Example sentences of "[to-vb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , since intervention is often directed at the areas of relative weakness in a child 's linguistic abilities , it may be helpful to identify what these are and to what extent they are likely to impair the child 's ability to communicate in a variety of settings . |
| 2 | They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations . |
| 3 | There are types of language use which demand the ability to formulate grammatical , correctly bounded sentences , and being able to exploit the formal sentence grammar is one of the most important elements in being able to communicate in a language . |
| 4 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 5 | RED WINE RED GRAPES ARE CRUSHED AND LEFT TO FERMENT IN A VAT . |
| 6 | She then stood next to the telephone box , her stomach beginning to tighten in a way which was becoming sickeningly familiar . |
| 7 | As we have seen , the laws of war do not consist only of what states have formally agreed to accept in a treaty or convention . |
| 8 | Cara wanted to know in a hurry , though added more slowly , ‘ No , you ca n't have done , or they 'd have insisted on you going home straight away . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Wet and cold 's quite enough to know in a lifetime full of fish ! ’ |
| 10 | But when it when a bill came up and it would take away the money that we 'd saved for Kelly 's new school uniform , so it always seemed to come in a rush and there was always something needed like you know . |
| 11 | For the moment , it was left to England to capitalise on their 2–0 lead in the resumed one-day series , with three matches to come in a fortnight . |
| 12 | Is there nobody round here listening that can erm that could bring in some Beaujolais Nouv no no little Off Licence that will do this free publicity on the B B C to come in a say , Look I 'm an odd bin or something like that ? |
| 13 | The men from Saatchi and Saatchi have been doing their best in the glossy mags with the slogan ‘ there 's a lot of Glasgoing on in 1990 ’ — but yesterday provided the taste of things to come in a city which has borne more than its fair share of music hall humour and Billy Connolly . |
| 14 | And they used to come in a lot . |
| 15 | And he used to come and they could see him coming for he had to come in a cart . |
| 16 | Well , this has got to come in a letter , I mean , this is what we want . |
| 17 | 17.48 ( i ) Pupils should have opportunities to write in a range of forms including a number of the following : notes , diaries , personal letters , chronological accounts , pamphlets , book reviews , advertisements , comic strips , poems , stories , playscripts. ( ii ) Building on experiences of a range of different stories that they have read and heard , and/or through discussion of their work with the teacher or their peers , pupils should learn to handle the following elements of story structure with increasing effectiveness : an opening , setting , characters , events and a resolution . |
| 18 | For example , there is no need to write in a diary ‘ check in-tray and consult secretary ’ , these actions take place as routine following arrival at the office . |
| 19 | She needed it for the letter she was going to write in a minute to Nora . |
| 20 | A cliff path walk affords views of Burgh Island , to which Agatha Christie escaped to write in a cliff top gazebo — Evil Under the Sun was set on this 26 acre private island . |
| 21 | The clinical terms project was started last year to develop a set of terms comprehensive enough to cover anything that a clinician might need to write in a patient 's record . |
| 22 | A converse implication of the " dress of thought " view is that it is possible to write in a style which is the nadir of plainness and neutrality . |
| 23 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 24 | Even Mr Grovey would never have got anyone to work in a pair with Zacchaeus ! |
| 25 | ‘ Leo actually had to go to work in a pair of my knickers , ’ Emma said . |
| 26 | The result was a very satisfied customer was able to drive away minutes later , Tina having proved it is not necessary to work in a branch to provide good customer service . |
| 27 | Others find it best to work in a revision group . |
| 28 | I am here to work in a London drama academy , to teach — ah , yes — deportment . |
| 29 | Later he returned to England to work in a POW camp : |
| 30 | Later , to allow Eco to work in a chunk of St Bernard 's writings , Casaubon actually takes a piece of paper from his pocket and says , ‘ I brought this quotation with me , because it 's worth hearing … ’ |