Example sentences of "[vb infin] in [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 We do not know in detail whence the monks were recruited ; but on the whole they seem mainly to have come from the upper classes , and perhaps from the families of substantial town-dwellers .
2 At this distance in time we simply do not know in detail how the clerks did their jobs , for there were no manuals of office procedure , and the functional tasks gradually evolved so that they bore little resemblance to their forebears .
3 The objective will show in detail how the information is to be obtained within the cost constraints imposed by the marketing budget .
4 We can study in detail how the complementary descriptions of position and momentum relate to each other .
5 The current product , however , suffers from some drawbacks , not least the poor legibility of its screen , and while it may have some powerful ‘ look it up ’ reference applications it will never succeed in circumstances where the reading of continuous text is important .
6 It follows from the above examples that profit-maximising firms , operating under conditions of certainty , will invest in projects where the rate of return on the investment exceeds the market rate of interest .
7 Maximum uncertainty in this regard will probably occur in instances where the disengaging group has no prior ethnic , racial or religious identity .
8 My feeling is that Leeds are struggling to find a traditional centre-half , and until they do , will look in trouble whenever the ball is in their penalty box .
9 But Dr Owen will indicate by his own example how he hopes voters will react in seats where the Liberal Democrats are the main challengers .
10 The principle probably does not apply in cases where the court does not have those powers .
11 Normally , the ingenuity which requires protection is in the circuitry represented by the patterns formed by the conducting materials , but the regulations are wider in the sense that they will apply in situations where the ingenuity lies not so much in the horizontal patterns themselves but in the vertical arrangement of layers .
12 Having planned your rate of descent , you must have in mind also the attitude and power for that rate .
13 A second objection is that where both parties carry on business in Contracting States they can reasonably be subjected to the Convention automatically since it forms part of their national law , whereas parties carrying on business in different non-Contracting States who agree that their contract is to be governed by the law of a third State which is a Contracting State may well have in mind only the domestic law of that State and arguably ought not to be bound by the Convention unless they contract into it .
14 The sea appears calm near the shore and the wind feels quite light but will increase in strength dramatically the further away from the shore you sail .
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