Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Brahim Ghali , a member of the Polisario Executive Committee , had stated in an interview given to the Madrid newspaper El País of Oct. 22 , 1990 , that if the Moroccan government decided not to agree to the holding of the referendum , or tried to interfere in the running of it , then the armed struggle would be renewed on all fronts . |
| 2 | All information held by or reasonably available to you regarding any potential hazards known or believed to exist in the transport handling or use of the goods supplied shall be promptly communicated to us prior to delivery . |
| 3 | Both parties need the right to end the agreement if the other goes bankrupt or is forced into liquidation , or ceases to operate in the music business . |
| 4 | The shadow budget 's tax bands gave Labour the look of punitive vindictiveness : it drew the line where , realistically , it reckoned people could afford it , forgetting that in post-Thatcher Britain , people calculate their tax liabilities not on what they actually earn , but how much they hope , desire or aspire to earn in the very near future . |
| 5 | It means helping counsellees to make connections between what has occurred in the past , and how this affects what they are achieving or failing to achieve in the present . |
| 6 | The genes themselves do n't evolve , they merely survive or fail to survive in the gene pool . |
| 7 | Dine in style in the restaurant , or choose to eat in the bar buffet . |
| 8 | They can be planted out or left to grow in the pot , but will soon need re-potting . |
| 9 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |
| 10 | These symptoms were present most of the time , but became much worse if Sheila drove the car , used certain aerosol sprays , or had to sit in the same room as someone wearing perfume or aftershave . |
| 11 | It is a common finding when we are jet-lagged or trying to sleep in the day after night-work . |
| 12 | The reason why people sometimes think they ca n't shed weight on a strict calorie ration of 1,000 daily is that they are guessing at the weight — and thus the calorie content — of their portions of food , or forgetting to add in the calories provided by little items like the butter spread on that bread , or the milk in all those cups of tea ; or they fail to realize that innocent-looking things like that canned soft drink or glass of orange juice , or the mayonnaise coleslaw served in the office canteen ( 'Ca n't contain many calories — it 's salad , is n't it ! ' ) can add a sizeable number of calories to the daily total . |
| 13 | A good churchman , he is a Church Warden — but of a church that ceased to exist in the late 18th century . |
| 14 | As Jakobson perceived long ago , those varieties that have supra-local functions and that tend to develop in the direction of koines display simpler phonemic systems than varieties that have purely local functions ( for an excellent discussion of simplification and complexity in a range of language situations , see Andersen , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | It has not shifted the old Labour image and habits towards the new kind of social-democratic space that has begun to emerge in some European countries , and which represents the only real alternative for the left that wants to govern in the next post-Maastricht decade . |
| 16 | The moon was high overhead — a bright , full moon that seemed to float in the dark mirror of the water . |
| 17 | She led the way down a short and curving hall into the lounge — a rugged expanse of blue and gold that seemed to glow in the light admitted by three high windows . |
| 18 | ‘ Primarily , it was attacking that extraordinary wave of nostalgia that seemed to occur in the early and mid-Sixties for how great it was in the war . |
| 19 | I have said before how much that seemed to fly in the face of my own upbringing , but I am now slowly getting there . |
| 20 | Not yours , not mine , not some poor kid , or beggar , or tramp , or old lady that happens to get in the line of fire . ’ |
| 21 | Until the detailed investigative sources and court records that begin to appear in the reformed diocesan administration of the fourteenth century , we are almost totally in the dark . |
| 22 | Now that used to go in the old stew pot and they used to boil the bones till the meat dropped off , and the vegetables And that was your most of your meal for the rest of the week . |
| 23 | They can live in hot springs , or can be dredged from the deepest abyssal depths of the ocean ; the latter are grotesque gargoyles that seem to belong in the paintings of Heironymus Bosch . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , working in the artificial intelligence centres that began to open in the 1950s and 1960s , computer scientists began to make progress of a sort . |
| 25 | The picture that began to emerge in the early 1980s was not encouraging . |
| 26 | The two main rivals that began to emerge in the early 1980s were Thomson , the traditional market leader , and Intasun , a fast growing holiday and leisure group of companies . |
| 27 | The Masterpiece , a collection of folklore about the body and its functions , was probably the single most popular source of information on sex relations and childbirth , and the continuing publication of this work was possibly the last remnant of a much stronger popular demand and usage that began to grow in the nineteenth century with increasing literate audiences demanding knowledge . |
| 28 | Rather than having to type in the name of a program or press certain letters or numbers to select a function the user simply ‘ points ’ to what is required and presses a button . |
| 29 | And the only thing that seems to stand in the way of doing anything commercially sensible with County Farms is that every time we deal with it , somebody says , ah , but it can only exist as an entity , let's keep it as that , let's pass it on to a trust , let's safeguard it , let's do this and that . |
| 30 | Until 27 March at Ronald Feldman , a gallery that seems to specialise in the genre , Todd Siler ( who holds a combined doctoral degree in neuroscience and art and who has written a book called Breaking the Mind Barrier ) has devised a tableau he calls ‘ Radical Futures ’ . |