Example sentences of "[vb infin] in a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the lift generated will act in a diametrically opposite direction when the rotation of the cylinder is reversed . |
| 2 | This is surely a general result , that if the management left to itself would act in a socially optimal way along the lines represented in ( 4.1 ) , it is fatuous , indeed counterproductive , to constrain it . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid I might behave in a rather cowardly fashion . |
| 4 | Your model will now behave in a perfectly normal manner , but the other way up . |
| 5 | ‘ And we both know that can make people behave in a very strange way , ’ he said drily . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Risk was seen as being a possible focus for dissent on the Board , as someone who would interfere with hard decisions that might have to be made about Distillers , and who would , therefore , behave in a more executive role than had been envisaged , rather than as a figurehead . |
| 7 | I 'll try and behave in a more grown-up fashion … " |
| 8 | Also , even bureaucrats , those Weberian embodiments of modernity , do not behave in a purely rational-legal manner , we shall find . |
| 9 | The zebra loach has become so specialized that it can not survive in a less turbulent environment . |
| 10 | Your father ? ’ 'He never speaks of Uncle Adam either , but he does n't speak in a very different way , if you follow me . |
| 11 | The producer had the idea that I should appear in a simply ludicrous costume : a German trench coat , knee-length open boots , a black leotard with the upper part of the thighs naked , and hair like Marlene Dietrich ! |
| 12 | And of a truth vile Epicurism and Sensuality will make the soul of man so degenerate and blinde , that he will not only be content to slide into brutish immorality , but please himself of this very opinion that he is a real Brute already , an Ape , Satyre , Baboon ; and that the best of men are no better , saving that civilising of them and industrious education has made them appear in a more refined shape , and long inculcate precepts have been mistaken for connate Principles of Honesty and Natural Knowledge , otherwise there be no indespensible grounds of Religion and Virtue , but what has hapned to be taken up by overruling Custome . |
| 13 | Occasionally the demands of senior politics and junior fun could clash in a more direct way . |
| 14 | Let me finish in a very positive note in saying that I 'm as concerned as the speaker to which I reply that that day will be reached and reached soon , please God , when we can sit down together and share fully in the sacrament of the lord 's supper . |
| 15 | If the summer weather has brought out your sporty side , do n't feel you 've got to rush out and invest in a bank-breakingly expensive pair of trainers . |
| 16 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 17 | But the edge of the disc moving towards the Earth will result in a slightly different shift from that of the disc moving away from the Earth . |
| 18 | Generally those xenobiotic enzymes that are expressed in normal colon are present in small quantities ( our finding of patchy focal staining of surface epithelium would support this ) and it has been suggested that the low level of expression of biotransformation enzymes in normal colon could result in a critically low detoxification value , and hence increase the chances of carcinogenesis taking place in this tissue . |
| 19 | It might result in a variety of a certain species , but it could never result in a completely new species . |
| 20 | The first will result in a very high-performance processor code-named TFP , designed for technical computing . |
| 21 | As explained in Section 5.3.3 , this can result in a very simple spectrum , due to emission from a single vibrational level of the electronically-excited state to various vibrational levels of the electronic ground state , as shown in Fig. 6.19 . |
| 22 | The former might result in a totally false comparison with outside sources . |
| 23 | However , re-use of interface details will not necessarily result in a substantially similar expression and , in the example in Figure 3 , the expression ( program listings and structure ) may be quite different . |
| 24 | Transfer from local authorities to voluntary organisations would result in a less equitable distribution of resources , and it is difficult to see how the shortcomings of the voluntary sector could be sufficiently modified to make voluntary organisations an acceptable alternative to local authorities as providers of community care services . |
| 25 | The Climbers Club guidebook setup has been undergoing changes that should result in a much smoother flow of up to date guides without the huge time-lags that have recently featured between one volume selling out and the next one being published . |
| 26 | This can result in a relatively rapid turnover of cultural fashions , as one project of this kind succeeds another , and this area of relatively rapid innovation — often of a minor kind — has been important in the later twentieth century , as a direct function of the expansion and increased rate of internal circulation of the market itself . |
| 27 | It still represents a cost to the Exchequer and a loss of potential output , but it can be argued that it is not particularly distressing to the people concerned and , for the economy as a whole , it may actually result in a more efficient use of labour : this is because high short-run unemployment may be a reflection of greater mobility of labour between jobs and areas and consequently may result in the labour force being more suitably and productively employed . |
| 28 | Not only does this result in a more palatable food but the extrusion process makes the food more digestable and therefore more nutritious . |
| 29 | The attention given to the listener , however , did not result in a truly interactive analysis of peer communication . |
| 30 | We must be aware that paralysis of sign could occur in a more subtle fashion . |