Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) . |
| 2 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 3 | Nutrition is the process by which the body acquires all the foodstuffs it needs to keep it in good working order and converts them into energy , new body tissue and those substances necessary to keep all the body processes ( metabolism ) going . |
| 4 | Although the thing is initially being tested under OS/2 2.0 and AIX , IBM plans to incorporate it in future operating systems and to do versions of the Distributed System Object Model for other systems — and the Taligent Inc joint venture with Apple Computer Inc also has licence to the technology . |
| 5 | Scaevola refuses to interpret it in this way . |
| 6 | That the German audience is not deaf to beauty of tone production as some have been so foolish to pretend , is shown by the enormous enthusiasm with which Battistini is greeted when he sings in Germany , to say nothing of Caruso , although one hesitates to mention him in such proximity to so transcendent an artist as Battistini . ’ |
| 7 | Neither of them seems to find it in any way remarkable . |
| 8 | Keeping braillers , typewriters and even magnifiers in their cases , or at least under covers when not in use , helps to maintain them in good condition , since dust and grime can cause damaged surfaces . |
| 9 | So they can be the deciding factor in what your programme 's going to be , so it pays to keep them in good trim . |
| 10 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 11 | Freud seeks to use it in this book as if it were a purely biological concept , and furthermore , one which is found among all living organisms . |
| 12 | And the immune system normally functions to protect us in this way , and is regulated in such a manner that it does not attack bits of oneself , but only legitimate foreign targets , and thereby is our ally . |
| 13 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |