Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think their greatest achievement was to realise that despite the fact that she was unable to speak , she was still able to communicate in other ways . |
| 2 | Correct timetabling in rural areas is essential to ensure that people get to work on time , and the consultative committee could examine such matters . |
| 3 | Real books are the books children encounter in story-telling sessions at home , in the library or play-group , and on children 's television — books that become part of the reader 's self , books to be remembered and revisited with anticipated pleasure . |
| 4 | When all the data is entered on to the computer , it can then be sorted in numerous ways which would be too time-consuming using manual methods . |
| 5 | She said oh we always sleep in separate beds here . |
| 6 | He gets eight hours sleep in three minutes . |
| 7 | In peacetime the town must have been a sleepy and slow-moving place , but at the start of 1945 it fairly hummed with activity , being surrounded in all directions by RAF and American Air Force stations . |
| 8 | She was surrounded in bloody boxes . |
| 9 | The dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed throughout Kathmandu in April was lifted in all areas except the Lalitpur district on May 10 . |
| 10 | On the same day martial law was lifted in eight townships — one in Shan state , three in Magwe division and four in Chin state . |
| 11 | Martial law was also lifted in 16 townships although night curfews reportedly remained in place in all major cities . |
| 12 | Martial law , in force since the Feb. 23 military coup [ see p. 38003-04 ] , was lifted in most areas of the country on May 3 , although the interim government retained it in 21 sensitive border provinces and districts . |
| 13 | In May martial law was lifted in most areas of the country and a ban on political activity was also lifted . |
| 14 | Children who find it hard to write with paper and pencil can compose in alternative ways : difficulty in writing need be no barrier to poetry . |
| 15 | By the same token , however , they may now be tacking fitfully back to growth while Germany and , to a lesser extent Japan , linger in relative doldrums . |
| 16 | Past values and beliefs are transmitted to new members through formal induction programmes and informal working practices epitomised in such phrases as : ‘ We do things this way in this office ’ . |
| 17 | In place of the few massy figures on that we see scores of small ones , ranged in six registers which give us seven stories from legend as well as a band of animals and florals , a battle of Pygmies and cranes on the foot , and other figures on the flat of the handles . |
| 18 | It then comes to the practical point , Citing German experience to show that ‘ there was a tendency for employee and shareholder representatives to vote and act in distinct groups ’ , they add that the presence of co-opted directors on the board would mean that either group would at the very least need to gain the support of the majority of the directors before they could carry or veto a proposal . |
| 19 | It is possible for a man 's commitment to his fundamental principles to remain firm even though he may act in certain circumstances in a way contrary to those principles . |
| 20 | The standard must be fixed by reference to the hypothetical reasonable parent and how he or she would act in certain circumstances but must also be related to the needs of the child in question . |
| 21 | In particular , it attempts to assess how rational decision-makers will act in certain situations : ‘ It takes the tools of economics and applies them to the material of politics . |
| 22 | I used to try and act in straight plays but I was so bad they made me act with my back to the audience . |
| 23 | This does not mean that adultery is the one legal basis for divorce among Christians , because Jesus never encouraged his followers to think or act in legalistic terms . |
| 24 | The Firm will normally act in agreed bids ie where the target 's board and Financial advisers are willing to recommend the terms of the offer . |
| 25 | In fact some ( e.g. Lord and Foti , 1986 ) like to push this analysis further and find value in analysing these schemas ( i.e. the knowledge systems ) into various categories to reflect our perception of other individuals , of ourselves , of situations and of how specific people will act in given situations . |
| 26 | Some have their root causes in subjective factors , others in objective factors and others still are a mixture . |
| 27 | It said last night that details were disclosed in leaked drafts of six forthcoming reports on specialist health services in the capital . |
| 28 | The information disclosed in published accounts may relate to a single company or to a group of companies under a holding company . |
| 29 | The project was designed in epidemiological terms , not as ‘ health checks ’ on the population . |
| 30 | Microphones are designed in various styles and sizes according to the particular application . |