Example sentences of "in [v-ing] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The UK legislation allows for the scrutiny of mergers , but is generally silent on the acquisition of dominant positions as opposed to the behaviour of firms in maintaining and exploiting these positions once achieved . |
2 | It laboured under the title Certain Improvements in Producing and Regulating Electric Currents , and Improvements in Electric Time-Pieces , and in Electric Printing and Signal Telegraphs . |
3 | Most day-release is concerned with socialising representatives into forms of collective bargaining which are under challenge , and carefully avoid encouraging creative thought about representatives ' role in generating and sustaining organisational change . |
4 | The Chaplain to the University works within the University in pursuing and promoting Christian ministry in all its facets . |
5 | ‘ It provides an ideal opportunity for those who want to gain practical experience in using and applying media-related skills . |
6 | The objective of the research is to explore a new and distinctive area of investigation within the field of social policy — the role played by the media in shaping and reflecting those policies . |
7 | Q. I am interested in keeping and breeding ornamental goldfish , but I would like to broaden my interest by showing them . |
8 | This was so serious a threat to their efficiency , especially in wartime , that officers and NCOs had to spend much of their energies in checking and forestalling possible efforts by their men to desert . |
9 | In all this , music has a significant role to play in enabling and fostering closer relationships between the denominations . |
10 | This in itself is no bad thing , because academic librarians have not been shy in adopting and adapting new techniques , yet it has to be questioned whether user education , with little institutional finance available , needed such stimulation . |
11 | I left Henry Compton after my fifth year and went to Wandsworth Technical College to study electronics ( which was the ‘ in ’ thing in those days ) , as I was interested in amplifying and building electrical equipment . |
12 | Computer-aided design companies , by contrast , have concentrated on tapping the speed offered by object-oriented techniques in assembling and modifying vast quantities of blueprints and design data . |
13 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
14 | Thus , French High Commissioner Pignon was hoping for American assistance in replacing and repairing military equipment ; said he was prepared for US military aid to go direct to the Vietnam government ; but also , in order to deter a Chinese invasion of Tonkin , was trying to talk the US into sending warships , particularly aircraft-carriers , into Indo-Chinese waters . |
15 | As the 1970s progressed , Moscow succeeded in establishing and maintaining diplomatic links with the majority of Latin American and Caribbean states . |
16 | Rhon Willingham has been appointed systems development executive , working closely with Martin and Michael in establishing and maintaining effective systems support for the customer service and trade marketing departments . |
17 | State officials must be interested , for the sake of their own power , in guaranteeing and safeguarding healthy capital accumulation , an argument which anticipates the neo-pluralist position of Charles Lindblom ( pp. 293 — 5 ) . |
18 | The Profitboss invests time in developing and maintaining personal contact , whether it be internally with the service engineers or people from Accounts , or externally with his customers or potential customers . |
19 | We now know too much about child development to allow this kind of testing to be inflicted on our schools , so we must co-operate in developing and using appropriate tests while , at the same time , resisting inappropriate proposals . |
20 | While there are obviously problems in developing and using this type of notional scale it has some utility . |
21 | Although generally working independently , Cary did collaborate notably with John Wallis , who seemingly inspired his diversification into publishing c .1783/4 , with his brother William in globe production and his brother Francis in engraving , and , most significantly , with William Smith [ q.v. ] and others in developing and publishing geological cartography . |
22 | In view of these observations it is also interesting to note that there seem to be very few social scientists within communist countries who are involved in developing and testing Marxist-Leninist theory . |
23 | Looking at the database our programmers in writing the central application and in developing and enhancing that application , are at one level totally independent at the functional level are totally independent of the underlying database technology . |
24 | Third , some analysis will be undertaken as to the role played by photography in forming and reinforcing these expectations of the environment . |
25 | The main obstacles in this area lay in analysing and approaching suitable targets . |
26 | The USA was to contribute US$25,000,000 ; funding both for the new science centre , and for help in moving and storing nuclear warheads safely , would come out of a US$400,000,000 fund approved by Congress in 1991 to help dismantle and remove Soviet nuclear weapons . |
27 | The inclusion of a counselling element into such groups is based on the understanding of their potential value in facilitating and enabling personal change , by helping group members understand their own thoughts and feelings , and in changing their coping behaviour to the situations in which they find themselves within the group . |
28 | It 's here that outside help will be most useful , in the form of the technological , financial , environmental and other expertise of specialists with the risk management consultancies including those of the big insurance broking companies , in evaluating and recommending appropriate action for specific risks . |
29 | providing information about the role of the teacher in mediating and supporting such activities ; and |
30 | There were a number of contacts to make , both in New York and on the West Coast ; Cadogan 's was thinking of expanding to San Francisco to take advantage of the considerable artistic activity out there , and he had been asked to spend a week in reconnoitring and reviewing possible sites . |