Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem can arise acutely in a situation where Y takes goods from X on ‘ sale or return ’ terms . |
| 2 | He will stay on in a consultancy role for a few months until his successor settles into the job . |
| 3 | So the second attitude can flourish only in a climate where the first is general . |
| 4 | Most respondents said they felt secure and expressed a good deal of confidence that we would act calmly in an incident . |
| 5 | Or you can hang out in a part of the music if you like the verse . ’ |
| 6 | Some types of marine which do not survive well in an aquarium ie some Butterflies |
| 7 | Sweden could still claim top place in Group Four , which would diminish England 's hopes of being seeded in Italy next summer , but the Swedes must win here in a fortnight and on yesterday 's evidence that could be difficult . |
| 8 | ‘ There ai n't no trains out , around that time ; and a gent like him would hardly hang about in a station buffet ! |
| 9 | Those of us who believe that our future and national interest lie in such a course do not do so in a spirit of emotional faith or constitutional adventurism ; rather , we take a hard-headed view of where our economic interests lie and where the money will come from in the years ahead . |
| 10 | So if we wish to touch the horse or communicate with the horse , we should do so in a way that is acceptable to the horse . |
| 11 | It acknowledged that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of , for example , the tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other states . |
| 12 | It said that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other countries . |
| 13 | If , for some reason , you have to press some flowers that are not completely dry ( and you should only do so in an emergency ) , then you must first mop them with some clean paper tissues to soak up any droplets of water . |
| 14 | ‘ They would break in in a trice , while you were putting fresh shot in your fowling gun , and cut us into mincemeat . |
| 15 | T is a poor little short Wretch , but will do best in a Gown . ’ |
| 16 | The hurricane , the flood or the tsunami may do more in an hour or a day than the ordinary processes of nature have achieved in a thousand years . |
| 17 | Flynn and his pals clean up Dodge only to feel suffocated by a town so decent it ai n't fit for a man to live in and head off in a joke finish for the still-wild Virginia City , which Flynn cleaned up in an unconnected follow-up . |
| 18 | In those circumstances , vitamin and mineral deficiencies do not crop up in a couple of weeks . |
| 19 | No doubt the Virgin Isles will crop up in an Airtours ' brochure before long . |
| 20 | There was a girl at work who said she loved the rain — she would dress up in a mac and goloshes and tramp around in the rain just for pleasure . |
| 21 | They will grow up in a world of many hostile enemies and one or two protective parents . |
| 22 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 23 | His gouverneur or chief guardian was General Frossard , but it was the wish of the Emperor and Empress that apart from obligatory public appearances , which were confined to a minimum , the child should grow up in a family atmosphere . |
| 24 | Suppose , however , that God decided that the universe should finish up in a state of high order but that it did n't matter what state it started in . |
| 25 | no we 'll clear up in a minute |
| 26 | Most of the problems will clear up in a couple of days , and your muscles will be back to normal within three to four weeks . |
| 27 | It 'll clear up in a couple of days . |
| 28 | You could n't show up in a place like Adam 's Creek without a few questions being asked , Jed knew that , so he 'd dreamed up a story . |
| 29 | In this way , all the major towns fell peacefully into mujaheddin hands , although fighting , often ethnically rooted , did break out in a number of areas . |
| 30 | It will do now in a couple of years time . |