Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Setting up a task involves more than just typing the job in a box and putting it onto your timescale . |
| 2 | The 1350s had seen relatively little fighting at an ‘ official ’ level , but the decade had witnessed the growth , in both numbers and size , of bodies of soldiers who , although sometimes finding local employment , more often than not roamed the countryside in search of adventure and the easy pickings of war . |
| 3 | He realized that he was short on programme , but thought that his reputation as a moderate statesman , calmly if slowly steering the country in the right direction , would overcome that . |
| 4 | If , however , it is genuine , convinced , voluntary consent that is being sought , then free and open discussion can not be avoided , for what genuine consent needs is that people should feel quite free to voice their doubts and opposition , if only to create a situation in which there is the possibility of overcoming such doubts and hostility . |
| 5 | Perhaps this is the reason why we rarely if ever find a prayer in the New Testament addressed to the Spirit . |
| 6 | In practice this included compulsory attendance at either company Bible class or Sunday school , but the unique feature of the BLB was its adherence to life-saving drills ( fire , water , and stretcher ) , with an emphasis on gymnastics , swimming , first-aid and hygiene , in order to ‘ prepare for helpful service to others ’ , while simultaneously training the body in ‘ healthful vigour ’ and ‘ moral discipline ’ . |
| 7 | Saddam Hussein maintained an uncompromising unwillingness to discuss withdrawal from Kuwait , while increasingly presenting the confrontation in terms of anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism with the liberation of Palestine as the main issue . |
| 8 | To find out whether Legato made an entry in WIN.INI while being installed , make sure your cursor is at the top of the file , select Find from the Search menu and enter Legato . |
| 9 | So your turning a page of the NI magazine in Toronto , say , could so disturb the air as eventually to cause a hurricane in Melbourne ( or vice-versa ) . |
| 10 | On a full-stop landing the nose-wheel is carefully held off ( so as not to touch the dolly-wheel in the ventral strake ) down to forty-ish knots when the stick hits the back stop and the nose gently subsides . |
| 11 | She nursed his ailments too , and with a needle from a certain yucca picked out the chigoes from his feet , neatly , so as not to burst the sac in which the nits were hatching and release them into his flesh : the insects between his pink and white toes were just like a shrimp 's roe . |
| 12 | It was decided that , in the circumstances of that case , the discretion should be so exercised as not to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown . |
| 13 | In other words the jurist is being asked to treat the words addressed to one daughter as indirectly establishing a trust in favour of the other . |
| 14 | We might as well spend the night in some comfort . ’ |
| 15 | Some people even leave notes on the front door for a delivery man — you might as well put an invitation in the front garden . |
| 16 | If you can throw down the shoulder line , then you might as well put the ball in the jumper 's hands , never mind throw it to him . |