Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's told him trying to get her back may only make life in Pakistan more difficult for her . |
| 2 | In extreme cases perhaps it is , but relief should not be refused unless the applicant 's conduct or motive makes it inappropriate to award the relief sought in this case : courts should not refuse relief in order to penalize an applicant for bad conduct unrelated to the relief sought . |
| 3 | We should not seek immortality in reproduction . |
| 4 | Contemplating ‘ the displaced fragments of inner city decline ’ — peripheral council estates — it suggested that wealth-creation ‘ must always go hand in hand with just distribution , — offering , thereby , an alternative interpretation of ‘ partnership ’ ( p. 53 ) . |
| 5 | The trader may not have expertise in accounting or buying |
| 6 | I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 7 | You know when all this court business is on , and they had two hours at recess so he went to look at the cathedral with Steven and mum mentioned it and , and she said oh I think I 'll go and have a look round she said when all this is over cos dad , suppose he 'll never set foot in Norwich again and I said oh that 's silly cos it 's a , it is a lovely city . |
| 8 | I 'm sorry to see that although we 've got a large increase in budget , which is of course always very welcome , that we have n't perhaps addressed improving the quality er as much as we might have done , although we 've got a lot more home help hours that may be classed as an improvement , but er there are many other areas where we could perhaps encourage improvement in community care er with a bit of thought . |
| 9 | I could better bear disgrace in solitude , do n't you see ? ’ |
| 10 | Despite the growth of a local political consciousness nurtured in its coal-mines , the transfer of militancy from work to council chamber could only take place in Clay Cross once the mines had been nationalized and the culturally paternalistic influence of the local coal-owners had been removed . |
| 11 | Those who could not leave work in time could catch the 19:46 and we would all travel back together . |
| 12 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 13 | Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning : they could not anticipate stability in government programs . |
| 14 | His argument was that the Church of Ireland was ‘ poisoned by ecumenism ’ and as such he , as a Free Presbyterian , could not take part in fund-raising on its behalf . |
| 15 | Oh I could n't eat chocolate in bed . |
| 16 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 17 | These are usually available in white or grey in three sizes : 32mm ( 1¼in ) , 40mm ( 1½in ) and 50mm ( 2in ) ; you may also find polypropylene in brown or black . |
| 18 | Professional : The family member may give progressively less attention to his or her own work because of the problems at home and may even change employment in order to have more time or opportunity to supervise the worsening chaos at home . |
| 19 | In July , when Nationalists protested at the failure of the corporation to appoint Nationalists to committee chairs , the mayor pointed out that fifteen or sixteen years ago the Nationalists had said that they would refuse to take such chairs and that they would only take part in corporation affairs in order to disrupt them . |
| 20 | By May the play was almost complete — all that was necessary was the process of readjustment which would necessarily take place in consultation with director and actors . |
| 21 | He was not like her own father ; he would not discuss business in front of women . |
| 22 | Believe me , I would sooner go hat in hand to all the bankers in Europe than try and explain to Anna why we 'd ignored her imperial command . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The golden rule of conduct , therefore , is mutual toleration seeing that we will never all think alike and that we shall always see Truth in fragment ( sic ) and from different angles of vision ’ . |
| 24 | In Ireland the Ulster Farmers Union has joined their Southern counterparts the Irish Association in condemning the proposals , UFU President John Mulvenna claimed that they would further depress farming in Ireland . |
| 25 | Under such circumstances it was normally assumed that , although the Monarch would probably seek advice in order to discover what persons would be acceptable to the party in power , yet for the final choice she alone was morally and constitutionally responsible . |
| 26 | Mr Coleman promised he would not push for legislation which would severely restrict abortion in Virginia . |
| 27 | They would n't take part in operations . |
| 28 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 29 | And I 'm just wondering what the the knock on effect of that is in the visiting of the , the members who ca n't get into church and who ca n't receive communion in church , and who may like to receive it in their home , or in the home , where they live . |
| 30 | New noise standards would then take effect in April 1995 , with emissions rules coming into operation in 1996 and being tightened further in 2003 . |