Example sentences of "in [verb] [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More cavalry poured in , from the fields and woods , orchards and farmyards and side-roads , to flood the village centre and drive the surviving enemy skirmishers back down the slope to the river , where most succeeded in wading across to half-frozen safety . |
| 2 | But in banging on to such an extent about high taxation , and promising to reduce income tax still further , they have probably missed the public mood . |
| 3 | The industry thus managed to maintain its freedom on this central aspect of commercial policy making , but its competence in living up to this challenge left much to be desired . |
| 4 | Some of the programmes developed have succeeded in removing up to 98 per cent of the solids content of waste water . |
| 5 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 6 | Here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man . |
| 7 | All this adds to the difficulty of bereavement service organizers in reaching out to those who may be most in need of the care that can be offered . |
| 8 | US and British officials reportedly criticized the BKA 's handling of PFLP-GC arrests , in particular its delay in discovering up to four other devices before and after Lockerbie . |