Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , even when teachers are teaching their students to communicate in one language at a time they need to examine the principles of communication . |
| 2 | I think their greatest achievement was to realise that despite the fact that she was unable to speak , she was still able to communicate in other ways . |
| 3 | A number of dolphins have been taught to communicate in rudimentary English . |
| 4 | Approximately 30% of the marks will be for straightforward handling of theory — but additional marks for pass , credit and distinction standard must come from the quality of the candidate 's understanding and ability to communicate in acceptable fashion . |
| 5 | The most basic error , which I attempted to pinpoint in discussing the sense in which the cries , hoots , and gestures of animals are ‘ primitive forms ’ of language in Chapter 5 , is to confuse the predictive value of the effects of such behaviour with the conscious intent of a speaker to communicate in some way . |
| 6 | If the distinction between tacit and explicit collusion is to mean anything , it must also be shown that the ability to communicate in some way affects the likely existence and stability of collusion . |
| 7 | She touched a finger to Tallis , then to herself , trying to communicate in some way . |
| 8 | Correct timetabling in rural areas is essential to ensure that people get to work on time , and the consultative committee could examine such matters . |
| 9 | Real books are the books children encounter in story-telling sessions at home , in the library or play-group , and on children 's television — books that become part of the reader 's self , books to be remembered and revisited with anticipated pleasure . |
| 10 | Beat cream cheese until smooth , beat in melted jelly . |
| 11 | When all the data is entered on to the computer , it can then be sorted in numerous ways which would be too time-consuming using manual methods . |
| 12 | These lists are sorted in numerical order and delimited by square brackets . |
| 13 | She said oh we always sleep in separate beds here . |
| 14 | I have known between three and four dozen boys and girls sleep in one room . |
| 15 | I 'd imagine there 'd be people maybe down and outs maybe tramps sleep in that park with newspaper round them or something . |
| 16 | So she said , I 'll show you to your bedroom and there was two sisters , and she says , you sleep in that bed and you sleep in that bed . |
| 17 | So she said , I 'll show you to your bedroom and there was two sisters , and she says , you sleep in that bed and you sleep in that bed . |
| 18 | I ca n't get up out me bed any more without somebody helping me , so I sleep in that chair . |
| 19 | That I sleep in that chair ? |
| 20 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |
| 21 | He gets eight hours sleep in three minutes . |
| 22 | ‘ Round yon virgin mother and child , holy infant so tender and mild , sleep in heavenly peace , slee-eep in heavenly peace , ’ they finished with a high-speed wail . |
| 23 | In peacetime the town must have been a sleepy and slow-moving place , but at the start of 1945 it fairly hummed with activity , being surrounded in all directions by RAF and American Air Force stations . |
| 24 | She was surrounded in bloody boxes . |
| 25 | The dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed throughout Kathmandu in April was lifted in all areas except the Lalitpur district on May 10 . |
| 26 | Startled by his temerity , her dark eyebrows lifted in assumed mockery . |
| 27 | President 's rule , which had been imposed in December after the PDF 's main component , the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP ) , withdrew from the PDF , was lifted in late January 1991 and the leader of the breakaway MGP group , Ravi S. Naik , was sworn in as Chief Minister [ see p. 37915 ; 37964 ] . |
| 28 | On the same day martial law was lifted in eight townships — one in Shan state , three in Magwe division and four in Chin state . |
| 29 | His eyebrow lifted in ironic apology to Meredith , and he smiled benignly . |
| 30 | Martial law was also lifted in 16 townships although night curfews reportedly remained in place in all major cities . |