Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have genuine difficulty in keeping to the diet in this book or any other diet , your best bet is to go back to the calorie-counting method , supervised by a diet club , dietitian , or doctor . |
| 2 | The Scheme has been successful in contributing to the increase in the proportion of suspects who receive legal advice at the police station , although that proportion is still relatively low . |
| 3 | Indeed , in looking at the structuring in a different guise , we have got erm , something less than seven percent of total costs , that relate to erm , indirect management and administrative costs . |
| 4 | In looking at the way in which schools and colleges were managed after the 1988 Act , the Commission pointed out that LEAs would have a less directive role but would still have to monitor the services of schools and colleges . |
| 5 | For example , in looking at the way in which primary-school teachers respond to new ideas in environmental study and mathematics , Briault and West ( 1990:20 ) pointed out that teachers came to understand environmental studies more fully by engaging in such work [ i.e. action learning ] , became more confident about investigative approaches in mathematics by undertaking problem-solving activities in a supportive , non-threatening climate . |
| 6 | Lord Keith attempts to ‘ distinguish ’ the situation in Marleasing from the situation in British law . |
| 7 | Nine out of ten of the 2/2 Independent Company were from the dry country districts of Western Australia , used to living in the bush , butchering their own meat , and improvising motor repairs — skills they found essential in living off the country in Timor and during their first year or so as an Independent Company stationed 250 miles ( 400km ) south of Darwin in the little town of Katherine with its corrugated buildings , its one hotel and two stores . |
| 8 | If the matter really can not be resolved at an informal level , then it should be formally communicated in writing to the person in charge of the activity . |
| 9 | If you wish to cancel your booking this must be done in writing from the person in whose name the booking is invoiced to the travel agent through whom the booking was made or to the Invoicing Dept , Redwing Holidays Limited , Groundstar House , London Road , Crawley , West Sussex , RH10 2TB , and sent by Recorded Delivery if you have booked with us direct . |
| 10 | In turning to the manner in which the Report deals specifically with the " needs of business " it is immediately clear that the requirements of cultural nationalization are to be allowed completely to overwhelm the servicing of such needs . |
| 11 | But a few months later , a US State Department official , in commenting on the tension in Anglo-American relations , reminded the US National Security Council that the British forces at Suez were the only effective Western fighting force in the Middle East . |
| 12 | In other words , the disposition of the reader is a factor in moving along the cline in either direction . |
| 13 | Since the Royal Commission on Population found that out of a sample of 7,625 pregnancies only 147 resulted in criminal abortions ( equal to 2 per cent of all pregnancies and 17 per cent of all abortions ) , it is unlikely that changes in the abortion rate played a major part in accounting for the decrease in working class fertility . |
| 14 | Somewhat less laconically , he wrote to the Viceroy in 1927 : ‘ I still think we were right in buying off the strike in 1925 , though it proved once more the cost of teaching democracy . |
| 15 | ‘ Have we the moral right to ask the crew of the salvage vessel or lifting vessel , not to mention the divers , to join us , in Lieutenant Denholm 's elegant phrase , in drifting through the stratosphere in vaporized orbit ? ’ |
| 16 | Most women had been brought up to do sewing and dressmaking : it was no accident , nor was it a question of " natural aptitude " that a teenage girl entering the composing-room was likely to be more dexterous at first than a boy , and to apply both the physical and mental habits acquired in sewing to the job in hand . |
| 17 | The 25 workers at Julie 's company Ranzau were in mourning at the office in Milton Keynes yesterday . |
| 18 | The outcome has been a major advance in thinking about the curriculum in holistic terms , in which curriculum planning is done not just in terms of subjects and their traditional labels , but also in terms of areas of experience , skills and processes as well as knowledge , and personal and affective aspects as well as the cognitive . |
| 19 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow is only too well aware of how successful the central institutions have been in working with the expertise in the Scottish Office . |
| 20 | At this stage , therefore , we shall say nothing about the range of theories which can be brought to bear on international relations , if one believes in working from the inside in pursuit of understanding . |