Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With major investments , a study of the corporate-strategy literature suggests that a company will indulge in investment in order either to maintain or to improve its competitive position . |
| 2 | The court will take into account the fact that the landlord must prove a statutory ground of opposition in order effectively to operate the break-clause ( Adams v Green ) and accordingly will not attach much weight to objections which could be raised by the tenant when the landlord seeks to operate the break-clause ( Amika Motors Ltd v Colebrook Holdings Ltd ) . |
| 3 | But you do not call an ecumenical Council and keep it going for four years at vast expense in order principally to repeat what is already well known to be the teaching of the Church . |
| 4 | If a member of staff can do a better job , give better results , and improve the quality of their work in another function within the office it is common practice in business everywhere to let that person move and develop their skills . |
| 5 | A highly controversial New Brazil ( Brasil Nuevo ) austerity plan , announced by Collor on March 15 , combined free-market reforms with strong government intervention in order drastically to reduce inflation ( running at an estimated monthly rate of 85 per cent ) and to eliminate a US$31,000 million federal budget deficit . |
| 6 | Sometimes the rug is simply washed in water and then left out in the sun to dry , but many weaving groups now add chemicals to the water in order both to alter the tonal intensity of the colours and to give the pile a gloss or matt sheen . |
| 7 | On hearing this , the brothers ran the two thousand meters back to the start of their rows and began visiting each tree in turn again to empty the cups into their carrying cans . |
| 8 | Both favoured the raising of the school leaving age in order both to reduce the size and improve the quality of the labour market . |
| 9 | Hence the need to develop this centralised co-ordination and control in order best to utilise these valuable and potentially life saving resources of ours . ’ |
| 10 | They had to achieve a total military victory in order also to impose the total political victory which would at once provide ex post legitimation for the rising and enable them to ensure that there would be no return to pre-July 1936 conditions . |
| 11 | Mr Collin said some people have threatened to withhold the £20 surcharge in protest only to find themselves facing the threat of court action . |
| 12 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 13 | Individuals should follow an indirect strategy , guiding their action by one standard in order better to conform to another . |
| 14 | In response to the challenge of YTS , the National Farmers ' Union has proposed a one-year Youth Training Scheme in Agriculture both to help reduce the effects of job shortages for young people and also to provide suitable first-year training for committed new entrants to the industry . |
| 15 | The possibility of allowing students to produce near-typeset quality material at relatively little cost in order both to experiment in graphic design and presentation and to expand the number of publications as practical work . |
| 16 | more per head from United Kingdom taxation than the rest of the United Kingdom , so unless England , of its benevolence , gave more tax revenues to Scotland there would have to be a 5p increase in tax just to stand still . |
| 17 | The company claims to have reached an agreement in principle either to lengthen the terms of its loans , or swap for debt for equity , and until detailed plans are presented on April 6 , the firm announced that it will suspend capital repayments on its loans . |