Example sentences of "[vb infin] in [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report warned : " Unless there is reduction of population growth together with a resolution of the landless peasant phenomenon , it is difficult to see that much forest will remain in just a few decades time " . |
| 2 | The constituent units may be of quite different length and they may appear in quite a different order and quite different emphases may be given to particular features of the story , but the corpus as a whole will contain the same set of elements . |
| 3 | This shape would work in either a rectangular frame , as in this case , or a square diamond would fit into a square mount , although it would have to be shorter rather than the elongated shape I have used here . |
| 4 | Unseasoned and untreated timber , very frequently used in the ‘ sixties and early ‘ seventies in windows and doors , will rot in just a few years . |
| 5 | One good reason why such people ( if they want to become anthropologists ) should start off by studying a cultural system which is radically different from their own is that they can thereby undergo the traumatic experience of discovering that , in other societies , this deeply emotive private/public distinction may operate in quite a different way . |
| 6 | I would say in just a general accent the way we talk you know . |