Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |
| 2 | ‘ Local authorities will be encouraged to employ specialist archaeological officers , to develop archaeological policies and to include them in local and district plans . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the British government refused to assign its Polaris submarines permanently and unambiguously to Nato , or to include them in any of the current multinational or multilateral ( MLF ) schemes being floated by the Americans . |
| 4 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 6 | I am happy to see them in this workmanlike state . |
| 7 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 8 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 9 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 10 | I 've the head of the Board of Tourism coming to see me in five minutes . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’ |
| 12 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 13 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 14 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 15 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 16 | Notation or codes are appended to a sequence of topics in order to arrange them in some clearly defined order . |
| 17 | Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness . |
| 18 | ‘ To treat them in this way is disgraceful . ’ |
| 19 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |
| 20 | It remained for the Spaniards to connect them in extended compositions and base them on secular songs as Cabezón did on the ‘ Canto del Caballero ’ and ‘ Guardame las vacas ’ or play them as so many Mass-movements and motets were even more incongruously played — on the lute . |
| 21 | Right , now then , be like this I 'll pretend that I 've done something that needs to be , a high sling to support me in this fashion . |
| 22 | My mother got it wrong when I was six , but her mistake did serve to galvanise me in later years and I became a successful businesswoman , outwardly independent and self-sufficient . |
| 23 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 24 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 25 | They have to cope them in accepted rites |
| 26 | An alternative for viewing and drawing small peels or segments of larger peels is to mount them in 35 mm transparency mounts ( preferably with glass both sides ) and to project them on to white paper or card , on which tracings can be made . |
| 27 | We pledge to continue to support them in that . |
| 28 | Widnes will open their defence of the Regal Trophy determined to wipe out the Headingley memory and make it up to the fans who travelled over to Yorkshire to support them in that disappointing performance . |
| 29 | ‘ It would have been better if he had praised us no matter what anyone said , ’ Sheila said when the girls were alone with Rose , disappointed that he had failed to support them in public no matter what his intentions were . |
| 30 | When public funds are required to support someone in private care the needs of that person should be assessed in the same way as for admission to statutory care and admission should depend on the results of that assessment . |