Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be no doubt that the liabilities which the drafter might seek to exclude or restrict in standard terms of trading will be " business liabilities " and any exclusions in such standard terms are therefore potentially subject to the Act . |
| 2 | Many mothers have difficulty in interpreting the demands of their baby and tend to feed rather than play or comfort in other ways . |
| 3 | A description of personality traits is beyond the scope of this book , but they may be categorised in a simple manner under three headings , thus : * role traits : which are those parts of the personality which determine how an individual will react or behave in particular situations , and will react to the expectations of others in that situation . |
| 4 | This does not mean that adultery is the one legal basis for divorce among Christians , because Jesus never encouraged his followers to think or act in legalistic terms . |
| 5 | At the far side , the peninsula of Northmavine forms a boundary which ends at Fedeland , one of the famous ‘ haaf stations ’ of last century , from which the Shetland fisherman used to row or sail in open boats to the ‘ far haaf ’ , the fishing grounds which could be as far as sixty or more kilometres from land . |
| 6 | It is true that , as the term is commonly used , a representative , as opposed to a delegate , is not mandated to speak or vote in particular ways ; but it has always been a puzzle to me to understand in what ways such a person can then be said to represent , or speak for , those who sent him/her there . |
| 7 | ‘ Unbelievable ! ’ cried a media unused to hearing from singers who habitually hate to see the sun go down or sleep in hollow logs . |
| 8 | The actions of political forces and corporate bodies , within the resistant medium of social collectivities over which they have some influence but which they can not shape ex nihilo , may either conserve or transform in various ways the system of economic class relations . |
| 9 | And that the reality of geography is that people will chose to live or develop in accessible locations . |
| 10 | The text will appear and disappear in 200 frames of the movie . |
| 11 | ‘ The instinct of engineers is to bulldoze and construct in straight parallels . |
| 12 | But these judgements were then taken over and pre-packaged for pedagogic purposes , so one had the spectacle of the Leavisite schoolmaster or university teacher who presented his students with duplicated copies of , say , sonnets by Hopkins and Rossetti , which they were invited to compare and contrast in evaluative terms . |
| 13 | It then comes to the practical point , Citing German experience to show that ‘ there was a tendency for employee and shareholder representatives to vote and act in distinct groups ’ , they add that the presence of co-opted directors on the board would mean that either group would at the very least need to gain the support of the majority of the directors before they could carry or veto a proposal . |
| 14 | I used to try and act in straight plays but I was so bad they made me act with my back to the audience . |
| 15 | Adrian , who came 15th despite hopes for a medal , vowed : ‘ I certainly hope to go and win in four years ’ time . ’ |
| 16 | I felt sorry for poor Heathcliff , and while the Earnshaws were at church , I helped him wash and dress in clean clothes . |
| 17 | He may be frightened by crossing a road , by fast cars , by crowds or sudden noises , so that his spasticity increases ; he may panic and freeze in these situations , so that he can not move at all . |
| 18 | The fact that education ( though not schooling ) is obligatory up to the age of 16 forces one to try to justify and legitimate in curricular terms such a major act of social compulsion . |
| 19 | Energy seems to vanish and re-emerge in dramatic swings . |
| 20 | Infectious diseases , particularly the diarrhoeal diseases , are both difficult to prevent and control in such circumstances and they are largely responsible for the high morbidity and mortality rates in many areas of the world . |
| 21 | This being believes that he is able to look and measure in all directions , whereas his observations are really limited to directions contained in the two-dimensional surface . |
| 22 | Social support remains , however , a rather nebulous concept to define and measure in social surveys . |
| 23 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 24 | To stay and luxuriate in ordinary emotions and sensations means that the contemplative is trapped in our normal limitations . |
| 25 | The obvious comparison is with housework : if women want to eat and live in pleasant surroundings they have to cook and clean . |
| 26 | His highly playful Djinn ( 1981 ) — originally written as a French teaching text — demonstrates the limitless power of narrative to combine and fragment in ever-changing patterns . |
| 27 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 28 | Questioned about the nature of the Norway exercise , the MoD spokesman said the men had been learning to live and fight in Arctic conditions . |