Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , even when teachers are teaching their students to communicate in one language at a time they need to examine the principles of communication . |
| 2 | I think their greatest achievement was to realise that despite the fact that she was unable to speak , she was still able to communicate in other ways . |
| 3 | A number of dolphins have been taught to communicate in rudimentary English . |
| 4 | Approximately 30% of the marks will be for straightforward handling of theory — but additional marks for pass , credit and distinction standard must come from the quality of the candidate 's understanding and ability to communicate in acceptable fashion . |
| 5 | The most basic error , which I attempted to pinpoint in discussing the sense in which the cries , hoots , and gestures of animals are ‘ primitive forms ’ of language in Chapter 5 , is to confuse the predictive value of the effects of such behaviour with the conscious intent of a speaker to communicate in some way . |
| 6 | If the distinction between tacit and explicit collusion is to mean anything , it must also be shown that the ability to communicate in some way affects the likely existence and stability of collusion . |
| 7 | She touched a finger to Tallis , then to herself , trying to communicate in some way . |
| 8 | He was rock hard , fully aroused beneath the rough denim of his bermudas , and she froze , beginning to struggle in nameless fear … completely new emotions were being aroused much too fast . |
| 9 | The wind screeched in his ears , making consecutive thought almost impossible so that not only did he have to struggle in desperate conflict with the conditions but had also to fight to hold to his concentration . |
| 10 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 11 | Is it adequate at all to try in this fashion to interpret religion as a means to an end , and to define that end in progressive humanistic terms as having to do with the elevation and betterment of human society ? |
| 12 | The coalition had regard to-the- mechanics of the single transferable vote and made some attempt to match the number of candidates nominated with the support which those candidates might expect to attract in each constituency . |
| 13 | This may have been due to the tendency of the former to attract in young people , leading to net gains by migration among 15–24-year-olds ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 14 | Other schemes include the Estates Action programme , which , with resources of over £140 million by 1988–9 , is designed to improve the management of council accommodation , to transfer dwellings to local management trusts , to attract in private-sector resources and , through Community Refurbishment Schemes , to use local people to improve their own accommodation . |
| 15 | The team was underfinanced from the start and indeed , some of the finance Emerson did get-like some of the companions and hangers-on he began to attract in those years — was distinctly off-colour . |
| 16 | Unlike Poland and Hungary , East Germany will not have to coax in private capital : the stuff will flood in from West Germany . |
| 17 | They were Ellen Oliver , a girl who had arrived from Plymouth , and a boy whose name would seem to differ in various reports . |
| 18 | So as well as keeping you informed we are trying to encourage in NEW MEMBERS . |
| 19 | Moreover the constitution which the Swedish Diet was forced to accept in that year ( the first in the world to be embodied in a single comprehensive organized document ) was in some ways relatively moderate . |
| 20 | Because of her sympathy with the child 's point of view , and her belief that young children are frequently underestimated , Donaldson is sometimes associated with those educationalists who are opposed to formal education and who maintain that young children will learn all they need to know in informal contexts outside of school . |
| 21 | Erm , the storage binder , we , we , er , anticipate that you of course , will wind up with shelves full of storage binders housing various diaries , and you 'll want to know in ten years ' time , which storage binder has your nineteen ninety-four diary , erm , that 's what that label is for . |
| 22 | However , when we become adults we tend to think we 've learnt everything we need to know in this area and stop practising . |
| 23 | the only one I want to know in this area is a , you can |
| 24 | I 'm partial to a nice pun , and BT 's image began to soar in direct ratio to the growing number of commercials on the air . |
| 25 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 26 | ( ANNE ) Still to come in Central News , back to the Lebanon . |
| 27 | Still to come in Central News , a prickly subject . |
| 28 | D-i-y kits tend to come in separate sections , forming two sides of each arch , one on each side of the wall , sometimes with a separate soffit section which can be used for wider walls . |
| 29 | His breath was starting to come in low gasps . |
| 30 | Cones tend to come in two shapes — some , either cardboard or plastic , with a pointed top and others with a gap of about one to one and a half inches at the top . |