Example sentences of "in [verb] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well . |
| 2 | Several schools commented on the importance of involving the whole school in living up to the agreed health policy . |
| 3 | Herodotus 's Histories and Aeschylus 's Agamemnon serve as touchstones for Brooke-Rose 's novel , for in going back to the classical period , it is able to return to the point at which these distinctions began to be associated with different ways of talking and writing attributed to fact and to fiction . |
| 4 | My guess is that I am not alone in waking up to the stunning brutality of boxing . |
| 5 | She suspects me of a form of vanity in sidling up to the existential questions . |
| 6 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 7 | In showing off to the raw recruits he might even throw the small plane into such daring bankings or dives that it could n't be manoeuvred out of . |