Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking as a practical measure of insulation the ‘ clo ’ unit ( equivalent to normal clothing worn by a human at rest in an ambient temperature of 20°C ) , wolves and polar bears carry insulation of 6 7 clo , and arctic foxes in winter carry 8 clo , rather more than is deemed efficient for human polar clothing . |
| 2 | Between November 19 and 22 , the Towner Art Gallery in the High Street , Eastbourne will host its first contemporary art market to help raise funds in order to purchase contemporary art under the Contemporary Art Society 's ‘ Collection ’ Scheme . |
| 3 | Doubts were raised at the time about the possible increase in working hours for headteachers in order to operate this system . |
| 4 | In the first year students take three units on the theory and practice of modern theatre ( these units in effect constitute one production unit ) supported by two other units on the tradition of the Illusory and the Non-Illusory Theatre . |
| 5 | The investment bank wishes to maintain relationships in order to ensure future business , to preserve its reputation , and to maintain the value of any information it has gathered about the firm in question — which is obviously unsaleable . |
| 6 | He pushed on quickly with words in order to forget that tone he had never heard from her before . |
| 7 | 6 Light Full right of liberty at any time after the date of this Lease to alter or to erect new structures within or adjoining the Centre ( such expression here excluding the Premises ) in such manner as the Landlord shall think fit notwithstanding the fact that the same may obstruct affect or interfere with the amenity of or access to the Premises or the passage of light and air to the Premises It may be as well to include the words in parenthesis to remove any suggestion that the landlord may have the right to alter the premises . |
| 8 | Is that what this is about , that places can continue to spring up in the private sector and we must close our homes in order to meet that demand not from elderly people for places but from the private sector for profits . |
| 9 | Philanthropy provided women with an acceptable bridge to the public world of work and citizenship , even though , as Anne Summers has argued , it involved a fundamental contradiction , whereby women left their own homes in order to tell working class women to stay in theirs . |
| 10 | On the other hand , perhaps he was simply agreeing to her demands in order to avoid another argument . |
| 11 | Supply of a set of goods within a natural monopoly framework may under some circumstances require suppression of entry into closely related areas in order to prevent competitive entry undermining the natural monopoly properties . |
| 12 | A quarter of waste dumps in England have been closed by companies in attempt to sidestep new pollution control rules , leaving a toxic legacy which could cost councils millions of pounds to clean up . |
| 13 | On economic issues , notably the elimination of trade barriers in order to promote intra-regional trade , and the achievement of monetary union , there was little to report . |
| 14 | For example , tax rates may have to differ across countries in order to achieve particular abatement targets and schemes for compensating the hardest hit consumers may need to developed . |
| 15 | After the Second World War successive governments conducted economic policies along Keynesian lines in order to achieve full employment . |
| 16 | Whilst the extension of the franchise and Christopher Addison 's hopes for building the ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ showed a genuine desire for the radical elements in government to reform British society , the fact that Britain needed to export nearly one-third of her output to pay for essential imports necessitated the re-establishment of settled trading patterns and the development of new markets . |
| 17 | I have used the sketches of gulls in flight to compose this study for a vertical composition — a gathering around food . |
| 18 | Republican opponents of the bill had managed to raise terror among businessmen that they would end up having to adopt hiring quotas in order to avoid costly discrimination suits . |
| 19 | Additional economic corrective measures , announced on Nov. 4 , to reverse serious economic decline included ( i ) a new tariff structure to open up the protected domestic markets to cheaper imports in order to boost domestic consumer demand ; ( ii ) a promise to reform inefficient ports and customs services ; ( iii ) an anti-monopoly decree ; ( iv ) the privatization of selected state companies ; ( v ) the freeing of the exchange rate ; and ( vi ) a sweeping reform of the tax structure [ see p. 37851 ] . |
| 20 | The effects in education cause immediate worry . |
| 21 | Small particles in colloidal suspension , e.g. smoke particles in air or pollen grains in water display erratic movement . |
| 22 | In order to catch suspect goods at the ports , customs officers have power to seize and detain goods for up to two working days in order to enable local trading standards officers to examine them to determine whether they infringe legal safety requirements , section 31 . |
| 23 | Paul Morris , a Birchfield triple jumper , reckoned that , after he and some others at his Handsworth school dropped some sports in order to devote more time to GCE preparations , the PE teacher reacted angrily : ‘ He thought we were ganging up on him as most of us were black . ’ |
| 24 | On the other side , however , we need to consider how such ideas in turn affect political life ; how the analyses and interpretations provided by political scientists enter into the struggles between different interest groups , and either help to define more clearly the nature of the conflicting interests or claim to discover ways of reconciling them . |
| 25 | The point to note here is that it is the lower-wage countries for which this is the case and the crucial impact of the TNCs has been to create intense pressure to keep down labour costs in order to attract foreign investment . |
| 26 | Authorities on the cutting edge of independent care management will have to intensify their monitoring of assessment costs in order to get quick handle on their care managers ' expenditure . |
| 27 | Appraisal is thus a process of negotiating individual targets in order to improve personal performance and so enhance the quality of educational provision . |
| 28 | There has been considerable deregulation in the economic , financial and industrial spheres and deregulation of the private rented sector in housing , but in spite of its frequently articulated preference for a non-interventionist state , the Conservative government has used its years in office to increase central government power and control . |
| 29 | The thought of spending another five years in training to achieve that goal does . |
| 30 | The architects , Lane , Bremner and Garnett of Glasgow , cleverly adapted the huge sash-and-case windows to provide opening lights in order to cause minimum change to the exterior . |