Example sentences of "to [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that by returning to nursing in the next decade you will be helping to prepare the profession for the enormous demographic and social challenges facing Britain in the 21st century . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that some of the text is not applicable to nursing in the UK , this is a well-compiled and stimulating textbook . |
| 3 | Polishing the fit in this way is analogous to reroughing in the last chapter . |
| 4 | And I was surprised at how easily my eyes became accustomed to seeing in the light of the head torch . |
| 5 | He was known for wanting to be photographed from every conceivable angle and vigorously applauded when making his inflammatory speeches , and I was looking forward to seeing in the flesh this extraordinary man of whom my parents had brought me up to disapprove . |
| 6 | So even the most rapid changes in these things were going very , very slowly compared with the kinds of rates which we 're accustomed to seeing in the lab. erm so on the whole so far deep sea cores seem to me to suggest that really at least those beauties are really pretty gradualistic in their behaviour . |
| 7 | So there are some new facets to catering in the RAF today compared with even a few years ago . |
| 8 | Our lack of a regional strategy has acted as a brake on our economic development and , in the future , it will be a barrier to competing in the single market . |
| 9 | The United States was , at last , firmly committed to helping in the maintenance of the stability of the Middle East , though British commitments to the Arab sheikhdoms in the Persian Gulf and the Aden Protectorates were undiminished . |
| 10 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
| 11 | The revolutionary intelligentsia , Plekhanov urged , must abandon its romantic and terrorist traditions , adopt the scientific perspective of Marxism , and devote itself to assisting in the development of a powerful revolutionary organization of the proletariat . |
| 12 | The application of such information to assisting in the recognition of text forms the basis of this thesis . |
| 13 | You will appreciate that it may be subject to redrafting in the light of experience . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry , C.W. , I 'm just not used to confiding in the people around here . |
| 15 | Consideration to be given to incorporating in the playing conditions fielding circles , team identification and white balls . |
| 16 | Mr Hogan has n't been used to driving in the city traffic of recent years , and I had planned to go to Dublin to collect the samples of material . |
| 17 | It is possible that risky situations may lead to enhanced memory for information centrally important to driving in the situation but show impairments in memory for information peripheral to the driving task . |
| 18 | We just were n't used to driving in the country then , it seemed like a long way from |
| 19 | So the notion that venture capitalists are prone to interfering in the businesses in which they invest is not , strictly speaking , a valid one , or if so not a criticism about which MBO managers would fret too much . |
| 20 | Schibsbye ( 1965 : 24 ) suggests on the other hand that " the infinitive with and without to corresponds in the main to the two sides of the infinitive , the nominal and the verbal " : the infinitive with to is found in positions similar to those in which one finds substantives , adjectives and adverbs , while the infinitive without to " is generally closely connected with an auxiliary verb , and forms a single unit with it as regards stress and intonation " . |
| 21 | Sunday , BBC1 , 9.35pm LADY CHATTERLEY has taken to walking in the woods in episode two of this lavish adaptation of D H Lawrence 's love story . |
| 22 | The most common manifestation of sickling in young children is the ‘ hand and foot syndrome ’ , which is extremely painful inflammation of the joints accompanied by swelling , pyrexia and a moderately raised white cell count , and is caused by infarction of the bone marrow secondary to sickling in the microcirculation of the fingers and toes . |
| 23 | What they saw , as one put it , were two people who were n't up to boating in the bath , never mind on the Thames in spate . |
| 24 | All her energies were devoted to appearing in the eyes of others as nonchalant . |
| 25 | Nearby branches of Books Etc were untouched — although of course they could not avoid being affected by the disruption that was caused by the bomb to trading in the area . |
| 26 | Instead there is searing pain , blistering of the skin and a rapidly discovered aversion to swimming in the sea . |
| 27 | One kind of ray , the manta , has reverted to swimming in the surface waters . |
| 28 | At least some of the increase in late life fitness in ‘ old ’ lines could have been caused by reduction in the frequency of predominantly late-acting mutations , and a study of the effects of reverse selection suggested that this was the case , and that mutation accumulation had therefore also contributed to ageing in the base stock . |
| 29 | The group has a fairly informal basis , but we feel there must be various ways of forming the group to mitigate the members from losses incurred over and above the level of liability insurance that may have to met in the event of a very serious accident . |
| 30 | Sexual behaviour and infection with human papillomavirus seem important in addition to smoking in the genesis of cervical cancer and may also be involved in the aetiology of anal cancer . |