Example sentences of "[vb infin] in [noun sg] [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right code can only be issued to them if the tax inspector knows about their National Insurance pension ; so it is very important for your parents to let the Tax Office know in advance if they are going to receive a National Insurance retirement pension . |
| 2 | By the middle years of the fifteenth century litigants in civil suits before the Parlement of Paris could send word that they would not appear in person because they were engaged in war for the public good ( ‘ in expedicione causa rei publice ’ ) or were being detained as prisoners by the enemy . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) The dodecahedron and icosahedron alternate , one encasing the other , but the spheres must grow in size if they are to close pack . |
| 4 | Similarly , the muscles will not grow in length unless they are attached to tendons and bones so that as the bones lengthen , they are stretched . |
| 5 | But the cable operators told the government that they would not invest in cable unless they could have pay-TV as a sweetener . |
| 6 | Then you must believe in djinn for they are written in the Qur'an . ’ |
| 7 | In his first public speech after he left the Marines , in May 1988 , he painted a picture of the people his audience should keep in mind if they were tempted to think that the Soviet Union was changing : children huddled in the Gulags , dock-workers in Poland , and contras . |
| 8 | Nor does such staggered hatching cause any difficulties for such birds as eagles which build inaccessible nests in the tops of trees where their young can remain in safety until they are able to take to the air themselves . |
| 9 | It starts at 8.30 and finishes at 10.30 , so clients can stay in bed if they like . |
| 10 | Even if cubs had been reared on human flesh , they did not persist in man-eating once they had grown up . |
| 11 | This suggests a definition of culture that is closer to what many social scientists and cultural theorists would have in mind when they talk about culture than the versions associated with either multiculturalism or antiracism . |
| 12 | What are the main principles teachers and parents should hold in mind as they try to help children to develop to the full their ability to use and understand English ? |
| 13 | Even events which we would never passivize in English because they involve only one participant and therefore can not ‘ logically ’ be passivized are expressed in passive structures in these languages if they are unpleasant , for example ‘ I was died on by my father ’ in Japanese . |
| 14 | Levels one and two are by far the commonest in education but there is a new type of partnership which appears to be developing and which may meet the needs of the future rather more fully than the other two — though those will always continue in existence because they fulfil real short term needs . |