Example sentences of "[conj] in [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Babies are conceived for a variety of reasons apart from basic urges — some over a wayward partner who shows signs of straying from the fold ; in competition with a sister who has recently conceived or in determination to produce the first grandchild . |
| 2 | ‘ Less-favoured areas within the meaning of this Article may include : small areas affected by specific handicaps and in which farming must be continued in order to conserve the countryside and to preserve the tourist potential of the area or in order to protect the coastline . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Less favoured areas … may include small areas affected by specific handicaps and in which farming must be continued , if necessary subject to certain conditions , in order to ensure the conservation of the environment , to maintain the countryside and to preserve the tourist potential of the area or in order to protect the coastline . |
| 4 | Such searches may be undertaken as part of a comprehensive strategic review or in order to assist a client in implementing an agreed acquisition strategy . |
| 5 | Small powers seek also to come to terms with a particular great power either to guarantee themselves against the overwhelming strength of another great power or in order to prevent the great power in question from asserting its strength more directly and imperiously over them … |
| 6 | And all of that makes it easier for those who are leading or in control to change the policies and get acceptance . |
| 7 | I had to conform ; I do not think I ever used the term in my reports , except in parenthesis to denote a sort of dirty word . |
| 8 | It was Michel Bonfils , the general secretary of the French Students Union who realised that in order to arrest the declining fortunes of the student game , it needed an inspiring international competition . |
| 9 | Study of the examples will show that in order to simulate the behaviour of a system one must in the first instance understand it . |
| 10 | The question must arise again now , if only because people have suggested that in order to improve the education of our children we need to move back to some system of selection ( see for example Whose Schools ? |
| 11 | He has clearly lost the battle with the Treasury , he makes the argument , as we expected him to make , that in order to improve the environment , you , you best choose market levers , market mechanisms . |
| 12 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 13 | It follows that in order to clarify the background to meaningful identifying references to ontological existents , it is necessary to investigate the manner and conditions in which such existents are constituted as target-topics in relevant experiences . |
| 14 | The objection in another part is that in order to confirm an hypothesis that an effect was in fact the effect of a causal circumstance of a certain type , we do need an enumeration of elements , and often we do not have an enumeration . |
| 15 | This means that in order to slay the Grand Theogonist the enemy must inflict the full 3 wounds on him before the end of the next shooting or hand-to-hand combat phase . |
| 16 | But this result becomes understandable once it is appreciated that in order to predict the outcome of a change of context it is necessary to know what associations have been formed , how each affects behaviour , and how susceptible each is to the contextual change . |
| 17 | What made it worse was that in order to explain the frustrations that I had experienced I found myself making stereotyping judgments about Africans as lazy — not even caring to look after themselves — and as unreliable . |
| 18 | He suggested that in order to take the decision , organizations could most usefully be categorized in one of three different ways : |
| 19 | If , therefore , we were to equate the public interest , so far as relevant to the operation of business , with the maximisation of the wealth of society as a whole , it would follow that in order to serve the public interest companies should be required to pursue the goal of profit maximisation : maximum profitability should be the sole criterion that guides management discretion and the exercise by companies of social decision-making power . |
| 20 | The problem is that in order to invest the trust assets in gilts it may be necessary to dispose of these and pay capital gains tax . |
| 21 | Lovins dismissed the development of nuclear power as the primary source of energy for industrial growth in the developing world , by estimating that in order to generate the level of energy pro-nuclear scientists were calling for , a new plant would have to come on stream every eleven hours throughout 54 years of actual construction , a financial impossibility . |
| 22 | ‘ But it is quite clear that in order to generate the development side of the research , new funds would need to be made available , ’ he says . |
| 23 | She agrees that in order to give a political or ideological message in music , it has to be almost abstract . |
| 24 | I was at length summoned for interview , during which I was told that the War Office wished to fill a post of Instructor-cum-British Adviser at the Staff College and Royal Military College , Baghdad , Iraq , and that in order to reassure the Iraqi High Command that they were not sending a British ‘ plant ’ ( for relations between the two countries were strained ) , they asked the British Council to fill it . |
| 25 | Erm but without that as long as it 's the masses who are committing this it 's , it 's okay because you , you need that in order to create the When it 's gone too far , when it 's counter-productive in a , not for the individual middl poor peasant because he 's doing very well out of it , but in terms of the movement as a whole , you begin to stop it . |
| 26 | It may be that in order to combat a particular problem , a different bit might help . |
| 27 | There were already signs of the difficulties ahead in May 1990 when it was reported that in order to avert a row with judges and magistrates the Home Secretary was contemplating watering down the principle that punishment should fit the crime not the criminal . |
| 28 | It goes without saying that in order to use a device for improvising ( such as scales , arpeggios , licks etc. ) one has to develop the particular device to such a level of fluency that physically playing it in any key or position has become almost instinctive , or second nature . |
| 29 | A correspondent for Cornhill Magazine , who claimed that in order to gain an inside understanding of ‘ The Science of Garotting ’ he had visited an experienced convict in his cell and offered himself up as a guinea-pig victim , described the main elements of this ‘ most inclement ruffianism that ever disgraced a nineteenth century ’ . |
| 30 | There are two different problems , and we all know that in order to gain the confidence of patients , every doctor has to be seen to behave in an impeccable manner . |