
| 6 | I mean the next thing they 'd want to do is to come in and do in this kitchen before you do any cooking for yourself |
| 7 | Rural trade unions do not feature in official statistics as they are considered illegal . |
| 8 | This coolness arises in part from fear of the opponents , who have the laws on their side , and partly from the incredulity of men , who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them . |
| 9 | But we shall see in 200 years if I am right . ’ |
| 10 | There are other ways people have tried to protect the minority , one is by saying that the , that you can generate a certain set of rights from within the democratic procedure in a different way , that is if democracies flourish people need certain liberties , people need to express their own opinions , people need to be able to do what erm assemble where they need to and so on but more common is the view that democracy should be limited by constitutional would present the minority and this is a view that Mill does n't really defend in representative government although it seems to be very close to his view and on liberty , that is we limit the spear that this government has control over so we ca n't , so in this view erm democracy is given a very limited role . |
| 11 | She must concentrate hard so she could report in full detail when she got back to her eager students . |
| 12 | If this is carried out after a period of exercise your dog may readily remain in this position since it may be relatively tired . |
| 13 | Other believing people will say that they really can not answer in that way because it does not seem to fit with other messages in the New Testament of people being held to account ‘ in the latter days ’ . |
| 14 | The cartographic data must exist in digital format before they can be used within a GIS ; although the amount of digital map data is growing larger a considerable amount of manual digitizing is needed in practice to provide the database necessary for a successful GIS . |
| 15 | They will disagree in some cases because they disagree about the likely consequences of a particular rule , and in others because they have different visions of what a good community is like . |
| 16 | In this respect Locke is not an empiricist : he does not think that geometrical knowledge or , for that matter , the knowledge we would have in natural philosophy if we knew the real essences of substances , is empty and trivial . |
| 17 | Ultimate has installed about 50 systems to date in the Commonwealth of Independent States ; Almazjuvelir Export can pay in hard currency because it exports over $1,000m annually in jewellery , precious metals and gemstones and holds exclusive rights to manufacture reproductions of the Faberge eggs . |
| 18 | ‘ They live to get to 18 so they can vote and be an adult member of society , and suddenly they find that they ca n't drink in local hostelries until they are 21 , ’ he said . |
| 19 | She raked his face with her nails , digging at his eyes , making him scream in renewed agony as she sheared a portion from his lower eyelid . |
| 20 | Er we 're not gon na go in five minutes unless you 're sitting quietly |
| 21 | You could really get in most houses if you really wanted |
| 22 | ‘ I could n't live in this mess if I had a woman , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Club president David Burrows said : ‘ I believe we could squeeze in 2,000 people providing we erected temporary seating but we will have to talk to Northampton to estimate how many fans they will bring . ’ |
| 24 | Charity did n't deal in small talk so she did n't bother to play that game . |
| 25 | These pellets may accumulate in great concentrations if they are deposited from regular nest or roost sites ( Southern , 1954 ; Lockie , 1955 ; Dare , 1961 ; Simms , 1961 ; McNally , 1964 ; Dean , 1973 ; Glue , 1971,1977 ; Glue & Hammond , 1974 ) . |