Example sentences of "in [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given this , CL affords a rapid means of detecting different quartz grain populations in sandstones and in ascertaining their provenance . |
| 2 | The reader will probably object that a hideous primal trauma of parricide and rape is all very well for purposes of explaining the subsequent guilt and neurotic inhibitions of the perpetrators of these ghastly crimes , but can hardly hope to explain how they succeeded in transmitting their new-found superegos to their children , and certainly will not explain how , when all the primal fathers were gone ( a process which may have taken a considerable period of time admittedly , but which must have happened eventually ) , when there were no more primal parricides to be procured , human societies could still construct their civilization on the acquisition of the superego . |
| 3 | ( The problem will be in maintaining their interest ) ‘ The easiest to undertake is the vision from outside the buildings . |
| 4 | Such people need help in maintaining their environment in a condition which is safe for them until their mood improves . |
| 5 | At first they had been successful in maintaining their " right " — even against the Young King — but when Henry II himself marched into Berry , the balance of power shifted abruptly . |
| 6 | Six weeks later a great demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall demanded the establishment of a Merchant Seamen 's League to put the boycott into effect and " to assist them in maintaining their benevolent institutions for the aged and infirm " A short time ago , he declared in 1918 , he had received a document from four leading German trade unionists attempting to justify the U-boat campaign by arguing that " only a campaign of frightfulness against the British and neutral vessels trading to ports in the United Kingdom and the starving of the people of the British Isles would bring the war to a speedy close " . |
| 7 | Older people often find difficulty in maintaining their property . |
| 8 | She gave other useful pointers regarding service , training and other staff matters that have obviously helped Leeds branch in maintaining their position as a highly effective new business unit . |
| 9 | The official imposition of Christian orthodoxy at the end of the century reinforced the tendency to merge church and empire ; the Christian emperors became God 's agents in bringing their subjects under the yoke of Christ . |
| 10 | The project has caused schools to give priority consideration to their libraries , to invest their own time , resources , and energy in bringing their institution to the threshold of project involvement , to establish appropriate committees , and to undertake the difficult business of planning and producing a proposal . |
| 11 | The retiring incumbents had both served in their posts since 1983 and both had succeeded in bringing their respective enterprises out of loss and into profit . |
| 12 | For nature , after all , offers no other examples of causal chains in which events causally downstream refer back to the objects that are involved in producing their causal ancestors . |
| 13 | In the 1980s , the independents became a real force , recording technology is easily accessible , and bands are more energetic and enterprising in producing their own records and promoting themselves . |
| 14 | ( Nevertheless , it is clear from the report that the Committee took into account identified causes of indiscipline in schools in producing their recommendations . ) |
| 15 | Richard Brucciani , chairman of the CBI smaller firms council , said : ‘ The CBI are delighted to support the initiative that both Kall Kwik and Grant Thornton have taken in producing their booklet . |
| 16 | In producing their own versions of what the dialogue might have been , students will be practising language they are studying in their textbooks . |
| 17 | Some heads of department involved other staff in producing their self-appraisal reports , either through discussing what was to be written at department meetings and/or asking members of the department to write parts of it . |
| 18 | At the other extreme , there are groups who face an enormous task in realising their goals . |
| 19 | Strategy , in this everyday sense , is incompatible with the abolition of the subject , and it is therefore reasonable to suppose that Poulantzas is not proposing to explain the course of the class struggle in terms of the ingenuity exercised by classes and class members in realising their goals . |
| 20 | Charlie Woods , director of Scottish Enterprise 's Scottish and international operations , said that Scotland 's success in attracting the ninth Europartenariat offered a great opportunity for small and medium-size companies to make real progress in realising their ambitions on the European stage . |
| 21 | By contrast , recent partnerships have both parties equally active in pursuing their problematical objectives . |
| 22 | Shop stewards in the UK enjoy greater freedom in pursuing their own domestic negotiating relationships with their managements , especially since there is no alternative workplace structure to provide a competing focus of authority or regulation . |
| 23 | In pursuing their administrative and legislative strategies , the Reaganites were not fiddling at the margin or tinkering with the status quo . |
| 24 | ‘ In pursuing their war with Iraq the United States and its allies seem to have made the traditional error of interpreting Middle East politics with a map in hand . |
| 25 | In pursuing their brand of communism , the Khmers Rouges were responsible for the deaths of perhaps Im people , a seventh of the population . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Meanwhile Welsh international Mark Titley and Newbridge wing Alun Harries were putting on a show for the selectors at the Bridgend Sevens in helping their invitation team ‘ The Welshmen ’ ( management includes Messrs. Ring and Webb ) to victory 22–16 against Llanharan in the Final . |
| 28 | Burgoyne and Clark ( 1984 ) report that this was seen as a major reason for returning to live with parents after the break-up of a marriage , and the assistance which grandparents gave with child care in the short term was seen as vital in helping their daughter or son to re-establish themselves economically and to form new relationships . |
| 29 | Keegan ( 1989 ) has developed a typology which he argues illustrates the development process that companies undergo in transforming their marketing activities from the wholly domestic to the completely global . |
| 30 | As with all regulations , there are a few on the fringe who are willing to exploit the weaknesses of planning authorities or , in this case , the inherent difficulty they have in using their powers quickly and effectively . |