Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Based largely on Michels 's study of trade union organizations , the model supposes that once any radical organization has grown to the size where it needs to delegate responsibility to professional organizers , and once it has been in existence long enough to produce a complex bureaucracy , then the original radical thrust is lost as the professionals redirect the organization to serve their own ends .
2 ‘ I have been in tennis long enough to know that it can .
3 He was n't at all old , but he had been in poetry long enough to take these things coolly .
4 The breeding population appears to be resident , but birds are recorded in other areas of the county in winter sufficiently frequently to suggest either some post-breeding dispersal within the county , or that a few visit the county from elsewhere in winter .
5 Been in combat long enough to know about fall-back positions in case things go wrong . ’
6 The additional times caused by linkage handling can be avoided if the link held on the prime data track contains the record key , and if the software can detect whether the required record is in overflow quickly enough to avoid missing the start of the next record .
7 Furthermore , there was a danger that they would stay in service long enough to qualify for a retirement pension — an even more expensive proposition .
8 Gradually they began to move and the colon flayed each of them in turn once more to increase their speed .
9 The cross-section data used so far gives us little indication about how many workers continue in employment long enough to recoup the wages that were deferred earlier in their career .
10 The president , according to the constitution has the executive power that executive power depends to a large part on the willingness of congress to provide the legal framework moments in which there is harmony and cooperation between president and congress tend to be exceptional rather than er a regular feature of the American system and if er the president manages to get something through congress , you can bet that very quickly the president will face some defeat in congress shortly thereafter to remind the president that the United States does not have , contrary to the popular press , does not have a presidential system of government .
11 This may be a minor point for the person using the drill purely for drilling , but if you wish to reset the tool in reverse fairly frequently to use as a screwdriver , it may be annoying .
12 But I mean it , we can talk things through in principle anyway just to think because you know until we build up
13 It is this second Bourdieu that this chapter has explored , or , more accurately , used in order better sociologically to understand modernization , modernism , and post-modernism .
14 He also warned that he would be requesting special powers for the Cabinet in order more speedily to implement economic measures , including privatizations , because , he said , state finances were in " a dire condition " .
15 I said would it , in order now just to deal with the amendment on my own sir or support Mr at the same time ?
16 erm phrases for in fact quite adequately to speed up the transcription .
17 Some vineyards may not be mentioned because they have only recently been cultivated and , therefore , have not been in production long enough to establish any sort of reputation .
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