Example sentences of "in [noun] [to-vb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A curator bonis , an administrator appointed by a court in Scotland to act for an incapacitated person , may open a Tessa on behalf of an incapacitated person provided that person is aged 18 or over . |
| 2 | The first aim of the ESRC funded project is to complete the Gloucester database , to revise it as necessary in order to arrive at an optimum design for future use , and to publish the final version in the form of a book of statistical tables . |
| 3 | I have destroyed many pages and crossed out hundreds , no thousands , of words in order to arrive at an imaginative sympathy ( though not , of course , an explicit approval ) with Miller as he walks down this long , gently curving terrace of dilapidated Edwardian houses . |
| 4 | Thus up to the end of World War II ( when the public sector marriage bar was abolished and young women retained paid jobs on marriage ) , in order to qualify for an occupational pension in old age derived from her own earnings a woman usually had to remain unmarried . |
| 5 | In 1991 he had resigned as a member of the FLN 's central committee in order to stand as an independent candidate in the abortive general election of December 1991 . |