Example sentences of "[vb infin] in [adj] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Australia the thylacine , or marsupial " wolf " ( often called the Tasmanian wolf because it survived in Tasmania for a little longer than in mainland Australia ) , was tragically driven extinct within living memory , slaughtered in enormous numbers as a " pest " and for " sport " by humans ( there is a slight hope that it may still survive in remote parts of Tasmania , areas which themselves are now threatened with destruction in the interests of providing " employment " for humans ) . |
| 2 | Most digital signal design application programs have emanated from US ( reviews of a number of these products will appear in forthcoming editions of EW + WW ) . |
| 3 | The General Assembly made the following commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi : ‘ We renew the covenant to be keepers of one another , to honour the Treaty , its obligations and promises , that justice and peace may cover our land that our life together may grow in new forms of partnership . ’ |
| 4 | The declaration that two parts assemble together will result in two levels of activity . |
| 5 | Changes in phytoplankton community structure could also result in higher rates of production per unit biomass . |
| 6 | Similarly , what we might call a ‘ social accident ’ , can result in radical alterations of relations within society . |
| 7 | The Government promised to consult the disabled persons transport advisory committee on the introduction of new regulations that would result in better standards of accessibility to buses for the handicapped and the disabled . |
| 8 | While Belous and Hartley are reasonably satisfied that the creation of the SEM will not result in high levels of trade diversion , at least for the USA , they are less sure about the possibility of the growth of protectionist policies connected to the SEM ( see chapters 10 and 13 ) . |
| 9 | Equally , the fact that in the case of machine-readable files technological advances reduces the need for archival records and their users to be located in physical proximity to one another , the possibility to link and integrate electronic cold-stores removed from the archive per se may result in significant economies of scale ( Morris 1992 ) . |
| 10 | Severe lipaemia due to chronic alcohol abuse may result in recurrent attacks of pancreatitis and diabetes mellitus . |
| 11 | The inherent discipline of this type of monetary union could theoretically result in common rates of interest and inflation and , therefore , de facto fixed exchange rates . |
| 12 | I use it only because of what it can become in later stages of evolution : the power of a snake 's fang , for instance , to propagate ( by its indirect consequences on snake survival ) DNA coding for fangs . |
| 13 | Abnormalities of gastrointestinal motility may occur in all forms of amyloidosis and intestinal pseudo-obstruction has been reported in secondary or primary amyloidosis , including amyloidosis associated with multiple myeloma . |
| 14 | Hence the everyday , practical choices which must occur in all branches of science are rendered especially visible in this case . |
| 15 | Yes I w I I would think so I mean it it wo n't occur in five minutes of course erm and I I would still say that I would like to see them in the six yard box more often . |
| 16 | Full reports and details of the Award ceremonies will follow in future editions of Link . |
| 17 | Such a breach of confidence could rebound in all sorts of directions . |
| 18 | It 's great to see them perform in those kinds of circumstances . |
| 19 | There can be no doubt that the liabilities which the drafter might seek to exclude or restrict in standard terms of trading will be " business liabilities " and any exclusions in such standard terms are therefore potentially subject to the Act . |
| 20 | It is worth noting too that it can arise in different types of trust , either in a simple trust for restitution , for instance on death ; or in a continuing trust such as the fideicommissa familiae relicta discussed in Chapter IV , in which each successive beneficiary is at the same time a trustee for other family members . |
| 21 | This type of situation may exist in other cases of language interaction , but it is not universal : in any event , the model seems " leaky " and has yet to be demonstrated to be valid in any bilingual community where code switching occurs . |
| 22 | This problem was also before the Roman lawyers and it must exist in all systems of law . |
| 23 | If one is to recognize that there are applied linguists and language teachers in the world identifiable by the difference of role they play ( even though these roles may exist in different degrees of convergence ) then the division of responsibility which corresponds with appraisal and application seems to be just about the only one to make . |
| 24 | But subsection ( 3 ) then provides that such duty shall not apply in three sets of circumstances . |
| 25 | I wondered what would happen in lower grades of cricket , for instance . |
| 26 | It can take in all sorts of people . |
| 27 | He was ultimately allowed £49,752 of such ‘ pretences ’ , but as an ex gratia payment which did not take in further claims of £46,803 . |
| 28 | Another point that might be made about the relationship between the ‘ form-words ’ of grammar and the ‘ full words ’ of lexis is that it follows from the kind of auxiliary , context-complementary function of grammar being proposed here that the proportional occurrence of these words will vary in different kinds of discourse . |
| 29 | The great thing about library music is that it is fairly non-commital : you can go in all kinds of directions and you 're asked to provide music in a certain style , which may not be the sort of thing you would do naturally , but it 's still enjoyable to do . |
| 30 | Six miles away at the RSPB reserve at Loch Garten , you can see the nesting ospreys and in the adjoining Abernethy Forest you can walk in 21,000 acres of mountain , moorland and native pine forest . |