Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as I was coming up to London to work in more formal circumstances I selected my new skirt , which is somewhat smoother and less worn , together with my new pullover — oh , no , how odd , this is my old pullover — but — ah , now I remember , yes , worn over a cotton shirt — which again is something smooth . |
| 2 | The main task of sensory neurophysiology has been to establish in more precise detail how ‘ the diversity of working produceth diversity of experience ’ — the modern term for which is ‘ coding of sensory information ’ . |
| 3 | Macaulay Culkin is a 12-year-old , 4ft 6in licence to print money and Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York is set to pull in more folding bills than it is possible for the human mind to contemplate . |
| 4 | The message is clear and concise and displays no verbosity that one would expect to find in more courtly love scenes . |
| 5 | Here she created opportunities for social workers to train in more advanced skills and set up a variety of support and counselling groups . |
| 6 | Very common in earlier years , toads completely failed to appear in more recent surveys . |
| 7 | AS TENCEL garments begin to appear in more top stores across America , the assault on global markets is spreading wider , and moving faster . |
| 8 | In the other loyalist groups there were a number of competing leadership figures who offered differing responses to events and who were obliged to engage in more extensive consultation with their supporters before pronouncing . |
| 9 | I offer the hon. Gentleman an opportunity this afternoon to engage in more constructive debate . |
| 10 | Thus we need to explore in more concrete terms the operational aspects of the questions and the dilemmas they produce . |
| 11 | As the box-office grosses mounted , establishment Hollywood was beginning to talk in less insulting terms about him , and , one day out of the blue , he called Nicholson . |
| 12 | It was easier to grow in less fertile soil . |
| 13 | With Pippin , his father decided to deal in more conciliatory fashion . |
| 14 | We are all familiar with quantative overload ( too much to do in too little time ) , but for those involved in credit there is also the stress caused by having to cope with an environment where , very often , the credit function is not understood and usually underfunded . |
| 15 | We had to go in there several times when I was little and mother was sick , and they 'd never let us stay together , so anything could have happened . ’ |
| 16 | We should acknowledge at the outset that there may be many cases ( like that illustrated in Fig. 3.1 ) in which presentation of a given stimulus has been shown to result in both latent inhibition and the habituation of a UR . |
| 17 | attempts by the executive arm of government to influence sentencing are unconstitutional ; attempts by the legislature to interfere with the sentencing discretion of the courts are , even if not strictly unconstitutional , bound to result in both practical confusion and injustice to defendants ; the sentencing powers of the courts should therefore be left to the wisdom of the courts , under the guidance of the Court of Appeal . |
| 18 | This is because regular heroin use is likely to result in both physical addiction and a major psychological dependence , and these consequences would keep prevalence at a high level long after any drop in the level of social deprivation . |
| 19 | In contrast to the view that consistent left handers would become aphasic only with right sided lesions , Humphrey and Zangwill predicted that aphasia would occur from damage to either hemisphere , This expectation was confirmed , although there was a tendency for damage to the left hemisphere to result in more severe speech disturbances . |
| 20 | This implies that its motion may be systematically reduced to result in only one degree of freedom . |
| 21 | The National Enterprise Board might never have come anywhere near what was required , but the principle was right : England needs a development agency or agencies with a wide range of social , economic and physical powers that are able to intervene in more depressed localities through corporate programmes emanating from the full range of public- and private-sector organizations . |
| 22 | She was afraid to believe in so much happiness all at once . |
| 23 | It might be useful to consider in more general terms the advantages and disadvantages of direct and indirect systems of taxation . |
| 24 | Although bottom-up approaches work for simple cases , there usually proves to be too large a number of attributes to analyse in more realistic situations . |
| 25 | Breach of the partnership agreement It is usual to specify certain provisions of particular importance ( eg failing to maintain proper accounts or actions which might cause the firm to lose its investment business certificate ) the breach of which would enable the power of expulsion to be exercised and , in a further ground , to refer in more general terms to persistent and general failure to observe the spirit of the agreement . |
| 26 | Eventually she moved down the hill to live in more conventional quarters , and I would meet her sometimes , she dressed , as usual , in her cloak . |
| 27 | I am dabbling in a costume jewellery project to help local youth groups earn money and I 'm helping a couple of ‘ city girls ’ start a coffee shop for ‘ world travellers ’ , which Nongkhai seems to have in ever increasing numbers . |
| 28 | We 'll have to stay in here seven nights a week chatting to each other and arguing . |
| 29 | Council leader John Williams argued the town benefits from people who choose to stay in more rural locations and travel in during the day . |
| 30 | The council leader , Coun John Williams , argued that the town benefits from people who choose to stay in more rural locations and travel in during the day . |