Example sentences of "[verb] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advisers had skills in negotiating with individual creditors and in planning an overall strategy of negotiation among several creditors , arising out of their knowledge of the legal position , experience of previous negotiations , the ability to communicate in a businesslike way , and their position as independent third parties . |
| 2 | As the language of mathematics is so tightly defined , the ability to use mathematics to communicate in a particular language may take longer to develop than we would expect , and this may lead us to underestimate pupils ' grasp of ideas , particularly since language is so closely related to culture . |
| 3 | This is an important goal in learning to communicate in a foreign language . |
| 4 | The constituent cells of Volvox , however , are coordinated , for all the flagella around the sphere beat in an organised way and drive the tiny ball in a particular direction . |
| 5 | Even when they sleep in a separate room . |
| 6 | ‘ Sleep in a warm bed while you can , because you 'll be in the gutter soon enough , the lot of you . ’ |
| 7 | One corner of his mouth lifted in a self-mocking grin . |
| 8 | The small man 's shoulders lifted in a slight shrug . |
| 9 | His shoulders lifted in a vague shrug . |
| 10 | Suddenly , Apanage tweaked a sequence of cords and chains , and the net lifted in a momentary puff of silk before floating down to consume the apparition . |
| 11 | Jack 's mouth lifted in a wry smile . |
| 12 | His mouth lifted in a wry smile . |
| 13 | His mouth lifted in a token smile . |
| 14 | His shoulders lifted in a resigned shrug . |
| 15 | Her tiny figure shook with new-found sensations and her hands lifted in an involuntary gesture to touch her tingling breasts . |
| 16 | Nathan shook his head , his mouth twisting in a humourless smile . |
| 17 | Returning to the argument in The Future of an Illusion an imaginary antagonist argues that civilization depends upon people continuing to believe in God , otherwise they will not act in a moral way . |
| 18 | GPs who volunteer to hold practice budgets will act in a similar way for those services for which they are responsible . |
| 19 | A pun can act in a similar way to metaphor , pointing to a coalescence of concepts normally distinct . |
| 20 | However , there is now evidence that the mechanism responsible for this can act in a similar fashion in some normal individuals ; as one would expect these are people high in schizotypal traits . |
| 21 | They 'll improve on it , or they might adapt it , see if they can change it in some way in that case , and they 'll act in a cohesive way . |
| 22 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 23 | Psychology usually assumes that psychologists can act in a neutral way . |
| 24 | The typical case is one in which a factual statement points out that a situation is one of the kind in which an ethical statement asserts that a certain obligation holds , that is , one in which it has expressed the wish that people should act in a certain way or meet the disfavour of others . |
| 25 | Love makes you act in a certain way even — and this is the crunch — when you are not feeling very loving . |
| 26 | A representative person is one who will act in a given situation in much the same way as those he represents would act in that same situation . |
| 27 | They will act in a facilitating role to help in focusing on more general social and economic need . |
| 28 | A legitimate expectation may arise when a government agency , by its words or conduct , leads a citizen reasonably to expect that it will act in a particular way . |
| 29 | There are certain other circumstances in which this problem of unduly encouraging an authority to reach a particular decision does not arise and in which a scheme of compensation might be feasible and desirable : where there is no question of a decision being re-made , notably where the time-limit for challenging an allegedly illegal decision has run out ( through no fault of the applicant ) ; or where a citizen has suffered loss by relying on a representation by a public body that it will act in a particular way , in circumstances where the law will not require the body to make good its representation because it has undertaken to act illegally ; or where a court exercises its discretion not to quash an illegal decision In such cases the problem of causation does not exist because the decision in question will not be reconsidered . |
| 30 | It is part of our collective political morality that such compromises are wrong , that the community as a whole and not just individual officials one by one must act in a principled way . |