Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This belt tightening has left us leaner and fitter to compete in the UK and world markets ; and we will need to remain in good shape to ensure our leading position in the industry and the achievement of reasonable profit growth . |
| 2 | As the only full-time member of the infection control committee , the ICN will need to participate in formal kitchen visits , and may ( in conjunction with the environmental health officer of the local council ) , teach some staff hygienic food handling practice . |
| 3 | In many service businesses there is a growing number of people who do not necessarily want to progress in traditional career terms . |
| 4 | The topics and situations envisaged in the conversations should be those that the student can expect to meet in real life . |
| 5 | The wages themselves were good : a mounted archer was paid 6d a day , the wage a skilled craftsman might expect to earn in civilian life , and a man-at-arms received Is a day . |
| 6 | He called to Laura , who was lolling in the kind of leather teddy , which I for one , would dearly like to see in real life . |
| 7 | In a recent survey , finance directors were asked what change they would most like to see in corporate governance . |
| 8 | A fair voting system , which we would also like to see in local government , would mean that it would be unlikely that there would ever be extremist Labour councils . |
| 9 | Nothing is more touching and sad than to see how these people — cast out and despised by everyone including their kin , living in and for their regular ‘ balls ’ where they compete to dress up to act out , for a moment , the roles they would like to play in real life , and know they ca n't — reconstruct their own human groups . |
| 10 | A different notion concerns wish-fulfilment : in our dreams we can do with impunity things we would like to do in real life but can not — make love with a Hollywood sex symbol or murder our boss . |
| 11 | They always wanted us to put up with something — for example , I can remember riding in sweltering heat in the back of an old car of my father 's , in which the back windows did n't open ( be strong ) . |
| 12 | This chapter is concerned with using drama as a learning medium , to encourage and motivate learning in other curriculum areas . |
| 13 | The Collector wondered whether the garrison , too , would become covered in green mould . |
| 14 | On the one hand , we must use all possible means to regain old markets , to , open new ones up , and to encourage international trade on the basis of the division of labour ; and on the other , we must endeavour to awaken in British industry a spirit of joint endeavour … . |
| 15 | It is easy to describe the kinds of sequence you could hope to find in dramatic material . |
| 16 | As he gave out his text , his voice rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes , ’ and when he came to the two last words , which he pronounced loud , deep , and distinct , it seemed to me , who was then young , as if the sounds had echoed from the bottom of the human heart , and as if that prayer might have floated in solemn silence through the universe . |
| 17 | Businesses will have to remain in financial balance and take great care that their expansionist ambitions do not outpace their financing ability . |
| 18 | In light of this , we must also bear in mind that until our income reflects any upturn in the economy , the Institute 's budget will have to remain in low gear . |
| 19 | My right hon. Friend will have heard in recent Question Times much about medicine in London . |
| 20 | Often people who share your compartment wish to relax and do not wish to indulge in polite conversation , they may just want to read a newspaper or magazine so we must respect their wishes . |
| 21 | When they are on the move they are essentially solitary creatures and find it quite inexplicable that their human owners should wish to indulge in communal walking . |
| 22 | Unlike Poland and Hungary , East Germany will not have to coax in private capital : the stuff will flood in from West Germany . |
| 23 | Triadic harmony , which may have originated in oral practice ( improvised parallel singing ) , was for good reasons highly developed in notated music but remains fundamental to most recorded music . |
| 24 | Perhaps such beliefs might have originated in theological theorizing of a technical nature . |
| 25 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 26 | The wind screeched in his ears , making consecutive thought almost impossible so that not only did he have to struggle in desperate conflict with the conditions but had also to fight to hold to his concentration . |
| 27 | You must have met in real life quite a few Baron Ochses when you were in Salzburg in the 1920s . |
| 28 | This is a very appealing theory but scarcely seems to be borne out by the facts ; after all , we dream about all sorts of things which in no way do we wish to experience in real life . |
| 29 | Her humanity was something useless to her , something that came from the Denver NoGo and which should have died in Spanish Fork with Andrew Jean and the others . |
| 30 | For example , in his attempt to lead a new life , he attributes any success he may have had in conquering lust , anger or pride to God 's grace , a very specifically Christian idea ; and this is a full fifteen months before his conversion to Christianity . |