Example sentences of "in [noun] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original costs £890 but you can look much the same for £30 and go wild in accessories to add your own signature . |
| 2 | In the words of Gallopin and Berrera ( 1979 ) ; ‘ They ( the poor ) may be forced to destroy their own environment in attempts to delay their own destruction . ’ |
| 3 | Sexism became an issue partly because women were meeting in groups to examine their own experiences and attitudes . |
| 4 | In the third lesson , pupils worked in pairs to produce their own diagram to show the rabbits . |
| 5 | We now just wish to be left in peace to live our own lives and be afforded the same respect as any other family in Passfield . |
| 6 | When , in 1988 , the School Boards Act provided for almost all education authority schools in Scotland to have their own boards , major aims were greater involvement of parents in school affairs , increased contact between school and the community , and the progressive freeing of education authorities from routine school administration . |
| 7 | North Korea had decided in May to drop its former insistence on a single Korean seat , following South Korea 's success in gaining assurances that the Soviet Union and China would withdraw their opposition to the South 's entry into the UN . |
| 8 | An 11-week armed siege by Mohawk Indians in Quebec , in defence of local land rights , was the latest manifestation of national and increasingly militant struggles by indigenous people in Canada to control their own affairs [ see pp. 37448 ; 37519 ] . |
| 9 | Still able to see the problem , they no longer knew where to find its solution , and seemed happy in consequence to embrace their own annihilation . |
| 10 | Yet Barclays and Lloyds have spent much time and energy privately rubbishing Switch , in efforts to promote their own debit cards . |
| 11 | Federal Premier Ante Markovic , in a combative address to the Federal Assembly on Nov. 15 , accused the political leaderships in Slovenia , Serbia and Croatia of deliberately obstructing and undermining his government 's economic and political reforms , in efforts to preserve their own power . |
| 12 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 13 | If only Jonathan had been around she might never have come to France , she might have stayed in London to explain it all to him , but he was away on business for a week , and the need to escape had been too powerful to resist . |
| 14 | It was the availability of local steel and the advent of steam power that gave Glasgow the incentive to dredge and widen the river in order to transform its few old boatyards into one of the world 's great shipbuilding centres . |
| 15 | Though the generals were brought to some sort of obedience by the Cortes and the Regency , in the provinces they used the ‘ egoism ’ of the Juntas and their endless disputes with the relics of the old administration in order to extend their own power . |
| 16 | He finds no real evidence of any government attempting to hold down the rate of inflation in the short run in order to promote its own popularity at election time . |
| 17 | The Webbs , who had little sympathy with Liberal cosmopolitanism , were happy to come to terms with the imperialist agenda in order to promote their own brand of statist socialism . |
| 18 | Looking young is important to many women today in order to hold their own with confidence in the world outside the home , whether they are married or single . |
| 19 | Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education . |
| 20 | The plot ( to an excellent book by one of Handel 's favourite librettists , Nicola Haym ) has two clearly delineated strands — Cleopatra 's seduction of Caesar , initially in order to further her own political ends against her treacherous brother and coruler of Egypt , Ptolemy , and the pursuit of revenge by the widow and son of Pompey , brutally murdered by Ptolemy before the curtain rises . |
| 21 | ‘ You wanted to kill poor Thomas in order to further your own beastly ends . |
| 22 | In order to ease it many diversions are tried . |
| 23 | Sometimes this may feel like a military strategy and it is quite in order to treat it this way : to plot and plan to take the fortress which is your imaginary castle , your silent , fertile abode , despite the background of your everyday tasks and obligations . |
| 24 | Will the Prime Minister face the only alternative left and accept open devaluation , disposing of his Chancellor in order to save his own skin ? |
| 25 | She preened her elegant nose , turning her head slightly in order to give them all the benefit of her profile . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In order to give you some idea of the boundaries of the propositions these are numbered in the extract given above . |
| 28 | Again Beth hesitated , thinking it wrong that she should use this lovely girl in order to lessen her own burden . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The last few years have seen significant developments in this direction , as the different European Affairs committees in national parliaments study one another 's methods of scrutiny , control , and influence in order to improve their own , and work together more systematically to promote informed and transparent law-making by the Community . |