Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The requisite consent and authority to establish the relationship could only exist in the International Tin Agreement . |
| 2 | Enough has been said , however , to make it clear that regulation need not necessarily act in the public interest . |
| 3 | Pabulum Consultants ' Jennifer Rust comments : ‘ Many companies will only invest in the minimum training required to get the system up and running ; it is not surprising in these cases that the systems are not being used to their full potential . |
| 4 | The public relations executive , as a manager of the corporate personality , can only sustain in the long term , an identity that is based upon reality . |
| 5 | The ruler does n't only work in the horizontal direction . |
| 6 | You can only go in the future direction in time , but you can go at a bit of an angle to it . |
| 7 | Suppose , for example , that risk-averse traders will only trade in the future spot market if the terms being offered there are sufficiently attractive to compensate for the extra risks incurred in delay . |
| 8 | Despite a growing world market , competition remains fierce and will only intensify in the short term as new malting capacity is commissioned in numerous countries . |
| 9 | The following list of assumptions , which is by no means exhaustive , adds a note of scepticism to the claim that individuals can easily locate in the local communities that reflect their preferences . |
| 10 | ‘ Mind telling me , sir , why you did n't just wait in the twenty-minute car-park ? |
| 11 | Shepherds and their kind did n't normally wait in the main hall of High Brook . |
| 12 | Around Christmas Fayre , when the Food Hall was crammed with food you did n't normally see in the other seasons , they made a nice end to a meal . |
| 13 | An hour or two after completion , cover all the exposed surfaces with wet hessian sacks to prevent the concrete drying out too quickly , a hazard which can easily occur in the hot summer months . |
| 14 | Be very careful if the herb has flowered and started to set seed , because if it is an annual , or a biennial , it will shortly die in the natural course of events . |
| 15 | Yeah , hold on let me just go in the other room and see if my cup 's in there |
| 16 | Block this re-uptake , and the transmitters will just sit in the synaptic gap , stimulating the receptors again and again and again . |
| 17 | The desk accessories ( mostly metal , see-through plastic and recycled paper ) , food ( dried seaweed and banana-flavoured bubblegum ) and clothes ( knickers and vests , pictured left ) you can already find in the established west Soho branch will appear alongside furniture ( brushed metal tables and shelves ) and bikes . |
| 18 | Keys have to be numeric and space has to be reserved on disk to hold records of every key that can possibly exist in the defined range . |
| 19 | It will still appear in the hard copy system but will be unavailable for work . |
| 20 | In what follows , I shall almost always speak in the ordinary way of causes and conditions as things in a generic sense , events , facts , ordinary things , and stuff . |
| 21 | The image — summoned by a narrator whose exhausted dreams are filled with girls — is like nothing we would ever meet in the literal Levi . |
| 22 | We should not be prepared to see developments that are much larger or more isolated than we would ever tolerate in the statutory services and doing things like " mixing up " clients that would statutorily no longer be tolerated . |
| 23 | Xanthe , however , alarmed by the departure of her new-found friend , was practically clinging to Mrs Young and with an echo of the earlier hysteria was saying that she could n't possibly sleep in the private car , she would have nightmares , she would be too scared to stay , she was sure whoever had uncoupled the car before would do it again in the middle of the night , and they would all be killed when the Canadian crashed into them , because the Canadian was still there behind us , was n't it , was n't it ? |
| 24 | That equitable doctrine , however , could hardly apply in the present case because the variation here might be said to have been made without consideration . |
| 25 | We could always engage in the Rawlsian form of argument and apply it to the new information once it becomes available . |
| 26 | These children will not always live in the protective arms of the family , they will have to make decisions about jobs , marriage , political and social commitments based on where in society they feel that they are able to find a place . |
| 27 | ‘ But we do n't always live in the perfect world . |
| 28 | Across the Pennines , in Derbyshire , the immense walled kitchen garden at Calke Abbey , where visitors to Calke could once sit in the now-ruined orangery that presides over it and admire the order and industry , is just an area of pasture . |
| 29 | The most base instincts — the desire for food or sex — were , he argued , all that one could ever find in the unshaped man , and human nature was as indifferent to good or evil as free-flowing water is to the shape it eventually fills . ’ |
| 30 | When he visited Moscow in October 1988 , Gorbachev asssured him that ‘ the Romanian people can be confident that it will always find in the Soviet people a reliable ally , a useful partner , and a true friend . ’ |