Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In common with other scholars we have considered , Durkheim was essentially an armchair theorist who seldom stirred outside his study , or beyond his own milieu , except to give lectures or to participate in learned debates . |
| 2 | This ability to use gestures and to engage in symbolic play is considered a necessary precursor to the child 's understanding of the way in which meanings are represented in words and sentences . |
| 3 | It was only after the failure of the economic system had undermined the free market ethos that unions finally gained legitimacy , if not acceptance , and largely because of government legislation giving workers the right to form unions and engage in collective bargaining . |
| 4 | Unions are at a disadvantage here because the legal framework which established workers ' rights to form unions and engage in collective bargaining was essentially created by government . |
| 5 | Is there any evidence that the ability to respond intelligently to the fiction of Henry James , for example , makes the reader less likely to embezzle funds or indulge in marital cruelty ? |
| 6 | Generally less well-educated than other ethnic groups , and more likely to lack jobs and live in grim houses , Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have been hit by the closure of run-down Bradford mills and ancient Birmingham factories . |
| 7 | The government announced in early October that the World Bank had agreed a US$4,980 million loan ( to be disbursed in annual tranches of US$1,000 million ) to assist reforms and restructuring in public administration , state companies and provincial treasuries as well as providing funds for social emergencies . |
| 8 | It is true that at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in April — May 1946 Byrnes seemed unusually eager to exchange views and to talk in broad terms of how Soviet influence in the Middle East and elsewhere might be resisted . |