Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The statement , issued by Downing Street , stated : ‘ The president of the commission has said that commission negotiators should re-engage , without delay , in negotiations with the United States in order to resolve the oil seeds dispute and the Gatt Uruguay round in a balanced way . ’ |
| 3 | The statement said : ‘ The president of the commission has said that commission negotiators should re-engage , without delay , in negotiations with the United States in order to resolve the oil seeds dispute and the Gatt Uruguay round in a balanced way . ’ |
| 4 | A report in the Israeli media on Nov. 8 said that following these elections a communiqué issued by the Hamas leadership in the diaspora referred to the importance of a " quiet dialogue " between Hamas and the PLO in order to avoid the violent public clashes between their members . |
| 5 | I make it down to Þingeyri in time to hear the good news that the plane has gone . |
| 6 | The intent is rather merely to summarize the account of his life as given by Taskopruzade and Mecdi in order to convey the general course of his career . |
| 7 | Mexico was also the object of early Comintern interest : Moscow was keen to promote Communist activity in Mexico in order to distract the United States from intervening against the Soviet Union , and dispatched Mikhail Borodin in 1919 partly to achieve this end . |
| 8 | He flew to Hamburg at the beginning of May in order to attend the postponed ceremony for the Hanseatic-Goethe prize and to give an address on " Goethe the Sage " . |
| 9 | He left Hobart on 11 May , and was in Launceston by 18 May in time to board the Black Woke , together with 820 sheep , five horses and four other passengers , all bound for Adelaide . |
| 10 | For many years my husband Brian and I had determined to go to Normandy in order to visit the grave and to find out , if possible , any further information concerning the shooting down of his aircraft over Cherbourg in September 1940 , even though it had happened so many years before . |
| 11 | CISCs were first introduced in 1963 by IBM in order to standardise the instruction set for their series of computers . |
| 12 | Last November , I visited Vietnam , Hong Kong , Japan and Korea in order to promote the United Kingdom 's wide-ranging expertise in the energy sector . |
| 13 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 14 | RATHBONE Brothers , the quoted private banking and investment management group , will next week declare a second interim dividend to be paid in lieu of its final dividend for the year ended 31 December in order to avoid the adverse impact on shareholders of Budget changes to the advance corporation tax regime , writes Ian Harper . |
| 15 | However , there is little on-disk documentation , and you will probably need a book on Prolog in order to use the program . |
| 16 | Sedgley was sent on for Walsh in order to protect the two-goal lead , and Hendry was given a couple of minutes at the end so that Lineker could take a well-earned breather . |
| 17 | ‘ During the spring Cry hopes to gather many thousands of signatures all over real Yorkshire in order to convince the Local Government Commission that Yorkshire people wish to see their county made whole again , ’ he said . |
| 18 | On Aug. 18 , however , the UK government did an about-turn when it announced that 1,800 soldiers would be placed at the disposal of the UN in order to ensure the protection of humanitarian convoys in Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 19 | Evil sets many traps for the company ( and indeed others ) who are travelling to Mount Doom in order to destroy the Ring of darkness . |
| 20 | Further , the Prime Minister brought forward the deadline for nominations to the leadership contest to 15 November in order to force the hand of any challenger and to reduce the time available to mount an effective campaign . |
| 21 | After abandoning the idea of taking up medicine , Darwin moved to Cambridge in order to obtain the BA degree needed if he was to become an Anglican clergyman . |
| 22 | ABA has the necessary resource and expertise on both sides of the Atlantic in order to ensure the delivery of top quality aircraft to the UK to our customers ' specification . |
| 23 | In about 1800 , a bull and two heifers from the Duke of Bedford 's herd had been exported to southern Africa in order to improve the weak , long-legged local oxen . |
| 24 | Formerly an accountant with Ferranti , he has been in BCU HQ since October in order to prepare the BCU annual accounts . |
| 25 | It remains determined to achieve regional parity with Israel in order to compel the latter to make peace on terms favourable to itself , including a return of the Golan and possibly the 1949 demilitarized zone along the eastern edge of the Sea of Galilee to allow access to its waters . |
| 26 | The Ambassador , Benedetti , was on leave and so the First Secretary of the Embassy was entrusted with seeing Bismarck in order to put the question to him . |
| 27 | He told his wife ( and himself ) that he was going to meet Adam in order to break the news gently to him that these awful discoveries had been made at Wyvis Hall and that foul play might have taken place while he , Adam , was actually its owner . |
| 28 | Poland threatened to take the matter to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in order to defend the rights of the 300,000-strong Polish minority in Lithuania . |
| 29 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 30 | It had been a deliberate ploy to record the bulk of the tracks in Liverpool in order to keep The Smiths away well and truly away from the metropolis of London . |