Example sentences of "in [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is why my family sacrificed a nice life in Tenerife to come back to the cold of Britain four years ago . |
| 2 | I am well aware of the anxiety of people in Plymouth to get on with the whole business of the release and development of Ministry of Defence land . |
| 3 | In France the government had been forced in July to back off from a declaration that deportation measures would be stepped up [ see p. 38354 ] . |
| 4 | Formalized procedures for monitoring publications are in place to keep up with the information explosion … . |
| 5 | Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock by Jack Butler will come out as a paperback original from Abacus in November to tie in with the anniversary of the US election — Bill Clinton has ‘ an offstage part ’ . |
| 6 | Hawke , whose visit was scheduled to take place in October to link in with the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Harare , expressed concern over the slow pace of reform . |
| 7 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 8 | Of course , we do n't fall in love to help out with the world 's ego problem ; yet this is one of love 's surer effects . |
| 9 | R. Louis Stevenson remarked ‘ it is worth a climb even in Summer to look down upon the lock from Arthur 's Seat , but it is tenfold more so on a day of Skating ’ . |
| 10 | There was also , I am told , an explosive ‘ dead dog ’ which floated in canals to fetch up against a lock gate . |
| 11 | A large force , which landed there in July 1346 , proceeded eastwards in order to join up with the Flemings , routed the French at Crécy in August 1346 and captured Calais a year later . |
| 12 | Each user has a unique username and a password which must be used in order to log on to the network . |
| 13 | This is done first by examining the analytics of the cost and demand sides , the subject of this chapter , and then concentrating more on the internal structure of the firm ( in chapter 3 ) , in order to move on to the question of efficiency . |
| 14 | They must be able to spot strengths and weaknesses and gaps in knowledge , not so as to compare pupils with each other , but in order to move on to the next stage , in the most effective way . |
| 15 | In order to move on to the second phase , further satisfactory and lasting progress towards real and monetary convergence will have to be achieved , especially as regards price stability and the restoration of sound public finances . |
| 16 | Despite one outburst from John Heard , there 's no attempt to explore another sinister possibility , that all men conceal their true identity in order to live up to the modern woman 's expectation of her ‘ dream man ’ . |
| 17 | This can be one time when a young writer has to compromise on some immediate ambitions in order to progress on to the next stage of securing a record deal or having artists cover his or her songs . |
| 18 | In order to win through to a match-racing play-off , he needed to finish among the top six nations at this regatta . |
| 19 | The idea of inputting a guitar in order to play along with the sample is quite in order , too . |
| 20 | Some students were reduced to learning their work parrot-fashion in order to keep up to the standard , while at the same time lacking any real understanding of what they were taught . |
| 21 | The common thread running among many of the announcements was that companies were sprucing up their bus architectures in order to keep up with the faster processor and memory : Advanced Logic 's server features a new ‘ Quadflex ’ architecture using a 128-bit ASIC chip set and dual 64-bit buses . |
| 22 | In order to build up for the trip to Orrell , Cusworth is omitted from the Leicester side to face Coventry at home this weekend . |
| 23 | Our bodies already use the muscles required to walk , so it is simply a question of increasing the duration and then the intensity of our walking in order to build up to the fitness level that we require . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the ‘ Lady Mayoress ’ kept gathering up her skirts and hitching up her bosom as ‘ she ’ jumped from the trap in order to dash up to the houses and implant a big kiss on the cheeks of the inhabitants . |
| 25 | Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 26 | A two week tour of Europe was organised for late-June/July in order to make up for the shows cancelled at the end of last year . |
| 27 | Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman . |
| 28 | This forced him to increase his step length , to raise his leading leg in order to get out of the hole he had created . |
| 29 | And how far would you have to walk , in order to get back to the start of evolution on Earth ? |
| 30 | So in order to get back to the medieval level , we took it back down to there and we caused the to slope . |