Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] in an " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , whether family cruising , club racing , or competing in an International Rolex Swan Regatta , there is a Swan 46 that will suit your requirements . |
| 2 | When asked to put their minds and bodies at rest , no one ever visualized themselves in the middle of Piccadilly waiting supermarket , or crushed in an underground train . |
| 3 | It is revealing that , in a very similar way , to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred : ( 48 ) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading ( to be ) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers ; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction ; an example would be like ( or want ) which makes it possible for us to set ( 49 ) beside ( 8 ) : ( 49 ) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However , with most preceding verb phrases , such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation : ( 50 ) ( a ) the children have kept the fish-tank clean : how have the children kept the fish-tank ? ( b ) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean |
| 4 | Until 15 or so years ago most of us knew pineapple only from cans — who has n't used chunks to make sweet and sour pork , or rings in an upside down cake ? |
| 5 | Because mulberry trees are usually found in the centre of a lawn , not hidden away in the kitchen garden or grown in an orchard , they often provide a focus for children 's play . |
| 6 | Teachers ' houses and school buildings were set on fire or bombed in an attempt to intimidate ANDES members ; in the right-wing press , ANDES was accused of fomenting subversion and Communism : |
| 7 | Or hung in an amber cavern of weeds |
| 8 | Taking the rather obvious theme of the mother and child , for example , this is used over and over again by artists , though each time it must be expressed or interpreted in an individual way . |
| 9 | This means that if a person intends to cause a policeman to react unlawfully , and uses threats , abuse or insults in an attempt to cause the policeman to overreact , he commits the offence if the other ingredients are proved to have occurred . |
| 10 | In the softer areas it worked like a hot knife through butter and large areas could be removed , shaped or modelled in an astonishingly short time , in comparison with traditional mallet and gouges . |
| 11 | In the case of the MA(Honours) in Italian and those joint honours degrees in which Italian is the major element , the third year of study will be spent in Italy , usually at an Italian university or teaching in an Italian secondary school . |
| 12 | You should think of time as a resource and , like any resource , it can be squandered or utilised in an effective and efficient manner . |
| 13 | A further aspect of the Sherif study concerned the effects of winning or losing in an intergroup competition . |
| 14 | Where a purchase of licensed premises was made subject to the purchaser obtaining a transfer of the certificate , and the purchaser undertook to do all in his power to obtain a transfer , and the transfer was refused by the licensing court , and the purchaser refused to appeal or to concur in an appeal against the refusal , it was held that he had failed to do all in his power to obtain a transfer , and was found liable in damages to the seller : Skinner v. Breslin ( 1905 ) 13 S.L.T. 91 ; cf. |
| 15 | When grown in the absence of FCS , many of the cells died asynchronously over several days , with morphological features that are characteristic of apoptosis : when viewed by time-lapse video recording , the cells showed active surface blebbing and then shrank and often fragmented ( not shown ) , and when stained with propidium iodide or viewed in an electron microscope , the nuclei of the dead cells were condensed and often fragmented ( Fig. 2c , f ) . |
| 16 | The dough should be covered with a cloth after each session to prevent a crust forming , or stored in an airtight container . |
| 17 | It has power to request further information from the parties and to inspect documents at the parties ' premises and failure by the parties to provide the information required or to co-operate in an inspection may cause the four month period to be extended . |
| 18 | In fact , a multimedia database may be called upon to store anything you can store on a computer or use in an information application . |
| 19 | Among the eight examples drawn from the gallery 's stock are ‘ Life Death/Knows Does n't Know ’ , the great wheel of contradiction formerly owned by Charles Saatchi , and ‘ Seven Virtues Seven Vices ’ , in which corresponding pairs such as Hope and Envy or Lust and Faith are illuminated or dimmed in an apparently random sequence . |
| 20 | When you suspect that someone is flattering you in order to manipulate , or responding in an artificial manner , ask for specific detail . |
| 21 | However in such an institution , the elements of anti-structure are often suppressed , denied , or concealed in an attempt to maintain the idealogical purity of the group . |
| 22 | Any individual act of self-denial or investment ( e.g. leaving small saplings to regenerate the forest , or investing in an improved method of cooking food ) is frequently not repaid — a classic tragedy of the commons does not respect individual and isolated remedial action . |
| 23 | They should be either burnt or laid out flat to dry , or kept in an airtight tin . |
| 24 | It is not a sign of aggression but is , rather , a substitute for the pecking and scratching the birds would do if they were able to forage or dustbathe in an unrestricted and varied environment . |
| 25 | If he has rendered a service or engaged in an activity such as the manufacture of goods , the profit will have arisen or derived from the place where the service was rendered or the profit making activity carried on . |
| 26 | But while on the subject of confessing ignorance , I must also state that I have so far made it through life without witnessing or participating in an Orange Walk . |
| 27 | The Coventry , Ardent , and Antelope were all sunk ; many Welsh Guardsmen , waiting to land , were killed or maimed in an air assault on the Sir Galahad at Bluff Cove . |
| 28 | According to Robin Cranko , he consulted John 's headmaster , St John Nitch , and the advice he received was that John would not be suited to a rigid academic life , or work in an office or commerce . |
| 29 | She knelt down on the cushion , placed her ungloved hands together , closed her eyes and appeared to be either thinking or sleeping in an upright kneeling position . |
| 30 | Here was an elephant that lived in an enormous conch . |