Example sentences of "[vb mod] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the anxieties of our times , born of the idea that the individual must in one way or another ( any damned way , as a matter of fact , even confessing to having been abused as a child ) express his uniqueness and fulfil his potential . |
| 2 | Each group , then , must sound complete if played without the others , and the part-writing must in each case be smooth and correct . |
| 3 | put it , ’ … the more outlandish the clause , the greater the notice which the other party , if he is to be bound , must in all fairness be given . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But I must in all honesty say says Howard very quickly , jutting his chin out and smilingly blinking his eyes , ‘ that I still think there are a number of things in the universe which really need seriously looking into . ’ |
| 5 | The designer must in this case provide the six displacement and rotation vectors to transform the model from its drawn space , into the reference for the component within the complete machine . |
| 6 | The files must in this case be named after the individual piece parts , ie PARTA to PARTE . |
| 7 | Why should an applicant , who must in any event be prepared to satisfy the primary purpose test , be worse off because he contemplates the possibility of a relatively short stay in the UK than one who had the fixed intention of permanent UK residence ? |
| 8 | The Crown must in any event pay to the defendant his costs of the appeal to the Board . |
| 9 | From this meeting they sent back Curzon with a formal resolution , urging Asquith 's immediate resignation , and saying that he must in any event accept and publish theirs . |
| 10 | Any quotation must in any case be extensive : |
| 11 | More important , he set about gathering the Wordsworths into the Quantock fold , hastening a visit which must in any case have been intended for the near future . |
| 12 | The disturbing thought that motivates both theories is that , if the world is to be intelligible , it must be mind-like , in the sense that generality — the feature of thought , concepts and meanings — must in some way , run through the world itself . |
| 13 | With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it . |
| 14 | I can not but feel , though it may be an illusion induced by the delectable drug of understanding , that you must in some way share my eagerness that further conversation could be mutually profitable that we must meet . |
| 15 | Women have so often been in situations of powerlessness and dependence that any system of belief or programme of action that could count as ‘ feminist ’ must in some way see this as a central concern . |
| 16 | Their feminism must in some way be fitted to the facts of Christianity . |
| 17 | They must in some way make these their own — take them into their personal repertoire . |
| 18 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |
| 19 | In this way , following Marx , they contend that if military expenditure and involvement in society and politics has increased , then it must in some way be functional for the survival of capitalism as an economic system . |
| 20 | In Hills v. Ellis , this was interpreted to mean that the act of the defendant must in some way be ‘ aimed at ’ the police , even if there need be no hostility towards them . |
| 21 | In fact , a major impetus behind Japanese AIDS research is the attempt to delay the onset of full-blown AIDS in persons infected with HIV — another admission that haemophiliacs must in some way be helped . |
| 22 | Two essential freedoms — the right to communicate and the right to reputation — must in some way be reconciled by law . |
| 23 | But such homosexuality must in some sense be repressed ; overt ‘ masculine ’ homosexuality is subversive , says Irigaray , because it openly interprets the law according to which society operates and in so doing threatens it : ‘ once the penis itself becomes merely a means to pleasure , pleasure among men , the phallus loses its power ’ ( This Sex , 74 , 24 — 8 , 128 , 171 , 192 — 3 ; her emphases ) . |
| 24 | Maybe the authors realised this anyway , as they each made their colonies telepathic — and for that to solve the problem the collective mind must in some sense exist as a permanent , ordered structure of its own . |
| 25 | Christians I have suggested , if they are rightly to be named Christians , must in some sense believe that God was in a unique way related to Christ , so that he becomes particular for them , and they are ( as I am not ) in their religion related to history . |
| 26 | Her concern that the sisters living a life of contemplative discipline should in one respect be totally unrestricted — in their access to , and possession of , books — and the fact that , evidently , the brothers of the order both encouraged and instructed them in the knowledge of theological traditions , illuminates , and is symptomatic of , the problems faced by women who wished to live out their faith and give an articulate account of their experience . |
| 27 | A legal duty should in civil law be the counterpart of a legal right . |
| 28 | It seems reasonable to suppose that the definition of a language as a subject for learning should in some way be informed by theories about the nature of language in general on the one hand and by descriptions of languages in particular on the other . |
| 29 | The point at which the national curriculum begins to matter is the age of 5 : assessment at each successive stage should in some way affect the ambitions and choices at each age . |
| 30 | It is not that Lee should in some way be forbidden to talk about white , male canonical authors , but a book such as this ought to suggest a greater awareness of the very issues it is summarising . |