Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 I wanter to make sure I was properly covered , not only in case of damage to the car , but in case something were to happen to me too . ’
2 It is natural that the change in direction from upswing to downswing , plus the swing- weight of the clubhead , will automatically cock your wrists .
3 There were increases in income from almost every source , with a 65 per cent rise in fees from overseas students totalling £5.7 million , and a 17 per cent increase in income from research to £11.5 million .
4 In October parliament approved a revision of the 1990 budget , allowing for an increase in income from $252,000,000 to $285,000,000 and in expenditure from $300,000,000 to $347,000,000 .
5 Furious at the angry words , Clare telephoned Thomas Cook in Nice for tickets to London .
6 Consequently , these provisions will make a valuable contribution to the control of obnoxious odours arising from the discharge of noxious effluents into streams , rivers and other water courses and will strengthen the codes of practice already in existence in relation to spreading sewage sludge on land .
7 Konrad Adenauer , who had staked his reputation in Germany on loyalty to the West , also felt betrayed by France 's action and Britain 's foreign minister , Anthony Eden , made enormous diplomatic efforts to hold NATO together .
8 It is very usual in meetings for women to be asked and to be expected by the men present to serve the coffee !
9 They range in fineness from 70-line to 360-line , depending on the materials and the design , and have piles that can be anything from ¼″ ( ½ cm ) to ⅝″ ( 1½ cm ) deep ( not including the foundation ) .
10 In 1896 he became locomotive superintendent of the Highland Railway in Inverness in succession to David Jones , whose engines were generally reliable and well liked .
11 According to a spokesman , " the orders regarding the opening of fire were clarified and broadened to enable Israeli soldiers to properly react in cases of danger to life " .
12 Work in progress for items to be taken into finished stocks should be included in the review of finished stock levels .
13 Addressing the Board , Mrs Copeland put forward the council 's case for the priority provision of a new library in Bangor in preference to Lisburn and nearby Newtownards .
14 Thompson has won financial backing from the EC to manufacture 4 inch wafers at a new plant in Grenoble under licence to Vitesse .
15 W. G. Collingwood describes one of these men Balthazar Puchberger , ( altered in course of time to Puthparker ) whose shaggy or tousled head earned him the nickname of Towsie .
16 The crises surrounding Ebroin , Pippin II , Charles Martel , and even Pippin III and Carloman were all concerned in part with loyalty to or control of individual members of the royal family .
17 I suggested that the latter point could be explained in part by reference to the change in the social composition of the electorate which had been in progress over the '60s .
18 On June 9 , in part in reaction to polls indicating increased opposition to the Treaty after the Danish referendum , the four main parties ( the governing Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats and the opposition Fine Gael and Labour Party ) issued a joint call for a " yes " vote as " vitally important for Ireland and for Europe " .
19 They prefer them mainly because they face regulations that reward stable growth in returns from year to year rather than the more volatile — but , in the long-run , almost certainly higher — returns they would earn by holding more equities .
20 Whilst the law is designed to give succour in times of difficulty to those who do their best , it will show little mercy to those who are at the receiving end of proceedings who can not demonstrate that they have given the highest priority .
21 The technologies associated with the Green Revolution and shifts in agriculture from subsistence to commercial farming has profound effects upon different classes of the rural population in India .
22 ( NEB ) , not ‘ go and unite in acts of worship to their gods ’ .
23 The incident showed the basic difference in measure of commitment to the Pistols ' ideology of subversion .
24 If the hon. Member for Hammersmith ( Mr. Soley ) and his Labour colleagues around the country , who control far more houses than the Government , showed even a tiny percentage of the indignation that he is now attempting to express about empty houses in Swindon in relation to the 5,000 empty houses in Labour-controlled Liverpool , the 2,800 in Labour-controlled Salford , the 2,000 in Labour-controlled Newham , the 5,500 in Labour-controlled Manchester , the 2,000 in Labour-controlled Newcastle , the 1,000 in Labour-controlled Knowsley , and so on —
25 If the hon. Gentleman had showed even a tiny amount of the indignation that he expresses about empty houses in Swindon in relation to all those in areas under Labour control , there would be scarcely any problems of homelessness in Britain .
26 When he was nine he read Hamlet , no doubt a copy from his father 's bookshop , and , as he told Mrs Thrale later , when he came to the ghost scene he left the kitchen fireside and stood reading at the street door in Lichfield in order to ‘ have people about ’ .
27 The spending cuts would reduce the bill for an average Band D home in Castle Point by £18 to £625 and in Harlow by £288 to £987 .
28 It may be fair to give third parties seats in Parliament in proportion to their votes in the country , but it is quite a different matter when the implications of this situation are considered in terms of the follow through to governmental power .
29 Under the accord , which Bustos claimed was only a " first step " falling short of CUT demands , a new minimum wage of US$87 was to be paid from June 1 in addition to adjustments to family allowances , pensions and some subsidies , which would be subject to annual vision .
30 In addition to loans to other banks , the category of ‘ other market loans ’ also includes short-term loans to local authorities and building societies .
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