Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be , indeed , that their solicitude for the boy was slightly harmful , for the Prince was easily distracted from his studies to the extent that his tutor , Augustin Filon , later remarked : ‘ It needed the effects of the revolution and exile in order to harden the Prince 's will to work . ’ |
| 2 | Observation and experiment in order to discover the properties of things in the material world is a worthwhile activity ; so much so that Locke sometimes honours its results with the more dignified term ‘ experimental knowledge ’ . |
| 3 | The information required is proprioceptive : it has to provide a kind of internal sensation or perception in order to activate the correct response . |
| 4 | Almost before the mooring was completed the beaching party were towing out the beaching legs in order to get the aircraft into the hangar as soon as possible . |
| 5 | The memorandum committed the Japanese government to revise the application of the alien registration law to Koreans in order to replace the fingerprinting requirement with a record of family registration . |
| 6 | Secondly , the research will assess the school-based experience and training that the students receive in teaching methods in order to determine the extent to which students have mastered an understanding of the nature and development of pupils ' historical thinking and are able to exemplify such understanding in their teaching styles . |
| 7 | Thus , the change masters I studied had to build a coalition in order to find the backers or ‘ power sources ’ to provide information , support , and resources for their projects . |
| 8 | Voting was freely and fairly conducted , with more than 81 per cent of the country 's 29,000,000 registered voters participating in the poll and votes being tallied with abacuses in order to avoid the allegations of computer fraud which had marred the 1987 presidential elections . |
| 9 | This , combined with a freeze in business rates and new investment in education to increase the nation 's skills , will kick-start recovery and create jobs . |
| 10 | As the Financial Times pointed out , there are rational arguments for the government to borrow the money , instead of trying to hold down investment in order to raise the funds from private investors and short term price rises for consumers of 7 per cent above inflation or more . |
| 11 | Article 11 , however , states that suitable proposals should be brought forward by 1997 for appropriate training for every general medical practitioner in order to satisfy the specific requirements of general medical practice . |
| 12 | If the government wishes to raise tax revenue in order to subsidize the poor , it should levy a tax on films . |
| 13 | For this reason they are often seen to be weak ; yet it is this very willingness of the subordinates to shift their own goals in order to preserve the harmony of the team that makes it possible for the group at the top of the hierarchy to perform at all . |
| 14 | Similarly , on June 29th 1970 , the same newspaper reported Portuguese troops as having crossed the border from Angola in order to kidnap the inhabitants of a remote Zambian village . |
| 15 | She tried to persuade me someone stole one of her golf-clubs in order to attack the unfortunate Monsieur Gebrec . ’ |
| 16 | Personally , I tend to see Malcolm 's marriage to Margaret as part of a process by which our king invited in a team of management consultants from the Continent in order to alienate the land even further from the people . |
| 17 | I will examine the strategies used in HARPY , HWIM and two more recent systems , SPHINX and RM1 , and discuss how each system has adapted one or the other of the basic admissible algorithms in order to reduce the potential combinatorial explosion of word string hypotheses . |
| 18 | Marlowe refuses to recognise the fact making a living for oneself in the countryside involves strenuous work and long hours of toil in order to reap the rewards afterwards . |
| 19 | This is followed by a summary of the criticisms that have been made of the model and its policy prescriptions in order to assess the utility of such an approach to an understanding of bureaucracy . |
| 20 | Add to that all manner of other goodies — like fitting your spreadsheet to the printed page , automatic formatting ( in other words choosing colour schemes and text styles in order to make the sheet look better ) and so on , and you have an application that sets the standard for others to follow . |
| 21 | Work steadily , cutting small amounts off each side in turn to keep the symmetry . |
| 22 | It was venerated by succeeding Popes but had unfortunately been despoiled , first by the Byzantine Emperor Constans II who , in 655 removed the gilded bronze plates which covered the dome and replaced them with lead and later , in 1625 , by the Barberini Pope Urban VIII who destroyed the portico roof in order to use the bronze beams supporting it for his own building schemes . |
| 23 | The court may take account of the circumstances surrounding the making of the contract , in order to understand its purpose , but will not take account of the subsequent conduct of the parties in order to interpret the wording of the contract itself . |
| 24 | The tactic worked for a while but it was madness to remain obstinately wedded to it while his son 's frustration increased and while men pressed for an end to political uncertainty in order to permit the launching of the crusade . |
| 25 | ‘ It would be inappropriate to divert scarce funds in order to support the kind of specialised provision which the college would offer , ’ he wrote . |
| 26 | Several teachers have arranged for their recreational classes to sponsor a specialised group , and the Membership Secretary has funds in hand to finance the membership of other specialised groups — please send in the names of all participants and the venue of the class . |
| 27 | Gohlke has written thoughtfully about the way in which photographs can appear to embrace features of the past , the present and the future : " Projecting oneself into the future so that one can view the present with more apparent dispassion , and projecting an image of the past onto the future in order to take the measure of the present are different strategies . |
| 28 | He stated that he intended to visit the island in the near future in order to supervise the restoration of services and to ask remaining rebel units to surrender . |
| 29 | It promised to consult with Israel during Middle Eastern emergencies in order to determine the degree of assistance that could be offered : ‘ the U.S. government will make every effort to be fully responsive … on an ongoing and long term basis to Israel 's military equipment and other defense requirements , to its energy requirements and other economic needs . ’ |
| 30 | A Mob must have at least one Hunter team for every three Cave Squigs in order to control the Squigs properly . |