Example sentences of "[to-vb] in an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing that , that we did spend , I mean , I do n't know the Festival seems to come in an awful rush this time I suppose cos , cos |
| 2 | The only time you 're likely to be using it , is , if your writing an essay , where you going to use conversation , to make it realistic , people do abbreviate in a conversation , or if you 're asked to write in an informal way . |
| 3 | As Rain passed Tavett 's desk he cupped his face in his hands and moaned for her benefit , saying : ‘ Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in an ordinary office instead of a newspaper where every kind of freak feels entitled to barge in and collar you ? ’ |
| 4 | In this way , communication is enhanced in written and oral modes to develop the expertise needed to work in an international office environment . |
| 5 | The advisory team should enable the flow of relevant information on the pupils ' needs to reach the schools where they are placed and enable teachers and visually handicapped pupils to work in an effective way because they are well informed and well supported . |
| 6 | ‘ A woman whose response to Chernobyl is that only thirty-one people were killed , who can dismiss as unimportant one of the world 's greatest nuclear disasters which put thousands in hospital , exposed a hundred thousand or more to dangerous radioactivity , devastated vast areas of land , and may result in deaths from cancer amounting to fifty thousand over the next fifty years , is totally unsuitable to be trusted to work in an atomic power station . |
| 7 | The County Council is offering three posts and applications are welcomed from highly committed and enthusiastic professionals who are keen to work in an action-orientated team . |
| 8 | Our political allies in the Labour Party should spell out exactly what it means to work in an unsafe environment , and last but not least , we should push the message of the National Health and Safety Conference of last year , better safe than sorry . |
| 9 | Students are encouraged to apply analytical and diagnostic skills to the information-related problems which are likely to be encountered at the interface of Personal Assistant , Office Supervisory and Middle Management levels , thus enhancing their ability to work in an interactive role in team situations . |
| 10 | At the age of 21 it may be attractive to work in an exotic location on an hourly paid basis with minimal regard for the niceties of work permits and income tax ; but it may be a great deal less attractive twenty years later . |
| 11 | Unless users are involved in helping to define what it means to work in an empowering way , in the training which enables this to happen and in other ways in the planning , delivery and evaluation of services , it will be another case of users being ‘ done to ’ by professionals . |
| 12 | I 'd always thought I 'd like to work in an old people 's home . |
| 13 | To use cc:Mail , users will have to plug in an external modem . |
| 14 | I see very much what you 're saying , but is n't there a sense in which you almost need to absorb in an automatic sense some of the basic things ? |
| 15 | The houses were much richer environments , decorated and equipped with the wide range of furnishings and domestic items one would expect to find in an average household . |
| 16 | The task of political sociology is to define these issues and problems in a rigorous way , to describe and analyse the wider structural and historical context , to enquire into the causes of political events , and to indicate in an imaginative rather than restrictive fashion the possible alternative courses of action . |
| 17 | Whilst I entirely agree with Nochlin 's decision not to amend any of the articles ( ‘ despite the strong temptation to correct what I now know to be errors of fact or feel to be mistakes of interpretation ’ , p. xii ) , neither should they have been allowed to stand in an historical vacuum . |
| 18 | Allow your eyes to observe in an easy , natural way but not to stare unblinkingly as if to bore holes in whatever or whoever they are looking at . |
| 19 | How could the working class make effective use of the political power which the vote was expected to give them without the opportunity to engage in an open discussion of political principle and perspectives ? |
| 20 | Repletion is probably a more pleasurable state for most people than is emptiness , and its metaphorical implications are now widely understood : to be well-fed is to feel safe from poverty and death ; it is to engage in an enjoyable activity ; and it is to feel loved , if only by oneself . |
| 21 | Not only is he facing an uncertain future , he is being forced to behave in an uncharacteristic fashion every day . |
| 22 | " There was some confusion at this stage because the target began to behave in an odd way , we knew she was supposed to go up the River Stour to off load , but finally I made the decision to go alongside her at sea . |
| 23 | The failure of the shareholders to behave in an owner-like way is problematical only if they are appropriately categorised as owners . |
| 24 | Paige ground her teeth , very nearly tempted to behave in an unladylike way and fling herself across the table and scratch his eyes out — anything to stop their icy mockery . |
| 25 | There are two different problems , and we all know that in order to gain the confidence of patients , every doctor has to be seen to behave in an impeccable manner . |
| 26 | The parent is also demonstrating to the child how to behave in an aggressive and anti-social manner ( Patterson et al . 1975 ) and is likely to be copied in the future . |
| 27 | One important factor seems to be the tendency of the cat to ‘ jump up unexpectedly ’ and to behave in an unpredictable way when at close quarters . |
| 28 | On a day so out of the ordinary , wearing her best summer frock , she was perhaps entitled to behave in an unusual way ? |
| 29 | That is , the insidious onset of the disorder and tendency of the person to behave in an unusual way brings about certain events like changes of jobs or relationships before more obvious symptoms of disorder appear . |
| 30 | Rostov took a breath , and decided to wait until good manners forced his aide to behave in an approachable fashion . |