Example sentences of "[vb infin] in [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know of any league penalty regarding players not turning up and not letting their opponents know in good time that they will not be playing . |
| 2 | Yet it is difficult to see why employers in all countries would behave in this way if it was not to their advantage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 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 | It is important to make a definite decision about this right from the start , without letting her feel in any way that she is being given a weekly or monthly ‘ ration ’ of her family 's free time , as a duty rather than a pleasure . |
| 7 | This made me feel in later life that I was very unattractive , because I had had so many negative thoughts about my appearance earlier in my life . |
| 8 | The pressure — it 'll be off them , they are no longer champions — but let's remember they did finish in fourth place and I 've got a feeling that they 're not giving anything away at Oxford Speedway , because they never do . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | False starts do occur in written language but they are far less common . |
| 11 | She 'd always done very well , had lots of friends , been very settled , nothing to make me believe in any way that she was disturbed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She must concentrate hard so she could report in full detail when she got back to her eager students . |
| 14 | If this is carried out after a period of exercise your dog may readily remain in this position since it may be relatively tired . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | One might answer in this case that it is also a typical feature of speech , so should probably be analysed as a contraction and for this reason avoided in academic writing — even if one accepts the idea of a regional/class standard . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It has of course been said that it is possible to practice veterinary medicine and that many doctors do not communicate in any language but it has to be said that there is room for improvement . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And a family of nephews — ’ another hesitation — ‘ and a niece — ’ Noreen looked up at this , and almost defied the Bishop with her stare , ‘ — that do him much credit in this world and I trust will be of some satisfaction to his account in the next . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 24 | Now you may argue that he always had equal right provided he did not indulge in anal intercourse and I would agree with you . |
| 25 | ‘ I could n't live in this mess if I had a woman , ’ he said . |
| 26 | And one thing we will learn from it I think , if we 're honest with ourselves , and we put , and try and save up and have a piece on the end there , but the one thing I think we will perhaps come to , and the one conclusion we may come to , is the fact that whilst we , we do live in this world and I absolutely agree that if somebody says , look I need to see a new as well , I need to see you now , or I need to see you tomorrow , that 'll be difficult , O K , and that 's the immediacy of the business . |
| 27 | I know that I could suffer in that way but I hope I will be able to cope , ’ she added . |
| 28 | Charity did n't deal in small talk so she did n't bother to play that game . |