Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather stay in the Brotherhood and try to persuade them to adopt the national agreements . ’ |
| 2 | I should perhaps explain in the context of your various questions when I say that erm we do want to become involved in these things , that , at this stage , and we 've only held two meetings , we have just identified themes and general areas in which we want to work , and not precise projects or activities . |
| 3 | These relations , which are part of economic practice , can only exist in the context of a legal system which establishes individual agents as buyers and sellers . |
| 4 | In 1369 , for instance , John of Gaunt took an army from Calais to Harfleur , and devastated the Pays de Caux , while in the following year Sir Robert Knolles led an army from Calais which did much damage in the Ile-de-France ; but Charles V refused to give battle and neither chevauchée achieved anything . |
| 5 | Well if you 've got to go in the garage , it 's too cold to go in there to finish the ship off so you 'd better paint in the house had n't you ? |
| 6 | I fully I fully accept that , er you would obviously build in the facilities which are necessary , but the most of the settlements are limited by existing physical and other constraints , and those can not be overcome , you can not duel the A nineteen as far as Easingwold without very substantial harm , for example to the open countryside , even if it were physically possible and economically possible , to expand Easingwold , sorry , to expand Tadcaster to the required size , we 'd need to roll back greenbelt boundaries , again contrary to P P G two . |
| 7 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 8 | The direction of the force is obvious , it can only act in the line connecting the two point charges . |
| 9 | She 's in Room B. You 'd better wait in the visitors ’ room . |
| 10 | Some , the precursors of fungi , could only survive in the dark . |
| 11 | At such times , I conclude , the soul can only hang in the dark , like a white bat , and let darkness have the day . |
| 12 | Because management is made up of virtually constant negotiation and adjustment it can only flourish in the context of other people . |
| 13 | We can perhaps include in the category of semantic indicator such cases as the dis — of disappoint , disgust , dismay , etc. , and the im — of impertinent , impudent , etc. , if the former is felt to be related to the dis — of dislike and disapprove , and the latter to the im — of impolite ; the segments — appoint , — gust , — may , — pertinent and — pudent have no discernible semantic function , and do not need a label . |
| 14 | The Corporate Plan , recently approved by Council , will greatly assist in the focusing of future budgets . |
| 15 | Indeed , I can think of nobody your enemies would less welcome in the post . ’ |
| 16 | Landed proprietors generally did not much invest in the funds , although some individual peers had substantial holdings . |
| 17 | Furthermore , an incorrect diagnosis will merely result in the tradesman replacing a wrong component or unit and when he tests to see if the fault is clear will find it is still there . |
| 18 | The final point , on the purely technical side , is that accessories which offer automatic dialling of telephone numbers via a Hayes-compatible modem wo n't necessarily work in the UK . |
| 19 | They can obviously see in the future |
| 20 | Posix-compliant programs can only run in the Posix subsystem . |
| 21 | Second , we are reminded that while the evidence for the resurrection is impressive , first Christians did not merely believe in the resurrection . |
| 22 | By the time Tennyson revisited Cauterets , in 1861 , what he thought of as a village he now found to be , in his less poetic moods , ‘ an odious watering-place ’ , and that is a transition you can readily enough trace in the architecture today . |
| 23 | Others in their early 20s will obviously feature in the selectors ' deliberations for the full tour of Australia , starting in November , that marks the beginning of a new era for West Indies more appropriately than the proliferation of one-day tournaments to which Richie Richardson 's reshaped team has been almost exclusively confined . |
| 24 | If the weather was fine and we wanted to be out in the mountains , then we would only work in the evening . |
| 25 | This transformation could only occur in the heart of the individual if , anguished at his sinfulness , he recognised his complete reliance upon Christ for assured salvation and then attained utter conviction that Christ 's redeeming grace had infused him . |
| 26 | I want to pay particular attention to present practice and to what may perhaps happen in the years ahead . |
| 27 | But audiences sitting and watching can only join in the fun in their imagination and if the dancers are sufficiently out-going . |
| 28 | A SEARCH ON KEY , for example , will compare every record key with the search key value , but will only read in the data record or records that satisfy the search conditions . |
| 29 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 30 | They can literally walk in the footsteps of people in the past , walking a section of Roman road or an old packhorse track , or following the route of an abandoned railway , or perhaps storming a hill-fort or castle . |