Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeping in moisture to protect it against all manner of evils . |
| 2 | It later passed to John Peach who in turn sold it in 1786 to the infant Canal Company . |
| 3 | If you feel further clarification is required BEFORE setting investigations in hand obtain it at this stage — otherwise unnecessary investigative duplication may arise . |
| 4 | The most familiar representative of this type of person is the public benefactor , who with the utmost aggressiveness and energy demands money from one set of people in order to give it to another . |
| 5 | These instruments are used to make straight cuts across the embryo in order to subdivide it into particular regions or fragments . |
| 6 | The second kind of implicatures come about by overtly and blatantly not following some maxim , in order to exploit it for communicative purposes . |
| 7 | It , too , must now be separately assessed in order to distinguish it from that part of general damages that bears interest — namely , damages for pain and suffering and loss of amenities ( Pickett v British Rail Engineering Limited [ 1980 ] AC 136 ) . |
| 8 | In fact , the term ‘ interest ’ is applied to a claim in order to distinguish it from other claims , usually with the implication that the claim labelled an interest deserves a remedy . |
| 9 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 10 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |