Example sentences of "in [noun] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1930s the words ‘ fascism ’ and ‘ fascist ’ were so much in vogue as to make inevitable their widespread application to the Nationalist cause and the emergent Franco regime . |
| 2 | It is better for people to be able to grow and develop in relationships than to suffer the burdens of isolation and constant temptation and the threat of seeking relief through clandestine and casual relationships . ' |
| 3 | Actually it 's all very much easier to explain in pictures than to tell you how it works , so let's go step by step , shall we ? |
| 4 | THE International Weightlifting Federation will decide in February whether to restore a ban on Britons Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxton , who were thrown out of the Olympics after failing drug tests . |
| 5 | The Independent Television Commission will decide in May whether to force competitive TV station advertising on the ITV companies . |
| 6 | Furthermore , while these " blankouts " may distress other people , the primary sufferer may find them confusing but may go so far in denial as to accuse other people of having faulty memory for the things said or done while he or she was in a " blankout " . |
| 7 | Gloucester County council 's planning department will decide in October whether to grant permission for the dump . |
| 8 | But such appeals run into the one constant of American policy : Mr Clinton 's determination not to put American ground troops in Bosnia unless to enforce a peace treaty . |
| 9 | Perhaps we believe that others perceive us as weak and ineffectual when in reality we choose to make a stand only about those things which really matter , knowing that it often takes more strength to remain calm and in control than to meet aggression with more aggression . |
| 10 | Surely , it is better to find out in advance than to cause death or suffering to one 's fish , grief to oneself , and waster money in the process ? |
| 11 | Modern elite theorists are more concerned to analyse the role played by elites in society than to use their internal characteristics as unified elites to explain their predominance . |
| 12 | Works traditionally ascribed to the masters but considered by de Groot to be incorrect , have been omitted , for as the author stated : ‘ it is less unpleasant for the private collector to have his pictures passed over in silence than to have them mentioned and definitely described as false ’ . |
| 13 | After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature . |
| 14 | The government believed it more important to balance public investment against private investment by keeping their discount rates in line than to balance overall investment against consumption by using a test discount rate closer to the rate at which consumers would swap current for future consumption . |
| 15 | As Wordsworth wrote , ‘ Nothing was more difficult for me in childhood than to admit the notion of death as a state applicable to my own being … |
| 16 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 17 | In an area with such rapid changes in temperature as to erode hard rock into sand , soft shells would not have survived . |
| 18 | The initial intake to English was large — so large in fact as to require organisation in two parallel classes and to strain rather seriously the initially slender staffing position . |
| 19 | It may mean a 5 a.m. start from the country if she is to have her regular swim before going into the office , but if she is going to see WHS in Swindon or Heathcote in Warwick , it is more convenient for her to stay in Gloucestershire than to come back to London . |
| 20 | Whether it 's the Police Band or one from a nearby mill town , there are fewer nicer ways to end a summer day in Leeds than to sit in a deckchair at sunset , listening to the haunting sound of the trumpets and trombones . |
| 21 | Well I have to say straight away that I 've erm worked on a Council with the Labour Party in opposition with us , and now with the Labour Party in Government with us with us a very small group , and I have to say it 's much preferable to have the Labour Party in power than to have the Conservative Party in power as far as we 're concerned , because at local level the sort of things that we want to do — providing better services , caring of people , all those sort of things — we do n't disagree . |