Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They ran sheep here in those days , so I imagine she did , if only to keep him in socks . ’ |
| 2 | These probabilities were not used to rule out alternatives , rather to rank them in terms of their likelihood . |
| 3 | To confront the anger of God , not to hurl it in others ' faces , but in humility to confront it ourselves , is to find a knife to cut through our pious cant , and a fire to burn up our sentimentality and our complacency . |
| 4 | To recognize a rule as a rule is not to recognize it in terms of approval or disapproval . |
| 5 | We must assume that you know how to express yourself in sentences . |
| 6 | From the thirteenth century European lapidaries conducted active experiments in cleaving diamond crystals and in learning how to shape them in ways best calculated to admit and reflect the maximum light ( fig. 28 ) . |
| 7 | Not that he anticipated great trouble — most of the fell people were there to entertain themselves in ways which might appear rough and sound loud but came from characters largely tolerant , polite , gentle , qualities widely commented on , coming from the ease of great and graceful physical strength , the pacific , solitudinous nature of the daily lives , and a long experience of continuing community . |