Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty lies in convincing yourself of that ! |
| 2 | All non-productive wood must be cut out , and the skill lies in deciding which of the many buds are wood buds and which are fruit buds , and then in deciding which of the wood buds are likely to produce the most fruit buds . |
| 3 | Historical research has thus proved more successful in demolishing old myths and theories about the relationship between crime and social change than it has in replacing them with sustainable generalizations . |
| 4 | But it is not every image that succeeds in suggesting something of the thrill of the hunt as well as curiosity . |
| 5 | Lady Macbeth succeeds in calming him by her usual tactics of scornful reductivism : ‘ When all 's done , /You look but on a stool ’ ( 67f. ) , and mockery of his cowardice : ‘ What ! quite unmanned in folly ? ’ ( 73 ) . |
| 6 | However , there 's no doubt that a usp puts the creative team in a stronger position than not having one , as long as he or she succeeds in selling it to the public . |
| 7 | Succeeds in driving one in three directions ( 4 ) |
| 8 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 9 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 10 | Do not allow yourself to be pushed around by an agency that tells you they have a large number of suitable vacancies and then persists in sending you for jobs which are not within your specifications . |
| 11 | Because social changes which can be fitted into comparatively lengthy processes are yoked together with some structures in a single category , much of the history of conjonctures consists in relating one to another . |
| 12 | She is selfless in religious commitment , yet delights in displaying herself in print as a spiritual heroine . |