Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] in an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
| 2 | Local education and information campaigns , though well-meaning , have proved of dubious value in prevention terms , although it is sensible to educate local youth workers , school teachers , probation officers and the primary care team to recognize the problem and be able to tackle it in an informed way . |
| 3 | This includes activities undertaken by individuals to prevent disease or to detect it in an asymptomatic state . |
| 4 | ‘ My brother paid me to help him in an unofficial capacity . ’ |
| 5 | You may feed safer watching nature at second hand on the television , and would find it hard to rough it in an uncharted forest . |
| 6 | Woolf argues for improvements in prisons , not for their own sake , but because ‘ to treat prisoners in a way which is likely to leave them in an embittered and disaffected state on their release ’ will naturally lead to ‘ a deterioration in the ability of the prisoner to operate effectively and lawfully in society ’ . |
| 7 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 8 | To have run the most glorious run of your life , to have become the first European to break ten seconds , to do it in an Olympic final — and then to be falsely accused of drug-taking by an officialdom that was frantically sniffing out Ben Johnsons like a Salem witchfinder ! |
| 9 | Even before I had learned to walk my eldest sister used to dump me in an orange box on the pavement next to Granpa 's pitch just to be sure I could start my apprenticeship early . |
| 10 | To read them in an historical frame of mind is to see the death of Rassendyll , by an assassin 's bullet , not as a fortunate escape from prolonged misery but as the formal seal on a pact of honour . |
| 11 | That God created the world and then left it to a forsaken humanity , trying to address Him in an echoless void — this idea is n't new . |
| 12 | This is not to evade questions of strategy and tactics , merely to place them in an appropriate context . |
| 13 | Unless you have established for yourself what your motives are beforehand , you are unlikely to be able to present them in an attractive light to others . |
| 14 | The music school in Langbaurgh 's German twin town of Troisdorf has invited groups from the district to join them in an international concert in autumn . |