Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term . |
| 2 | What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms ? |
| 3 | They were haunted by the fear of another Dunkirk and were anxious to remain strong in the Middle East . |
| 4 | Joe Turi , the first to go clear in the jump-off , was pushed back to third place on Country Classics Vital . |
| 5 | The plot spins endlessly but few people are going to have the stamina to remain interested in the final turns . |
| 6 | Some poor Dutch guy was being ordered by his woman to stand right in the steamy fumes for a photo . |
| 7 | At last he relaxed his grip on her back and pulled himself up to sit straight in the purgatorial chair . |
| 8 | Not only is the snow cover likely to remain comfortable in the high resorts right into the start of May , but the lower the temperature , the safer the snow . |
| 9 | The projection may be linear or exponential , or may incorporate more complex calculations which make allowance for variation in the basic parameters assumed to remain constant in the simpler equations . |
| 10 | What I would give to walk free in the mortal world again ! ’ |
| 11 | Ronan was entertaining them ; he was a good mimic and this time he was doing a fussy Brother in the school trying to get everyone to sit still in the big hall for a lecture . |
| 12 | OIL RICH beats filthy rich every time , but after several years of battling to remain buoyant in the remorseless wake of the Maktoums , Robert Sangster clambered back on to terra firma with his most significant win for a long time in Saturday 's Hoover Fillies ' Mile at Ascot . |
| 13 | A short distance away were the Santerres : Sir John shouting orders and beside him his wife , riding side-saddle , her desire to leave apparent in the agitated remarks she made to her husband . |
| 14 | He invited his brother Carloman to join in the campaign , but they argued immediately , and Carloman returned to Burgundy , leaving Charles to continue alone in the reconquest of Aquitaine . |
| 15 | That was a quarrel which went back to at least 720 BC , when the athlete Orsippos of Megara , more famous as the first man to run nude in the Olympic Games , ‘ freed ’ some borderland from the Corinthians ( Hicks and Hill , no. 1 ) . |
| 16 | Supporters of this generally held theory point to the tiger 's thick fur and heavy layer of fat ; also to its need to keep cool in the hot climates in which it now lives by immersing itself in water whenever it can during the heat of the day . |
| 17 | The business will not show a profit in fiscal year 1993 , which ends this June , but is expected to turn profitable in the next fiscal year , Bill Bousquette , the new company 's chairman told Reuter . |
| 18 | If so , was the muddle caused by a fallacy of composition , illegitimately assuming that what held true in the small continued to hold true in the large ? |
| 19 | Upon his return to Bangladesh Khan sided with the " neutralists " and made it clear to his officers that he wanted the military to remain impartial in the ongoing political conflict . |
| 20 | The cuts reflects the agency 's belief that Memorex 's operating performance is weak and its expectation for market conditions to remain difficult in the near term . |
| 21 | Another of the marks of belonging is a willingness to face the opposition of ‘ the world ’ ( a technical term in the Johannine literature to indicate society which has left God out ) , and to get involved in the loving fellowship of the family of Christ . |
| 22 | If I did n't feel that way , I would n't have wanted to get involved in the first place . |
| 23 | The quarry had a bad reputation , but we are trying to get involved in the local community and are improving the image of quarrying . ’ |
| 24 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 25 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 26 | He says it will make enough to break even in the first year . |
| 27 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 28 | IBM EUROPE will cut nearly 10,000 jobs and has told four plants in Britain , France , Spain and Sweden to prove profitable in the next 12 months , a spokesman in Paris said yesterday . |
| 29 | Yet by 1914 agriculture was firmly in second place to industry in the American economy and although farmers enjoyed a boom period during the First World War , their problems were to become clear in the 1920s . |
| 30 | In 1914 he had met Hans Arp , the French painter who was to become prominent in the new Dada movement , at the artists ' canteen in the Avenue du Maine . |