Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The WRVS aim to run their tea bar whenever the court is sitting , usually three times a week , but provided the rota is working well ( ‘ which it does ’ , Mrs. Rooney said ) the organiser needs only to call in once a week . |
| 2 | It is a faith that believes it has only to ask in order to receive : e.g. in the cure of the leper ( Mark 1:40–5 ) . |
| 3 | One has always to bear in mind that for very many people in early-modern England — in the towns as much as in the countryside — the home was also the place of work . |
| 4 | Prutec , a venture capital fund set up 18 months ago by Prudential Assurance , with £20 million to spend on high-technology projects , has yet to invest in any British biotechnology company , other than Speywood . |
| 5 | Equality of the sexes has yet to arrive in the world of birds . |
| 6 | Fortunately for his pectorals and his cranium , Mr Stallone has yet to fall in love with a woman who likes men with small busts and large brains . |
| 7 | Anderton , who has yet to score in the League , has missed the last five matches in which Spurs have extended an unbeaten run to seven games while beating the likes of Liverpool and Blackburn . |
| 8 | IXI will remain intact as an SCO subsidiary , and is to take over some responsibility for the development of Open Desktop — SCO 's graphical operating system bundle which has yet to deliver in the manner promised . |
| 9 | Spennymoor super heavyweight Michael Hopper meets Preston 's Rod Allan , who , because of walkovers , has yet to box in this year 's championship . |
| 10 | Wolves provide Bull , who has yet to play in the First Division , with passes over the midfield and crosses from overlapping full-backs . |
| 11 | The project crew has yet to appear in Punta del Este , so the crew has no money to pay bills already incurred , and their passports have been left in France to be given Australian visas . |
| 12 | It has yet to appear in Britain : BSR does not see sufficient demand in the UK to justify manufacture of a converted system . |
| 13 | Secondly , at the end of the story he engineers a fall of quails that drives the people mad with greed , and turns quickly to plague in their mouths . |
| 14 | One is the move towards creating alliances , as means of dealing with the problems of rising resource costs just to stay in the game . |
| 15 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 16 | Monteverdi 's two-part vocal writing tends often to run in thirds , only briefly in the possibly unauthentic final love-duet , more characteristically in the coloratura of Nero 's duet with Lucano ( Act II , SC.6 ) as they rejoice over Seneca 's death . |
| 17 | Each babe emerges folded in two , head to tail , the size of a small tea-leaf , and swims away to hide in the leaves of the water plants . |
| 18 | takes longer to get in there |
| 19 | Yet except in times of war or acute external threat , this seems rarely to happen in modern democratic societies . |
| 20 | As Bishop Holloway pointed out in our pages yesterday , the contemporary family seems increasingly to exist in a moral vacuum , with too many children left in control of their own leisure time while their elders are either absent or indifferent to their activities . |
| 21 | As David Frost said , ‘ sometimes the most powerful men in the world can be really nervous of an interview , and sometimes it helps just to throw in a question to keep people quiet at the beginning . |
| 22 | Romanticism feeds on the mythology of the past which it tries imaginatively to re-create in the present . |
| 23 | ‘ keep to a particular line ’ means e.g. to continue in the line in which he is already travelling ; |
| 24 | Safety technology — both active and passive — is now a significant selling point , and one that promises only to increase in importance . |
| 25 | For the sake of argument , let us say for example that the son of a humble couple in a Provençal village leaves home to train in the catering business . |