Example sentences of "in [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes result in a staggering improvement in sawing efficiency , with tests showing improvements of up to 20% efficiency in cross-cutting and 50% in rip-cutting efficiency . |
| 2 | While the plodding votary of meaning is anxiously inquiring out the sense … his fellow-worshipper , remembering that our eyes were not given us for nothing … roves , in gazing ecstasy from page to page , till here and there arrested by the choice vignette or richly tinctured plate . |
| 3 | ‘ This also reduces time in resetting machines . ’ |
| 4 | The investigation was hampered by difficulties in ascertaining cases , particularly for children who had died . |
| 5 | Part of the explanation lies in the greater liquidity of the second-hand market for residential dwellings ; corporate assets are more difficult to resell because of difficulties in ascertaining quality . |
| 6 | Accordingly where the second form of connecting factor is not applicable these Conventions apply only where all three parties involved ( supplier/lessor/lessee and supplier/debtor/factor ) carry on business in Contracting States . |
| 7 | Wives may act as secretaries but there is often difficulty in contracting sub-contractors during normal office hours . |
| 8 | As to water every river is dried up , and men are constantly employed in sucking wells . |
| 9 | While there he succeeded in attaching wires to a seriously ill patient and obtaining a continuous record of his heartbeat , probably the first electrocardiogram ever made , fifty years before its time . |
| 10 | Johnson Matthey provides the company with AuSub© silver glass die attach paste and gold preforms , used in attaching silicon die to semiconductor packages , for use in its semiconductor manufacturing process . |
| 11 | Rules of interpretation , in attaching meaning to situations and their constituents , determine which prescriptive rules are applicable . |
| 12 | According to the Wall Street Journal , scientists at the Murray Hill , New Jersey lab are using a new filtering technique to achieve the large gains in capacity , and say they have succeeded in transmitting signals error-free over 8,125 miles at 20 Gbps , double the previous record for long-distance transmission . |
| 13 | Writing serves cognitive functions in enabling the child to redraft and refine thoughts and ideas , but it also serves social functions in transmitting messages in the wider world . |
| 14 | This would only be effective if it were accompanied by changes in policing practice and prosecution policy . |
| 15 | As Simon Watney indicates in Policing Desire , hysteria over AIDS has fuelled press hate-campaigns , virtually fascist in their vindictiveness . |
| 16 | Gerald Graff , in Professing Literature , is sympathetic to Scholes 's approach , quoting him to the effect that what we call skill in reading involves ‘ a knowledge of the codes that were operative in the composition of any given text and the historical situation in which it was composed . ’ |
| 17 | This curse will reverberate through the whole play and will not cease in wreaking havoc on the whole of Lear 's family until , with death as a result , ‘ The wheel is come full circle ’ . |
| 18 | In poisoning cases girls of about 11 years old were usually treated after taking medicines while boys had usually taken substances such as alcohol . |
| 19 | In completing William of Sens 's work , he showed that he was more deeply influenced than his French predecessor by contemporary Continental developments . |
| 20 | He showed immense energy in completing assignments and generating new business , and was especially successful at convincing clients of the wisdom of his choices and candidates of the importance of the opportunity on offer . |
| 21 | Writing and reporting skills are now much more sophisticated than even five years ago , and much more is expected of nurses and health visitors in completing documentation , preparing care plans and relating progress and evaluation reports , and in providing background reports for the information and assistance of other health professionals . |
| 22 | These often relate not so much to poor manual skills or dexterity , although they may be slower than usual in completing tasks , as to problems in maintaining drive and interest , in adhering to a regular timetable and in forming the relationships with fellow workers which are necessary to effective completion of work tasks . |
| 23 | The criticism focused especially on the government 's delay in completing cyclone damage assessment and , except for a request for more helicopters , its failure to provide aid agencies with a detailed list of emergency supply needs . |
| 24 | Whether because of the easing of the general supply situation , or because of the improved coordination , the delays in completing power stations were progressively reduced in the 1950s , with completion on average nearly eleven months behind pessimistic schedules in the early 1950s but down to eight months by the mid-1950s . |
| 25 | Amongst those that had received assistance in completing forestry plans , Cameroon and Colombia have had difficulty obtaining funds , partly because of the prominence given to logging . |
| 26 | Tests using Auto cad bore this out with an overall 55% increase in shade operations falling to 16% in subtract operations . |
| 27 | Private sector employers , university entrance authorities , unions and arguably men in general , play their part in maintaining differences in ‘ an individual 's access to four types of social resources : income , power , information and status ’ ( Sugimoto 1982 p.17 ) . |
| 28 | In a veiled reference to a recent Kurdish motion endorsing the creation of a de facto Kurdish state in northern Iraq [ see p. 39164 ] , they pledged to co-operate in maintaining Iraq 's territorial integrity but stressed that they would not interfere in the internal affairs of Iraq 's Kurdish , Sunni and Shia populations . |
| 29 | These often relate not so much to poor manual skills or dexterity , although they may be slower than usual in completing tasks , as to problems in maintaining drive and interest , in adhering to a regular timetable and in forming the relationships with fellow workers which are necessary to effective completion of work tasks . |
| 30 | I will discuss in a moment how such transport might be achieved , but first I give an example of its role in maintaining life . |