Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saibou accused " a handful of demagogic trade unionists " of engaging in vandalism to plunge the country into chaos , and threatened action against those whom he called " union agitators " . |
| 2 | My response to Chomsky , then , is that he is right in part to treat the evolution of human language as an emergent property of other characteristics . |
| 3 | During this period the Commission sought to win agreement for fundamental reform of the EC 's common agricultural policy ( CAP ) , in part to restrict the growth of intervention stocks ( or " food mountains " ) and in part as a result of pressure to reduce the EC 's level of agricultural subsidy in the context of the " Uruguay round " of multilateral trade talks of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , which ground to a halt in December 1990 [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It was first of all made by the Council 's planning consultants and then by the Planning Department set up under Local Government reorganisation , a department intended in part to oversee the Council 's housing policy and headed by a former employee of the Council 's erstwhile planning consultants . |
| 6 | This effort is conceived in part to counteract the backfiring of federally sponsored events marking the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the Western Hemisphere in 1492 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The division of labour here is a notion used in part to express the fact that with more complex technology one gets more specialization in society , however for Marx and Engels such differentiation also always implies inequality . |
| 9 | He will know that British Rail is considering a major remodelling of the station , in part to handle the arrival of the Jubilee line . |
| 10 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 11 | The complications found have prompted alterations in technique to minimise the procedure related morbidity . |
| 12 | An attempt was made in Parliament to restrict the power to intercept for security reasons to cases where this was necessary for the defence of the realm or to prevent subversion , terrorism , or espionage — still wider than the guidelines but much closer to their spirit than the statute . |
| 13 | Er Madam Speaker , I understand the position you ma you the point you make about er ministers det er determining whether they 're going to make a statement by an oral statement or by a written parliament question , but surely the speaker does have power if he or she so determines to summon er a minister here and particularly if there 's pressure in parliament to require a minister to come here and make a statement , that must be right . |
| 14 | The British Field Sports Society is preparing to defend itself against another attempt in parliament to impose a ban on hunting . |
| 15 | This suggestion was , not surprisingly , refused by Mrs Thatcher , who , despite the fact that her Government used the guillotine in Parliament to ensure a jury can no longer have a say in the public interest , as they had in the trial of Clive Ponting , declared in a written reply to Baroness Ewart Biggs , that : |
| 16 | The seller can not expect on the one hand to be fully compensated for the sale falling through and on the other to be allowed in addition to retain a deposit already received . |
| 17 | As Hackney 's tackle connected , a perfect pass found Gerber in support to complete the try . |
| 18 | ‘ Laddering ’ or a series of ascending ( or descending ) passes in trail to form a stepping sequence is another basic stunt which tests the degree of compatibility of each flyer and the kite . |
| 19 | The Mourabitoun then held a press conference to explain the significance of this new weapon while the correspondents — few of whom could speak Arabic — waited in patience to know the weight of the warhead , its height and range . |
| 20 | Although the scribes no doubt made ‘ errors ’ , it should be possible to investigate variable texts in extenso to determine the extent to which variation in spelling ( or indeed in other linguistic dimensions ) is in fact orderly , and whether this variation can help us to work out what might have been happening in spoken English at the time . |
| 21 | Until the regionalisation of local government in 1975 , the papingo trophy was on display in Kilwinning Town Chambers but when the local council ceased to exist , the piece of historic silverware was placed in safe-keeping to await the selection of a new home . |
| 22 | Homographs may need a modifier in parenthesis to clarify the meaning that is associated with them , for example Cold ( Disease ) |
| 23 | I had to conform ; I do not think I ever used the term in my reports , except in parenthesis to denote a sort of dirty word . |
| 24 | In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation . |
| 25 | An intelligence , guided by a purpose , must be continually in action to bias the direction of the steps of change — to regulate their amount — to limit their divergence — and to continue them in a definite course … |
| 26 | Together , these policies and policy statements reflect an overwhelming official concern in the current period of high unemployment with the position of young people in the labour market and , conversely , a lack of interest in action to improve the employment prospects of older workers . |
| 27 | You really have to see this game in action to appreciate the animation and perspective . |
| 28 | The cartographic data must exist in digital format before they can be used within a GIS ; although the amount of digital map data is growing larger a considerable amount of manual digitizing is needed in practice to provide the database necessary for a successful GIS . |
| 29 | The effect of this requirement is probably in practice to make the power unusable in many cases , as unless the prosecution anticipate that the court will wish to make such an order , it will not be equipped with the necessary evidence , particularly as the car will not necessarily be in the possession of the police at this stage , and the court will be faced with an adjournment if it wishes to proceed with an order . |
| 30 | Messrs. A. R. Brakspear , J. C. Walker and J. F. Cooper ( the fifth of his family in succession to hold the office of Town Clerk ) were appointed as Trustees , their role being a legal necessity which required them to act as designated signatories of the Club in such matters as Land Conveyances , Water Board Agreements , etc . |