Example sentences of "[adj] in [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its predecessor was extremely clear in dealing with the fundamental concepts of special relativity and although Rindler 's new book is more discursive and modern in its approach ( for example , its treatment of space time ) it does lose out in succinctness . |
| 2 | Many appointed in this way were ex-professional theatre actors or directors who for various reasons ( not always the best ) were interested in transferring to the amateur world . |
| 3 | Firms interested in participating in the next survey should contact Mark Brennan on . |
| 4 | They were still interested in affiliating to the Labour Party , though under the Labour Party rules this could not be recognised until 1940 . |
| 5 | It is essential to have a proper press campaign to explain to the general public — particularly those who are interested in serving in the Territorial Army — that the Territorial Army has a bright and promising future . |
| 6 | There is already evidence that mining corporations are interested in probing beneath the sedimentary rocks to find new deposits . |
| 7 | That 's fine , erm what sort I mean what are we , are we back in back in the old problems we 've had before with or is it written in something else ? |
| 8 | A literal rendering of an idiom is very rarely capable of serving as even an approximate translation ; it is most likely to be either uninterpretable , or quite unrelated in meaning to the original expression . |
| 9 | Company publicity manager said : ‘ This shows that the national TV campaign has done its job and the visitors Centre staff have been magnificent in coping with the big increase in visitors . |
| 10 | John 's on folders I mean would you feel comfortable in working in the same group as him ? |
| 11 | MCA were particularly effective in winning over the local media , notably the freesheet newspapers . |
| 12 | And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’ |
| 13 | Trade creditors , however , do not normally require personal guarantees ; therefore the ‘ corporate veil ’ is effective in guarding against the personal liability of a director for such debts . |
| 14 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 15 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |
| 16 | His stance should be relaxed , not fixed , since an unspecialized stance provides mobility and avoids the waste of valuable reaction time involved in switching to the best stance with which to meet an oncoming attack . |
| 17 | However , as we ex-Service members are constantly involved in appealing to the genral public for financial donations to our appeals , would it not be prudent to keep the expense of any such memorial to the minimum ? |
| 18 | Women were especially involved in looking after the sick animals where their patience and ‘ mothering instinct ’ were valuable . |
| 19 | Wherever you may locate your own particular response , I want in this book to discuss what is involved in giving RE the positive and creative image which it should have by virtue of the importance of its subject-matter , the challenging controversy it can generate , and the depth of feeling to which it can appeal . |
| 20 | Farm workers appreciate the status involved in working with the biggest or newest piece of agricultural equipment in their district and take an almost proprietorial interest in the purchases of their employer . |
| 21 | For the Aplysia group , the first neurochemical task was to identify the transmitter involved in signalling between the two cells , which turned out to be the ubiquitous substance serotonin ( sometimes called 5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-HT ) . |
| 22 | Organisational rules of this kind can be very helpful in steering between the excessive information flow , e.g. memoranda copied to many people , and excessive unilateralism , e.g. refusing further discussion after the issue of formal documents . |
| 23 | But the notion of marked rheme may prove helpful in accounting for the communicative force of some utterances . |
| 24 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 25 | Police powers were permissive in dealing with the lower classes . |
| 26 | Clover roots had become deformed in adapting to the polluted soil and had lost their ability to fix nitrogen . |
| 27 | The last attempt undertaken by the DHSS concluded as much and observed that the judgement of the ward sister was fundamental in arriving at the appropriate mix of staffing ( 1 ) . |
| 28 | All the common direct access devices , whether disk , semiconductor ‘ disk ’ or mass storage device , have a track concept that is important in deciding on the best arrangement of indexes . |
| 29 | On the other hand there 's a certain inertia principle operating , it is always easier for an administration to do less than to do more in dealing with the Middle East , and especially with the central Palestine problem . |
| 30 | The action of Louis XIV in sending for the first time , in 1679 , an envoy extraordinary to the imperial court in Vienna probably helped to accelerate this process . |