Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first great public indication of the shift in Barth 's thinking came in 1927 , when he published the first volume of a projected Christian Dogmatics , which was intended eventually to handle in a systematic way all the main Christian doctrines . |
| 2 | Trying to find somewhere to live in a strange country may also be a concern . |
| 3 | The Secretary of State was thus granted a discretionary power to release a person serving a sentence of life imprisonment subject to two conditions : ( 1 ) He must be recommended so to do in a particular case by the Parole Board ( which was constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and ( 2 ) He shall not do so except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice together with the trial judge if available . |
| 4 | The other side of the coin was the pressure which could be exerted upon such foreign soldiers if they attempted to come home to vote in an election in opposition to a man of influence . |
| 5 | ‘ I moved out to stay in a hotel and I think Tracie preferred it that way . |
| 6 | In this area , at least , the would-be functionalist is offered the kind of rich and intricate structure that may match the detailed organization of linguistic structure , and so can be claimed plausibly to stand in a causal relation to it . |
| 7 | " He wo n't know how to shiver in a week or two , " said Hawkbit , with his mouth full . |
| 8 | If they ca n't be moved ( for example you may prefer not to call in a plumber to move the sink ) , stick them down . |
| 9 | Every practising barrister knows before which judges he would prefer not to appear in a political case because he believes , and his colleagues at the bar believe , that certain judges are much more likely than others to be biased against certain groups , like demonstrators or students , or certain kinds of action , like occupations of property by trade unionists or the homeless . |
| 10 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |
| 11 | When you are made aware of this you can consciously choose not to react in a stressed way and you will therefore be able to maintain a calmness even when life becomes hectic . |
| 12 | Brian Horton says they think they 've done well to stay in a tough league having spent hardly any money … |
| 13 | Brian Horton says they think they 've done well to stay in a tough league having spent hardly any money … |
| 14 | Everyone is able to choose how to behave in a given set of circumstances , although many people operate on the assumption that they can not choose and never give the alternatives a moment 's thought . |
| 15 | I think I may now have seen how to proceed in a paper I 'm writing at the moment on unconscious intention . |
| 16 | What Gowie means probably is that he does n't expect anybody to like him and , because of that , he tends not to behave in a likable way . |
| 17 | He was a member of the only Hatters team ever to play in an FA Cup Final at Wembley — that 1959 side is still talked about in the pubs and clubs of Luton , its players accorded folk hero status . |
| 18 | Going back to work in a different job helped for a while , however . |
| 19 | In his eagerness to amass a personal fortune to fund his politics , he borrowed heavily to invest in an obscure Canadian company called Aquablast . |
| 20 | For a moment , she vowed never to look in a mirror again , in case she should be able to trace the outlines of her own durium-laced bones . |
| 21 | Seb spent the evening drinking steadily , talking generalities , until Jacob was called away to intervene in a fight between two of his navvies . |
| 22 | She waited for a moment and then walked off to stand in a different part of the ship . |
| 23 | But the pace was much too hot for Beris , and when he peeled off after five laps Hupsith toiled on alone , slowing noticeably to finish in a modest 14 mins 20.3 secs . |
| 24 | Skim over the coast of Hawaii in a glider , roar across Arizona with the US Navy 's Blue Angels and lift off to space in a Saturn V rocket . |
| 25 | Nurse Eileen Farragher said : ‘ Physically he 'll be okay to go back to work in a few weeks — but mentally he 's still shocked . ’ |
| 26 | Nick stayed at Muirfield for a morning press conference next day and then flew down to play in a charity pro-am . |
| 27 | Adult dogs do take longer to settle in a new environment than puppies in any case , but you may find a dog whose history is well known . |
| 28 | The essence of both offences would be the intrinsic quality of the driving and its deviation from the proper standard , not the consequences which happen to result or happen not to result in a particular case . |
| 29 | A trap door in the wall then swings open and the Voord tumbles through to perish in a pool of acid hundreds of feet below the centre of the pyramid . |
| 30 | It seems businesses have never set out to choose in a deliberate and disciplined way which technique or techniques are likely to be the most effective , given the circumstances and the resources available . |