Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 The French king Robert the Pious ( 996 – 1031 ) allegedly delighted in generosity to the poor , in acts of humility , such as when he washed the feet of 160 clerics with his own hair , and in making gifts to churches .
2 The information had also been disclosed in confidence to another shareholder who was using if for the purpose of making a bid for the plaintiff company .
3 Formal structures are designed in order to :
4 There 's also a list of new custom macros designed in response to user-requests .
5 Clusters have been designed in response to requests from secondary schools , which felt they needed help in guiding students to make coherent choices from the National Certificate catalogue .
6 The tasks are designed in relation to a variety of writing purposes and a range of text types for general-purpose language learners .
7 Unlike most forms of home territory , however , Ends are not colonized in opposition to authority .
8 Even the deeds of valour , so proudly recorded , only added to her depression as she reminded herself that each was committed in response to yet one more example of man 's inhumanity to man .
9 ( vi ) In conditions of rapid social change , the role of adventurers , guided by the search for power without being committed in loyalty to any interest or class , is important in the creation of a national liberation movement .
10 Other international companies are moving in the same direction and many , like ICI and BP , are firmly committed in principle to community regeneration .
11 The main charges being investigated were acts committed in relation to the 1968 invasion by Warsaw Pact troops and to the November 1989 demonstrations as well as more general charges involving abuse of official authority , political interference in legal proceedings , illegal property and currency transactions , and embezzlement .
12 Assistance may only be granted , however , where the Commissioner believes that the breach of rule about which the member is complaining is one which affects or may affect other members of the union or that similar breaches of the rules have been or may be committed in relation to other members of the union .
13 Some of the project manager 's time will be committed in advance to systematic management of the project .
14 They study social justice from the point of view of people committed in advance to no government or constitution , who are free to create the ideal state from first principles .
15 The assisted area map may well change after the general election , but I can assure my hon. Friend that we ensure absolute fairness between assisted areas and that no one area is disadvantaged or advantaged in relation to the others .
16 It seems that male spatial arrangements are contingent upon those of females , who are themselves dispersed in relation to dietary ecology , and yet in this species it is females rather than males that move between social units .
17 A subject who not only finds science exciting but also believes it can be applied to help people and produce wealth and employment could hardly be bettered in answer to the white coated caricature with which Ian Fells began .
18 Large firms are able to provide lifetime employment for their employees who are expected in return to be dedicated ‘ company men ’ .
19 Others may surprise you by being woefully unprepared and you may find yourself taking the initiative more often than you might have expected in order to be able to put across as many of your good points as possible .
20 Applying purely literary , cinematic , aesthetic or philosophical criteria to such work does not mean that it can not be located in terms to which value judgements may be attached .
21 The map below shows where most of the hotels used by Cosmos are located in relation to ‘ greater Paris ’ and the EURO DISNEY RESORT .
22 Accessibility is difficult to define , but a place is clearly located in relation to systems of land usage , relationship to other places and methods of transport .
23 Hughes and Wilkin ( 1985 ) point out that the move towards integration in the community of mentally handicapped and mentally ill people has not been paralleled in relation to dementia .
24 In addition , the temporal basis of North American forest use has varied in relation to the extension of early colonial settlers across the continent , but as Table 8.1 illustrates , the turning-point in US forest history came in 1891 with the General Revision Act .
25 ( 13 ) With the consent in writing of all Members for the time being the restrictions imposed by this Article may be waived or varied in relation to any proposed transfer of Shares .
26 ( 13 ) With the consent in writing of all Members for the time being the restrictions imposed by this Article may be waived or varied in relation to any proposed transfer of Shares .
27 Soon they become obsessed with Thursday night reserve games featuring their fave crap defender who was tragically dropped in preference to some bought-in journeyman , etc .
28 However , as the week long conference progressed , all opposition was dropped in preference to being outvoted .
29 In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand .
30 But by January the pound had dropped in value to 1.05 .
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