Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( pp167-8 ) ( g ) Criminal use of ineffective exemption clauses Under the Consumer Transactions ( Restrictions on Statements ) Order 1976 ( SI 1976 No 1813 ) , it is a criminal offence for anyone , in the course of a business , to display or publish or include in a written document , an exemption clause which is void by virtue of s6 of UCTA 1977 . |
| 2 | Planning colour schemes involves choosing and balancing colours which will contrast or harmonise in a pleasing way . |
| 3 | ‘ Fans demand the right to sit or stand in a safe ground . ’ |
| 4 | Thirdly , the purchaser will be concerned to ensure that once completion has taken place , the vendor does not establish or participate in a competing business . |
| 5 | Rather than stay in a stuffy room we decided to carry on with our lessons out of sight of the road in the back garden , which was more distracting but more pleasant . |
| 6 | Rather than attempt in a short book a history of artistic developments at Rome from the early days on the Palatine to the rise of the Christian city , I have chosen to write about four important themes , which are briefly described in the introduction . |
| 7 | Some people engaging in the issue of disability representation have tried to affect the taste of non-disabled audiences and supporters , rather than engage in a political creativity within and about the disability struggle . |
| 8 | But a time arrives when you would rather do almost anything rather than sit in a stuffy fringe theatre on a Saturday night with a dozen heads all nodding aggrievedly in agreement on how South Africa is now really rather a nasty place . |
| 9 | The trainers not only have to develop skills but also the professional maturity which enables the interpreter to use those skills responsibly to a defined code in the professional context and to confront and absorb in a positive way the inevitable stresses that come with the job — working in situations which may involve death , birth , bereavement , trauma or abuse . |
| 10 | The obligation of modesty is on both men and women ; men are also required to dress and behave in a modest way . |
| 11 | In the most dreadful weather he would stand and wait in a wet grove of ash and hazel for a shot at a woodcock . |
| 12 | They had been allowed in , they had gone past the uniformed security , and then had had to sit and wait in a grey-painted lobby , watched by the plainclothes minders , before the man had come down for them . |
| 13 | The Christian ideal was more the saint than the sage : men and women who made the world to come seem present now rather than those who knew how to live and survive in a stormy and dangerous society . |
| 14 | Fraud essentially occurs for two reasons — inherent criminal intent or the resort to deceit and plunder in a vain attempt to salvage a crumbling empire . |
| 15 | There are so many things to see and do in a short stay . |
| 16 | The overall aim of the Enterprise Centre is to enable students and staff to develop the essential enterprise/transferable skills to operate and succeed in a changing employment and business environment and thus make Napier University more responsive to the needs of work . |
| 17 | Dolphins have developed many adaptations to survive and succeed in a marine and , to a lesser extent , freshwater environment . |
| 18 | It is important to note that the decision to export and import in a free market economy is not made by the country as a collective unit . |
| 19 | IXI describes the software as a virtual workspace — the product enables users to operate and work in a windowing environment that extends well beyond the physical space constraint of their monitor , as if they were sitting at a huge screen . |
| 20 | Here at last , people have an abundant society where all benefit and all are free to live and work in a flexible , creative way . |
| 21 | But like no other yet characterised it seems able to exist and function in a large number of structural permutations . |
| 22 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 23 | After a buffet lunch with various head office guests , Mike Bloy and Morton Henderson led a discussion and syndicate session entitled Managing People Through Change which analysed the various factors both physical and emotional that the modern manager must be aware of in order to react and communicate in a positive and constructive way . |
| 24 | Kammerer must have been inadvertently imposing massive selection pressure on the eggs , weeding out all those eggs that were unlikely to survive and develop in a watery environment . |
| 25 | They are really one-way traffic systems in which several streams of vehicles can mix and circulate in a clockwise direction only . |
| 26 | and on believing that they deserve , and are capable of inspiring , love and lust , but such self-esteem is difficult to achieve and maintain in a sexual void . |
| 27 | To recognise the continuing validity of such questions can not however exempt us from attempting to construct and share in a growing body of expertise . |
| 28 | He believed that machinery and urban life had ruined modern life , and advocated what he termed the ‘ voluntary segregation of the fit ’ to live and breed in a utopian community of farmers and skilled craftsmen . |
| 29 | Consequently , and inevitably , all junior officers were drafted there to do their stint in the overcrowded , overheated and noisy halls of the new airport which seemed to expand and change in a bewildering chaos of new cement and plaster board overnight . |
| 30 | FRONTED by Fiona Armstrong and Michael Wilson , GMTV promises its potential 40 million viewers it will ‘ inform and entertain in a popular but authoritive way ’ . |