Example sentences of "be in vain " in BNC.
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| 1 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 2 | All our efforts to restore unity among Christians will be in vain if they are not carried out in total fidelity to the faith in Christ … handed on by the Apostles . ’ |
| 3 | Football : Bull 's double may be in vain |
| 4 | These efforts proved to be in vain for the most part . |
| 5 | Baptiste kept him company for a while as he blazed away , but when the ninth wicket fell with the score on 166 and fourteen overs still unused , it seemed that his effort would be in vain . |
| 6 | The following Sunday Pat Muldoon stood in what had formerly been his local church at Gross Pointe , Michigan , and sang to the heavens , ‘ If I can help somebody , as I go along , then my living will not be in vain … . ’ without paying the slightest attention to the meaning of the words . |
| 7 | If the soul 's fate was indeed predetermined , it followed that all human endeavour to bring about its salvation must necessarily be in vain . |
| 8 | At one fête alone last year they raised £179 but this year all her work could be in vain . |
| 9 | The 11th-hour acquisition by Mrs David Thompson , wife of the owner of Cheveley Park Stud , of Roc de Prince and Party Politics , may be in vain , again on the expectation of near-perfect going . |
| 10 | Failure to do so will mean that your efforts in negotiating long-term security of tenure might be in vain , as you could eventually find the shareholders deciding to bring your contract to a premature end and discover that you are unable to claim compensation for the full period during which you expected to work . |
| 11 | The eternal quest for immortality will be in vain until we know the answer — unfortunately , we do n't . |
| 12 | The unending toil , which ground on at the pace of the changing seasons and the constant struggle against relentless Nature would be in vain , as far as Jonadab Oaks was concerned , unless there were others of his name to follow in his footsteps and work this land to which he had devoted his life . |
| 13 | The first difficulty is , as we have seen , that the term ‘ child abuse ’ covers a range of behaviours and problems , so that a search for a single or even a cluster of ‘ causes ’ is likely to be in vain . |
| 14 | To both of them , the human sacrifice of 1914–18 created not just a deep loathing of war but also a determination that such sacrifice should not be in vain . |
| 15 | In dealing with the techniques of studying , memory has been treated first , for without memory all study would be in vain . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , all struggles should have their recompense , and the effort laid out to achieve a satisfactory musical culmination would be in vain if the climax were to disappear before anyone really noticed it . |
| 17 | The onus is surely on the proponents of this ‘ rush for roads ’ to prove that those sacrifices will not be in vain . |
| 18 | ‘ You can say that again , ’ murmured Alex Household , who was standing beside Charles , ‘ but I fear it will all be in vain . ’ |
| 19 | They do n't want Amanda Jane suffering to be in vain . |
| 20 | His brother in law hopes their efforts will not be in vain . |
| 21 | And father we pray that our hope may not be in vain but may lead us to sharing again in your kingdom . |