Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 2 | Many health policies in Third World countries are based on at least the vocabulary of this approach though the political climate does not always encourage such radical rethinking of health care nor does the training of most health workers prepare them to work in the new ways implied in the PHC philosophy . |
| 3 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 4 | Kartoffel had felt the team needed a touch of glamour — someone to pull in the big bucks and wow the cameras across the Reich . |
| 5 | I put it on the bed where we made the baby that was n't and what am I to put in the water-marked , dog-tooth lining ? |
| 6 | How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily . |
| 7 | But while you are waiting , there is plenty to see in the historic ‘ plague village ’ , such as the village stocks , the original ‘ Plague Cottage ’ and , of course , the church of St Lawrence . |
| 8 | Although upper or middle class women in the 18th century managed to negotiate ways in which to participate in the intellectual culture of their day — this is the age of the so-called blue stockings , fashionable women who banned gambling at their parties and invited clever people to come and converse wittily with each other — this period also witnessed the emergence of a sexually discriminating language , which defined women as the gentle and sentimental sex , and proposed a passive ideal of femininity closely tied to nature and biologically determined nurturing role in which intelligence and imagination were to be banished if not carefully hidden — masked . |
| 9 | Perhaps we should consider publishing details of the many failures in Conservative councils throughout the country , and not least in the borough in which this House is situated which , while exporting its homeless to other authorities , appears to be guilty of the illegal sale of houses that were not its to sell in the first place . |
| 10 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | I think there 's no doubt at all that erm from a Conservative point of view I actually believe that schools , under their heads , know best , and I am quite happy to trust schools with a budget of money which will enable them to buy in the specific needs that their school requires . |
| 12 | Do you want ask you to sit in the other chair ? |
| 13 | There is a big difference between the terms that you may be able to negotiate with , say , a US company seeking to recruit you to work in the Middle East and those offered by , say , a West German company offering a job at their headquarters , for which you are competing with a West German national . |
| 14 | Remember , thermal soaring is more about staying in the strongest area of lift than flying at an ‘ efficient ’ angle of bank ; it usually pays to turn steeply , as the small turning circle enables you to keep in the narrow cores of strong lift . |
| 15 | In an attempt to " depoliticize " the role of the police , de Klerk on Jan. 17 , 1990 , told 500 police in Pretoria that the government would " stop asking you to fight in the front trenches in political battles " , and said that henceforth police would " not be required to prevent people from marching to gain support for their views " ; instead police should concentrate on combating crime . |
| 16 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 17 | I understand that the electronic intarsia carriage selects the needles for only one colour at a time to the intarsia position , making it easy for you to lay in the appropriate colour . |
| 18 | The RAF was looking for something to work in the arctic , the desert . |
| 19 | ‘ But dammit , ’ said Gibbs , exasperated , ‘ we must have something to put in the French papers . ’ |
| 20 | Something to do in the long afternoons when the house was clean , empty and hushed , and Antoinette sleeping . |
| 21 | Dreadco is appealing for middle-aged identical twins , one to live in the low-pressure laboratory and one outside , while microscopic examination compares the rate at which grey hairs appear on their scalps . |
| 22 | And it worked , it was something to say in the international talking shops . |
| 23 | But there is a trick to feeling the need for a tenth rehearsal during the ninth rehearsal because one still hears many things that can become better , because one still knows something to say in the tenth rehearsal . |
| 24 | This made conquest almost impossible , as there was nothing to conquer in the customary sense of European or Asiatic warfare . |
| 25 | Pavel Penkin is the strike leader , what farmers want he says is a massive injection of state investment to enable them to compete in the new free market and improve their lot . |
| 26 | How , then , can we go about defining our strategy in the hope of getting them to react in the right way — the way we want them to ? |
| 27 | For a fleeting second she allowed herself to revel in the unaccustomed feeling of having the upper hand over him . |
| 28 | What else is there to do in the big drifts , |
| 29 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 30 | United go to Southampton tonight still desperate for their first victory in the new Premier League with Wark forecasting : ‘ I still fancy them to finish in the top three — even win it . |