Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I DID NOT STAY to see the Eid — the Eid Al Iftr , that great feast of the breaking of the fast , the days of celebration when everyone dresses in new clothes as though the sackcloth of fasting has lifted and life has renewed itself once again . |
| 2 | And everyone joins in this charade with talk of them now having time to do all the things they have always wanted to do . |
| 3 | And if someone writes in another language , you wo n't get it for a long time . |
| 4 | Nothing happens in this work , he wrote , but what of the world ? |
| 5 | Each of these challenges comes to nought in the end though , for , as one of the interpreters explains , ‘ Some will say nothing happens in this novel , in this , Convention , and they 'd be dead right . |
| 6 | Erm somebody comes in some prat comes in to your garage and he 's telling |
| 7 | No-one swims in this weather ! |
| 8 | McFarlane argued that on balance England did not lose from the war , and if one thinks in strict cash terms , the evidence supports him . |
| 9 | No one sleeps in that position . |
| 10 | There are , of course , instances in other areas of the law where such opinion is ignored , and where one searches in vain for a reasoned articulation of justification based on sound policy , but they usually serve as food for the argument that in so doing the law becomes an ass . |
| 11 | One looks in vain for an alternative vision of the State 's role in relation to the arts . |
| 12 | I find the Epigraphes antiques short of that elusive Debussyan charm which needs pianistic half-lights , and although the other shorter pieces on this disc are thoughtfully done ( for example , La plus que lente , Le petit nègre and the Danse bohémienne ) , one looks in vain for the special insight and sensitivity that would make these performances memorable . |
| 13 | But one looks in vain for any discussion of their physical growth , where their original core lay , of the directions in which they grew , and when and why , and of what accounts for their street plan and their shape today . |
| 14 | One looks in vain for any reflection of this outpouring of German song in keyboard tablatures . |
| 15 | One looks in vain for a similar geographical situation at the present day . |
| 16 | When it reverted to Formula One rules in 1954 , new limits of 750cc for supercharged engines , and 2500cc for unsupercharged engines were imposed . |
| 17 | What one sees in general terms are substantial increases in science , technology , administrative , business and social studies , and creative arts enrolments , but stasis or decline in languages and humanities . |
| 18 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 19 | And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 20 | Autoquote , regarded as a world leader in the field of accident repair software systems , is described as being so comprehensive that if one coughs in one of Heggie 's workshops it immediately shows up on one of the system 's screens with a cost attached . |
| 21 | With independence the Irish Free State developed a type of political party organization on modern lines , but without the genuinely class-based politics one finds in other European countries . |
| 22 | The second main pattern one finds in professional education is the ‘ sandwich degree ’ ( Smithers 1976 ; DES 1985a ) . |
| 23 | One finds in this approach a judgement about the effects of trade union and state interventions in labour markets with regard to resource allocation . |
| 24 | No matter he might stop being a soldier if something changes in that family to bring him back ( though I ca n't see that happening , the Talvi are the kind who never have a change of heart ) . |
| 25 | A celebration of the Queen 's passion for the Turf , gun dogs and racing pigeons — one imagines in that order — comes as a welcome relief and makes one hope fervently that she will one day lead in a Derby winner . |
| 26 | He writes that he was determined to exclude ‘ voyages , naval battles , shipboard life , fishing ’ and most of what one expects in nautical yarns . |
| 27 | Another monument to him is in the main square of the city of Cebu in the central Philippines , a canopy with the kind of gaudy murals one expects in this flamboyant tropic city . |
| 28 | You see how everything makes sense nowadays , how everything resounds in this world ? |
| 29 | Such ‘ translatese ’ is still unpalatable to most people and no one talks in that way yet , but it is already common in scientific writing , in newspapers , and in schools |
| 30 | What strange morality one learns in high places . ’ |