Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Brenda Dean , general secretary of Sogat ( Society of Graphical and Alled Trades ) said : ‘ The decision will give the green light to a small minority of cynical police officers , encouraging them to build in unnecessary delays when they are investigating their own . ’ |
| 2 | Encouraging me to follow in this way perhaps , but moving too fast for me to believe that she wanted me to do that , she entered a revolving door of dark polished wood , mahogany and glass , and started to go round and round , looking out at me as she turned . |
| 3 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 4 | I am grateful to the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) for allowing me to speak in this valuable debate . |
| 5 | The University Welfare Services make special provision to assist students with special needs to find accommodation , to enable them to participate in all aspects of university life , and to give expert advice on career opportunities after graduation . |
| 6 | One consequence of public anxiety is an increasing demand for scientists with the specific skills of chemists , geoscientists , biologists etc , who are aware of the contribution that their own discipline can make to understanding the environment and are sufficiently acquainted with other disciplines to enable them to work in multi-disciplinary teams . |
| 7 | I , personally , was struck by Basil 's gift , when he taught children and teachers , for helping them to observe in such a way that detail was noticed and imagination was touched . |
| 8 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 9 | ‘ I8m now hoping to get the CAA aerobatics certificate in addition to the Instruments course , which will qualify me to fly in bad weather , ’ said Ray , whose other goal is to become part-owner of a light aircraft . |
| 10 | Gradually there was added a whole range of extra payments to give doctors financial inducements to provide adequate surgery facilities and to encourage them to practise in unpopular industrial and inner-city areas , and in remote rural areas . |
| 11 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |
| 12 | You can tell him from me that if he wants me to stay in this urban backwater of yours he 'll have to provide me with an interesting occupation — and I do n't mean modelling your dress . |
| 13 | So what is their mental state , that causes them to behave in this very unfeline-like way ? |
| 14 | Then there was a strange silence , as if we 'd come to a full stop , as if he 'd expected me to react in some other way . |
| 15 | We wish to congratulate and encourage you for this humanitarian act , so praiseworthy , and urge you to persevere in this work of salvation . |
| 16 | I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her . |
| 17 | He also said that in the letter he told Mr Wilson that he was held in great esteem among Irish people , qualifying him to engage in political dialogue . |
| 18 | It may be possible to encourage it to stay in one area by fitting a spotlight of the mercury vapour variety . |
| 19 | It is also conceivable to house a part of the London Warburg Institute archive there on micro-film , so enabling us to share in these treasures . |
| 20 | This darkness and this cloud is betwixt thee and thy God , and telleth thee that thou mayest neither see him clearly by light of understanding , nor feel him in sweetness of love in thine affection , and therefore shape thee to bide in this darkness as long as thou mayest , crying after him that thou lovest … |
| 21 | The impetus which drove them to expand in all directions from this base is not fully explained . |
| 22 | Modularising is good if it allows greater choice for students , and allows them to specialise in certain parts of a rather falsely unified subject . |
| 23 | All those to , yeah well I told you to put in this morning . |
| 24 | Told him to look in any time — just to walk in , sit down , take his shoes off , and make himself at home ! |
| 25 | This not only allows him to indulge in more of those awkward movements , which make his first solo such a wonderful parody of classical dance , but shows him as the pathetic clown , always the butt of everyone 's laughter . |
| 26 | She thought more about losing the coal to Mrs Phipps than about Granny , it seemed to me then , but I expect it was the shock that caused her to react in that way . |
| 27 | She has a highly interesting job which allows her to remain in close contact with patient care . |
| 28 | Unlike the gibbon , which tends to specialize in figs of a predictable and often continuous availability that allows it to live in small territories and at a large population density , the orang-utan is a great wanderer . |
| 29 | The philosophical underpinnings of Peacock 's thinking are discussed elsewhere ; suffice it to say in this present context that such a method of financing broadcasting would completely change the face of British broadcasting by redefining the nature and duties of the broadcasting organizations . |
| 30 | Returning now to our basic theory , we see that the extension of Freud 's monotraumatic theory of human social evolution to a polytraumatic one allows us to discern in human cultural evolution a pattern which , if it should prove to be real , may perhaps represent for the human sciences something like the revolution introduced into the physical sciences by Copernicus , Kepler and Galileo . |