Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose had moved back a little to stand in front of one of the shop windows , scanning the crowd with knowing eyes . |
| 2 | An early contestant for the role of heir apparent , Aleke Banda , a minister in the 1960s , was restricted to his village for several years before being partially rehabilitated only to fall in disgrace again in the mid 1980s . |
| 3 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 4 | Some deliberate fixed capacitance is incorporated in parallel with R 1 , firstly to make the performance sufficiently independent of connections to the output and , secondly , to render the value of C 2 that satisfies equation ( 8.3 ) large enough to implement in practice , especially when the attenuation is large so that and . |
| 5 | ‘ So , here I am , Uncle Orrin , ’ she had said gaily , ‘ your naughty niece , exiled because she was silly enough to fall in love with a poor man who was only interested in her money . |
| 6 | And if she was naïve enough to fall in love with him — so much the better . |
| 7 | On Tuesday the Soviet parliament refused to accept this blanket ban , which it wanted confined to the railways and to other key industries , and only to remain in force until the new law on strikes was promulgated . |
| 8 | Later that over Pringle let a ball or two pass only to freeze in horror as his last snapped back to hit the off stump . |
| 9 | This not only reminds us of the existence of a non-state section of education ( which as we write in mid-1987 seems set only to increase in size ) , but also in drawing attention to the relations between the state and non-state sectors , points out features of the conditions under which the former operates that are frequently taken for granted . |
| 10 | Safety technology — both active and passive — is now a significant selling point , and one that promises only to increase in importance . |
| 11 | Dampen the edges of the holes , cut out green holly leaves and press into the leaf-shaped holes in the burgundy ribbon , then smooth gently to secure in place . |
| 12 | Sauron is defeated and his Ring taken by Isildur , only to set in motion the crisis at the end of the Third Age . |
| 13 | That is their secret , and will remain so ; it behoves us not to pry , only to speculate in passing . |
| 14 | In March 1862 the novelist Ivan Turgenev satirized Russia 's revolutionary youth in Fathers and Sons , but the fires that devastated St Petersburg two months later led many to suppose that radicals were tough enough to engage in arson . |
| 15 | A Peasants ' Revolt — the workers of Kent and Essex — led by Walter the tiler ( who became known as Wat Tyler ) , occurred in 1381 , in which they refused to pay the Poll Tax , and they gathered together to sweep in revolt into London , Although only a lad , Richard II subdued the revolt . |
| 16 | Section 6(2) contemplates restoration of what was received , or the value of it ; subsection ( 3 ) ( a ) and subsection ( 4 ) ( a ) contemplate restoration of the value surviving ; and subsection ( 3 ) ( b ) and subsection ( 4 ) ( b ) are wide enough to cover in principle compensation in respect of loss of an opportunity to make a profit . |
| 17 | Your Directors unanimously recommend that you vote in favour of the aforementioned Resolutions , and intend themselves so to vote in respect of their own beneficial holdings totalling 117,180 ordinary shares representing 0.07% of the present issues ordinary share capital . |
| 18 | This is easy enough to use in theory and works effectively . |
| 19 | And , perhaps to keep in line with the rest of British technology , it 's a bit of mixed bag — some of the ideas and features it contains are really good , but the implementation is n't so hot . |
| 20 | What I need , thought Grunte , telephoning room service for ‘ a proper English Breakfast ’ and a newspaper ‘ small enough to read in bed ’ , is a bit of nooky . |
| 21 | They form a rough diamond shape , and are in the same × 12 field , so that they are easy enough to recognize in spite of their dimness . |
| 22 | Better to reign in Hell , then serve in Heaven . |
| 23 | ‘ Better to reign in Hell , than serve in Heaven , ’ he repeated . |
| 24 | Many leading Whigs were dead : Shaftesbury had fled to Holland at the end of 1682 , only to die in exile in January 1683 ; Sidney and Russell were both executed for their part in the Rye House Plot , whilst another conspirator , the Earl of Essex , killed himself in the Tower ( although some suspected he had been murdered ) . |
| 25 | Better to live in hope — and better to be shot cleanly through the head than be smashed by the surf and stripped of his flesh by the knife-sharp coral . |
| 26 | Staring through the streaming window , Nell gritted her teeth every time the bows pushed out over the top of a big wave , only to hang in space before dropping away into the sixty-odd feet of the following trough that seemed to her a mile deep . |
| 27 | When Father died , he left us both enough to live in comfort for the rest of our lives , regardless of our husbands ’ support . |
| 28 | The best chance of acclimatization occurs with acquisitions of about 2″ in length , which are small enough to adapt to new foods and large enough to survive in tank conditions . |
| 29 | And if all that was n't reason enough to stay in bed in the morning , it proceeded to snow on our parade : Esquire 's opening festivities were blanketed by the worst storm to hit London since 1963 . |
| 30 | They challenged and gave tongue in delight — only to stop in bewilderment as they reached the point where she had lifted the bag and hidden it again . |