Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The values recorded for 1990 indicate that manufactured exports rose in value to £8.574 billion , continuing the steady rise in the value of exports since 1987 . |
| 2 | Overwhelmingly , improvements in roads and waterways happened in response to existing economic pressures and prospects . |
| 3 | Alyssia 's pulses raced in response to his words and their seductive intimacy . |
| 4 | Mellanby arrived in time to be heard , and succeeded in changing the decision so that Florey was appointed . |
| 5 | The scenes were acted swiftly in her mind : when Frere turned in bewilderment to Emilia the woman would deny that any such confidence had been exchanged ; accused of mischief , Louisa would be forgiven by neither ; the ‘ intolerable slander ’ ( for such it would be called ) would furnish a pretext for Emilia 's immediate departure from Munding ; and Frere , if he remained , would be friendless . |
| 6 | A further , if slightly different , anomaly existed in relation to judicial review . |
| 7 | Cadfael returned in haste to the gatehouse . |
| 8 | The derailment at Dovey Junction on the August Bank Holiday Saturday resulted in diversion to Aberystwyth and a change in the services operated by locos . |
| 9 | However in the last decade , the industry has experienced considerable change and uncertainty related in part to the UK 's accession to the EEC and uncertainty continues , hampering forward planning and investment . |
| 10 | Elsewhere there was no need to set up special bodies , but it is clear that much local administration had in practice to be devolved into the hands of local men . |
| 11 | The decision came in response to an acute fuel shortage which worsened during December . |
| 12 | The decision came in response to an acute fuel shortage which worsened during December . |
| 13 | Early in 1953 Britain and Egypt were still deadlocked over the future of the Suez base , while no settlement seemed in prospect to the dispute with Iran over the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company . |
| 14 | In the case the issue arose in relation to an order made against a firm of solicitors under section 27 of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 , which incorporates section 10 of the 1984 Act . |
| 15 | However the requirement for confidentiality in an exercise oriented in part to accountability , mitigated against the possibility of a whole-school evaluation which could involve all staff . |
| 16 | Even the glasses on top of the cigarette vending machine quivered in time to the music . |
| 17 | The campaign came in response to a spate of fatal stabbings and involved extra police officers being drafted in to patrol late-night trouble spots . |
| 18 | The young man behind the desk smiled in response to Roman 's query , uttered in too low a tone for Claudia to hear . |
| 19 | The South Ronaldsay Parents Action Committee wrote in protest to the Secretary of State , Ian Lang . |
| 20 | The Institution of Civil Engineers said in evidence to the Lords : ‘ The fact that there has been no major disaster in the United Kingdom for more than 50 years should not be allowed to obscure the ever-increasing danger in the future . |
| 21 | After the last captive had been secured , the cordon remained in place to bag any stragglers , waiting until their colleagues who had been doing the sweep through the woods arrived to join up with them again . |
| 22 | Canada 's 12-month trade surplus rose in March to $9.9 billion , three times its size a year ago . |
| 23 | The amendment came in response to criticisms by six of the seven recently created opposition parties that the first version was weighted in favour of the Social Democratic Republican Party ( PRDS ) , formed under the sponsorship of President Moaouia Ould Sidi Taya ) . |
| 24 | Menem 's announcement came in response to a request by the World Jewish Congress , some of whose members he had invited to Buenos Aires to witness the signature of the decree . |
| 25 | The Welsh Secretary 's announcement came in response to a question from Clwyd North West MP Rod Richards . |
| 26 | Yards and yards of fine cream chantilly lace draped over ivory silk cascaded in layers to her feet , sprinkled with dozens of tiny white pearls . |
| 27 | Vanessa and Hazel turned in agitation to the Doctor . |
| 28 | Variation was entirely random , and each population evolved in response to purely local environmental pressures , which could be altered in an unpredictable way by migration or geological changes . |
| 29 | However , at the same time the wages of clerical workers fell in relation to other occupational groups . |
| 30 | For apart from the unique case of the Stroganov family , who built an immense entrepreneurial empire , the only way to replenish the family fortunes lay in service to the State . |