Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Ryle 's point is that , since the terms ‘ mind ’ and ‘ body ’ are not of the same category , it is illegitimate to relate them logically in this way .
2 I 'm actually , I 'm quite high on as theorist as well and I like to write everything out in full and I clear structures and if I go to training sessions and they 're all over the place , it 's such a in about five minutes and I have to say hang on a minute it might not be structured in the way that you like it but you can actually learn from it .
3 What a bloody fool I was to trust him even in this . ’
4 We had studied some navigation but now had the chance to try it out in more detail .
5 You obviously have to work it out in some way , but you seem able to arrive at the answer almost instantly .
6 In case there are any reading this who have still not seen the vision , allow me to spell it out in moral advice : If you attend zoos and circuses — find other entertainment ; if you are engaged in intensive ‘ livestock ’ farming — throw away the systems of close confinement ; if you are engaged in animal experimentation — find alternatives ; and if you still eat meat — give it up .
7 If you 're going to sum it up in one word ?
8 Since peasants who still possessed any seed reserves or livestock were excluded from relief , they were compelled to sell them off in some cases in order to survive .
9 Zimbabwe , which favours the legalization of trade in rhino and elephant products , is to store the horns in the hope of being able to sell them legally in due course .
10 Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat .
11 Yet to set ourselves up in such a manner contradicts our cherished notion of being part of the community . ’
12 ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’
13 And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’
14 er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way .
15 It made us able to stand up on our own two feet , to sharpen us up in many respects .
16 I 've got a helicopter due to pick us up in half an hour , and the Citation 's on stand-by .
17 ‘ You do know a Jo , Carol , ’ said ‘ You brought her up here once , or rather you got her to drive you here in that big flash Jaguar .
18 They turn up on church doorsteps in inner London hoping that the Church will be able to help them out in some way .
19 Well , it crossed my mind that actually a few of the headings here are actually duplicated by the Video Work in Progress meeting , so whether we want to cover them again in this meeting I do n't know , because we had a meeting yesterday which covered some of these things and their minutes are then available .
20 Bosch will be able to buy them out in 1996 for 20.4 times average earnings per share in the previous three years up to a maximum of 394p .
21 Aside from the stalemated Iran-Iraq war , Lebanon continued to tear itself apart in continuous internecine struggles .
22 It is intended to identify it again in 1991 .
23 It is hard to imagine anyone else in this island who was more isolated and more materially deprived .
24 Now you 've got to rework it again in cubic metres
25 Erm , the facts are , and this is all in Trivers if you want to look up erm if you want to look it up in more detail , that males die more readily than females , from all causes that affect both sexes and some that even do n't and you 'd be astonished about , like for instance , you gather from John book on the myth of he heterosexual you 're not allowed to buy in this country , you have to import it from the U S.
26 They had to pile it deeper in one corner to make a space to spread the chillies — five lukals of fleshy scarlet pods to be dried a crackling brick-red to last throughout the year .
27 Glasgow , already the host for many of the UK 's most innovative arts events , hopes to go one better in 1990 , combining commercial and publicly-funded activity in a year-long cultural feast .
28 He once locked two visiting American soldiers inside the cathedral one evening and promised to come to let them out in half an hour but forgot to come .
29 Disappointingly strawberries do not freeze so if you do not eat them at once you need to use them up in some other way .
30 A detached head , who acts with detachment , coolly weighing matters up , allowing the mind to soak up ideas and to put them together in new ways , is not a primary-school image .
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