Example sentences of "in [noun] to find [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was naturally with great affection and nostalgia that as an adult I laced up my boots on a damp October morning at the starting point in the station car park at Bridge of Orchy , in preparation to find out what really lurked at the top of Beinn Dorain . |
| 2 | I went to the bar racks , the caserna , in Fontanellato to find out when my father was going to be released , but was told that they did not know , for he was in the hands of the Secret Police . |
| 3 | A month after the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into voluntary liquidation , creditors owed nearly a third of a million pounds , met at a hotel in Thame to find out why . |
| 4 | ‘ the whole object of the section is to assimilate the practice in winding up to the practice in bankruptcy , which was established in order to enable assignees , who are now called trustees , in bankruptcy to find out facts before they brought an action , so as to avoid incurring the expense of some hundreds of pounds in bringing an unsuccessful action , when they might , by examining a witness or two , have discovered at a trifling expense that an action could not succeed . |
| 5 | I went on an introductory course with ParAvion in Wiltshire to find out if I liked paragliding any better . |
| 6 | Pigs are used in experiments to find out more about gastric ulcers , muscular dystrophy , alcoholism and obesity . |
| 7 | While householders fumed in queues to find out how they should pay , he was sunning himself on an Indian Ocean holiday . |
| 8 | So I 'm staying in Venice to find out for myself what 's been going on . ’ |
| 9 | She wanted me to phone a number in Zagreb to find out if her husband , who had gone to Yugoslavia for an operation on his liver just before the war , was alive or dead . |
| 10 | When stereo LPs were launched in 1958 , someone pointed out this fact , and research was put in motion to find out what had happened to the ‘ stereo cylinder ’ . |
| 11 | In order to find out more of what this writer thinks about imitation , we are in a position to consult a work by him where a treatise on the subject is developed at intervals and where he writes in propria persona . |
| 12 | In order to find out what the substantive law is , we must still go back to the time when Law and Equity were administered in different courts ; we may still have to picture to ourselves distinct proceedings taken about the same matter in those courts , and work out the result of those separate proceedings . |
| 13 | Aware of how precarious his position was , and still clinging to the Entente as the only hope in the shifting pattern of the European system , he had taken the unusual step of sending Eugénie to visit Queen Victoria at Osborne in the July of 1867 in order to find out the Queen 's reactions to the situation . |
| 14 | If you did n't buy New Scientist in order to find out more about science , the magazine would not exist for long . |
| 15 | After you have learnt how to release the tension in muscles that have become habitually shortened , your teacher will take you through some ordinary , everyday activities in order to find out why these particular muscles have become over tightened . |
| 16 | In order to find out why things had not been going so well on the land as in the urban areas we must once again go back to the beginning of the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | We have surveyed 176 companies who hold regular conferences in order to find out how highly they rated leisure facilities in deciding on their choice of venue . |
| 18 | Carrying out preparatory investigations and interviews This is not always done , but some researchers , aware of the problems outlined in the discussion on forming hunches and hypotheses above , spend time at this early stage in conducting informal interviews with people in order to find out from them what the key issues are . |
| 19 | The single most important reason quoted to the Press Commission for reading a provincial paper was in order to find out what was on TV that night . |
| 20 | I suggested that you experiment in order to find out how to gain the finest and most even line possible . |
| 21 | At the same time artists , many of whom have already contacted the Office for Fine Arts in order to find out what will happen to their works , will be allowed to claim them back . |
| 22 | It was Bessie Rayner Parkes who , in order to find out what truth there was in it , first bought a small press and some type , and she and Emily Faithfull took instruction in the trade themselves . |
| 23 | Given this assertion , the idea that we should consider the denial of this assertion in order to find out whether there is a presupposition in what the speaker has not asserted seems particularly counterintuitive . |
| 24 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 25 | We performed a cross-sectional epidemiological study on 181 women with a report of cervical cytological abnormality in order to find out whether the presence of oncogenic human papillomavirus was associated with the grade of the neoplastic lesion ; whether smoking was associated with the grade of the neoplastic lesion ; and whether smoking was associated with the presence of oncogenic human papillomavirus . |
| 26 | At the top of its latest action list is a bunch of measures designed to get closer to real users in order to find out what they really want . |
| 27 | Compared John Campbell , charmer , and being interrogated if he had practiced a charme att Port Askaig with a bible and a key , reading some verses in the fiftieth psalm in order to find out theft , did acknowledge the said charme . |
| 28 | Compared John Campbell , charmer , and being interrogated if he had practiced a charme att Port Askaig with a bible and a key , reading some verses in the fiftieth psalm in order to find out theft , did acknowledge the said charme . |
| 29 | Also , various frames need to be used in order to find out if anything changes in the words when they are checked against frames with other words or pitch . |
| 30 | In order to find out which firms and organisations offer training , you should consult a book called ROSET [ Register of Solicitors Employing Trainees ] which is available from your careers library or from the Law Society . |