Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the specially laid-out gardens and stands are in place showing off the best of British gardening . |
| 2 | Going on to a weight-reducing diet actually reduces the rates of hormone production by the thyroid , and in turn slows down the metabolic rate . |
| 3 | The second and third ranks of foot were to stay flat on the ground throughout the manoeuvre , and then , in turn carry out the same tactic . |
| 4 | Cargolux in turn brought in the three hauliers as fourth parties by serving fourth party notices on them . |
| 5 | These are powerful controls , and Hartke recommend using them first in order to set up the initial sound . |
| 6 | In order to set out the Keynesian theory more formally , we must first make a number of assumptions . |
| 7 | Originally a three-year trained teacher , by 1976 he had successfully completed a part time B.Phil degree and subsequently had tried , unsuccessfully , to obtain the pastoral experience which he considered to be necessary in order to move up the comprehensive school hierarchy . |
| 8 | In order to seep up the fetid atmosphere of the New York streets , a hidden camera was used to track Dustin 's peregrinations . |
| 9 | In 1985 there were 791 cataloguers , two administrators and 169 photographers ; in order to carry out the current drive the number of employees has been set at 4,463 . |
| 10 | He told the King that he would prefer MacDonald to remain in office in order to carry out the necessary programme of economies ; but that if he failed to carry enough of his colleagues with him , then the best alternative would be for MacDonald to head a National Government containing members of all three parties . |
| 11 | If the new democracies are denied markets for their goods , then they will be unable to obtain the hard currency they urgently need in order to carry out the far-reaching reforms that will modernise their economies . |
| 12 | It is my contention that ‘ time ’ is now under the control of such an individual , who manipulates it in order to do down the working man . |
| 13 | This can lead to a vicious circle , in which important communication is filtered out by power-seekers so that the structure ( which causes most of the problems ) is reinforced in order to flush out the filtered information , thereby making the filtering worse . |
| 14 | We 're checking on every person who spent the night under this roof , in order to build up the fullest picture of events . |
| 15 | We have assumed that the product market provides very little by way of constraint in this case in order to bring out the important point that comparisons should be like-with-like . |
| 16 | Mankind as a whole , or much more probably a tribe or race more advanced than others , had reached the conclusion that some less harsh substitute for the laws of survival which produced the human body had to be found in order to bring about the necessary control . |
| 17 | Mozart radically altered the structure of the opera while he was writing it : in a letter to his father he explained how he reconstructed the part of Osmin , the Pasha 's Moorish servant ( a negligible role in the original libretto ) in order to show off the magnificent bass voice of the singer , Karl Ludwig Fischer , and how the part of Constanze was developed to accommodate the ‘ flexible throat ’ of the brilliant Italian coloratura soprano Caterina Cavalieri . |
| 18 | The nationalised industries ' borrowing as a whole had , in fact , become part of the public sector borrowing requirement and , in order to tighten up the monetary control , all new capital for the electricity industry ( and other public sector industries ) from 1956 was raised directly by the Treasury , and then lent by them to the industry . |
| 19 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |
| 20 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 21 | The original nationalizing Act ( Transport Act 1947 ) had in fact set up the British Transport Commission , of which BR was only one part . |
| 22 | erm in which you have a core of five permanent members and they are the victors of the second world war erm and then others who sit in in rotation to make up the total assembly but I think it 's about eighteen members altogether ? |