Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , this may mean that old people are exposed to risk in their own homes and that there will be , on occasion , tragic consequences . |
| 2 | Nor would he accept that he should work out the sum due by looking at the cost of providing a type of car which Mr Shove ‘ might reasonably be expected to acquire in his present circumstances ’ . |
| 3 | And the command is in four parts erm and you 're expected to write in what those four parts are . |
| 4 | To be a highly visible minority of two in communities which were often as expressive as they were antagonistic was an abrupt reversal of the roles we had so unthinkingly come to accept in our British prep schools . |
| 5 | Brookes introduced the concept of ‘ periodical utility ’ , which he defined as the number of references a paper could be expected to attract in its particular library context during the period it remained in the library . |
| 6 | For many who adopt a liberal and free-enterprise approach the explanation of our present problems is the increasing role which government has come to play in our economic life . |
| 7 | By making language do other than what it is designed to do in its original context , parodic manipulation undermines its illocutionary force rather than its explicit semantic content . |
| 8 | It is called the Red House because it is built of deep red brick , an unusual medium for a man of means , who was normally expected to build in something nobler . |
| 9 | It feels to Alice that motherhood means overturning ‘ almost all the marital , housing , professional and personal progress I was expected to make in my 20s . |
| 10 | Or am I not permitted to speak in my own house ? ’ |
| 11 | It is precisely because of this view that we discover the highest purpose of PATTERN PRACTICE : TO REDUCE TO HABIT WHAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO HABIT IN THE NEW LANGUAGE , so that the mind and personality may be freed to dwell in their proper realm , that is on the meaning of the communication rather than the mechanics of grammar . |
| 12 | The impression just described can be related moreover to the before/after idea which to has been seen to express in its other uses . |
| 13 | Most importantly , they fail to acknowledge the genuine lessons of Marx 's work , as , for example , reflected in Bourdieu 's Outline of a Theory of Practice ( 1977 ) , in which the significance of artefacts is seen to consist in their simultaneous operation in both the material and cognitive worlds , thereby exposing the artificiality of a dichotomous approach . |
| 14 | It was not the general labourers but the seamen and other groups which could be made to believe in their immediate bargaining power which led the new militancy from the winter , not of 1889 , but of 1888 . |
| 15 | Section 71(1) is in very broad terms , and it is well capable of embracing any proceeding necessary to secure observance of the Act , including civil proceedings for an injunction which authorities are subsequently empowered to commence in their own name . |
| 16 | The real value of the method is seen to lie in its motivating effect more than in the changes in production methods . |
| 17 | History is the arena in which , first through the period of the Old Testament , then by the teaching of Jesus in the New , the way has been prepared for the gradual purifying and refining of man 's religious sense which will lead to a third , future era , in which religious values will be seen to shine in their own light as ‘ necessary truths of reason ’ . |
| 18 | Now she and her husband , the cook , have decided to throw in their two Michelin rosettes and relax . |
| 19 | On the other , if you bluff against an opponent who has a really good hand you may end up very much worse off than if you had decided to throw in your bad hand before you had raised the bet too far . |
| 20 | Throughout this period older men and women in this country have preferred to live in their own homes and have maintained a strong belief in independence . |
| 21 | However , as many of the novelists have themselves pointed out , the presence of transgressive and subversive features could be shown to exist in their earlier works . |
| 22 | After discussing what led a girl to become a prostitute they then set up a series of dramas showing some of the stresses ( including poverty ) a fictitious character had had to face in her early life . |
| 23 | So again you 've got to come up with your main heading what kinds of words do you think you 've got to have in your main heading ? |
| 24 | But erm it 's all very easy to say you ca n't have socialism or this ideal state , whatever you might like to call it , unless it 's all er er you know kind of international er it 's got to be , happen all over the world or it never will happen at all but erm first of all it 's got to happen in your own country and it seems to me that we imagine that everybody , the mass of the people that we , we do that er we want this ideal state . |
| 25 | He was scheduled to compete in his 100th , and last , Grand Prix at Watkins Glen but he pulled out of the race in respect for his team-mate Francois Cevert who was killed in practice . |
| 26 | Sunderland wanted £4,000 and their manager , Bob Kyle , said it would be worth it for the twenty goals Buchan was bound to score in his first season at Highbury . |
| 27 | While the Americans have continued to export cathartic , confessional product from the likes of Black Francis , Kristin Hersh , Kurt Cobain and Buffalo Tom 's Bill Janovitz , bands on this side of the Atlantic have seemed to delight in their complete lack of anything to say . |
| 28 | This is what philosophers of religion have attempted to explore in their complex analyses of existence . |
| 29 | Experiments have shown that we tend to hear speech as more rhythmical than it actually is , and one suspects that this is what the proponents of the stress-timed rhythm theory have been led to do in their auditory analysis of English rhythm . |
| 30 | Interested parties will be asked to incorporate in their indicative offer the following information : |