Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lots of people say it must be easy for my family to carry on in music and that I must have taught them everything — but I feel they just inherited their love of music as it 's in our blood . ’ |
| 2 | Picnickers explain that they are prepared to carry on in spite of the odds . |
| 3 | What is the use of continuing our race if it is to go on in darkness ? ’ |
| 4 | And to go on in government to succeed , for a chastened Tory party , industrial establishment and media will have no counter-argument . |
| 5 | To sit down in meditation and think of these mystical ideas is to poise oneself for the transcendent journey . |
| 6 | I 'm happy to cruise along in traffic on the road but when there is someone in front of me on the track , I become quite mad . |
| 7 | This is a cut-and-thrust spectacle where as many as 24 kites out of 25 have been cast off , their lines to float down in defeat within twenty minutes . |
| 8 | A Goebbels article in Das Reich at the beginning of March , in which he had emphasized ‘ the great honour of the victims and of holding out for the new Europe ’ , for which it was worthwhile ‘ fighting to the last man in order to go down in history ’ , met with heavy criticism . |
| 9 | Do we really want to go down in history as the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies , which have successfully built brand names and franchises of high repute over a century or more … ? |
| 10 | Is this how you want to go down in history ? |
| 11 | I do n't want to go down in history as a great songwriter because I died penniless . |
| 12 | The three of us used to go down in summer to stay and do the haymaking . |
| 13 | These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) . |
| 14 | In the public sector the government would give each department a cash-limited budget , including a ‘ factor ’ for pay ; ministers claimed that workers , by pushing for ‘ excessive ’ wage rises which employers were unable to pass on in price increases , could price themselves out of jobs . |
| 15 | Er , that 's assuming the employer wants to pass on in pay , the rewards of adding value . |
| 16 | But blessings can not simply be expected to come along in disguise . |
| 17 | The second point to bear in in mind when we consider what influences children 's consumption is the question of access and the tightening of that access . |
| 18 | As part of the deal Mr de Ferranti agreed to stand down in favour of Sir Derek and to allow James Guerin , International Signal 's founder , to come on to the board as deputy chairman . |
| 19 | Even Thatcherite loyalists were reported to be discussing the possibility of persuading her to stand down in favour of Major . |
| 20 | Here the combined efforts of Richard Acland , Liberal MP for a neighbouring constituency , and the local Left Book Club helped to persuade the local Liberal and Labour parties to stand down in favour of Vernon Bartlett , a journalist , broadcaster and former employee of the LNU . |
| 21 | The candidate who took third place in the first round , however , Manandafy Rakotonirina , was expected to stand down in favour of Zafy . |
| 22 | What would he say of the masses of modern art that you have to plug in in order to fully appreciate ? |
| 23 | The boat hull and light aluminium masks and white roller jibs have to come down in tone to a light grey , and the varnished wood spars have to be darker ochre than those at the top . |
| 24 | Outside their refuge the rain began to come down in earnest . |
| 25 | What you do not want to be told is erm sorry you 've got to come down in person to our offices , they 're in Southend by the way , erm please bring along your passport certificate , D N A chart , and chit signed by erm the spiritual leaders of at least three merger major world religions . |
| 26 | Erm they say they would not be willing to change their valuation , because that was the valuation er come to by the District Values Office from , so they are not willing to , to come down in price . |
| 27 | When all this has been said , it is still very difficult to see how the Divisional Court in R. v. LTE ex parte GLC managed to come down in favour of the GLC in the face of the unanimous decision of the Law Lords . |
| 28 | He had questioned Ashenden in detail for several minutes about the crucial phone call with Kemp , and asked him to write down in dialogue-form the exchanges as far as he could recall them . |
| 29 | This is the sort of CD that the ‘ ordinary ’ music-lover is likely to pass over in favour of something better known , on the assumption that ‘ German Harpsichord Music before Bach ’ would be of interest to the specialist only . |
| 30 | The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings . |