Example sentences of "[vb infin] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the agreement may insist that the duchess should never act in a way that brings the royal family into disrepute . |
| 2 | On the other hand , such an authority must act in good faith , use the powers for the purpose for which they were given , take into account relevant matters and disregard the irrelevant , and must not act in a way so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could have so acted . |
| 3 | Thus the government may spend money on compulsory education or compulsory vaccination because is recognizes that , left to their own decisions , individuals will act in a way they will subsequently regret . |
| 4 | Needs have to be met to enable active citizenship as without education , welfare , health care , self-respect , and law we can not act in a way we would like to . |
| 5 | It was clear , however , that an unwise or ill-advised Monarch might conceivably act in a manner which could be construed as partial , in that it appeared to reflect a royal preference for one particular group within the party . |
| 6 | Hunt suggests that conflict of this kind may act in a group of individuals to : |
| 7 | If the Bosnian Serbs decided to sign , Lord Owen would jump in a car , meet Mr Karadzic on the motorway , and get him to put his signature on the document , possibly in a toll booth . |
| 8 | She would let him know in a fortnight . |
| 9 | The Colonel would n't know in a lifetime . |
| 10 | He would know in an instant if the Bogeyman made a move , or if anyone left the kitchen by the doorway into the hall . |
| 11 | She held on and held on , but her arms were getting tired and she knew that she would fall in a minute . |
| 12 | This yield will fall in a period of inflation because a progressively larger amount of money will be needed to pay for the same quantity of goods and services . |
| 13 | If you touch a wheel , you 'll fall in a slide and half the peloton will ride over you before they fall themselves . |
| 14 | The shop itself was a small , white-washed room with shelves along the walls stacked with sheets of parchment , ink horns , pumice stones , quills , and everything else one would need in a library or chancery . |
| 15 | ‘ Take him down ! ’ the old fossil would splutter in a cloud of dust . |
| 16 | That is not to say , however , that we should collude in a denial of the phenomenon . |
| 17 | Another factor which may influence the chances of conventional videodisc players is that in the 1990s , the collection of high quality , permanent recordings of movies and other programming might appeal in a way it never could in the early 1980s . |
| 18 | Attacking ( 10 credits ) : The higher the Attack rating , the more likely your guy will win in a ruck . |
| 19 | His beloved father , Jack , had no especial love for cricket , although later on young John would delight in a recollection that when cricket began to seek better playing surfaces it found them in the graveyards . |
| 20 | Or they can converse in a sense that they can get a chord progression or a melody together that actually works , and says something , irregardless of the words . |
| 21 | Er things like er crowbars and bull croppers and er rescue ropes and lines and things of that kind , which are very very simple , stuff you would buy in a hardware shop and probably be able to manage with it . |
| 22 | Commercial music is anything you can buy in a record shop . |
| 23 | Most areas have a number of these — the freesheets that will come through your letterbox as well as the ones that you can buy in a newsagent . |
| 24 | And US Secretary of State James Baker acknowledged that his painstaking diplomacy of the last eight months could quickly unravel in a region where religion and history have fuelled five Arab-Israeli wars . |
| 25 | Even professional men , it seems , would dabble in a bit of commerce if it helped pay the bills . |
| 26 | I will discuss in a moment how such transport might be achieved , but first I give an example of its role in maintaining life . |
| 27 | Apart from one other ingredient , which I will discuss in a moment , most helicopter aerobatics consist of combinations of the loop and roll . |
| 28 | that you could then discuss in an appraisal what level , and you would have the record system to actually say , Well you 've been on you know , the employment officers who went on that marketing course , |
| 29 | Labour Members may jeer in a debate in the House , but do they believe that they will get through an election campaign with the inconsistencies that are revealed in this document ? |
| 30 | I 'm gon na sneeze in a minute . |