Example sentences of "operating [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matters are made worse if different selectivity processes are operating for each subgroup . |
| 2 | On Oct. 18 the House approved , by 379 votes to 37 , another stop-gap funding measure to enable the government to keep operating for another week . |
| 3 | Although he was operating under another name , rumours of his past caught up with him , and he escaped to America in the early 1880s . |
| 4 | Rooted in civil society and operating with some independence from inter-state relations , such institutions provided a potential check and counter-balance to the tendency towards anarchy inherent in a system of rival nation states . |
| 5 | The principle of least eligibility , not withstanding the massive prison building programme , seems to operating with some vengeance . |
| 6 | Further , if , as Woolgar emphasizes ( 1988a ) , reflexivity on the part of authors is a vital quality in helping others understand how social-scientific knowledge is produced , these reflections are important to demonstrate some of the social processes lying behind and operating upon this study . |
| 7 | Underlying these decisions is a tension between two principles operating within this area , the right to notice and the absence of any general duty to give reasons . |
| 8 | The study seeks to identify the main constraining factors operating in each country , and to see to what extent these factors , and the ‘ mix ’ in which they seem to operate , vary from one country to another . |
| 9 | ‘ While we are not directly involved in the small end of the leasing market , we believe lessors operating in that field have suffered more than those concentrating on big ticket transactions . |
| 10 | Second , even if the questions posed in the surveys are quantitative in nature ( for example : What do you expect the inflation rate to be in the next year ? ) and the average expectations elicited from the surveys in a particular market appear biased and inefficient , only a few ‘ sophisticated ’ individuals operating in that market could make the market function as if rational expectations were operating , even though many of the individuals operating in the market are not behaving rationally . |
| 11 | She was suggesting that ‘ relevant ’ skills are best learned in the context in which they are relevant , and that teachers can never be certain that their pupils are acquiring the ability to cope in any particular context unless they see them operating in that context . |
| 12 | Er the second initiative was to form industry groups , er textiles , retail , er automotive erm chemicals and plastics , none of those industry groups will be surprising to you since those are all the predominant industry groups in the region but again forming groups , three , four , five people again across practice areas to get to know about that particular industry group so that they can focus on er er companies that are operating in that group er put on seminars er and have small workshops , they would attract those sort of people , those sort of businesses in and in that way penetrate the er companies . |
| 13 | This is referred to as the principle of actualism by Douglas ( 1980 ) citing Russian geologists Gorshkov and Yakushova and , whereas it is rejected by Douglas and also by Ollier ( 1979,1981 ) , it is possible to believe that although the past development of an area may not be explicable in terms of the processes at present operating in that area , nevertheless study of present processes may collectively help to illuminate the past . |
| 14 | The chemicals giant announced its new company policy at a European petrochemicals conference in London , where it also pledged that all future plant will be built to the highest standards operating in any country in the world . |
| 15 | There are two structures operating in any meeting and these may be classified as follows . |
| 16 | Manchester 's Assistant Chief Constable Jim Paterson , said : ‘ It is typical of the terrorists who are operating in this country that they should act with a complete and utter disregard for the civilian community . |
| 17 | Conversely , a significant proportion of the companies operating in this country are off-shoots of enterprises whose head offices are situated abroad . |
| 18 | One answer is to the EFL schools and colleges operating in this country . |
| 19 | In relation to my experience in the so called western feminist movement , I really feel that race and class is a major impediment to the unity of even us women operating in this country . |
| 20 | The Trade Descriptions Act , 1968 has already been mentioned , but there are two very important voluntary bodies operating in this field — the Advertising Standards Authority and the Independent Broadcasting Authority . |
| 21 | We wish to express our deep concern with regard to the proposed ending of the twenty years tax concession granted to mining companies operating in this State , by the Government . |
| 22 | From help in solving effluent problems quickly and cost effectively , to maximising members ' own effluent processing business opportunities , EPC is the natural partner for engineers operating in this specialist area . |
| 23 | Courses operating in this way tend to be held on a system of day release or modules which include actual shifts in wards or departments . |
| 24 | Theorists operating in this way are guilty of the fortune-teller 's evasion and are subject to the falsificationist 's criticism . |
| 25 | WITH the two great abundance-bringers , Venus and Jupiter , operating in this area of your chart for much of the year , someone is smiling on you . |
| 26 | Been operating since this morning . |
| 27 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 28 | Over a period of nine years it has become clear that the breeders referred to in the cup of that name do not include those operating on this side of the pond . |
| 29 | But the miners ' strike did not only reveal that èlite groups of police officers were operating to some extent under national co-ordination and control . |
| 30 | That the project 's objectives took the form they did was partly due to the particular interests of those involved and partly to a knowledge of other experimental projects operating at that time . |