Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] in [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case is currently being reviewed by the Fraud Squad , who are preparing questionnaires for creditors in order to assess the extent of the problem . |
| 2 | They queued for hours in order to secure the cheapest standing places in the loggionni , the back part of the gallery . |
| 3 | Retrieval requirements may necessitate a combination of operations in order to obtain the desired result . |
| 4 | Because of the financial value attached to insurance policies , records were preserved with extreme care and existing records migrated to a new medium only when two criteria were met : first , that the technology was completely proven , and second , that the number of policies in force made the transition practical . |
| 5 | The normal attire of reivers in action included a shirt covered by a sleeveless quilted leather coat or ‘ jack ’ , usually stiffened with strips of metal or horn , leather breeches and sturdy leather boots . |
| 6 | I will select from a variety of cases in order to illustrate the ability of the fifty millesimal potencies to act favorably on all levels — mental , emotional , and physical . |
| 7 | Baldwin was cautious about the longer-term measures , and was constantly attracted by a lengthening of hours in order to assuage the sharpness of the wages conflict . |
| 8 | In other words , the sex-mad tom-cats destroy the litters of kittens in order to get the females back on heat again more quickly . |
| 9 | They came to the County Council and asked for our permission , to record a number of meetings in order to get a variety of settings and words , different words they used . |
| 10 | Simon explores the properties , associations and connotations of words in order to form the thematic basis of the novel . |
| 11 | The presence of soils in turn ensures the presence of breeding petrels that burrow in soils , or require the dense vegetation for nesting , and of a few species of birds ( and indeed of introduced mammals ) that live entirely on the resources of the land . |
| 12 | Simply adding up the money incomes of individuals in order to get a measure of their total incomes ignores questions of the distribution of income . |
| 13 | The broad philosophy underlying the system is not at fault , although the somewhat inevitable complexity may have led to a failure to grasp implications of changes in time to prevent the odder features of instability . |
| 14 | After serving with the Imperial Yeomanry in the Boer war he became an aeronautical engineer , using his observation of sea-birds in flight to design a revolutionary type of monoplane with swept-back wings . |
| 15 | ( c ) The surveyor takes off the quantities from the drawing or , less satisfactorily , extracts the relevant figures from the bill of quantities in order to calculate the total value of the sub-contract work . |
| 16 | 5.5.9 Mixed packages An offeror can choose to offer a combination of securities in order to make the offer attractive to as many target shareholders as possible . |
| 17 | They showed that a majority of patients in remission have an increased absorption of 5 1 Cr-labelled ethylenediaminetetra acetic acid ( EDTA ) , suggesting that coeliac disease was caused by a primary defect in intestinal mucosal permeability . |
| 18 | The association of Dutch electricity producers ( SEP ) has planned to plant thousands of trees in order to compensate the world for carbon dioxide emissions from a new coal-fired power station . |
| 19 | But it is necessary to refer also to the provisions dealing with the recoupment of losses and the disgorging of profits in order to enable the restitutionary provisions to be construed in the context of the Act as a whole . |
| 20 | This event represents a typical fate for stony asteroids tens of metres in radius entering the Earth 's atmosphere at common hypersonic velocities . |
| 21 | A group of teachers in training watch a recording of a class as a piece of data to be analysed . |
| 22 | He regularly dissects the bones , muscles , tendons and ligaments around the ankle and knees of quadrupeds in order to gain an understanding of the whole animal 's performance . |
| 23 | There is no need , it might be argued , to make far-reaching metaphysical assumptions about the nature of propositions in order to justify the thesis that truth-predicates are logically redundant . |
| 24 | It may seem extravagant to invoke such a range of processes in order to explain the effects of what is perhaps the simplest of training procedures ; , but in fact the list is as yet incomplete . |
| 25 | The National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital produces an excellent parents ' pack which includes a comic showing young children what to expect in hospital . |
| 26 | ‘ So what , ’ snorted Billy , who returned with a tray of drinks in time to catch the remark , ‘ we 're enjoying ourselves , ai n't we ? ’ |
| 27 | The preoccupation with the study of artefacts in isolation has a number of causes : the need to provide a chronology ; the absence of frameworks of thought by which grave-goods might be considered in the first instance as part of a mortuary ritual ; and , particularly from the nineteenth century , obsession with artefacts . |
| 28 | Hence the need to explore any avenue that will provide a variety of services in order to allay the second fear about specialism — that the service will become labelled as one for the poor only . |
| 29 | Perhaps more importantly , in the search process the searcher may need to retrieve a wider range of documents in order to make a relevance judgement in the first place . |
| 30 | At no time should a true satyāgrahi or a brahmacārin seek to avoid the company of women , but whether this justifies him in openly seeking the company of women in order to prove the strength of his brahmacārya vow , as Gandhi himself occasionally did , is a highly debatable point . |