Example sentences of "and in [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part , these studies have been designed to improve scientific knowledge of river systems and in part to improve the ability of hydrologists to forecast how changes in land use , for example through increasing urbanization , will affect river levels ( though the two are not necessarily distinct — improved scientific knowledge generally leads to improved accuracy in forecasting ) . |
| 2 | The object of designing a national common core was in part to raise overall standards and in part to prevent the wastage of resources involved in each of the 22 NACAB areas designing its own basic training course . |
| 3 | One response to this affront is to erect an alternative system of belief ; to fabricate another , esoteric world of ideas that seems to challenge and in turn to trivialise the ideas that are proving so bothersome . |
| 4 | Example : The Construction of a Railway For clarity — and in order to emphasise the amount of work in other curriculum areas — I have divided the account of this project into " drama time " and " class time " . |
| 5 | The staff were pared to the bone and in order to open the house to paying visitors the stable block was turned into a tea room and gift shop . |
| 6 | Thus , someone who is primarily in an anorexic phase , using starvation as his or her prime method of control over emotions and relationships , may have episodes of bingeing and then starve again as a method of gaining further , illusory , control and in order to control the physical consequences of the binge . |
| 7 | And in order to assess the wind speed , we had to climb up a perpendicular outside iron staircase , which took us onto the flat roof of Flying Control . |
| 8 | The strength of any restaurant business lies in its reputation — you are only as good as the last meal you have served — and in order to preserve the high standards that have brought this business so very far , Forte need people who can match the best in the industry : people with some supervisory level experience under their belts ; with a real commitment to customer service , lots of enthusiasm and driving ambition . |
| 9 | Like most of the English RACs , it has recently streamlined its administrative structure and in order to oversee the wide field described above , as well as the coordination of non-advanced further education in Wales , it has brought several committees together to form a new Further and Higher Education Committee . |
| 10 | And in order to accommodate the general rule it has been deemed necessary to deprive certain compound words , like sèche-cheveux , of their plural endings when used in the singular . |
| 11 | To improve the image of the Association among members and potential members and in order to improve the perceived value and relevance of the HCIMA . |
| 12 | The captain of an oil tanker ran the ship aground and in order to save the ship and the crew large quantities of oil were discharged . |
| 13 | I think that basically the 1980s were very rough and there were some very difficult times and in order to persuade the country to change , and impose change where it was resisted , and to carry it through , required both will and language characteristic of that challenge and Mrs Thatcher has been associated with that . ’ |
| 14 | However , given the importance of receiving the information required under the section 39 notice to the Bank 's supervision of the defendant and in order to support the [ defendants ' ] application , I am able to state in broad terms the grounds of the investigation and the reasons for the Bank 's supervisory concern . |
| 15 | To fight for the crown against the Church and in order to neutralize the influence of canon lawyers , the regalists introduced the teaching of Natural Law , an innovation which was promptly suppressed in 1794 when the revolutionary dangers of secular political thought were made evident in France . |
| 16 | The criticisms were not specific : British people were not well enough trained in comparison with people from some other countries , their training did not take sufficient account of what employers wanted , there was too little emphasis on the connection between the launching of new enterprises and the training of people in readiness for and in order to follow the consequences of those launches — and the absence of collaborative management in the past had led to poorly organized training . |
| 17 | He described as ‘ absolute nonsense ’ suggestions that local government was being reformed for political reasons and in order to remove the big Labour battalions of Strathclyde and Lothian . |
| 18 | Jimmy chartered two Canadair CL44 cargo aircraft and in order to get the left and right stabilisers and rear fuselage sections on board , had to cut much of the wreckage — without , of course , destroying any evidence that might subsequently turn out to be required . |
| 19 | In it , he was filmed diving overboard in one scene , and in order to get the sequence right , he had to dive over the side seven times . |
| 20 | Blum , on the other hand , was looking to a more distant future when the French might have to withdraw entirely and in order to maintain the position of influence in the future he believed that the only firm foundation was a break with the past . |
| 21 | Before looking in more detail at who the ‘ Hooligans ’ were , and in order to place the controversies that surrounded them in perspective , it will be helpful to make an imaginative effort to reconstruct the kind of social world in which the original ‘ Hooligans ’ moved . |
| 22 | Mr Clarke and Mr Hunt told MPs the decision to break the law by dispensing with a 90-day consultation period was taken because of ‘ special circumstances ’ and in order to help the miners by giving them the best redundancy terms . |
| 23 | It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … . |
| 24 | Though jury service was regarded as an important right by many members of the Sri Lankan élite , it was considered an irksome duty by the British planting community , and in order to reduce the burden of service the size of juries was twice reduced during the late nineteenth century . |
| 25 | I would add that it is of importance to the Bank for the purposes of its own domestic supervision and in order to safeguard the interests of depositors that : ( a ) it is aware of any serious breaches of local law in any other jurisdictions in which an authorised institution conducts its business and of any steps taken by overseas supervisors in the event of such breaches ; and ( b ) where , because of the multi-national nature of an institution , the Bank is in part dependent upon overseas supervision , that supervision is conducted in an effective manner . |
| 26 | An information gap is created and in order to tell the complete story , groups need to share the information they have . |
| 27 | Indeed , it may be argued that a British group lobbying Parliament demonstrates mainly its lack of access to , or impact on , the core of the policy-making process ( ministers and civil servants ) , unless the lobby is undertaken explicitly for symbolic purposes and in order to attract the attention of the media . |
| 28 | Of particular significance and far-reaching consequence to the lives of women was the exilic legislators ' obsession with ritual cleanness — and in order to understand the full import of this statement , I shall momentarily have to digress from our historical outline and spend a little time analysing the reasons for the legislators ' obsession and its impact . |
| 29 | Clearly we need to understand these needs and , in order to do this and in order to understand the responses of animals ( and I include man when I say animals ) to the difficulties that are encountered during life , we have to understand motivational processes . |
| 30 | But the development of the idea of a ‘ nation ’ and the formation of nation states in Europe began at a much earlier time , and in order to understand the vigour of later nationalist movements in Europe and elsewhere we need to look more closely at that historical process . |