Example sentences of "in [noun sg] to get the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you eating enough foods rich in fibre to get the roughage you need to smooth the passage of the motions through your system ? |
| 2 | The article goes on to say that this does not mean these Tory papers are working in concert to get the Tories elected . |
| 3 | North thought Reagan might qualify , like Teddy Roosevelt , for the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Iran-Iraq War , and that Secord was directly in line to get the Medal of Freedom . |
| 4 | In haste to get the mail . |
| 5 | There A would have had to take proceedings for ‘ discovery ’ against B in Chancery to get the disclosure , and another action in the Common Law Courts for his actual claim . |
| 6 | WE MUST stage a really hefty strike in order to get the system changed . ’ |
| 7 | In order to get the support , yes , and to or in order to end feudalism , which was , was the , the priority . |
| 8 | In order to get the bait out as far as possible , the lead weight was swung round and round , ever faster , and then released . |
| 9 | And as they came towards the end of the day he had to do some quick thinking to find out whether he 'd have to keep the men working right up to the last minute in order to get the stint , of three-quarter of an acre 's ploughing for each man , finished . |
| 10 | In other words , the sex-mad tom-cats destroy the litters of kittens in order to get the females back on heat again more quickly . |
| 11 | He wonders if she has told her husband the docteur — he imagines a cheerful Depardieu in a white coat — of the steps she has been obliged to take in order to get the part . |
| 12 | Morton saw that Leonard and Mrs Cohen were very close , and nothing emphasised this more than her willingness to take them and their friends out for meals , especially to a favourite Greek restaurant where she would be the life of the party , not least in singing , and encouraged by good wine which the restaurateur would ply them with in order to get the mood of the evening going . |
| 13 | In order to get the feel of the difference of stress timing and syllable timing you could use the above sentences , and first say them again with stress timing . |
| 14 | The object was not to provide refreshment but to hold up the party for two or three minutes in order to get the press into position . |
| 15 | In 1911 he bought the Observer , in order to get the services of its editor , J. L. Garvin [ q.v. ] , as editor of the Pall Mall Gazette . |
| 16 | in order to get the air in Charlotte you 're just going to wear yourself out darling I would n't bother do you |
| 17 | It was important for the demonstration aspects of the initiative to have it geographically dispersed in order to get the message across that community care maybe can work but also has its problems . |
| 18 | In the middle of the 1970s we held gallery openings at breakfast-time in order to get the light . |
| 19 | ‘ All of us have to do more in order to get the deportees back to their homes as soon as possible , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The choice facing the Government is whether to take a risk with inflation by reducing interest rates in order to get the economy out of recession , or to take no risk with inflation , await a recovery in the domestic economy ( now more likely because of a lower pound and lower interest rates ) , and a decline in German interest rates , before rejoining the ERM . |
| 21 | Almost before the mooring was completed the beaching party were towing out the beaching legs in order to get the aircraft into the hangar as soon as possible . |
| 22 | It was an interesting airport , the first one I had visited where , in order to get the planes to land and take off , they have to go and shift the seals off the runway . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you think another caddie could have killed Froggy in order to get the job with Harley ? ’ |
| 24 | And so you 're assuming the output rate in order to get the length of that bar . |
| 25 | But I found in order to get the thing moving |
| 26 | Cos if you leave d go the cord straight away the cord just goes shooting up there , the weight inside comes down here and you lose the cord and you have to take the whole lot p t apart in order to get the thing to work again . |
| 27 | Mr Faulks said of the application for the house loan : ‘ What we say he was doing here is , being unable to obtain loans in any other way , he is pretending to be selling his house to this fictitious person in order to get the bank to give him £43,000 on the strength of his house which they would otherwise not have given him . ’ |
| 28 | It is therefore to the teaching of the Old Testament about the Spirit of the Lord , the ruach adonai , that we shall be looking in order to get the background for the Christian doctrine of the Holy Spirit . |
| 29 | So they 've learnt that they ca n't implement land reform unless they 've got the support of the popular masses and it 's got to come from them cos ultimately they , they 're pursuing land reform in order to get the peasant support and if that 's not what they want there 's no point in just erm imposing it on them . |
| 30 | If money disappeared from this world entirely , then I would not have to come here in order to get the sort of education I want . |