Example sentences of "[noun pl] ['s] involvement in " in BNC.

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1 The Major schools ' involvement in project-related INSET , and their commitment towards a developmental study skills policy , also made the Major Project distinctive .
2 Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent .
3 The Customs probe stems from an on-going RUC inquiry into the businessmen 's involvement in alleged cheque fraud .
4 The general pattern established by blacks ' involvement in sport in the last two hundred years is that they have excelled in all those areas within their cultural reach and such excellence is repeated generation alter generation .
5 However , there are social sources for the high value placed on sport by blacks and , in this short and somewhat cursory account of blacks ' involvement in American sport , I have hoped to bring out some of them .
6 One of the most apparent features of blacks ' involvement in sport is the continued standard of excellence they achieve .
7 Superficially such a resolution might appear to have been no more than a minimum concession by the Federation in response to the seamen 's involvement in a wave of strikes by transport workers which had reverberated around the ports of Britain in the previous summer — an undertaking that it would withdraw its " ticket " if the union would do the same , so that neither side would attempt to control the supply of seamen and free labour disputes would cease .
8 In a letter to the policy boards of the two institutions on Sept. 18 , the Institute of International Finance ( IIF — representing 184 banks and financial institutions worldwide ) criticized what it saw as IMF " tolerance " of overdue interest payments to the banks , claiming that such arrears discouraged the banks ' involvement in the Brady Plan .
9 During the televised hearings on Aug. 30 the three bankers each admitted that lax credit controls had contributed to their banks ' involvement in the recent scandals .
10 It may well have been , but what about Western governments ' involvement in Vietnam , Laos , Cambodia , Chile , El Salvador , Nicaragua , Suez , and Northern Ireland ?
11 When Curteys hit at Lewkenor 's and his associates ' involvement in corn speculation he acted in the tradition to which we shall return , of the magnate 's dispensing reasonable justice , but it was a politically fatal manoeuvre .
12 Further , there are underlying themes that are relevant to the subsequent discussion of possible models for general practitioners ' involvement in purchasing .
13 Editor , — N Starey and colleagues ' paper on general practitioners ' involvement in management arrangements for commissioning services in the future raises important issues about the evolution of the purchasing function .
14 Coordinators ' involvement in special needs declined while their full-time class teaching commitments increased , as did their participation in school management , especially curriculum development .
15 The extent of teachers ' involvement in the review and the extent to which they see the scheme as a professional threat has no significant effect on the attitudes measured by this factor .
16 The outstanding success of the Tax Faculty illustrates the extent of our members ' involvement in taxation work .
17 Most importantly , it has been shown that a positive school ethos and high staff morale will increase pupils ' involvement in school activities and combat a lack of motivation .
18 In an attempt to sway Scottish shareholders of Distillers and to influence Scottish public opinion ( which was anxious that a merger with Guinness might reduce Distillers ' involvement in Scotland ) , Guinness promised during the campaign that the ‘ largest part of our business will be Scottish-based ’ , that Scotland would be the ‘ decision-making centre ’ of the company and that Sir Thomas Risk , Governor of the Bank of Scotland , would be appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the combined group .
19 They continue to have an impact on women 's involvement in public religion and on social attitude towards ‘ the female ’ .
20 In societies where the organization of social and economic life is based much more closely on kinship than it is for most people in contemporary Britain , women 's involvement in exchanging goods and services with female relatives plays an important role in maintaining the solidarity of the kin group .
21 More recently accounts of women confronting the rent collectors in Northern Ireland with the din of beating pots and pans are typical of women 's involvement in housing campaigns before and since ( Cow-ley , 1980 ) .
22 This remarkably self-conscious passage captures many of the contradictions present in middle-class women 's involvement in rescue work .
23 These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation .
24 But these positive achievements were enmeshed with the longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in social regulation and class disciplining .
25 Dr Burness , who gained her MA and doctorate at Dundee University , is studying Scottish women 's involvement in the political parties since 1800 .
26 The advent of Park User Groups will promote residents ' involvement in the way the parks are developed and managed .
27 Analysis of Prime Ministers ' involvement in parliamentary debates shows that in the course of an average year they will participate in six debates and make six statements on policy , usually on the economy , foreign affairs , and government business .
28 It should come through day-to-day teacher contact , and through language specialists ' involvement in support teaching and in helping their colleagues to use appropriate language consistently across the curriculum .
29 Gains ' involvement in the sport was a perfect example of role modelling for , in 1913 , he fleetingly met Jack Johnson .
30 However , Gorbachev on Nov. 17 salvaged his prestige with a short address in which he unexpectedly produced proposals for constitutional reforms to strengthen the central leadership and raise the level of the republics ' involvement in it .
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