Example sentences of "in [noun] [to-vb] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor could he ignore American enthusiasm for British membership of the EEC , in part to ensure a better balance among the states of Western Europe , but also in the hope that Britain would strengthen those in the Community who favoured more liberal and outward looking economic policies . |
| 2 | However , while the process of electing a national president went smoothly , state party elections revealed high levels of factionalism within the BJP and led to the intervention of the central leadership in attempts to restore a greater semblance of unity to the party . |
| 3 | Future developments in the use of microcomputers including applications such as the use of expert systems , compact and video disks , electronic publishing and interactive video will be discussed in Chapter 10 and allow those starting to use microcomputers in schools to have a wider view of potential applications . |
| 4 | It is being used in research to gain a greater understanding of the effects of radiation on biological tissue , including studies of radiation induced changes in bone marrow . |
| 5 | WACC-AR should make an inventory and directory that will enable communicators in Africa to have a better knowledge of the existing communication and human rights organisations , institutions and resources in Africa ; |
| 6 | This has been done in the case of a number of last ( Ipswichian ) interglacial deposits in Britain to give a clearer idea of sea level at that period and the amount of East Anglian downwarping since ( Sparks and West , 1971 ) . |
| 7 | Thus , we would caution against drawing general conclusions from analyses of specific areas of law , and we would argue that it is important to develop , not a theory of law , but a theory of the role of law in society to enable a clearer assessment of the extent or limits of law 's importance . |
| 8 | ‘ A student whose education enables him later in life to earn a higher income should return some of that income . ’ |
| 9 | I believe stores must invest more in training to provide a better service to customers . |
| 10 | The association would do better to invest some of that money in advertising to attract a larger audience to the annual meeting . |
| 11 | At Amsteg motorists who are in haste to reach a further destination have an opportunity to leave the old Gotthard road in favour of entry to the fast N2 motorway before the old road enters the steepest and most tortuous part of the route . |
| 12 | Concurrent with the arrest of Guiding Lights , a combined police and customs task force swooped on twenty five addresses in London to unearth a further cache of over two tons of cannabis in a garage . |
| 13 | Try to be as flexible as possible : it may be well worth moving , say , the cooker as little as 1 metre ( 3 ft ) from its existing position in order to create a better work flow . |
| 14 | PR is used in order to create a better environment for the organisation and its activities . |
| 15 | All the parties for example , after the trials of war , believed in the need to reform and expand the social security system in order to create a fairer society . |
| 16 | It is this last which , at the time of writing , is proving to be a major issue of contention in Council meetings , as the Commission and its allies demand a considerable increase in order to fund a further transfer of wealth to the EEC 's poorer nations as part of the ‘ Cohesion Fund ’ . |
| 17 | This was limited and , in order to use a longer vehicle , radial axle-boxes were introduced . |
| 18 | just as a desire to understand absolute holism led us to analyse the substantive claims of Althusser and Poulantzas , so we must now consider work inspired by an attachment to concessive holism in order to reach a clearer view of its guiding interests . |
| 19 | It also wants to give higher priority to art in education in order to reach a wider audience . |
| 20 | Similarly you list all the phone calls , meetings , documents produced and processed and other activities such as specific work contacts in order to devise a better way of coping with these factors . |
| 21 | There is a growing trend in the textile trade for designers to make use of computer-aided design , in order to explore a greater number of design ideas and to shorten lead times on production . |
| 22 | priding themselves on their hard-headedness , they were eventually prepared to take on a poor commercial risk , or found a college as a pure give-away gesture , in order to win a richer prize — prestige . |
| 23 | In order to gain a better appreciation of the genotypic risk , the relative risk of gastric body ulcer associated with the genotypes was estimated . |
| 24 | In order to gain a deeper insight into the emergence of socialist realism in interwar France , it is clearly necessary to examine the significance of the 1934 Soviet Writers ' Congress during which the new literary ideology was officially consecrated . |
| 25 | They had no need to empty their minds of conventional images in order to build a purer system of thought , but instead they were perfectly at home with the conventional . |
| 26 | This research therefore aims to isolate the better performing UK companies and to examine their marketing activities in order to develop a better understanding of best marketing practice . |
| 27 | Other studies too have described how mothers regularly cut down or miss out on meals in order to provide a better diet for their children . |
| 28 | I realised that Harold had appointed him in order to maintain a keener watch on what the BBC was saying about people . |
| 29 | He was therefore use to give up the leadership of the BDA at this juncture and to leave it to someone of the new generation to embrace politics in order to achieve a better deal for the deaf . |
| 30 | There is , therefore ‘ a need to influence the structure , content and methodology of education , not only in the DRAs but also in the community as a whole in order to achieve a better understanding of , and regard for rural problems and potential . |