Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adj] in [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coordination and balance will be severely affected so much so that we hold ourselves rigid in order to avoid falling over . |
| 2 | 'You tell me this in order to comfort me and make me able to betray you without rending my own heart . |
| 3 | Either it is an instance of a proof by reductio ad absurdum , in which we assume something true in order to prove it false ; or it is a way of exposing a paradox within the concept of knowledge , for the sceptic can surely insist that if a central concept such as that of knowledge can be used to take us validly from true premises to a false or impossible conclusion , something is wrong with the concept ; there is probably some internal tension which should be exposed rather than swept under the carpet . |
| 4 | Some women can become fixed in the ‘ negative pole ’ expression of image , however ; just as a woman can wear a rigid mask of beauty , so too she can go to the opposite extreme and deliberately make herself ugly in order to protect herself and demonstrate her anger against the world , or , possibly , her dislike of men . |
| 5 | Provided that we can identify the regularities in nature , then we need nothing more in order to predict and explain what happens . |
| 6 | ‘ We have something similar in physics called non-local interaction , ’ Professor Bohm says . |