Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that pleasure was tinged with sadness because his mother , Joanna , is n't alive to see him in a role he might have been born to play . |
| 2 | The outer leaves are very important for the effect of the painting , especially against the sky , whereas it is possible to lose myself in the inner masses to some extent . |
| 3 | When questions , for example on morbidity , had been validated in the General Household Survey , it would be possible to include them in the Resource Allocation Survey . |
| 4 | ‘ Harry said he was due to meet someone in the boathouse , so we went over there . ’ |
| 5 | It was odd to find him in charge of such a low-level enterprise as the Vadinamian protection racket . |
| 6 | Associative and cognitive theories present two major examples of different approaches to the study of learning , and although they differ in very many respects it is possible to synthesise them in a way that offers guidance for teachers . |
| 7 | That is why you have someone with a clapperboard at the start of each take : to make it possible to find everything in the whole length of film . |
| 8 | If there was no shot in or among the human remains , in the cavities of the skull for instance , would it be possible to find it in the soil , among the sand and gravel and pine needles ? |
| 9 | Dr Mackintosh had left for the weekend , but Dr Lange , the literary one , would be free to see him in the morning . |
| 10 | I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office . |
| 11 | Of the latter he wrote , ‘ Lucas van Leyden is an artist of frailer calibre than Dürer , and prone to lose himself in imitation of stronger men , each of his contemporaries in turn dominating his style . ’ |
| 12 | It was interesting to see everybody in their own clothes . |
| 13 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 14 | UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots … |
| 15 | It was his passionate conviction that sarvodaya , which might be regarded as a practical expression of Truth , could only be effected by means of ahi sā , and the votary of ahi sā would be prepared to sacrifice himself in order to realize this ideal . |
| 16 | We hope that many practitioners will be willing to support us in this effort . |
| 17 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 18 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 19 | If not , they are free to treat him in what they believe to be his best interests . |
| 20 | Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh . |
| 21 | At the same moment two Bf109s which had obviously stationed themselves too high to catch us in our initial attack , flashed past in a steep dive and then I was within range of the remaining Italian pilots once again . ’ |
| 22 | The first part of the provision may not therefore be wholly effective in any event and the question is whether the tenant is prepared to accept it in return for a concession from the landlord elsewhere in the lease . |
| 23 | He became desperate and was willing to try anything in search for a solution to his problem . |
| 24 | Solly was prepared to try it in the days when Napes Needles was still ‘ a rattling good ‘ un ’ and you took photos of your mates with plates in a Thornton-Pickard Folding ruby camera . |
| 25 | It was to stop this that amateurs within the FA , who disliked professionalism in principle , were willing to accept it in practice . |
| 26 | One of the main problems in banking is that banks have not been free to establish themselves in other member states — the technical phrase which applies here is the Right of Establishment . |
| 27 | His view of the visible church , for example , was much wider than that of even Whitgift , as he appeared to argue that since Christ had died for all , all men and women — including Roman Catholics — were potentially part of the visible church , and as such should be offered the sacrament of the eucharist , if they were prepared to receive it in good faith . |
| 28 | If , as they themselves admitted , the Communists aimed at the supersession of the ILP , it was obviously dangerous and foolish to help them in their work . |
| 29 | Armed with the techniques he has learned over the past months , he is free to combine them in whatever way he thinks suits his stature . |
| 30 | ‘ He recalled the innumerable sacrifices he has made on your behalf and reproached you for not being prepared to help him in his hour of need . |