Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing I learned in running the Grand Canyon are The Rules . |
| 2 | What accessories or trimmings might you use in displaying the following goods : |
| 3 | On this question of proven worth , what criteria did you adopt in choosing the five artists for the historical section housed in the tower of the Fridericianum ? |
| 4 | But this win was all about tactics , not times , and the way she demolished a field including two women who have beaten Liz McColgan in major championships — Elly Van Hulst ( who still holds the world record she set in taking the 1989 title ) and Lyn Jennings , the world cross-country champion for the last two years — must have whetted her appetite for Stuttgart and the ‘ real ’ world championships in August . |
| 5 | I conclude that none of them succeed in overcoming the biased nature of Christology and moreover that such attempts can not , through the very nature of Christology , succeed . |
| 6 | ‘ The moments we shared in making the nude paintings were best of all , and put a smile on my face . |
| 7 | Colleagues , if we believe in playing the full part in the European community then as Steven Hughes has just said we as a union must back the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 8 | And yet , despite our earnest desire for happiness , we persist in disregarding the spiritual depths of ourselves . |
| 9 | At Statham Lodge , we specialise in arranging the perfect business meeting or conference . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the methods employed by the utilitarian would always he justified if they succeeded in procuring the desired end . |
| 11 | One of the brigade 's proudest possessions is a letter from King George V , thanking them for the part they played in saving the Royal Train during the disastrous fire in the Works in 1933 , when £30,000 worth of damage was caused . |
| 12 | Save The Children are to be congratulated for the part they played in securing the nineteen eighty nine United Nations convention on the rights of the child . |
| 13 | In order to establish how police work is accomplished , therefore , it is necessary to examine such things as the common-sense notions ordinary policemen and women have about their role , what they consider to be the essence of police work , what typifications and categorizations infuse the practical reasoning they employ to accomplish policing tasks , and what ‘ recipes ’ or guide-lines they adopt in undertaking the various aspects of their job . |
| 14 | These inequalities are managed through the activities of interest groups , market competition , educational institutions , enterprise unions and the state as they participate in constructing the national interest . |
| 15 | Particular religions are true in so far as they succeed in expressing the primordial form of religion which in turn is comprehended only in the depths of particular religions . |
| 16 | He succeeded in producing the first development plan for Athens since it was liberated from the Turks , but in 1984 he was forced to resign over his proposal for establishing a green belt by bulldozing illegal slums in the suburbs . |
| 17 | He succeeded in reversing the downward trend of the railway 's fortunes , countering the advance of electric trams by introducing electric traction on suburban railway lines such as Liverpool to Southport , one of the earliest main-line electrification schemes in the country , completed in 1904 . |
| 18 | By this daring stroke he succeeded in abolishing the ultraviolet catastrophe . |
| 19 | In Northern Nigeria , he succeeded in detaching the judicial system and the technical departments from the grip of the administrative service , whose claims to omnipotence and omnicompetence were thereby permanently reduced from the heights to which they had risen a decade before . |
| 20 | He succeeded in isolating the essential germ-killing element , and created sulfanilamide , the first modern drug to work directly upon the cause of infection . |
| 21 | When the British state began its policies of social interventionism from 1945 , it succeeded in fragmenting the local power base of unionism by centralizing the sources of welfare and making them at least in part available across the sectarian divide . |
| 22 | He led in amalgamating the Royal Clyde with the Royal Northern . |
| 23 | Mr Smith believes it lies in treating the educated public as reasonable people and facing up to the fact that their expectations do need satisfying . |
| 24 | While the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum , he helped in creating the new displays for the Museum 's collection of classical antiquities that had just come out of wartime storage . |
| 25 | As a boy of fifteen he had impressed his father , the Emperor Jehangir , with the taste he demonstrated in redesigning the Imperial apartments in Kabul . |
| 26 | The graphics are of a high standard , the sound is good , the interface is easy for the younger user , and it succeeds in holding the younger users attention . |
| 27 | The risk that he took in bringing the whole Windsor Conference together was enormous . |
| 28 | His private emotions and idiosyncracies , and difficulties he experiences in internalizing the social norms of his community are his business . |