Example sentences of "[verb] in [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will assist in completing the large re-signalling scheme here and , apart from the run-round when required , will assist with bi-directional operation at the station . |
| 2 | Banding is acceptable , but some of the bands are too wide and a further band within the £12,500 to £19,499 range should also assist in reducing the adverse impact on cars in the higher price range . |
| 3 | The second is to develop the promotional materials which can assist in conveying the main , general arguments for teaching history . |
| 4 | The key to freeing the body to regain its lost dignity lies in inhibiting the unconscious habit of muscle tension ; only then may we perform actions in such a way that they become as much a joy to carry out as they are to watch . |
| 5 | For these methods , used to regulate consumption on the basis of a drop in the economic power of the town relative to the village , will be quite inappropriate to a state of affairs whose basis lies in developing the productive forces … |
| 6 | The skill lies in choosing the right production company and working harmoniously with them . |
| 7 | On the contrary , I must know how things look to me : my only error lies in choosing the wrong words to describe it . |
| 8 | So it 's erm I suppose part of the humour lies in taking the metaphorical to the literal is n't it . |
| 9 | The cure lies in identifying the disturbed relationship , making such reparation as seems appropriate , and so restoring peace and tranquillity . |
| 10 | Mr Smith believes it lies in treating the educated public as reasonable people and facing up to the fact that their expectations do need satisfying . |
| 11 | As stated earlier , the key to achieving serious progress in the review and upgrading of old minerals permissions lies in amending the existing compensation regime . |
| 12 | Our interest lies in measuring the gastric secretory response to food , the major source of ingested bacteria . |
| 13 | As a boy of fifteen he had impressed his father , the Emperor Jehangir , with the taste he demonstrated in redesigning the Imperial apartments in Kabul . |
| 14 | While the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum , he helped in creating the new displays for the Museum 's collection of classical antiquities that had just come out of wartime storage . |
| 15 | basis for the adjustment and co-ordination of action unsurpassed in its own way … evolution consists in the gradual replacement of instinct by reason and , it is the final goal of reason … to bring all the experience of the race to bear in organising the whole life of the race . |
| 16 | Substantial progress has been reported in understanding the molecular pathology of presenile Alzheimer 's disease but this can not be extrapolated to senile forms before the epidemiology of presenile disease is known . |
| 17 | Given this situation , the particular configuration of state , ideology , custom , kinship etc. , can be seen as having a significance previously underrated in determining the precise nature of a mode of production . |
| 18 | In the next few weeks advertisements will appear for a chief executive who , if all goes to plan , will have a year to run themselves in and have a real say in building the new institution . |
| 19 | However , if the original social and education objectives of the course have not been met it has nevertheless succeeded in tapping the hidden intellectual and educational potential of many working-class men and women . |
| 20 | His photographs from this time succeeded in capturing the real China in a way that would have been impossible to a foreigner . |
| 21 | From an initial position of advantage in immediate post-war Britain — when food was required almost at any cost — the agricultural interest succeeded in capturing the regulatory mechanism through the exercise of highly successful pressure-group politics . |
| 22 | This is where the real debate is and where the Government have succeeded in taking the high ground . |
| 23 | In the event , minor engineering work to the existing twin-catalyst 6.7-litre pushrod V8 has succeeded in achieving the desired results . |
| 24 | In practice , a number of dealers had not succeeded in passing the little BIDS exam , and obviously had n't bothered to cheat their way through it either . |
| 25 | However , it would be simplistic to conclude that the two Mcs ( McLuhan and McDonald 's ) have succeeded in shaping the global village in the form of a fast food outlet or that the ‘ real ’ world is in the process of being reconstructed as a universal theme park along the lines of Disneyland . |
| 26 | In Tallinn , Estonia 's capital , on May 15 around 2,000 members of Estonia 's Russian minority opposed to Estonian independence staged a noisy demonstration during which part of the crowd rushed the gates of the Supreme Soviet building and occupied the courtyard , and briefly succeeded in replacing the Estonian tricolour flying above the building with the red flag of Soviet Estonia . |
| 27 | We left our particular section of this story back in 1910 , when the male trade-union movement had succeeded in stopping the future recruitment of women . |
| 28 | By 1971 , when the official counter-subversion program COINTELPRO was ‘ ended ’ , the wide range of tactics used , including assassination , heavily armed raids , falsification and fabrication of documents , misinformation as news , and tying up activists in endless trials , had succeeded in destroying the Black Panthers and other militant Black groups . |
| 29 | By 1971 , when the official counter-subversion program COINTELPRO was ‘ ended ’ , the wide range of tactics used , including assassination , heavily armed raids , falsification and fabrication of documents , misinformation as news , and tying up activists in endless trials , had succeeded in destroying the Black Panthers and other militant Black groups . |
| 30 | There is no doubt that swordfish have succeeded in piercing the bottom planking of boats , but if any were ever sunk in this way is unknown . |