Example sentences of "[vb infin] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A representative person is one who will act in a given situation in much the same way as those he represents would act in that same situation . |
| 2 | A Chairman shall be appointed for each meeting , at the close of which he shall name the Chairman for the one following , and the Member so named shall act in that capacity , unless the Meeting by a majority agree to some other . |
| 3 | It could act in that regard only and in none other — no alteration of VAT , no alteration in corporation tax , only alterations in personal income tax . |
| 4 | ‘ I am dead in law ’ — but of the girl he denied that he had ‘ attempted to vitiate her at Nine years old ’ ; for ‘ upon the word of a dying man , both her Eyes did see , and her Hands did act in all that was done ’ . |
| 5 | Both Conservatives and Labour refused to commit themselves as to how they would act in such an eventuality . |
| 6 | If monks could act in such a way , tormenting relics , it was hardly surprising that ordinary people resorted to spells and superstitious practices . |
| 7 | A month ago the committee Labour members rejected this Scheme and I still have an enormous sense of amazement and anger that the local , and I express local , because it 's not a national policy , that the local Labour group could act in such a callous and spiteful way , putting political dogma , party political dogma , before the needs of the unemployed in the district . |
| 8 | If any employee is threatened with violence in order that the assailant(s) may obtain money they are carrying in the course of duty , they must not act in any way likely to place themselves or others in danger . |
| 9 | Note that the Official Solicitor will not act in any capacity in the magistrates ' court . |
| 10 | The dominant and bureaucratic-technical classes benefit from the system , but how do they act in this privileged position ? |
| 11 | Although used to the scorn of pop stars , I was saddened that The Smiths should act in this way ) . |
| 12 | In normal development , the cells may act in this way so that the developing baby is not attacked by the mother 's defence system . |
| 13 | It would be foolish to imagine that GIS can assist in all hazard studies , emergencies and disasters . |
| 14 | Database technology has significance as it can assist in many of these problem areas : high-level end-user languages such as SQL can be embedded in standard programming languages to integrate data-base facilities with other functional aspects ; management of large volumes of persistent data , including such aspects as security , integrity , concurrency and optimization of access , is a central tenet of the technology ; multi-level architectures with mappings from logical to physical levels provide different views of the same stored data ; content-addressing can be integrated with navigation to give facilities as sophisticated as those found in information retrieval systems . |
| 15 | Formal planning strategies can assist in this . |
| 16 | The HRD practitioner can assist in this task through the use of such means as surveys and interviews . |
| 17 | Manufacturers ' software often provides information about overflow areas that can assist in this ; the use of this information is discussed in a later section . |
| 18 | The nightmare of conductive education is unachievable because nowhere in human history have the different been turned into the normal and neither medical science nor other rehabilitative techniques or educational Interventions can assist in this process . |
| 19 | A strong image will assist in this identification , although it can act negatively as well as positively . |
| 20 | The WANO team was reorganised , giving me direct control of my Japanese and German colleagues who would assist in this area . |
| 21 | Doing history does require an imaginative leap , and contact with real evidence from the past can often assist in this process . |
| 22 | ‘ I would n't know in that case . |
| 23 | Susan wondered how she would feel if he did ; or if she touched him or let him know in some other way that she was there ? |
| 24 | The thousands of children who are born every year , we do n't even know in this country how many there are , because the figures the ca n't be kept , er er and these tend to be children erm born of er , anonymous donors and and I think that as a society we are wreaking such problems for the future , we 're creating secrets for families , and I would really like to hear from my fellow women here about that . |
| 25 | Er , it might be I do n't know in this particular case . |
| 26 | You do n't know in this case you probably do know , that the personalities are the same . |
| 27 | As Johnson-Laird has pointed out we customarily understand and use words in context whose meanings we do not know in any exact sense : |
| 28 | Thus in a class of 31 fourth-formers , 14 pupils did not know in any terms however simple , the significance of Good Friday nor 9 of Easter Sunday ; 21 could not name one book in the New Testament and 27 one book in the Jewish Bible . |
| 29 | But many Japanese companies ' strategy is now simply to pray that the yen will fall in this fiscal year . |
| 30 | The plants that these animals dispersed may thus be seen as vegetable anachrorlisms and the introduction of horses and cattle in historical times seems to have locally restored the ranges of such trees as jicaro ( Crescentia alata , Bignoniaceae ) and guanacaste ( Enterolobium cyclocarpum , Leguminosae ) , which may fall in this category . |