Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She met no one large enough in spirit to receive a confidence . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Yon reiterated his government 's oft-stated demand for negotiations with the USA alone in order to replace the current armistice agreement , in force since the ending of hostilities in 1953 , with a full peace treaty to end the Korean war . |
| 3 | For example , when the musical phrases get complicated because of the use of many notes , the dancers find themselves using their hands feverishly in order to give every note its value . |
| 4 | The companies involved are obviously in business to make a profit . |
| 5 | Your Lord if one turns to the issues of reference , er the commercial quarters as we discussed yesterday should only make a reference if it 's necessary to do so in order to resolve the case and has the discretion whether to make a reference under article one seven , seven |
| 6 | Bernard was at the least reckoning an ambitious yeoman , the kind we expect to find purchasing land , like the Chibnalls of Sherington , not selling — unless , of course , he had done so in order to finance the purchase of his lease , or to stock the new and very much bigger farm ; but this is pure speculation . |
| 7 | He maintains that he did so in order to promote a public debate on Israel 's nuclear programme . |
| 8 | LORD WRIGHT : I think the jury should be directed by the judge that the respondent Association had a legal right to put the person 's name on the stop list , so long as they did so in order to promote the trade interests of the Association and its members and not with intent to injure , and so long as the money , fine or penalty demanded was reasonable and not extortionate . |
| 9 | In order to win an election , a party would make extravagant promises , doing so in order to outbid the other party . |
| 10 | Under that section , the constable would be empowered to seize only if it is ‘ necessary ’ to do so in order to prevent the evidence being concealed , altered , lost or destroyed . |
| 11 | So in order to have a reasonable chance of seeing an explosion before your research grant ran out , you would have to find a way to detect any explosions within a distance of about one light-year . |
| 12 | That a person has done so in order to extract the monnaie . |
| 13 | Well because the labour in say this country is over productive , this has an awful lot of categories attached to each unit of labour , that 's why labour is very productive , is that you for each unit of labour employed there might be ten units of capital , I E there are chemicals etcetera , the reason why erm this this pressure on the land in say Africa , Africa , even though the density of population was much less and that there 's virtually no capital there , right , so in order to produce the food , you know the labour has to till the soil by hand and spread the seed by hand |
| 14 | Traditionally they had looked to the Reich to trade their lumber , wheat , furs and amber , and they had every intention of continuing to do so in order to spite the Polish state . |
| 15 | You can slip two or more needles side by side and most of the time it is preferable to do so in order to get a more definite design effect . |
| 16 | They had travelled to Berlin merely in order to join the queue of refugees trying to get home . |
| 17 | Most reluctantly , for he had no wish to offend Andrew Gardner , a good friend , whose wife was William Weir 's aunt , the Duke of Montrose agreed to James Graham 's proposal for Weir 's removal , but this was done only in order to retain the services of a good man in the office of bailie-substitute , for whom no alternative was in sight . |
| 18 | They had accepted their invitations only in order to disrupt the proceedings , as they had done on a previous occasion in 1953 . |
| 19 | This last prisoner had been allowed to keep his sight only in order to lead the others home as a terrible example . |
| 20 | The essence of Buchanan 's position was the belief that US conservatism was isolationist by nature , and that this stance had been abandoned after 1945 only in order to combat the menace of international communism . |
| 21 | It is only in order to quote a Minister . |
| 22 | Lip tricks were less intricate then of late and were really only in order to achieve the main goals of big airs and hands plants . |
| 23 | These unused terms will normally be present in an index only in order to direct the user to the used or preferred terms . |
| 24 | It limits people 's ability to pursue some conceptions of the good , but only in order to equalize the opportunity to do so overall . |
| 25 | My friends from Project 81 , the head of home and the head of care at Le Court worked together in order to present a convincing case . |
| 26 | The fact is that fascist support was limited to the extent that all the fascist groups in a particular region were forced to work together in order to ensure a good attendance at meetings . |
| 27 | To be able to join these co-ordinates together in order to recreate the shape there must be some form of movement and so the pen is fixed to a travelling gantry that can move in the × axis ( left and right ) while the pen moves along the gantry in the y axis ( up and down ) . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's really just a bunch of guys that I work with on the session scene who all write a bit , and we 've come together in order to find an outlet for our writing . |
| 29 | Determined that such a calamity never be repeated , several of the survivors had banded together in order to cleanse the Fifth of all magical knowledge . |
| 30 | The rule laid down in article 6(1) therefore applies where the actions brought against the various defendants are related when the proceedings are instituted , that is to say where it is expedient to hear and determine them together in order to avoid the risk of irreconcilable judgments resulting from separate proceedings . |