Example sentences of "[vb infin] in [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do let your children know in advance that you 're going out , tell them who 'll be babysitting . |
| 2 | Because you will know in advance when you need the cash , you can use a 90-day-notice account or even tie it up for five years for a better return . |
| 3 | The right code can only be issued to them if the tax inspector knows about their National Insurance pension ; so it is very important for your parents to let the Tax Office know in advance if they are going to receive a National Insurance retirement pension . |
| 4 | You should let your manager know in advance if you wish to take outside employment in addition to your work for the ES . |
| 5 | You can usually foresee what is going to happen , so please let us know in advance and we will arrange the best deal for you . |
| 6 | Would you be kind enough , therefore , to let us know in confidence whether you consider that Mr Smith is likely to prove a respectable and responsible tenant , and well able to pay the rent etc mentioned ? |
| 7 | Now it 's true that since the second world war all wars have been limited in one sense or another , but then comes the question , if you do , in fact , succeed in defining objectives er and de in defining the means to those objectives , how can you know in fact that you possess genuine capability without putting it to the test , without actually fighting the war and then finding that you can not win it ? |
| 8 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 9 | There is much to see and enjoy in town but you could spend all your time walking through the Tatra National Park where there are hundreds of miles of paths and breathtaking views . |
| 10 | Disclaimer notices , such as ‘ Articles left at owner 's risk … etc ’ are not valid unless the firm concerned can show in court that they were reasonable in the circumstances , and in any case would not protect the firm against any claim arising out of the negligence in respect of the articles . |
| 11 | You must speak in English or they will not understand . ’ |
| 12 | I open the second letter , would you please appear in court cos you were overloaded , you are being prosecuted . |
| 13 | By the middle years of the fifteenth century litigants in civil suits before the Parlement of Paris could send word that they would not appear in person because they were engaged in war for the public good ( ‘ in expedicione causa rei publice ’ ) or were being detained as prisoners by the enemy . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) The dodecahedron and icosahedron alternate , one encasing the other , but the spheres must grow in size if they are to close pack . |
| 15 | Similarly , the muscles will not grow in length unless they are attached to tendons and bones so that as the bones lengthen , they are stretched . |
| 16 | After that we would go to Tahiti , and I saw the excitement grow in Ellen as she realised that these plans were so close to coming true . |
| 17 | Nicotiana do not bloom in December but I smelled them , and with them another smell , a cigar , but James had not smoked cigars nor was there anyone near who did . |
| 18 | But the cable operators told the government that they would not invest in cable unless they could have pay-TV as a sweetener . |
| 19 | You could do in advance or you could do retrospectively or |
| 20 | Through them , it is possible to argue , as Foucault concluded from the design of the Panopticon , a whole type of society may emerge , a society based on the protection of sectional interests through subtle coercion , whose technology is used to preempt what people can and can not do in buildings that they use or occupy . |
| 21 | Caterers live in the real world , not for them exercise followed by exercise , because they do for real in peace what they would do in war and they would n't want to change that . |
| 22 | ‘ Well I do n't like blacks and I do believe in hanging and you 're not promising me anything with either , are you ? ’ |
| 23 | Some people do not believe in Jesus because they do not believe in the miracles . |
| 24 | Then you must believe in djinn for they are written in the Qur'an . ’ |
| 25 | As she was already walking , she did more work in standing than she otherwise would have , to promote the feeling of taking weight through her left leg while keeping her spasticity under control . |
| 26 | It takes a while for them to actually settle in , and they need quite a lot of support because we do work in teams and they 're quite well established teams with definite personalities . |
| 27 | As I said earlier , I was grateful to go and work in Britain and I also was grateful for all the great writers in English . |
| 28 | She promised that she 'd keep in touch and I know that she will . ’ |
| 29 | In his first public speech after he left the Marines , in May 1988 , he painted a picture of the people his audience should keep in mind if they were tempted to think that the Soviet Union was changing : children huddled in the Gulags , dock-workers in Poland , and contras . |
| 30 | Second , quality improvement is far more difficult to define and measure in health than it is in education . |