Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [art] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The culture is about accepting the status quo , about accommodating to the demands of the industrial system . |
| 2 | the management were , were clearly trying to identify the , the whole process in regard to the machine shops in particular first of all , so that when they did move into the fitting er departments , they would have all the materials there necessary to , to give our members the , the feeds you know , for , for producing the m er items . |
| 3 | It is seen , in the hands of white Rhodesians , as an excuse for keeping the status quo . |
| 4 | Dr Gluckman , who raised the high numbers of deaths in custody with the state president and senior cabinet ministers in 1991 , published his findings after performing a post mortem examination on behalf of the family of Simon Mthimkulu , who died in custody . |
| 5 | Yet another document published by Uzuncarsili is useful for establishing a terminus post quem for Molla Fenari 's return , namely the for Karamanoglu Ali Bey 's Ak medrese in Nigde , written and registered by the hakim of Nigde , Muhammad b . |
| 6 | POLICE investigating a complex fraud case accused a man of inventing an alter ego so he could open bank accounts in his name , a court heard . |
| 7 | And , from my experience , I can only believe that in some measure , the courts are guilty of supporting the police in this attitude , for the sake of maintaining a status quo . |
| 8 | Conservation is incidental but the emphasis on encouraging traditional agriculture and other land management practices generally works in favour of maintaining the status quo , conserving wildlife habitats as a consequence . |
| 9 | State funding of the arts and of opera in particular is not even remotely capable of maintaining the status quo , and precious little of the commercial sponsorship that provides the lifeline to all the major opera companies is targeted at contemporary works . |
| 10 | Another critical prerequisite is the existence of a set of external conditions that makes the choice of maintaining the status quo either unlikely or impossible . |
| 11 | This view regards conflict as a means of maintaining the status quo , as a useful basis for evolutionary — rather than revolutionary — change . |
| 12 | For a radical social theorist such as Sahlins ( and for a number of feminists ) sociobiology is no more than a means of justifying the status quo as inevitable and ‘ natural ’ . |
| 13 | For him , the vital aesthetic principle of individuation can now be found only in the esoteric discontinuities of modern art , and is alone capable of subverting the status quo . |
| 14 | Very Theatre National Populaire — the noble soup kitchen of theatrical nourishment at Chaillot created by a saint of the Left , Jean Vilar ; probably the most successful example in French cultural life of persuading the hoi polloi to vary their entertainment diet . |
| 15 | whether it is a real constraint in terms of erm of locating a er er a new settlement . |
| 16 | The new Finance Minister , Ruth Richardson , 39 , a lawyer from a wealthy farming family , was a firm advocate of continuing the laissez faire approach of Labour , and extending deregulation into the labour market and the social services sector . |
| 17 | The supplementary method of assessing a Grand Prix star 's chances is to rate his amatory performance . |
| 18 | In fact , the decision was taken because at the time the government was pursuing a policy of shadowing the Deutsche Mark , a policy which it could be called upon to defend in Parliament . |
| 19 | At the time of King William 's visit in 1861 , Prussian policy had been simply that of holding to the treaties of 1815 with no thought of altering the status quo . |
| 20 | And in turning the fear into laughter by speaking it out , she is participating in one of comedy 's most valuable functions : that of disrupting the status quo . |
| 21 | The αβ T-cell-deficient mice should be useful for analysing the in vivo functions of γ T cells . |
| 22 | But as I say as paying the er r I , I 've seen them when I 'm going round the site er I got an option from the firm , I 'd be allowed time off my work , my actual work on the , on the , on the site , to go round and collect their unions dues . |
| 23 | Duncan had been appalled to find that women had the vote ‘ down South ’ and got off to a shaky start in the motor trade when one of the local spivs conned him into thinking a Pina Colada was the latest model Ford built in Spain . |
| 24 | In the early days of shanty-town development , there were suggestions that the squatters would become a strong political force with the potential for threatening the status quo . |
| 25 | I am sure the majority of taxpayers in the rest of Britain are now resentful of the huge cost of rebuilding and compensation for retaining the status quo in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | ‘ capitalists with strong economic interests in maintaining the status quo . |
| 27 | Our ministers have done an extremely good job in maintaining the status quo . ’ |
| 28 | Roger Price , in his masterly account of the modernization of rural France , has demonstrated the pivotal role of the railways in transforming the ancien regime economy of the countryside in the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | First , the concern of socialists with justice is a rebuke to many of us in the West who tend to be far too complacent in accepting the status quo and much which is unjust which goes with it . |
| 30 | On the other hand , there was also some complacency in accepting the status quo and in the rationalization that the performance of the traditional catalogue was acceptable after all . |