Example sentences of "[vb infin] in [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The delegates do not act in their personal capacity but carry out the policies and instructions of their government , as shown by the provision that an alternate delegate can be empowered to act and vote on behalf of a delegate who is absent . |
| 2 | The principles of the common law invoked in such cases are nemo judex in causa sua ( no man can be a judge in this own cause ) ; or auctor in rem suam ( no man should act in his own interest ) . |
| 3 | Barnett will however know in his own mind that he has to replace the 2,000 runs scored by the departed Azharuddin if Derbyshire are to be effective challengers . |
| 4 | Statistically , Oxted Green ‘ B ’ can be denied promotion from division three but it is highly unlikely that they will fall in their last match . |
| 5 | ‘ Take care ’ I said , impotently , making plans to try and grab Steve should he fall in my general direction . |
| 6 | But for practical walking purposes , we will need in our other hand an up-to-date 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey map , with a compass in our pocket , and knowledge of how to use it . |
| 7 | SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade . |
| 8 | The acceptance of such a scheme meant that the government had accepted , albeit for economic and demographic reasons , the principle that ‘ society should include in its economic structure some form of direct financial provision for the maintenance of children , instead of proceeding on the assumption that , save in cases of exceptional misfortune , this is a matter which concerns only individual parents and should be left to them because normally men 's wages or salaries are , or ought to be and can be made to be , sufficient for the support of their families ’ ( Rathbone , 1940 ) . |
| 9 | But there are a number of ‘ self-help ’ measures you can include in your daily routine , which may help you prevent attacks in future . |
| 10 | Addressing the plenum on July 25 , Gorbachev criticised " the representatives of communist fundamentalism who are unable to escape the grip of dogmatic conceptions " and said that the party had to move away from Marxism-Leninism to " include in our ideological arsenal all the riches of our and the world 's socialist and democratic thought " . |
| 11 | That night , I read again their separate accounts of Raasay , to see what I had missed : the streams of which Johnson wrote , ‘ one of the brooks turns a cornmill , and at least one produces trouts ’ ; , the garden , described by Boswell , ‘ plentifully stocked with vegetables , and strawberries , raspberries , currants , etc. ’ ; and a swift passing observation in one of Johnson 's letters to Hester Thrale , a reference he does not include in his official text . |
| 12 | Another item the retailer must include in his financial planning is shrinkage or leakage . |
| 13 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 14 | She could stew in her own juice . |
| 15 | Though she was wishing that , after all , she 'd taken a seat , for she suspected he was rather enjoying letting her stew in her own juice . |
| 16 | Give it to me , Lori , or so help me I will go to the police and let you stew in your own juice . ’ |
| 17 | Ironically , because having shown me what he termed ‘ retroscendence ’ , The Fat Controller was content to let me stew in my own juice for a while . |
| 18 | Of course , Kate could have shrugged and let him stew in his own juice , or lack of it . |
| 19 | But what they ca n't stand is that I hate them when they do n't behave in their own way . |
| 20 | Why did this boy arouse in him that nostalgia , that sensation of something altogether extinct . |
| 21 | It was clear that the policy could not survive in its existing form , and in 1970 agreement was being reached on a new approach . |
| 22 | In some instances the retrospectively converted data will only survive in its new format . |
| 23 | Today , the odds are that it will not survive in its present form for more than another generation . |
| 24 | The EAT is the indirect successor to the National Industrial Relations Court which was so unloved by trades unions that it could not survive in its original form the repeal of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 . |
| 25 | The hand-outs were vital to get them a bite , to help them survive in their pitiful plight . |
| 26 | But the less well known foundations were threatened with extinction and many did not survive in their old state : some were refounded ( King 's School in Macclesfield , for example , received generous new endowments ) but not all benefited . |
| 27 | For example , we believe as a group that we can only survive in our chosen business of the chemical industry if we serve the customers who are at the leading edge of development , wherever they may be . |
| 28 | What lovely little incident does that commemorate in our great history ? ’ |
| 29 | Both feature Hewlett 's JetDirect interface for connection to local networks , which Hewlett-Packard will also market in its own right . |
| 30 | ’ Nonsense , ’ Irina would snap in her forthright way . |