Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fans demand the right to sit or stand in a safe ground . ’ |
| 2 | Although not an exact science , it does enable banks to give countries some sort of credit rating and , from this , bank lending officers can make a decision on whether to grant or participate in a loan . |
| 3 | The normal price for any given daily supply of fish , which we are now seeking , is the price which will quickly call into the fishing trade capital and labour enough to obtain that supply in a day 's fishing of average good fortune ; the influence which the price of fish will have upon capital and labour available in the fishing trade being governed by rather narrow causes such as these . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't sit there ’ they chorus at an unfortunate guest foolish enough to try and sit in a chair in the drawing-room which was last used by Queen Victoria . |
| 5 | What actually happened was that she somehow became separated from the others , decided to walk to work and fell in a ditch on her way up the hill . |
| 6 | Millions of Europeans still worked on the land , and the absolute numbers of those dependent on agriculture for a livelihood did not begin to fall until very recently , yet the tendency for population to increase and to accumulate in a few densely populated and highly urbanized regions had already begun to alter the patterns of earlier centuries . |
| 7 | He even managed to stand and walk in a new way . |
| 8 | Teeth which are permanent fixtures can evolve complex shapes , fitting precisely with their partners in the opposite jaw , making it possible to chew and slice in a way not open to most reptiles . |
| 9 | The man behind him , holding the Skorpion with practised casualness , not the careful tension of one unused to handguns ; balanced , relaxed , self-confident , knowing he could bring the machine-pistol to aim and fire in a fraction of a second . |
| 10 | If you want to learn more about horses you either have to go and work in a training yard or enrol for a college-based course — right ? |
| 11 | She hated school and left at sixteen to go and train in a riding stables to be an instructor . |
| 12 | There are so many things to see and do in a short stay . |
| 13 | They had been allowed in , they had gone past the uniformed security , and then had had to sit and wait in a grey-painted lobby , watched by the plainclothes minders , before the man had come down for them . |
| 14 | The difficulty came when one imagined these numbers written on the spine of a book , or on the can of a filmstrip or an audio-cassette , and given to an untrained person to shelve or file in a sequence . |
| 15 | The third force is the headteachers , for it is they who have the most decisive influence on what it is or is not safe to do or say in a school . |
| 16 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |
| 17 | Edward , who died in 1932 aged 64 , preached against the evils of drink in Darlington market place , and Thomas emigrated to Canada to continue the work , only to collapse and die in a pulpit at the end of a sermon . |
| 18 | After a buffet lunch with various head office guests , Mike Bloy and Morton Henderson led a discussion and syndicate session entitled Managing People Through Change which analysed the various factors both physical and emotional that the modern manager must be aware of in order to react and communicate in a positive and constructive way . |
| 19 | Conversely , where an uneven and granulated wash is desirable ( such as in a mixture of ultramarine and burnt umber , which tends to separate and granulate in a very attractive way and is a good alternative to the deadening effects of lamp black ) then water with a high mineral content should be used by stirring a teaspoonful of cement powder or plaster into about half a pint of water , allowing the solids to settle and using the relatively clear overlying liquid . |
| 20 | The obligation of modesty is on both men and women ; men are also required to dress and behave in a modest way . |
| 21 | But like no other yet characterised it seems able to exist and function in a large number of structural permutations . |
| 22 | He believed that machinery and urban life had ruined modern life , and advocated what he termed the ‘ voluntary segregation of the fit ’ to live and breed in a utopian community of farmers and skilled craftsmen . |
| 23 | Here at last , people have an abundant society where all benefit and all are free to live and work in a flexible , creative way . |
| 24 | The Christian ideal was more the saint than the sage : men and women who made the world to come seem present now rather than those who knew how to live and survive in a stormy and dangerous society . |
| 25 | We need to decide whether to put in a writ or what . ’ |
| 26 | Lavender is slightly tender , and will be better able to survive if grown in a warm sunny position and dry , well-drained soil so that it ripens and matures thoroughly before winter . |
| 27 | Dolphins have developed many adaptations to survive and succeed in a marine and , to a lesser extent , freshwater environment . |
| 28 | Kammerer must have been inadvertently imposing massive selection pressure on the eggs , weeding out all those eggs that were unlikely to survive and develop in a watery environment . |
| 29 | It is important to note that the decision to export and import in a free market economy is not made by the country as a collective unit . |
| 30 | Consequently , and inevitably , all junior officers were drafted there to do their stint in the overcrowded , overheated and noisy halls of the new airport which seemed to expand and change in a bewildering chaos of new cement and plaster board overnight . |