Example sentences of "[num] in [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A special 30-day session of the Diet was convened on Oct. 12 in order to debate the bill which would have allowed the corps to be dispatched to the Gulf . |
| 2 | The Finance ( No 2 ) Act 1992 included substantial changes to the VAT Act 1983 and the Finance Act 1985 in order to implement the single market VAT regime from 1 January 1993 . |
| 3 | We got there at about 10.55 in time to see the 11.00 train which was hauled by 323 Bluebell and their LMS tank . |
| 4 | In continuation of a process begun in 1988 [ see p. 37589 ] two major bank mergers were announced in 1991 in order to streamline the country 's banking sector in preparation for the single European market in 1992 . |
| 5 | In addition , a proportion of the cost of tax collection is to be allocated to the council tax water account in 1993-94 in order to show the ‘ true ’ cost of the service . |
| 6 | In addition , a proportion of the costs of tax collection is to be allocated to the council tax water account in 1993-94 in order to show the ‘ true ’ cost of the service . |
| 7 | The project will examine around 10,000 employees records from four different economic sectors ( in banking , steel , railways and the postal services ) between 1870 and 1940 in order to establish the changing patterns of career mobility for diverse categories of workers . |
| 8 | A constitutional conference , chaired by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , opened on Aug. 18 in order to consider the draft agreement — popularly dubbed the Pearson accord — which had been negotiated by the nine English-speaking provinces in July [ see pp. 38999-39000 ] . |
| 9 | Kanemaru had accepted the vice-presidency of the party in January 1992 in order to revitalize the unpopular and politically moribund administration of Miyazawa , who had been elected party leader and Prime Minister three months earlier . |
| 10 | Member states have weighted votes , and 54 votes are needed out of the total of 76 in order to adopt the Directive . |
| 11 | Hurd 's preferred option appears to be based on the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) — the organisation created in 1981 in order to provide the Gulf with a collective security system designed to obviate the necessity for Iraqi , Iranian or even Western participation and involving Kuwait , Bahrain , Qatar , the UAE , Oman and Saudi Arabia — but this time under explicit Saudi leadership . |
| 12 | 5.12.2 Not without the consent in writing of the Landlord ( such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed and which consent shall not be required in relation to applications in respect of the fascia or signage at the Premises ) to apply for planning permission The landlord will probably insist on the retention of clause 5.12.4 in order to avoid the problem of a limited planning permission being issued containing a reinstatement provision becoming effective after the lease term has expired . |
| 13 | This had been established in August 1949 in part to promote the arguments for unification under the direction of Pyongyang . |
| 14 | Birth records have been obtained for the 42 children with cancer diagnosed up to the age of 4 years throughout Cumbria during 1984–90 in order to investigate the possibility that some of these children had been born in Seascale and then moved , but in fact only the child resident in Seascale at diagnosis was also domiciled there at birth . |
| 15 | Goh had formally resigned as a member of parliament ( while remaining Prime Minister ) on Dec. 1 in order to contest the by-election . |
| 16 | The other exercise involves a detailed examination of industrial statistics since 1973 in order to detect the various stages and compare the strength by which structural adjustment processes have taken place in the different economies . |
| 17 | That had been threatened in 1832 in order to secure the passing of the Reform Bill . |
| 18 | Already next season 's Ulster Senior Challenge Cup final has been brought forward a week to April 23 in order to accommodate the Lions party who will take in the game as part of their celebrations . |
| 19 | Hau , 72 , a mainlander who had left the Army in 1989 in order to assume the post of Defence Minister , was reputed to be in the conservative wing of the KMT . |
| 20 | President Ershad continued to make changes in the composition of his government throughout 1989 in order to balance the forces within the ruling Jatiya Party and remove those ministers connected with corruption . |
| 21 | Mozart 's father and sister travelled to Munich early in 1781 in order to hear the first performance of the opera on 29 January . |
| 22 | an endowment of seven million in order to further the work of the Cathedral . |
| 23 | She was a founder member , the only woman from another Swiss woman artist , Mary Moser , of the Royal Academy which was established in 1768 in order to advance the professional careers and inspire the ambition of British artists to emulate the Italian artists of the Renaissance in the recreation of the Grand Style . |
| 24 | The School of Church Music was founded in 1927 in order to improve the standards of church choirs , and to establish a college for the study of church music and the training of church musicians . |
| 25 | The rouble trade was to be drastically reduced in 1990 in order to turn the 1989 surplus into the equivalent of a $500,000,000 dollar deficit . |