Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is both in respect of the run up to the seventy fifth birthday and also with the increase in responsibility to take on the remit for the development of our work in relation to the European Community , central and Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | In Western Europe legislators have ceded sweeping powers to make detailed regulations to central government executives , allowing them in effect to write up the law ‘ as they go along ’ in a discretionary way . |
| 3 | She twirled and turned in delight to show off the uniform to her mother Fran , adding : ‘ I 've already got two school bags one for my front and one for my back . ’ |
| 4 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 5 | In addition Housing Action Trusts were proposed in order to take over the operation of specific run-down council estates , with the intention of changing their tenure to the private sector or housing associations . |
| 6 | He succeeds Seru Verebalavu who resigned in order to take up the position of the region 's Coordinator as part of WACC 's Animation Programme ( see Action number 160 ) . |
| 7 | He became a Swedish citizen in 1937 in order to take up the offer of teaching posts in the Royal Opera School and the Music High School ( later renamed the Royal Academy of Music ) , Stockholm , where he had great influence on a generation of singers , including Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling , whom he taught privately . |
| 8 | Mr Major resisted the temptation to leave some excise duties unchanged in order to hold down the inflation rate . |
| 9 | Thus the descriptions of a language which are the output of a first-order application of linguistic theory represent only an inventory from which a selection must be made in order to draw up the syllabus for any particular teaching operation . |
| 10 | MacMillan created a strange gesture for Rudolf in Mayerling ; he frequently clasps his hand against the side of his head and ear as if to ease the pain of his deteriorating brain in order to shut out the rumours surrounding his every activity . |
| 11 | Michael Jones , the Trust 's chief executive , said : ‘ Staff are gasping for a decision on this and we need to do it urgently in order to drive up the hospital 's performance and get costs down . ’ |
| 12 | This consists in part of literally ‘ moving mountains ’ in order to fill up the water meadow . |
| 13 | In order to test out the connections between the two , try transcribing a conversation you 've overheard on a bus , in a dentist 's waiting-room or round a meal table . |
| 14 | An alternative morphological system had to be devised in order to test out the system ( see below ) . |
| 15 | The EC also agreed to phase out limitations on their steel imports by March 31 , 1992 , in order to open up the EC to Third-World steel imports which flooded the US market . |
| 16 | It always says , or equivalent , that 's just in order to open up the possibilities like this , so that we 're not caught by some legalistic oath . |
| 17 | For the same reason many other factors have to be controlled in order to rule out the possibility that the observed correlations might not be due to these other causes . |
| 18 | We think , therefore , that it is absolutely necessary in order to carry on the Business of this Establishment , as perfectly as possible , that two such Characters should be appointed — and we , in consequence suggest , that altho ’ each be as much as possible qualified in both Departments , yet if one were to devote himself to one Branch and the other to the other branch — the College would be much more usefully directed — for , if one Professor were fully qualified for both — yet so arduous a task could not possibly be executed by one Man only . |
| 19 | Many were surprised when he and Sir Thomas Lee ( who later admitted to receiving money from the lord treasurer , Thomas , first Baron Clifford of Chudleigh , q.v. ) supported the government in February 1673 in its request for £1.2 million in order to carry on the war with the Dutch . |
| 20 | In order to carry out the exercise required by section 2(1) it would be essential , in my judgment , to evaluate the relative responsibilities of the third defendant and the third party . |
| 21 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
| 22 | I assume that every effort will be made to ease the task by mutual cooperation of the solicitors and accountants concerned in order to carry out the court 's order . |
| 23 | At first glance , it would seem logical to add as much salt and glucose to the solution as possible in order to speed up the rehydration process . |
| 24 | About 1881 he tried a change of policy by having some mapping done on the one-inch scale in order to speed up the surveying . |
| 25 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 26 | In order to break down the straw , a greater use of chemicals will be required to encourage bacterial growth in time to assimilate the product , before the new crop emerges . |
| 27 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 28 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |
| 29 | While she , Paige , had to duck and dive , in fruitless attempts to shake a limpet-like pursuit in order to keep up the chase . |
| 30 | Rediagramming of units , and the retention of old DMUs for many years longer than originally planned in order to keep up the fleet size to meet this new demand , have enabled the worst of the overcrowding to be contained , though there are at the time of writing ( 1989 ) stili several tight spots to be dealt with in certain areas at peak times . |