Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 2 | They still wore the clothes they had fought in , with no decorations or marks of triumph , and filed past in dead silence , the Ras 's son coming in to sit in his stained clothes among all the gloriously dressed chiefs , a very silent but dignified figure . |
| 3 | Some people leave it very late to discover that they may not be aggressive/intellectual/pragmatic enough to succeed in their particular company . |
| 4 | This is a code of conduct for directors of listed companies requiring them not to deal in their own company 's shares on short-term considerations or at a time when they are in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information . |
| 5 | 1.2 The employee 's duty not to compete in his spare time As a general rule an employee can not compete with his employer in his spare time without being in breach of his duty of fidelity . |
| 6 | Innsbruck is close by and the city is worth visiting just to meander in its lovely mediaeval streets with mountains soaring above while the Italian border is close by and there are excursions to Lake Garda , Merano and Vipiteno . |
| 7 | — not to use force or threaten the use of force against the Persian Gulf countries , and not to interfere in their internal affairs ; |
| 8 | Heaving over to one elbow just in time not to drown in her own effluent , Jezrael was so involved with her physical self that it was only after a moment that she noticed the base of one wall oozing forward to cover her vomit . |
| 9 | Impartial advice can be hard to find nowadays , but your solicitor is bound by the Law Society 's rules to give this kind of help , and always to act in your best interests . |
| 10 | How might your boss react if you turned up to work in your best disco gear ? |
| 11 | ‘ Throughout his eight and a half years as Labour leader he has shown the sort of courage in reforming the party which few politicians are capable of — and which , it must be said , John Major has never been called on to demonstrate in his effortless , virtually unchallenged glide through the great offices of state . ’ |
| 12 | He did well to hook in his tenth of the season . |
| 13 | Thus the decision not to appoint Risk could be seen as an attempt by the Board to carry out its fiduciary duty to the shareholders ( ie to act in their best interests ) . |
| 14 | It has also produced very comprehensive guidelines about to appear in their third edition . |
| 15 | Law can not tell people how to behave in their own homes ; they will not obey ; such rules are unenforceable because the necessary information is unobtainable , unless you put ‘ a spy under the bed ’ . |
| 16 | She is so slowed down by the dope slamming fifty visions of hell at her a second that she finds it hard to fight , hard to believe in her own anger , hard to believe in what she 's doing . |
| 17 | I thought it the gesture of someone who has noticed a fellow human being about to step in something horrible but who is too polite to draw attention to the fact by seeming sorry for her . |
| 18 | My niece Louise when to play in her new party frock . |
| 19 | The tone was to become snarling : ‘ Charmley often tortures the evidence and there is much else to criticise in his scholarly but eccentric re-writing of history . |
| 20 | right , that is something else to pursue in your technical contacts here , as to how much influence the States side has on the gears , the bearing design , the di , the the gear design in Europe . |
| 21 | ‘ Either to stay in their insufferable homes , or to kick up their heels in the streets … |
| 22 | With play flowing from end to end , Boldon grabbed an equaliser through Peter Quinn , with Lee Philipson going on to slot in their second late in the second half . |