Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed Robert Hathaway suggests that the universalist wording of the Truman Doctrine was in part designed to disarm those who suspected a British manoeuvre at America 's expense . |
| 2 | Economists have taken it for granted that to get round it , creditors will in practice need to get most of the benefit from debt relief . |
| 3 | In that time , they fed exclusively on carrion ; specimens kept in captivity refused to sample any living thing . |
| 4 | Those in charge need to impose some objective , explicitly or implicitly ( for example , by imposing a breakeven constraint ) in order for the size of the business to be determined . |
| 5 | People working in tourism need to understand many different sorts of English . |
| 6 | Instead , I shall draw on some of what has evolved over the last half century as ‘ curriculum theory ’ in education to try to suggest some frameworks and perspectives for analysing the wealth of detail which the system displays . |
| 7 | And that old theory that animals ca n't see colours is just not true because any vehicle which is black or red in colour appears to get more attention that any other . |
| 8 | For a moment , the centuries seemed to roll away , and she could visualise grim-faced men in chain-mail racing to answer some alarm , while women in wimpled head-dresses leaned down from the Gothic windows to bid them Godspeed . |
| 9 | But even the lowliest appointment might oblige a freeholder who in turn desired to serve some obscure relative or other dependent , while in those appointments which demanded legal training , young advocates could establish their reputation as jurists , which in turn might attract business to their law practices in Edinburgh . |
| 10 | Then he remembered something and knew he was in duty bound to take that risk . |
| 11 | Feminists in psychology began to investigate these gendered subjectivities , and to challenge their discipline 's gender biases . |
| 12 | Even writers working in solitude try to form some idea of the receiver of their work and adjust to it — the meaningfulness of what they say can be viewed as a measure of the success of that prediction and adjustment . |
| 13 | As my hon. Friend would expect , my right hon. Friend had considerable success in his negotiations with Commissioner Millan , who agreed in principle to help to fund those two crucially important infrastructure developments . |
| 14 | A complete review of what is now a vast , varied — and sometimes idiosyncratic — literature would take us well beyond our available space and our aim here will be to summarise the main approaches to the topic , in order to try to disentangle some arguments in the debate and draw some general conclusions from it . |
| 15 | In order to try to elucidate this controversial argument , we can return to the well-known remark in the essay ‘ Différance ’ : |
| 16 | But in order to try to keep some of America 's weaker carriers in the air he has decided to increase the limit on the stake a foreign investor can hold in an American airline from 25% to 49% . |
| 17 | Pegs are limited on the day so in order to guarantee to fish this popular event please confirm attendance with Dave Gunson on Ipswich 716530 . |
| 18 | He started attending regularly in order to get to know more people . |
| 19 | SAD should begin to seek a partnership between statutory and private care in order to begin to explore all of these issues . |
| 20 | In order to learn to master this sort of mismatch , simple context drills must be prepared such as the following one , in order to become accustomed to the way the word is used in German : N.B. ( to me ) indicates that it is implied in the English sentence , but not usually stated ; if stated , it would be followed by the preposition " in " , as in " Bring the books to me in the library " . |
| 21 | Councillor did in fact try to take some credit for one or two things in his speech . |
| 22 | Local community action had in fact failed to make any important impact on the larger social and economic political structures in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | It is suggested that the tenant should in fact attempt to delete this clause on the ground that the landlord is already protected by the other covenants contained in the lease and can take such action as may be necessary either for breach of contract or in tort . |
| 24 | In 1935 , after the Murrells débâcle and the dawning realization that very little which could be described as administration had gone on in Masai District , the Tanganyika government did in fact begin to give some serious thought to the type of man which should be sent there . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , I think you will understand that to one not accustomed to committing such errors , this development was rather disturbing , and I did in fact begin to entertain all sorts of alarmist theories as to their cause . |
| 26 | Now can we be assured that Biffa are in fact going to do that same service , not turn up and say , you 're not allowed this , nothing to do with us . |
| 27 | There were , however , other and less hopeful signs that the French were not in fact going to make any substantial concessions . |
| 28 | People in prison get to shower more than I do . ’ |