Example sentences of "in [v-ing] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that initial claim on your attention , he would proceed rapidly to inform you of his achievement in preserving the Albert Dock complex in Liverpool — now the largest tourist attraction in the north of England — from wanton , council-approved destruction ; of his professional status as author of the standard textbook on Concise Practical Surveying and the Structural Masonry Designers ’ Manuals ; of his intellectual attainment in completing a doctoral thesis in ten months ; of his physical prowess as a pensionable leader of Very Severe rockclimbs and skier down the most precipitous slopes . |
| 2 | Word order is extremely important in translation because it plays a major role in maintaining a coherent point of view and in orienting messages at text level . |
| 3 | Contribution of Late Permian palaeogeography in maintaining a temperate climate in Gondwana |
| 4 | Sympathy for the Soviet Union was a major advantage to the Labour Party during the campaign , because there had been widespread admiration of the achievements of the Red Army , not only in maintaining a successful resistance for almost four years but also in crowning that resistance with the capture of Berlin in spring 1945 . |
| 5 | Axelrod also emphasizes the importance of predictability and ritual in maintaining a stable pattern of mutual trust . |
| 6 | Fish and other livestock are essential in maintaining a healthy environment in the pool . |
| 7 | However in maintaining a high level of performance , it uses vast amounts of oxygen from the system which is detrimental to the stock , unless it is rapidly replaced . |
| 8 | The upper class in Western societies have normally succeeded in maintaining a high degree of social closure , and show very distinct values and patterns of behaviour . |
| 9 | Their preferred description of it has been overinclusive thinking which has frequently been used to explain certain forms of thought disorder seen in psychotic patients , such as the tendency to cognitive ‘ slippage ’ , loosely associated ideation , and difficulty in maintaining a tight boundary for abstract concepts . |
| 10 | Although the Mulroney government had generally succeeded in maintaining a tight rein on federal spending , the country 's budget deficit had remained stubbornly high at around Can . |
| 11 | The Radio 2 Roadshow focused attention on the challenges the organisation faces in maintaining a beautiful coastline for the public to enjoy and highlighted such important environmental issues as coastal and cliff erosion , nature conservation , water pollution , disabled access and dogs on beaches . |
| 12 | Only Maazel is as successful as Dutoit in maintaining a true sense of forward momentum , as opposed to the usual effect of a lengthy ‘ dream interlude ’ . |
| 13 | One major agency was once engaged in naming a new brand of margarine . |
| 14 | President Kenyatta asked for it to be translated into Swahili ; and members of his Cabinet paid tribute to its part in bringing a bloodless transition to self-government there . |
| 15 | This succeeded in bringing a great number of men from the surrounding parishes , as well as most of the inhabitants of East and West Looe . |
| 16 | Will HDTV succeed in bringing a new generation of TV receivers into homes and other environments ? |
| 17 | Among the new shoes are two highly competitive races , the Gel Elite Racer and the Wakiihuri Racer , while the Gel 120 succeeds in bringing a fresh look to the popular 100 series . |
| 18 | It also succeeded in bringing a desired discreteness into physics . |
| 19 | It includes the difficulties involved in producing a coherent definition of racism ( cf. |
| 20 | In fact , they had great difficulty in producing a satisfactory list of categories , and had to revise it as work progressed . |
| 21 | We can look to our institutions of higher education becoming more rational in their inner processes , with their members working together in articulating a shared view of an institution 's aims and fulfilling them in a corporate way . |
| 22 | In pursuing a critical theory of ideology I will be following commentators like Abercrombie and Simmonds , who also felt the lack in Mannheim 's schema of a critical edge for the sociology of knowledge . |
| 23 | There is a suspicion that functions are being duplicated at home and in Europe and paid for twice , a situation not experienced by operators in other EC states which are members of the JAA because the CAA is unique in pursuing a government-driven policy of total costrecovery for its activities . |
| 24 | Although individual students may seek to press the system to its limits , whether in securing credit for prior learning in the admissions process , or in pursuing a formal appeal against a felt injustice over assessment , or in taking advantage of such open learning arrangements as are available , the student body as a whole seems depressingly unconcerned about its academic rights . |
| 25 | In using a cognitive approach to the task of interpreting it may be possible to find a base for comparing the language systems . |
| 26 | The Irish as a people are still imagined as involved , at least tacitly , in perpetuating a contemporary form of savagery — terrorism . |
| 27 | Freedoms there are , but in encouraging a liberal approach to the national work plan which all teachers follow , freedom to ignore the work plan entirely has not been ceded by the state . |
| 28 | Clearly there are dangers involved in drawing a hard-and-fast line between the two principles of participation and identity . |
| 29 | The church wishes to acquire the adjacent land ( a new site ) , apply for planning permission and subsequently sell the new site , realising a profit that may be applied in building a new church on the existing land . |
| 30 | By July 1981 , physicists and engineers at CERN had succeeded in building a suitable source of antiprotons that could feed the SPS . |