Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] in [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She admitted it tempestuously as Luke deprived her of the erotic stimulation of his mouth , opening her eyes just in time to see the blaze of triumph in his as he heard her . |
| 2 | The purpose in setting side by side the careers of Hocazade and Civizade is simply to compare in a very broad way the careers of two not unrepresentative scholars of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries respectively in order to show the degree to which the hierarchy had developed during this period ; and what one may fairly infer from the comparison is limited . |
| 3 | Robbe-Grillet has chosen these stereotypical exotic and erotic images precisely in order to prevent the reader from constructing a ‘ meaningful ’ world . |
| 4 | To be able to join these co-ordinates together in order to recreate the shape there must be some form of movement and so the pen is fixed to a travelling gantry that can move in the × axis ( left and right ) while the pen moves along the gantry in the y axis ( up and down ) . |
| 5 | However , it is necessary to analyse the rhetoric of both factions carefully in order to understand the argument occurring within the National Front . |
| 6 | A policy objective was identified to reduce the crude birth rate in ten years substantially in order to spread the small family norm . |
| 7 | As a result of intense competition , bonds are often sold at a discount to attract investors ( the " reallowance " ) or else banks would sell their bonds in the grey market ( a market for bonds on which the issue price or syndicate allocations has not yet been determined , where quotes are set in relation to the unknown final price ) , which may oblige the lead manager to buy the bonds back in order to support the price . |
| 8 | Third , the NHS changes are very concerned with improved management and ‘ efficiency ’ and do not seem to confront the need to increase resources simply in order to maintain the status quo . |
| 9 | Measures to correct this imbalance largely consisted of a manipulation of interest rates upwards in order to take the steam out of the economy and stem consumer spending ( largely on imported consumer durables ) . |
| 10 | They had accepted their invitations only in order to disrupt the proceedings , as they had done on a previous occasion in 1953 . |
| 11 | Hurrying to the window , he peered through a tear in the curtains just in time to see the Peugeot drive off , heading towards the city . |
| 12 | It gave a great sense of shared purpose among the senior managers and staff to agree procedures and instructions quickly in order to get the critical mass of a system operational . |
| 13 | In their position , I have no doubt that anyone would throw stones and anything else one could lay hands on in order to change the situation . |
| 14 | Half-timbering is Cheshire 's speciality , after all — what better examples in the country are there than Handforth , Henbury and the spectacularly lavish Hill Bark , built in 1894 ( at a cost of £150,000 ) and moved lock , stock and barrel in 1929 to a site five miles away in order to avoid the view of encroaching development ! |