Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] they [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Denning explained that ‘ There are some things which may be required to be disclosed in the public interest , in which event no confidence can be prayed in aid to keep them secret . ’ |
| 2 | If the answers to Q5 and Q9 were both Yes , indicating that the process is competitive without the 4BA load and that the supply Q&R ; is acceptable , buying would again be indicated via Q8 since buying small quantities of mass-produced items rather than investing in equipment to make them in-house must improve the company ROC . |
| 3 | This in turn makes them cheaper and small enough to fit the average pocket in every sense . |
| 4 | ‘ After processing I mount the slides in glass to keep them safe , because they are more delicate than conventional slides . |
| 5 | Boudiaf had met the leaders of eight opposition parties on Feb. 9 in order to give them prior notice of the measures . |
| 6 | She preened her elegant nose , turning her head slightly in order to give them all the benefit of her profile . |
| 7 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 8 | Our cautionary comments and suggestions are offered to ease the transitional processes of attachment and detachment in order to improve them both for the individual and the organisations involved . |
| 9 | In other words , it is defensible to buy public assets cheap in order to sell them dear . |
| 10 | Several birds , including crows and gulls , carry shellfish into the air and drop them onto hard surfaces in order to break them open . |
| 11 | She became desperate to break into this institutional twaddle , so when asked what she thought , she agreed enthusiastically , in order to keep them quiet and terminate the interminable . |
| 12 | He summed up the disseminated structure of his novels ( often in his case a necessary result of serial publication , but also probably a matter of personal preference ) , in the same work , when he compared the chapters of a novel to a convoy of vessels and himself , the inventor , as a man-of-war turning attention now to one ship , now to another , in order to bring them all safely to port . |
| 13 | Foucault 's distrust of conventional forms of history , as we have seen , is a consistent thread in his project , as is his insistence that his historical method is limited to addressing specific problems — often comparable to those posed by the social sciences — to historical documents and practices in order to make them intelligible . |
| 14 | This occurs when the similarities are subtle or intricate , or when they require prolonged discrimination in order to make them intelligible . |
| 15 | Altering weather conditions can accelerate or slow down dredging programmes , and the engineer for a direct works section must also keep his construction plant and men employed in order to make them viable . |
| 16 | The cliffs themselves are banted back in order to make them safe from rock falls and so forth , but they , they do still suffer from weathering attack by rain , by frost , and the combination of salt from spray and frost is quite damaging , so that anybody who walks along the undercliff knows that in winter , for example , you tend to get a sludge of erm white erm finely divided wet chalk which sledges off erm cliff , particularly those people in recent years who 've walked behind the marina , where it no longer gets washed off by the high tide erm where Brighton Corporation have to keep trying to remove it . |
| 17 | Standardise on volume ratios by dividing weight based percentages by 1.3 in order to make them comparable . |
| 18 | Serious attempts were made to level up the resources for secondary modem schools , in order to make them comparable with grammar schools , and so achieve that parity to which Ellen Wilkinson was openly committed . |
| 19 | It was agreed instead that both groups would submit papers simultaneously to a journal , and within three to four weeks in order to have them accepted and hopefully published before Jones ' scheduled talk in May . |
| 20 | In fact causing them extra trouble , extra work . |
| 21 | Vicki is praying that the rescue ship she knows is on its way will arrive in time to save them all . |