Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compensation will not be payable if we are forced to cancel or in any way change your holiday due to war , or threat of war , riots , civil commotion , industrial disputes , disaster , terrorist activities , technical or other problems with transportation , closure of airports or seaports , alteration or cancellation of scheduled services or other events outside our control . |
| 2 | So the whole crystal structure tries to contract or in other words the material is under pressure ( see Example 3.2 ) . |
| 3 | Lyons , in fact , concedes ( b ) : ‘ I am only too prepared to accept that in other traditions scribal records either are not or are not seen to be intrinsically more reliable than memory and oral transmission . ’ |
| 4 | as the norm for conversational speech ; that is , to accept that in informal speech there is an inherent tendency to a reductionism by which we say only that which is necessary to effective communication . |
| 5 | Even if we agree with his general hypothesis , we have to accept that in some instances people will eat the dead bodies of other people — if only in order to stay alive . |
| 6 | But it still makes me angry to know that in other countries so many children die , so many families are bereaved , simply because they lack basic health care . |
| 7 | It might also have disturbed them to know that in such circumstances what is still a fairly new and effective lifeline for them would have been ruled out — insurance . |
| 8 | The first two types of educational computing in the list above are at the moment basically the province of such departments — but it is good to know that in many schools and colleges there are strong links with mathematics . |
| 9 | But I was also involved in an insurance policy that has been made available for my patients , when they have that worst moment in their lives , you 've got cancer , you 've had a stroke , to know that in this threat , to what 's going to happen to them , they at least have financial independence . |
| 10 | To succeed under the Consumer Protection Act , the plaintiff would have to establish that in 1989 people generally were entitled to expect the gloves not to carry the risk of causing arthritis ( see paragraph 9–08 above ) . |
| 11 | Since cats can see , hear and smell with more sensitivity than we can , it is reassuring to find that in one respect at least we have superior sense organs . |
| 12 | To put it differently , if spatiotemporal relations are to be appealed to in support of the thesis that there can be numerically , not just qualitatively , distinguishable ontological existents , it is necessary , in the first place , to clarify the conditions under which such relations can be significantly claimed to reflect the structure of an objective world , and in trying to do so we are likely to find that in some form or other we need to assume what such relations are supposed to explain . |
| 13 | ‘ It may seem strange , ’ I agreed , ‘ but you see , I was surprised to find that in this country the Houys are the sensitive and intelligent creatures . |
| 14 | The infant was at once created Prince of Wales , to indicate that in Jacobite eyes he was the real heir to the throne of England , and the Young Pretender was soon to become universally known as Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 15 | However , it is important to observe that in many symphonics and in a good deal of chamber music a different situation prevails . |
| 16 | Both immigration and customs take a stern view of any visiting yachts trying to charter while in Fijian waters and are determined to catch anyone who is trying to do it illegally . |
| 17 | So many track workers have been allowed to go that in some parts of the country we are not able to put gangs together to work on a proper maintenance programme . ’ |
| 18 | I believe , therefore , that Rousseau was right to look with apprehension on the fragmentation of society into a collection of interest groups , and to see that in such circumstances it is all too easy for the general interest , the good of the community as a whole , to be lost sight of . |
| 19 | He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences . |
| 20 | The RNLI is pleased to acknowledge that in all material respects the hull form of all boats of the Arun class have been built to the lines drawn by Mr McLachlan . |
| 21 | Such a situation has led Matsuda ( 1965 ) to claim that in most insects the head comprises an acron and only five cephalic segments . |
| 22 | I am pleased to report that in recent years commercial and retail development in Belfast have reached unprecedented levels . |
| 23 | Mr McArdle wrote : ‘ It is sad to report that in this case the behaviour of the Daily Mirror and its staff did not contribute in any way to the detection of crime . |
| 24 | Of course , so few are aware of his background and he being , shall we say , a little unorthodox in his dealings with people , never seems to think of it or to realize that in some circles it might be of — of help to him . |
| 25 | In 1993 we ought to reflect that in this year a new American president is following in the footsteps of a pioneering Labour government 45 years ago . |
| 26 | We have to remember that in many cases it was , ironically , only accidental hardening by destructive fires that preserved caches of clay tablets as samples of the Minoan scripts . |
| 27 | It is important to remember that in one sense , music , being a performed art , always has an ‘ oral ’ dimension , even when notated ; writing a score certainly affects how the music is conceived , but not absolutely , for performance may restore some inflectional , intuitive elements . |
| 28 | It is also important to remember that in commercial plastics the basic polymer is not the only constituent . |
| 29 | Falcon 3 from Spectrum Holobyte is still the best around for serious sim pilots , Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe from Lucasfilms , and Aces of the Pacific from Dynamix show how good ‘ historic ’ flight sims can be — against this formidable opposition Birds of Prey does not come up to scratch and in open combat would soon become the hunted , rather than the hunter … |
| 30 | When faced by political questions , the British are as hard to rouse as in everyday life . |