Example sentences of "[det] in [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is useful to confirm this in order to counter the popular idea that discrimination against older people arises entirely from the nature of old age . |
| 2 | You know , there 's a certain sort of man who would come to a joint like this in order to fuck the women in it . |
| 3 | Two of the agreements even noted that the job satisfaction of a minority of employees might be impaired by new technology but accepted this in order to maintain the security of employment of the majority . |
| 4 | The offeror will be particularly keen to do this in order to make the offer attractive to large shareholders ( shareholders holding 5 per cent or less are not affected by the anti-avoidance legislation ) . |
| 5 | He was particularly proud of his drawings and made many in order to discover the absolutely right pose or disposition of the hands . |
| 6 | The former are disposed to combine in order to raise , the latter in order to lower the price of labour . |
| 7 | We need stability over the medium term at the very least in order to produce the units that we need , not this sort of one minute you 're off , one minute you 're not and again , if you were serious the resources were already there , there in terms of the capital receipts that people already had . |
| 8 | He gathered like-minded officers round him , and dispatched each in turn to run the service for which he seemed fit : N. R. Crockatt , whose prowess he had admired at Rugby , to secure intelligence from prisoners of war ; E. R. Coombe to form the inter-services security board , which handled code-names and deception as well as security ; ( Sir ) Gerald Templer [ q.v. ] |
| 9 | Finance companies , by adopting a ‘ take it or leave it ’ attitude used to insist on inserting terms that were very onerous for the customer — terms to the effect that all implied conditions and warranties were excluded ; that in the event of the customer 's payments falling into arrears the finance company could repossess the goods ; that in order to repossess the goods the company 's agents could trespass upon the customer 's premises ; that in the event of the customer terminating the agreement he should pay a large sum of money to the finance company , etc . |
| 10 | It is noteworthy , though perhaps it goes without saying , that in order to make the requisite evaluation of prudence , the Bank of England will require information both as to assets ( comprising inter alia loans to customers ) and deposits ( comprising inter alia money deposited by customers ) . |
| 11 | It recommends however , that in order to satisfy the Catholic view of Religious Education as a mode of Catechesis two other Aims be added , namely : |
| 12 | Blake told his superiors at MI6 that in order to win the confidence of the Russians he would need to give them enough genuine information to convince them of his sincerity . |
| 13 | And in the West , the situation will require exceptional skills on the part of our present leaders — especially in West Germany , where a string of elections over the next 12 months will make it hard for those in power to preserve the calm and objectivity with which all these questions need to be discussed . |
| 14 | One of the extraordinary features of British economic management over the past fifty years has been the inability of those in charge to comprehend the workings of ‘ lags ’ : the time it takes for the effect of a change in policy to work through the economy . |
| 15 | A staff development interview often reveals that the teacher , once settled in , wants to do more in order to extend the interest and the responsibility of teaching . |
| 16 | Excepting internationally priced commodities , this meant that all developing countries had to export more in order to import the same amount of goods and services . |
| 17 | Since we are concerned with the production of single calf and adequate lactation for that calf , good quality roughages will often be sufficient until calving with a small supplement of concentrates — more in order to train the cow to be handled than anything else . |
| 18 | Those with loans from banks may borrow more in order to pay the higher interest charges . |
| 19 | But , instead , the higher interest rate regime may cause an increased demand for loans in the short-term as debtors borrow more in order to pay the higher interest charges on existing loans . |
| 20 | ‘ All of us have to do more in order to get the deportees back to their homes as soon as possible , ’ he said . |
| 21 | If I ca n't , then I will have to make up my own in order to control the , the programme to work . |
| 22 | I and a few others who only that morning had begun to look forward to a peaceful summer ahead , swiftly concluded that we must make some gesture of our own in order to demonstrate the feelings of many of our fellow conservative Members of Parliament . |
| 23 | Being in the vicinity , I helped remove the casualty 's kit before ditching my own in order to phone the rescue services . |
| 24 | However , the method of checking should be just the same in order to establish the right habit . |