Example sentences of "to [noun] in the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It went down to Jim in the path lab .
2 In fact , the system developed during the transition to industrialisation in the early part of the present century .
3 The church was closed for repair and restoration during the years 1887–8–9 , when the old ruinous south chapel was pulled down to make room for the present commodious aisles , the reason for this being the increase in population due to industrialisation in the village .
4 The papers of the Lord Chancellor 's Department which are open to inspection in the Public Record Office are therefore a valuable but under-used source of information for the study of recent political and social history , public administration and law .
5 In the first year , £3,000 can be invested and up to £1,800 in the following years until you reach the maximum .
6 In her first run in the Sheikh 's colours she came second to Katies in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot and in October was a strong-finishing second , beaten a neck , to Palace Music in the Champion Stakes .
7 Invesco saw pre-tax profit drop 23 p.c. to £14.5m in the year to December , after an exceptional item of £16.6m .
8 But if you 've got excitement — and that 's anything from romancing to stalking in the dark — then you 'll be alert in the wee small hours .
9 Figures 4–6 , above , show that whereas only 5% of items from the Main Building were placed on reserve , this figure rose to 23% in the case of material from the Advocates ' Library , and 45% in the case of books outhoused in the Annexe .
10 It was possible to argue that Ostpolitik had , in the end , served to undermine the East German regime by reinforcing the liberal-democratic alternative to Communism in the minds of the East German people .
11 Expressed crudely , advocates of this approach tend to locate the essential Nizan in the act of resignation itself and proceed to interpret his allegiance to communism in the light of the events of September 1939 .
12 AMI HEALTHCARE , the private hospitals group , raised pre-tax profits by 15 per cent to £6.6million in the three months to the end of November .
13 The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package .
14 Heide Schmidt , 43 , who was deputy to Haider in the FPÖ but on the party 's liberal wing and was described as a skilled politician respected outside the FPÖ , was nominated by the FPÖ on Nov. 21 .
15 Losses on the Commercial Property account in connection with the Perth floods amounted to $10m in the first quarter and the terrorist explosion in the City of London at the end of April cost an estimated $10m net , excluding the reinstatement premium .
16 An opening at the Met Despite resistance by its more conservative elements , the Metropolitan Police has begun a process of reform that should lead to improvements in the way it operates and encourage better relations with the public .
17 It was also felt that the system proposed in the final user requirement would lead to improvements in the working conditions in the Registry , and , by introducing more interesting and rewarding procedures at this level , generally improve staff morale .
18 These modifications ( which amount mostly to improvements in the quality of pots , switches and plugs ) should make a significant difference to the way your wireless system and guitar interact .
19 These modifications pertain to improvements in the inspection and operation of locking and vent mechanisms .
20 Talks between the government and opposition parties in the summer and autumn of 1989 led to improvements in the detention centres .
21 These increases are attributed ( Floud , Wachter , and Gregory 1990 ) to improvements in the diet of the London poor .
22 His main thesis was that the rapid rise in earnings in advanced industrial societies was due to a large extent to improvements in the education and skills of workers .
23 This will be linked to improvements in the existing communities .
24 The Government have given renewed priority to improvements in the infrastructure — in roads and railways and other transport .
25 The findings will contribute to improvements in the effectiveness of health education materials concerned with substance abuse .
26 They have also led to improvements in the managerial skills of staff in these organisations .
27 Another West Indian , Ezra Moseley , was second to Pringle in the bowling averages .
28 Turnover increased from £81.6m to £106.1m in the same period .
29 But she was also , among other literary things , the wonderful and baleful orphan or isolate who is seen to advantage in the books she read : and it may be that cultural history is especially worth attending to in cases such as hers , where the subject is a dedicated reader , and the basis for a directly psychological account is even more than usually insecure .
30 As a divider ( Fig.5 ) , the Z input becomes the numerator , the denominator being at X. Gain is , again , adjustable by the use of an attenuator between output and Y2 , a technique that is used to advantage in the percentage computer in Fig. 6 , which gives the percentage deviation of A against B on a scale of 1 V per 1% .
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