Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offeror and its financial advisers will therefore have to work to a large extent in isolation in determining the right level of consideration . |
| 2 | In Ireland the Ulster Farmers Union has joined their Southern counterparts the Irish Association in condemning the proposals , UFU President John Mulvenna claimed that they would further depress farming in Ireland . |
| 3 | First , Charlie remembering our first aid training in not giving me morphine , his quick thinking in turning the oxygen to full supply , and the Lord in granting my mother 's petition . |
| 4 | It was ironical that it was Matthew 's kindness in mentioning the school to Fairfax for his daughter Sandra which had brought about their meeting . |
| 5 | And what function do we accord , then , to Hitler 's public persona in explaining the process which led to Auschwitz ? |
| 6 | Davis Love III has muscled his way into the inner-circle with his rock-steady prformance in winning The Players Championship . |
| 7 | This may have a significant bearing on the scope and flexibility and approach used by the contractor in presenting the claim . |
| 8 | At their graves their families would unite with their beloved over a memorial meal and a drink , easing their grief in recreating the family intimacy , only transiently ruptured . |
| 9 | The issue of technology training is currently under review and the G M B , W E A partnership in establishing the Labour Telematics Training Centre at National College for a pilot project lasting twelve months is proof of how seriously we take this subject . |
| 10 | The appointee would not usurp the roles of the Institute president and secretary , it says , ‘ but should provide the opportunity for a higher public profile , the opportunity to become recognised as as the spokesman for the Institute , and the driving force in achieving the Institute 's longer term goals . ’ |
| 11 | Related to this is the final principal belief element , the conviction of the legitimacy of force in maintaining the subordination of catholic nationalists within the statelet . |
| 12 | If experimentally it is shown that there is no difference in the number of plural continuations which occur with two names and with two roles , then we would conclude that common description type ( rather than description content ) is a major force in controlling the likelihood of plural reference . |
| 13 | In the Habsburg lands Slav nationalism assumed different forms from those it displayed in the Ottoman empire , but it eventually had the same disruptive force in challenging the five-hundred-year-old supremacy of the imperial institutions . |
| 14 | the idea that every form of avoidance of expenditure quite indifferently of whether it consists of really wasteful expenditure or of a capital investment in developing the nation 's productive resources , is alike ‘ economy ’ … . |
| 15 | This requires massive investment in maintaining the habitat while the species is propagated in captivity and then a difficult and extensive period of re-introduction , re-stocking or translocation . |
| 16 | Underpinning ambition and progress was a FF20 million ( £2.5m ) investment in modernising the plant in 1987 . |
| 17 | Investment in upgrading the production process is driving a reorganisation of United Distillers ' operations in Scotland , with more than 100 million capital investment planned over the next three years . |
| 18 | A market for these plants is opening up both in Brazil and abroad , and he urges investment in researching the forest 's untapped potential . |
| 19 | President in seconding the report I would like to make the following points to our safety representatives who have to bear the responsibility for improving conditions at the workplace for our members . |
| 20 | Their superior intelligence capabilities have allowed them to exert considerable leverage in setting the terms of trade and the manner in which the separate stages of production in their customers ' factories are linked together . |
| 21 | This illustrated the leadership 's caution and carefulness in committing the entire Labour movement to their entry into office in a broad-based coalition headed by a Conservative leader long regarded as the bitter enemy of the movement but recognised as a formidable fighting man — Winston Churchill . |
| 22 | The 50-cent man is restricted to using the knife on the most delicate parts of the hide ( floorman ) or to using the ax in splitting the backbone ( splitter ) ; and wherever a less-skilled man can be slipped in at 18 cents , 18½ cents , 20 cents , 21 cents , 22½ cents , 24 cents , 25 cents , and so on , a place is made for him , and an occupation mapped out . |
| 23 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 24 | Happily Lyons himself subsequently used the more moderate opposition in making the important suggestion That formulation makes an interesting link between linguistics and phenomenology which more knowledgeable readers might care to pursue . |
| 25 | In a vote of no confidence , the PCI , a coalition partner in the city , joined the opposition in condemning the action taken . |
| 26 | Was it not his father who had been the prime agent in advocating the educational route to success ? |
| 27 | It was not put to him … that he authorised the son to act as his agent in procuring the execution of the documents . |
| 28 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
| 29 | Cause , in contrast , evokes only indirect involvement of its agent in bringing the comments into being : a " 6-inch torrent of water " can not make a comment but the fact of its passage through someone 's lot might certainly provoke uncharitable remarks from the owner . |
| 30 | The desirability of ‘ tying up ’ a settlement in one parcel sometimes give rise to a problem for the parliamentary agent in drafting the legislation , the question being whether to put in a protective clause at the outset , or to omit it and negotiate a settlement of such a clause for insertion at a later stage . |