Example sentences of "in [adj] words [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew she was n't up enough in foreign words to understand him . |
| 2 | The most obvious way of preventing cracks from spreading in brittle materials is not to use them in tension , in other words to use them in compression . |
| 3 | As we shall see in Chapter 8 , the only way to make thermosetting plastics reasonably tough is to incorporate fibres of one kind or another , in other words to use them in a composite material . |
| 4 | In other words to break his deemed domicile a person leaving the United Kingdom must be outside of the United Kingdom for three years counting three lots of 12 months from the time he left the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | ‘ We are happy to legislate on something which is already happening in the game , in other words to make it legal for the hooker to strike as soon as the ball leaves the hands of the scrum-half — as happens in reality — rather than when it pitches . |
| 6 | Of special concern should be the tendency to subsume strategic vision under leadership in general , in other words to perceive it as just another category of leadership style ( e.g. ‘ transformative ’ ; Tichy and Devanna , 1986 ) . |