Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his book on Environmental Systems Dury ( 1981 ) adopts an approach to physical environment in which he adopts the four-fold classification of systems devised by Chorley and Kennedy ( 1971 ) but in addition adds a fifth type in the form of an ecosystem justified as including ‘ sets of biosystems which interact with one another and with their immediate physical environment ’ . |
| 2 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 3 | The decision of the BBC to change the format , in effect dropping the first half of the old programme , is not surprising . |
| 4 | Babies are conceived for a variety of reasons apart from basic urges — some over a wayward partner who shows signs of straying from the fold ; in competition with a sister who has recently conceived or in determination to produce the first grandchild . |
| 5 | The expansion of the middle-class was one aspect of the great increase in population marking the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | ‘ Duke Godomar is head of the city council , and in theory has the last word when it comes to governing Talisker . |
| 7 | That discussion in turn reflected a second difference . |
| 8 | Since Cicely Harris 's retirement Pauline Kenward has undertaken arrangements for this event and following requests for a new venue plans are in hand to hold the next Dinner Dance on Friday 18th February 1983 at the Queen 's Hotel , Crystal Palace . |
| 9 | The aim of the course was to get group members to think about disability issues in order to take a first step forward in working together . |
| 10 | Shortly after Chaptal 's publication a few Champagne manufacturers began to add the sugar , not at the time of pressing , but immediately prior to bottling in order to promote the second fermentation or , as the French call it , the prise de mousse . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In order to create the next level of representation ( the functional level , described below ) two distinct procedures are needed : |
| 13 | So early oxygen levels would have been periodically depressed , in order to allow the first photosynthesizers to carry on evolving . |
| 14 | Special weight was laid on reconciliation within the family , and prodigal sons were urged to speed to the parental bedside in order to receive a last blessing . |
| 15 | It is proposed to take the seven functions of budgets on pages 49/50 as the first dimension of a matrix structure to which either the rational economic or a political model can be applied in order to form the second dimension . |
| 16 | There is a Waverley Abbey connection here ; the piece was created in response to a commission from the Abbey of Cîteaux in France , the very first of the Cistercian monasteries , in order to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the birth of this remarkable man . |
| 17 | These not only sell flights but also juggle capacities and fares in order to squeeze the last cent of revenue out of every aircraft seat . |
| 18 | The trip to Milan was made in order to write the first opera , Lucio Silla , for the 1772–1773 carnival season there . |
| 19 | Mozart 's father and sister travelled to Munich early in 1781 in order to hear the first performance of the opera on 29 January . |
| 20 | It would therefore seem an opportune moment for the government to impose stricter regulation and policing of the pharmaceutical/pesticide/herbicide branches of the chemical industry , including a more severe form of export control in order to protect the Third World . |
| 21 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 22 | A knot is required in order to make the first fastening . |
| 23 | In order to achieve the second objective , the drafter will seek to ensure that the other party can not escape from the contract and that , if necessary , the contract can be enforced by quick , and procedurally simple methods , such as liquidated rather than unliquidated claims . |
| 24 | In order to achieve the first objective the drafter will seek to define his/her client 's obligations , restrict the circumstances in which the client will be in breach of contract , and restrict , limit or even exclude liabilities which would otherwise otherwise . |
| 25 | In order to obtain a first idea of how space–time behaves across the horizon , consider an instrumented space probe falling along a radial path into a black hole . |
| 26 | There are no simple right or wrong answers to our questions , but in order to meet the first objective ( to teach problem definition skills ) , we must adopt a particular stance or ‘ model of practice ’ which enables precise analysis of situations . |
| 27 | My Lords , erm i legislation is complex and I agree that we should do what we can to keep a clear er , er to keep it clear and simple if it 's at all possible and erm er I agree though that one needs a fully up-to-date text of the nineteen sixty four Police Act in order to decipher every last dot and comma . |
| 28 | The Bishop in his reply added that he had in fact consecrated a third pro-Cathedral ; after extensive repairs , St George 's in York had been re-consecrated by him . |
| 29 | When the first draft of this review had been completed , a protein plaque or two moved in the reviewer 's senile brain and he remembered that he had in fact reviewed the first edition for this journal . |
| 30 | He crossed the street , dodging the traffic , reaching the door in time to see a second figure stepping into the elevator . |