Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that moment they have gone from strength to strength and last year reached the final of the Pilkington Cup only to lose in extra time . |
| 2 | As the year progresses it is hoped that companies will begin to feel confident enough to invest in new production and distribution facilities but the construction of new offices will remain subdued reflecting the stock of vacant buildings which still exist . |
| 3 | I decided that I had not come all this way only to indulge in polite conversation . |
| 4 | There was no Christian architecture before A.D. 200 ; believers gathered together to meet in each others ' homes and used the courtyard fountain for baptism . |
| 5 | The use of modern language laboratories and deep immersion techniques can teach practically any individual , either manager or shop-floor worker , enough to work in another country after some two or three months ' experience . |
| 6 | The ultimate insult had been thrown at him : he , the Maître Auguste Didier , had been obliged , nay commanded , not only to appear in Dickensian dress but to don the unmistakable apparel of Alexis Soyer : tight white drill trousers , matching tunic , short jacket , ridiculous cummerbund , slotted into which was his own kitchen knife ( no doubt for a speedy self-martyrdom after the imminent disaster of this meal ) and , worse , the horror on his head . |
| 7 | Muslim weavers who had emigrated from India and Turkoman weavers from the north were brought together to work in large weaving centres in Karachi and Lahore . |
| 8 | The sane alternative must be to create conditions in which small , self-reliant enterprises can take root and grow ; to provide training and guidance for those bold enough to lead in this direction . |
| 9 | We believe first of all the shock troops of the Labour Movement , the Radicals within the Liberal Party , the forces who want peace and not to become doormats for Hitler and Chamberlain to walk upon , and the members of the Left Book Club — have all to engage in organised effort to bring about Unity . |
| 10 | The move could force the city of Albuquerque to spend US$250 million cleaning up its water waste so that the Rio Grande is clean enough to drink in religious ceremonies when it reaches Isleta Pueblo , 20 kilometres downstream from the city . |
| 11 | It is inevitably the case that these tend to be people who are not rich enough to engage in high-powered tax planning , or who , for lack of knowledge or advice , fail to take the necessary precautionary action . |
| 12 | He was now very weak and was forced to convalesce until March — after that , his doctor advised him , he would be able only to engage in part-time office work . |
| 13 | But manager John King and his backroom staff did n't offer Agoos a contract , because they believed he was n't good enough defensively to play in English football . |
| 14 | But manager John King and his backroom staff did n't offer Agoos a contract , because they believed he was n't good enough defensively to play in English football . |
| 15 | These issues are difficult enough to disentangle in contemporary research , and there are major problems in gaining access to data which would really enable those distinctions to be made in an historical context . |
| 16 | People embraced and wept , promising to stay in touch , only to realise in some cases that they had no addresses to exchange . |
| 17 | Sir , Your occasional reader , Mrs Dinwiddie , fortunate enough to live in rural Scotland , seeks guidance and reassurance about food sold in Britain ( Letter , July 12 ) . |
| 18 | I told him to pull his engine rpm down to 1,600 , to put his mixture control to auto-lean and to open his throttle wide enough to stay in loose formation with me … |
| 19 | As yet , it is possible only to outline in general terms how the arrangements will work . |
| 20 | When asked why she allowed the computer so to dominate in this way , she replied ‘ It 's the first time they have been quiet for a whole week ! ’ , reflecting the second cause in the list above . |
| 21 | when would the last sketches er be around so to speak in broad terms to , to look for about |
| 22 | Coyle insists he has had no trouble this season with his suspect knee but said : ‘ I would be prepared to risk it anyway to remain in senior soccer . ’ |
| 23 | As I write Serbia 's slow burning fuse of bitterness from the Second World War is soon to ignite in open war against Croatia . |
| 24 | All you have to do is draw all the little bits of an object and push them all together to make a silhouette of the object and then performing one combine operation joins them all together to make an outline that would take you a lot longer to draw in one piece . |
| 25 | On occasion the animators got sufficiently carried away to draw in additional detail . |
| 26 | A strand of hair which normally covers his bald patch has fallen away to rest in seaweedy strings on his padded shoulder , drying as we speak . |
| 27 | Brisk afternoon winds do blow , exciting passages are possible , and there are many coves where you can anchor alone just to relax in perfect peace . |
| 28 | Forster and Lawton passed from view , soon to reappear in another corridor . |
| 29 | And fortunately the end cap was like a , so I went and then I stuck some wadding in just to wire in that head lamp . |
| 30 | None of us like to go in poorly lit areas , it automatically raises our fear level does n't it ? |