Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [adj] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall have to write in small letters as my pile of paper has considerably diminished , but write it I must . |
| 2 | Local government is full of excitement and variety ; it is an opportunity to be at the centre of things in the community and an excellent stepping stone to work in private practice as well as commerce and industry . |
| 3 | We have seen that a very important part of a gene 's environment is the other genes that it is likely to meet in successive bodies as the generations go by . |
| 4 | At the moment only 2 of us are available to train in this hospital as we are the only ones ‘ certified ’ . |
| 5 | Indeed , surprisingly enough , Mrs Thatcher 's reputation , in the doldrums at home at least to the end of 1981 , began to grow in foreign affairs as she became more self-assured . |
| 6 | Zurich : Shares closed steady to lower in quiet trading as prices came off their early highs on slight profit taking . |
| 7 | The obstacles in the path of de-centralising reforms will be as difficult to negotiate in Eastern Europe as in the USSR , and in present conditions it is possible that the patient would not survive the cure . |
| 8 | This darkness and this cloud is betwixt thee and thy God , and telleth thee that thou mayest neither see him clearly by light of understanding , nor feel him in sweetness of love in thine affection , and therefore shape thee to bide in this darkness as long as thou mayest , crying after him that thou lovest … |
| 9 | Nobody had wanted to be regularly policed as people were abroad , preferring to leave it to the magistrates to swear in special constables as they 'd always done in times of civil disturbance , or use the troops . |
| 10 | What we want to do in this session as I said it will only take about twenty minutes , there are three key things we want to do . |
| 11 | In the managers ' view , now is a good time to invest in European bonds as returns remain high , inflation is low , and the Bundesbank and other central banks are expected to continue to lower interest rates . |
| 12 | However , there were also indications that heroin use continued to thrive in such areas as Rock Ferry , New Ferry , Bidston , New Brighton , Tranmere , Bromborough and Liscard . |
| 13 | ‘ Fortunately , coroners are not required to indulge in transcendental divination as to the locus of a murder . |
| 14 | The Romanian leaders wanted to share in that utopia as well to prove their independence . |
| 15 | Instead of being flattered to share in collective power as one of several million involuntary votes at the party conference , he felt insulted . |
| 16 | The older generation tends to believe in such dishes as health cures , aphrodisiacs or a source of physical and mental strength , while the prosperous young order them to impress their friends . |
| 17 | They continued to watch in stunned silence as Guy ran up the stairs and disappeared through the doorway , then turned to look at each other . |
| 18 | The applicant must be a freeholder or have a lease with five years or more to run , and will be required to sign a form to say that she intends to live in that dwelling as her only or main place of residence for at least five years after the work has been completed . |
| 19 | We are n't going to live in that house as they do . |
| 20 | Okay erm I suppose we ought to mention in this context as well er Belgium . |
| 21 | Joan is a firm supporter of new varieties ; they are much more likely to stay in good health as they 're bred with inbuilt resistance to canker and other diseases . |
| 22 | Sessions begin with the children taking the initiative and deciding what toys or activity they want and parents are invited to join in such things as organising the dolls ' house , making sand pies , playing with trains , building houses , mixing paints and cutting up paper . |
| 23 | Martin strode quickly towards him , picked up the phone , said , ‘ Yes ? ’ then listened ; and as he did so his head began to move in small jerks as he looked from side to side . |
| 24 | When present , the impurities cause concrete made from mining spoil , ‘ mundic , ’ to crumble in damp conditions as trace elements slowly combine with the cement to reduce the lattice structure to a mush . |
| 25 | In a typical 16th century English charter party the owner of the vessel acknowledged , directly or through the ship 's master , that : 1 ) he had let the ship and promised to prepare it , by a fixed date , to take in the goods provided by the charterer ; 2 ) the ship would sail with the first convenient wind to the stipulated port ; 3 ) in accordance with a receipt or bill of lading he would deliver the goods in good condition to the designated person ; 4 ) the ship would remain at that port for a fixed period to take in such goods as the charter party nominee party needed to reload , and that the ship would then return to the port of origin , and deliver the reloaded goods in good condition ; and 5 ) the crew would be as described , and would be furnished with the proper gear . |
| 26 | He may also wish to take in such oddities as the Bible in shorthand and , if he can find them , the portions published in the dialects : of Cornwall , Cumberland , Dorset , Durham , Devonshire , etc. , most of them privately printed for Prince Lucien Bonaparte , who included the Song of Solomon in twenty-four dialects among his list of nearly eighty publications , his English agent being Bernard Quaritch of 15 Piccadilly . |
| 27 | They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech . |