Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 2 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 3 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 4 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 5 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 6 | When public funds are required to support someone in private care the needs of that person should be assessed in the same way as for admission to statutory care and admission should depend on the results of that assessment . |
| 7 | Watching Maureen feed very small birds who were unable to do it for themselves was to stand me in good stead later , when I began breeding barn owls . |
| 8 | I 've experienced more now , and it 's going to stand me in good stead . |
| 9 | Could I have honestly earned enough to have subsisted upon , to find me in proper food and clothing , such as is necessary , I should not have gone astray … |
| 10 | In these sessions they practised their kicking and wheeling ; John brought in a sergeant-major to train them in military marching . |
| 11 | WG is alleging that Alan Carr , who remained as Alkar 's chairman , overstated Alkar 's profits by anticipating payments and inflating stock , causing WG to overpay him in subsequent acquisition instalments . |
| 12 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 13 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 14 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 15 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 16 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 17 | ( 12 ) He rejoiced ( His joy ) to find her in good health . |
| 18 | Indeed the business was said to have made ‘ the very best of progress ’ and its move to open systems is reckoned to stand it in good stead for the future . |
| 19 | The ‘ co-decision ’ procedure applies to areas of law such as the single market , consumer protection , the free movement of labour and the right of individuals and companies to establish themselves in other member states . |
| 20 | One of the main problems in banking is that banks have not been free to establish themselves in other member states — the technical phrase which applies here is the Right of Establishment . |
| 21 | The paper was seen as constituting ‘ guidance for local education authorities ’ and the ministers proposed to inform themselves in due course about the action taken by LEAs with regard to that guidance . |
| 22 | Every morning , Mandru liked to indulge himself in religious spectacle , although the Ixmaritians all doubted whether this was inspired by faith and devotion . |
| 23 | As I passed the hall in a large comprehensive school , where notices proclaimed ‘ Quiet please : examination in progress ’ , the invigilator , a geography teacher , staggered out to engage me in slurred discussion of educational issues . |
| 24 | Once a routine of breastfeeds is established the mother can then choose to eliminate them in gradual succession . |
| 25 | Encouraged initially by his father in the belief that the acquisition and mastery of the culture dispensed in the state educational system was a necessary prerequisite to self-advancement , and spurred on by the conviction that to avoid his father 's fate he must acquire the one element that his father lacked , Nizan proceeded systematically and relatively uncritically between 1917 and 1924 to immerse himself in bourgeois culture . |
| 26 | His view of the visible church , for example , was much wider than that of even Whitgift , as he appeared to argue that since Christ had died for all , all men and women — including Roman Catholics — were potentially part of the visible church , and as such should be offered the sacrament of the eucharist , if they were prepared to receive it in good faith . |
| 27 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 28 | How are they going to replace themselves in good time so that there will be a talent bank of experience , ready to lead ? |
| 29 | I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’ |
| 30 | It takes a Masculine Courage to find pleasure in constructing Dungeons for Innocents in his Fancy , and a Female Patience to endure them in sober fact . ’ ’ |