Example sentences of "and [vb infin] in [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He breathes , digests , lifts an arm , takes the next step , without thinking how to do it , and if bad health forces him to analyse and choose in such peripheral matters he is sorry to be distracted from his central concerns . |
| 2 | Easily Accessible : There is plenty to do and see in this beautiful area ; within a 15-mile radius there are ten castles to explore and the Forest of Dean is only 5 miles away . |
| 3 | The houses are modern and living conditions are good , but most people would admit that tax concessions are the main incentives which encourage people to live and work in such extreme climatic conditions . |
| 4 | Right : It 's so easy to sit back and relax in this beautiful conservatory from Durabuild . |
| 5 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 6 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 7 | There is no need for me to live and die in this little world , with my only view a view out of the same window , at the same spruce-trees , the view from my bed . |
| 8 | Only considerably later were the Commons to aspire to comment and participate in any other sense . |
| 9 | And if you 're a policeman on the beat , with an eye on promotion , what easier way to keep your arrest rate up than to go out and pull in some black kids off the street . |