Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one case the opinion was expressed that the foreign affairs powers of the President are extra-constitutional , resting upon the international sovereign status of the United States and the necessity for that country to be able to perform effectively in foreign relations , uninhibited by domestic legal restrictions . |
| 2 | Prices and rents are likely to fall slowly in most cities , though there could be some serious casualties in the boiling Berlin market as sanity returns . |
| 3 | A new sense of harmony is unlikely to be developed if bored parents have to wait endlessly in long queues to see teachers . |
| 4 | Although theory and practice are meant to go together in most accounts of economic endeavour , one area where there seems to be an alarming gap is between tax theory and tax practice . |
| 5 | While many students subsequently enter the teaching profession or work as professional musicians , they find that the study of music as a discipline trains them intellectually to work successfully in other professions , for example , business , personnel management , arts administration , the civil service , computing , the careers service , librarianship and journalism . |
| 6 | Students are encouraged to meet locally in informal groups . |
| 7 | It is also a procedure that is beginning to catch on in other areas of a solicitor 's work . |
| 8 | By the mid-Eighties we were singing in English too , and we began to catch on in English-speaking countries . |
| 9 | Treponemes are difficult to find microscopically in these lesions , but if material from a gumma is injected into a rabbit , it will produce a syphilitic infection . |
| 10 | Except that she 's got to clock in in five minutes time . |
| 11 | With the United Nations there is at least the opportunity to start , to work together in new ways on issues that really matter . |
| 12 | The dual nature of disciplines , as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people , means that the difficulties of interdisciplinary work often take a concrete rather than abstract form ( Squires 1975 ; Levin and Lind 1985 ) Even when academics espouse ‘ construct ’ views of knowledge , they may find it difficult , in indefinable as well as definable ways , to work together in cross-disciplinary teams . |
| 13 | Rock 's superstars now deigned to appear only in vast stadia , remote from their audience , dependent on banks of amplifiers and lights . |
| 14 | The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years . |
| 15 | Consequently , to maintain a constant level of satisfaction — or , what is the same thing , of dissatisfaction — with the health services , expenditure upon them ought relatively to increase somewhat in real terms . |
| 16 | I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her . |
| 17 | He has to learn that God is a living God now , as well as in the middle ages ; to learn to trust not in antique precedents , but in eternal laws : to learn that his tenants , just because they are children of God , are not to be kept children , but developed and educated into sons . |
| 18 | Labov notes that the first type of approach appears to work best in working-class neighbourhoods while the second is more successful in middle-class neighbourhoods . |
| 19 | This seems to work both in short-term fluctuations and in long-term trends ( Habakkuk 1971 ) , although with an awkward time lag in the latter ( Wrigley and Schofield 1981 ) . |
| 20 | He hated the sun and used to curl up in shadowy places . |
| 21 | But ask one of the sergeants to come up in ten minutes to pack up the mallet for the Yard lab , will you ? |
| 22 | You have a beautiful body , one I 'd enjoy getting to know thoroughly in other circumstances , ’ he said as he closed the door quietly behind him . |
| 23 | Where one such lift is used the dock and load would be balanced by a suspended weight but two such lifts would generally be arranged to work simultaneously in opposite directions so as to balance each other . |
| 24 | It is a good idea actually to write out in simple words the points that need to be made . |
| 25 | ‘ Give me a chance to prove myself , Mrs Smelley , and then you would n't ‘ ave to come out in all weathers , when you suddenly discover you 've taken more bookin 's than you expected . ’ |
| 26 | it 's just about to come out in three weeks time |
| 27 | That 's what we 'll be attempting to find out in twenty minutes ' time . |
| 28 | But I want you to come back in four weeks . |
| 29 | And he said I was to come back in six months ’ time . ’ |
| 30 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |