Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my talks to teachers I often repeat these five views . |
| 2 | I have not wavered in the slightest degree in my attitude to this war , nor have I changed my mind as to the need of a final and complete settlement , but I want to say that in a war in which losses of such terrible magnitude are being imposed on all the Nations it appears to me not only wise but imperative that every country should use its political weapon to supplement all its military organisation , if by so doing it can defeat the enemy . |
| 3 | In my wanderings to the Staff Colleges and branches of the Royal Aeronautical Society all over the world , the USAF Academy , Colorado Springs , and also that incredible edifice of aeronautical and technical learning — the Smithsonian in Washington , the main question that always crops up and in almost entirely the same way is " how was it possible to maintain morale ? " |
| 4 | There is no point at all in my talking to those people , except on a preliminary basis ; they 're not that interested in my views . |
| 5 | But it was not in my interests to correctly interpret your question . |
| 6 | In discussing ( below ) answers given by the women in my sample to a test of self-attitudes , I shall present some evidence in favour of this interpretation . |
| 7 | It was in the midst of these preliminary discussions that his lordship entrusted me with a mission sufficiently unusual for it to have remained in my memory to this day , alongside those other more obviously unforgettable occurrences that were to take place during that remarkable week . |
| 8 | Wherever I play , I seem to be confident in myself and I am revelling in my return to fitness . |
| 9 | ‘ Y-yes , but in my anxiety to be gone I f-forgot them . ’ |
| 10 | During the whole time I was anorexic , there is only one reference in my diary to feeling cold , and that was when the school heating system failed . |
| 11 | so I drove it in my dream to the mechanic 's |
| 12 | The change in my approach to mathematics began when I joined an in-service Diploma in Mathematics Education.2 In the first week I was given the task of making a 3 x 3 x 3 wooden cube made up of three different pentacubes and three different tetracubes . |
| 13 | I wanted to maintain the fiction that you were Fabien 's daughter — until we were married at least , and I felt you were safe enough — secure enough in my love to be able to face the real truth . |
| 14 | I DECIDED to hand over a half share in my bungalow to my daughter now , and leave the other half share in my will to my grandchildren . |
| 15 | Falteringly , I sought to express these misgivings in my conclusions to a number of papers , conclusions that certainly brought no joy to my more optimistic colleagues in an emerging human ethology rooted firmly in the objective analysis of behaviour sequences and components . |
| 16 | We 've now moved on in part of question your question five B and erm in my response to that I 'm suggesting , and I hope it 's not just semantics , picking up the point made just before we broke for coffee , is that there 's all sorts of things called the countryside , and this policy is is directed at the open countryside . |
| 17 | I 've been a soldier myself , I was a soldier a long long time ago and er er training was different in my day to what it is today . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's creeping up , from about one per cent in my day to 15pc of engineering students are women . |
| 19 | In fact they 've been instrumental in providing some of the greatest pleasures in my life to date . |
| 20 | In my visits to schools as a member of the Kingman Committee , I was impressed on a number of occasions by the imaginative use of word processing in the classroom . |
| 21 | I was , however , pleased in my year to be associated with many papers and reports put out by their working parties : to government , select committees , special interest groups and to the national and transport media . |
| 22 | Before we take on staff and work out our programme we must elucidate what seem to be the key concepts in my instructions to date : ‘ pitch ’ , ‘ goal ’ , and ‘ quality of life ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ In my evidence to the Sizewell inquiry , ’ said Gittus , ‘ I say that 99 per cent of core melt accidents would not cause a melt-through of the concrete base mat . |
| 24 | However , I am prepared to confirm that in my evidence to the Select Committee I made it clear that the regional electricity companies were obliged to purchase the most economic electricity on the market . |
| 25 | Of the 20 trains travelled on from north-east Kent — Herne Bay , in my constituency to Cannon Street — two arrived on time , 17 were late and one was cancelled because no crew were available due to a clerical error in the rostering . |
| 26 | And I finally had to admit that I was failing in my marriage to you . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , I love , I love , ’ she told me over and over , ‘ I put nothing in my letters to you . |
| 28 | I DECIDED to hand over a half share in my bungalow to my daughter now , and leave the other half share in my will to my grandchildren . |
| 29 | In my answers to the Murray Commission , I was not very complimentary to 40-overs Sunday cricket , thinking based on the fact that this version of the game is the one furthest removed from ‘ proper ’ cricket , and that over the 1991 season I had become so disenchanted with the Sunday slog ( in both senses ) that I had played so consistently badly on the Sabbath as to persuade my employers that somebody else might be more usefully selected on the day . |
| 30 | Swamps of wild rush-beds and sloughs ' squashy traces , Grounds of rough fallows with thistle and weed , Flats and low vallies of kingcups and daisies , Sweetest of subjects are ye for my reed : Ye commons left free in the rude rags of nature , Ye brown heaths beclothed in furze as ye be , My wild eye in rapture adores every feature , Ye are dear as this heart in my bosom to me . |