Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONVICTED Wall Street speculator Ivan Boesky , who once commanded a $1 billion war chest , is suing his wife for $1m a year in alimony to bolster his sagging finances . |
| 2 | The two times world champion , now rated No. 72 , trailed Stevens 5-4 overnight but , without having to produce his best form , he won the next six frames in succession to win their third qualifying round tie . |
| 3 | We now just wish to be left in peace to live our own lives and be afforded the same respect as any other family in Passfield . |
| 4 | The foliage of the pulmonaria should be cut back in winter to allow its new flowers to come through unconcealed in spring . |
| 5 | Under normal circumstances , the time-cues come as a package and is not particularly useful to separate out any one from the group ; all play a role and act in harmony to adjust our daiLy rhythms . |
| 6 | The couple were guests at a showbiz party for movie tough-guy Arnold Schwarzenegger , in town to promote his new London restaurant . |
| 7 | Johnny Winter 's in town to promote his new album ‘ Hey , Where 's Your Brother ? ’ , so called after the eternal question hurled from the audience at gigs . |
| 8 | Still able to see the problem , they no longer knew where to find its solution , and seemed happy in consequence to embrace their own annihilation . |
| 9 | Choose fruits in season to make our mouthwatering sorbet , and make sure your vegetables are really fresh for the tastiest ratatouille |
| 10 | Each of the group members presents one of the units , and takes it in turn to entertain their fellow travellers by talking about their interests in life or about their travels . |
| 11 | Through his determination and vitality Browning led Elizabeth Barrett from the sick-room in which she languished almost as a prisoner and ‘ carried her into the light and sunshine ’ , inspiring her finest poems and being inspired in turn to write his greatest works . |
| 12 | These natural physical advantages were but the basis upon which to build her technique , and on that in turn to develop her exceptional artistry . |
| 13 | Very late though it is , there is a formica-clad coffee or hamburger bar still open less than half a mile away and I have enough cash in hand to buy my first food of the day and my first hot drink . |
| 14 | It is here that each year graduating students resplendent in academic dress gather with their families and colleagues in attendance to receive their hard-won degrees . |
| 15 | Though the generals were brought to some sort of obedience by the Cortes and the Regency , in the provinces they used the ‘ egoism ’ of the Juntas and their endless disputes with the relics of the old administration in order to extend their own power . |
| 16 | He finds no real evidence of any government attempting to hold down the rate of inflation in the short run in order to promote its own popularity at election time . |
| 17 | The Webbs , who had little sympathy with Liberal cosmopolitanism , were happy to come to terms with the imperialist agenda in order to promote their own brand of statist socialism . |
| 18 | They concern data which were not published in the original paper , but which Dr Imanishi-Kari gave to an NIH panel in order to support her published claims against Dr O'Toole 's criticisms . |
| 19 | In order to resolve our underlying conflicts and problems , we find partners who enable us to replay old scenes . |
| 20 | He was inclined to feel giddy , too , and was obliged to support himself against the parapet in order to steady his troubled vision . |
| 21 | A dominant characteristic of the location-factor school is its focus on the particular features of areas in order to explain their relative fortunes . |
| 22 | No doubt many in the EC have long wished to see a Delors Report version of monetary union imposed in order to further their federalist aims . |
| 23 | Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education . |
| 24 | Many Solidarity leaders , including Adam Michnik , the editor of the Solidarity newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza , accused Walesa of exploiting the dispute with the government in order to further his presidential ambitions . |
| 25 | ‘ British Gas asked for a wide-ranging review in order to clarify our regulatory environment and develop a clear way ahead for the future . |
| 26 | In order to ease it many diversions are tried . |
| 27 | Strange , then , that Spielberg 's grown-up Peter must recover his original , youthful Hook ( U , Barbican , MGMs Baker Street , Chelsea , Odeons Kensington , Leicester Square , Marble Arch , UCI Whiteleys , 141 mins ) self in order to reclaim his estranged family . |
| 28 | The process of signification is what accomplishes the task of the myth ; it subverts simple denotation through its wider connotation , it naturalizes culture as the given order of the day , and it utilizes the ambiguities and tendencies of the process of signification itself in order to effect its apparent closures . |
| 29 | However , it is thought unlikely that Jaguar would ask the Government for the limit to be raised early in order to allow its preferred partner to build a stake of more than 15 per cent before January , 1991 . |
| 30 | Sometimes this may feel like a military strategy and it is quite in order to treat it this way : to plot and plan to take the fortress which is your imaginary castle , your silent , fertile abode , despite the background of your everyday tasks and obligations . |