Example sentences of "[adj] of [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 2 | Let us reconsider the example of the person who is afraid of shopping in the supermarket ( see Figure 4.8 ) . |
| 3 | In Albert v. Lavin it was assumed that the defendant was guilty of assaulting in the execution of his duty an off-duty policeman who was seeking to prevent a breach of the peace . |
| 4 | By July he hoped to be able to meet Butcher at Cheam , a property where the fourth Duke had spent his early married life ; but only if the weather proved favourable , ‘ for I have had the Rheumatism so bad of late , as to make me fearful of riding in the wet ’ . |
| 5 | He allows that , despite his claiming to have no consciousness of them , a court may punish a man for his drunken actions , but this is only because it can not be sure of distinguishing in the defendant 's plea ‘ what is real , what counterfeit ’ . |
| 6 | She was getting tired of standing in the hall with this unhelpful clergyman . |
| 7 | Alex Ferguson , United 's manager , regards Robson 's presence in four of his team 's remaining six League matches as a realistic target and the captain is confident of playing in the first of them , at home to Southampton on Thursday . |
| 8 | The Aston Villa midfielder has been troubled by a hamstring injury which saw him miss three FA Carling Premiership games but is confident of playing in the Group Three qualifier tomorrow . |
| 9 | However , some N. battus eggs deposited in the spring are capable of hatching in the autumn of the same year resulting in significant numbers of L3 on the pasture at this time . |
| 10 | Are you capable of sailing in the prevailing conditions ? |
| 11 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 12 | ‘ Boris Nikolayevich … intends to act as resolutely as he showed himself capable of acting in the fateful days of August 1991 , ’ said spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikov , referring to Mr Yeltsin 's role in thwarting a Communist coup . |
| 13 | In all , the search for visual relays working in parallel with the primary cortical visual mechanisms has been disappointing , even though there is good evidence that these areas must be capable of operating in the absence of the visual cortex . |
| 14 | Recently it has been shown that Raman spectra may be obtained from a wide variety of samples using a combination of an interferometer capable of operating in the near-IR region and a near-IR laser . |
| 15 | When the front wheels were no longer capable of pointing in the desired direction of travel , it would launch into a gentle semi-spin if you did not act to salvage the situation . |
| 16 | Western countries should be prepared to open themselves far wider to East European countries that make a real move to democracy and free markets : let the shameful visa queues at western embassies disappear , welcome Gastarbeiter from these countries , open up to any exports deserving East Europeans are capable of selling in the West 's competitive markets . |
| 17 | They too are capable of evolving in the direction of becoming better enemies , in this case enemies of cheetahs . |
| 18 | There was a big rehearsal room for those capable of working in the evening and a nice sitting-room for those who could not . |
| 19 | Within the memory itself there will be a number of chips , each capable of working in the absence of the others , thus employing redundant modularity . |
| 20 | And there are other English players , like Steve McManaman , he believes are capable of playing in the Italian league . |
| 21 | What it may be capable of doing in the living cell whether for good or ill remains to be discovered , ’ |
| 22 | Rainoldes seems to have imagined adult male sexuality not just as anarchic , but as satanically polymorphous , capable of engaging in the forbidden with alarming ease . |
| 23 | Could the future see a species capable of engaging in the defeat of the law of entropy in a final Armageddon ? |
| 24 | Its purpose was to perform acts of sabotage and to organise raids far behind the enemy lines , and ( later , in Europe ) to sustain local guerrilla groups , and send back to Britain intelligence regarding any situation with which S.A.S. troops themselves were incapable of dealing in the small numbers in which they operated . |
| 25 | Between 1725 and 1762 , scores of once-powerful imperial favourites , courtiers , viziers , royal lovers , politicians , patricians and plotters fell foul of this or that faction or clique in St Petersburg and found themselves temporarily or permanently imprisoned or exiled beyond the Urals , still alive but incapable of joining in the political intrigues of the capital . |
| 26 | This applies to some extent to the present posture of some of the leading cadres who prefer the old and are in substance quite incapable of integrating in the reform processes , and who , moreover , refuse to accept them either politically or psychologically . " |
| 27 | Over 330 other enterprises , employing over 80,000 people , had been closed because they were deemed incapable of surviving in the free market . |