Example sentences of "[pers pn] in [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will remember that on the occasion of the first valleys initiative statement we had to raise many points with you in order to persuade the right Hon. Gentleman to come here 24 hours after he had made a statement in Wales . |
| 2 | Accordingly , recommendations with regard to further investigations , etc. can be forwarded to you in order to enhance the state of preparedness in the event of legal aid being granted . |
| 3 | They need to develop strategies to enable the organisation to make the appropriate policy choices and implement them in order to enable the organisation to meet the needs of the environment . |
| 4 | Most major libraries use them in order to organize the stock on their shelves , and many use these schemes in the catalogues that provide access to that stock . |
| 5 | The conference 's principal outcomes were a declaration , conventions on controlling climate change and preserving biological diversity , and a lengthy agenda outlining the extent of global environmental problems and the measures needed to tackle them in order to achieve the agreed goal of " sustainable development " . |
| 6 | The conference 's principal official outcomes were conventions on controlling climate change and preserving biological diversity , and a lengthy agenda outlining the extent of global environmental problems and the measures needed to tackle them in order to achieve the agreed goal of " sustainable development " . |
| 7 | ‘ Rehearsals ’ : how to plan them in order to get the most out of them . |
| 8 | In 1985 , when Japanese chip makers last started slashing prices , America 's government insisted that they raise them in order to protect the ( virtually non-existent ) American DRAM industry . |
| 9 | However , they confiscated everything they could lay their hands on , even the bed he was lying on , to sell them in order to pay the fine . |
| 10 | I must emphasise , however , that poor welfare and suffering are not exactly synonymous ; it is important , I think , to distinguish them in order to understand the concept . |
| 11 | He accused the US of attempting to destabilise him in order to revoke the Panama Canal treaty — signed by the former US president , Jimmy Carter , and the then strongman of Panama , General Omar Torrijos — under which control of the canal passes to Panama in the year 2000 . |
| 12 | He begins his account at the point where he is considering handing in his resignation and has invited his friends , the generals von Roon and von Moltke , to dine with him in order to discuss the situation . |
| 13 | ‘ Chris must have trusted him in order to hide the Grimoire there . ’ |
| 14 | Scathach pushed her away , turning her in time to deflect the blow from another raider . |
| 15 | Enormous efforts are being made by motor and oil industries around the world to clean up diesel 's act and get it in shape to meet the stringent emission standards coming into force before the start of the 21st century . |
| 16 | Alternatively , the duke might give the post to someone who would take it in order to oblige the town council of Glasgow , perhaps even a member of that council , or one of the town 's lawyers . |
| 17 | If you do this , you must remember to CLOSE the file when you have finished with it in order to update the directory entry . |
| 18 | To ensure that all the pleats lie at one level when the blind is raised , the top pleat section should be slightly deeper than those below it in order to cover the front of the batten and to allow for the depth of lath and rings which accumulate at the top of the blind when it is raised . |
| 19 | Indeed whereas in Morgan v. Palmer the defendant had no statutory authority to demand a fee and the plaintiff had no option but to pay it in order to obtain the licence , in this case the corporation were fully entitled to levy a toll on the landing of limestone which they were not informed was to be burnt . |
| 20 | Indeed it has been almost necessary for the agricultural industry to ignore it in order to develop the modern chemical systems of farming . |
| 21 | It was all quite civilised and there were so many of us girls there that we could take it in turn to do the observations . |
| 22 | In most tutorial groups , in Arts , Social Science and Business students take it in turn to open the discussion . |
| 23 | For , like Attlee before him , Churchill originally had it in mind to curb the Treasury by parcelling out the functions of economic policy-making to a team of ministers , of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be a member , but not an over-mighty one . |
| 24 | The consultation paper itself states ominously , ‘ the Government has it in mind to extend the list of uses by further regulation in due course ’ . |