Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statement by Adam Smith that businessmen 's meetings , even for ‘ merriment and diversion ’ , usually end up in connivance to restrict competition , is often quoted , but the sentence which follows it is equally perceptive : ‘ It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings , by any law which either could be executed , or would be consistent with liberty and justice . ’ |
| 2 | 1 tin anchovy fillets , soaked in milk to reduce saltiness |
| 3 | the measurement used in typesetting to express quality of output . |
| 4 | Here there is a tendency in contract to do justice and in crime to be merciful . |
| 5 | Although the Scottish Office would not say how far supplies exceeded MACs for lead , at least 17 schemes were in progress to reduce lead in water that would not be completed until as late as 1992 . |
| 6 | Research is in progress to modify crop plants genetically to make them yield more than one product . |
| 7 | But previous studies have demonstrated increased root respiration rates and faster root turnover associated with higher soil temperature , and we believe that higher soil temperatures at the southern forest act in part to accelerate maintenance costs and mortality rates throughout the entire system of fine , absorbing roots . |
| 8 | In the United States high mortality from sudden infant death syndrome among black infants has been attributed only in part to lower birth weight and socioeconomic disadvantage . |
| 9 | This work has been carried out by water authorities , internal drainage boards , and many councils , in part to reduce flooding of roads and houses , but largely to increase farm yields . |
| 10 | The aim of the ‘ new ’ hospital was in part to lessen overcrowding in the other twenty mental hospitals of the region , from which referrals would be taken , and in part to develop specialist methods of treatment for those who did not get better under ordinary therapeutic regimes . |
| 11 | NEW HOPE IN FIGHT TO SAVE LAIRD 'S |
| 12 | While lacking the legal authority to transform CODESA 's decisions into law , the government effectively undertook to use its large majority in Parliament to endorse CODESA resolutions , although State President F. W. de Klerk made it clear that CODESA would not automatically have law-making powers and that Parliament would have a veto . |
| 13 | THERE is nothing like an election in mid-recession to wreak havoc with public finances . |
| 14 | Hardliners fail in attempt to oust president immediately |
| 15 | A case study of an adolescent health promotion program will illustrate how empowerment education theory can be applied in practice to program development . |
| 16 | Hours before the March for Life , dozens of volunteers from Operation Rescue ( a radical anti-abortionist group which had conducted a mass blockade of abortion clinics in 1991 — see p. 38383 ) attempted for the second morning in succession to block access to two abortion clinics in the capital . |
| 17 | Huge task looms in bid to tackle flood disaster |
| 18 | Rally of hope in bid to stop pit closures |
| 19 | Protest rally in bid to save birth unit |
| 20 | Council in bid to open nature area |
| 21 | Councils in bid to halt food poisoning |
| 22 | Disco bosses lodging appeal in bid to keep licence |
| 23 | Airtours fails in bid to buy rival |
| 24 | City : Lloyd 's members fail in bid to protect cash fund |
| 25 | This finding naturally gave the RTO some confidence in dealing with the arguments of the Claybury and Friern districts that they needed very large increases in revenue to fund community replacement services . |
| 26 | Defence counsel Richard Benson said she was part of a syndicate of ten or a dozen young Oxford people who bought amphetamines in bulk to save money . |
| 27 | At one function staged by the Party in Schweinfurt in October 1940 , for example , the local population turned out in force to welcome U-Boat veterans at a recruiting session for the navy , but the same people ‘ were almost entirely missing at the other functions of the NSDAP ’ . |
| 28 | Thus from the beginning the community in Donegal found themselves in opposition to state policy when they raised questions over the implications of uranium prospecting and mining . |
| 29 | Construction of facilities is nearing completion in readiness to commence production before the end of 1992 . |
| 30 | We have made our policies absolutely clear , not just by asserting that we have it in mind to take action , but by stating what we have planned and by making announcements for new equipment and new forces . |