Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | A number of dolphins have been taught to communicate in rudimentary English . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She touched a finger to Tallis , then to herself , trying to communicate in some way . |
| 7 | Beat cream cheese until smooth , beat in melted jelly . |
| 8 | These lists are sorted in numerical order and delimited by square brackets . |
| 9 | I have known between three and four dozen boys and girls sleep in one room . |
| 10 | I 'd imagine there 'd be people maybe down and outs maybe tramps sleep in that park with newspaper round them or something . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I ca n't get up out me bed any more without somebody helping me , so I sleep in that chair . |
| 14 | That I sleep in that chair ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Startled by his temerity , her dark eyebrows lifted in assumed mockery . |
| 18 | His eyebrow lifted in ironic apology to Meredith , and he smiled benignly . |
| 19 | He leaned towards her , uncannily reading her mind , sleek eyebrows lifted in gentle interrogation . |
| 20 | Before her a seated , lightly clothed figure leans back on her straight arm with the other lifted in mid gesture . |
| 21 | Rohan 's brows lifted in mock censure . |
| 22 | The subject they 're tackling in this report is one that makes the blood run cold in most people 's veins … including mine . |
| 23 | Unfortunately this is the way the Tory always play their ploys on Highfield , they always think they are the champions of Highfield issue unfortunately they do not know what transpired in that area , they do not know the deprivation in that area . |
| 24 | Right , it 's clear i n't it under four rule twenty eight , four , it 's not essential for the disallowance of any cost or interest that er the taxing officer should be satisfied that erm the other party has been prejudiced , in fact that is not a condition precedent to the exercise of his part and disallow interest in this here item , er any prejudice there maybe is merely one factor to be taken into account in other matters and it does seem to me that the fact the court can , can properly and should properly take into account , is , is that erm , it is desirable that to litigation should erm comply with there obligations , either expressly , express or explicit under the rules of the court to comply with matter such as it should have orders part drawn up and served as appropriate , as I say it seems to me that er the plaintiffs 's can be criticized in not erm having perfected the order of Mr Justice er before they did so but er , I have , it seems to me to look at all the relevant pictures in the case , er if it were the case that the plaintiff suffered any prejudice as the result of that claim , clearly that would be a matter which I would have to take into account , but I 'm bound to say it does n't seem to me that the fender of the plaintiffs to perfect the order did in fact cause any prejudice to the plaintiff and indeed if they , the plaintiffs had perfected the order , it seems to me exactly the same course of events as in fact transpired in this case , would actually have occurred and would n't make any difference at all , so unless it 's a matter of simply of er seeking to punish the plaintiff as a matter of discipline , it seems to me there is a , not really anything in the point that the order was not perfected er when it seems to me it should of been , and I , there stood to see the other er circumstances , now it 's quite clear to me having been referred to correspondence , passing between the solicitors that erm although really from a very early stage er the plaintiffs solicitors referring to Mr a letter of early nineteen ninety one indicating that erm the view was being taken that the likelihood was that erm the plaintiffs would have to get their costs out of the defendants share and interest in the premises and er that would be a matter which could only be dealt with when the enquiries director by Mr Justice had been dealt with . |
| 25 | Because the Australian aborigines still exist at the hunter-gatherer level of culture they have no need for a weaning trauma in early childhood as is found among all primitive agriculturalists , and consequently children , although experiencing a period of oral dependency as they do in the West , linger in that stage , do not have to give it up and , in a sense , remain unweaned until adulthood — or , certainly until initiation , which is essentially the same thing . |
| 26 | He was rock hard , fully aroused beneath the rough denim of his bermudas , and she froze , beginning to struggle in nameless fear … completely new emotions were being aroused much too fast . |
| 27 | The wind screeched in his ears , making consecutive thought almost impossible so that not only did he have to struggle in desperate conflict with the conditions but had also to fight to hold to his concentration . |
| 28 | The concepts of ‘ good and evil ’ are associated with human life , they have not been predetermined in any sense whatsoever . |
| 29 | He lifted and transferred my soul from the depths up to the heights , so that I ardently longed for the pleasures of heaven more than I had ever delighted in physical embrace or worldly corruption … |
| 30 | My mental eye , rendered more acute by repeated visions of this kind , could now distinguish larger structures , of manifold conformation ; long rows , sometimes more closely fitted together ; all twining and twisting in snakelike motion . |