Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] they [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She therefore engages in a diagnostic experiment of identifying historically distinct meanings of the concept in order to use them as a measure against contemporary political usage . |
| 2 | There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’ |
| 3 | The Spirit of God came upon the Christian community in order to unite them in a fellowship which could not be paralleled in any other group . |
| 4 | Finally , Marx saw that as bourgeois society became more complex and produced more group interests , so the state machinery was bound to expand in order to bring them under a measure of control : |
| 5 | What employers will be interested in is the confidence and faith you have in yourself to revise and update your clinical skills in order to place them in a service context . |
| 6 | In case anyone thinks this was unnecessarily drastic , I did in fact leave them for a couple of hours to see if they would come out of their own accord — but they did n't , and I was concerned that they might starve if left to their own devices . |
| 7 | Here the question is subjective : did the person hearing the words in fact interpret them as a dismissal or a resignation ? |