Example sentences of "[adj] in [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those who do not , many are not interested in building up the sort of long-term relationship characterised by mutual obligations which a system built upon rights implies ; some are " voluntary " temporary workers only wanting occasional work , others are " involuntary " ones regarding their current job as , at best , " stop-gap " employment . |
| 2 | But it then transpired that BOC was also interested in taking over the firm by buying the remaining 70 per cent of the shares . |
| 3 | Food chain Tescos is thought to be interested in taking over the imposing building . |
| 4 | We could possibly arrange sub-contractors if anyone was interested in taking up the job in a given area . |
| 5 | The press coverage in turn has resulted in many other local authorities becoming interested in taking up the idea and pursuing their own campaigns . |
| 6 | But now it appears thieves are being increasingly interested in taking on the hole in the wall and that means bigger and heavier vehicles to do it . |
| 7 | II Maccabees is not interested in following up the destiny of the Samaritan temple , which must have indirectly benefited from the rebellion of Judas Maccabaeus . |
| 8 | ( If you 're interested in following up the question of how we know what 's going on in our own minds you might have a look at Duncan : I Know What I Know — or Do I ? — Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society , Spring 1971 , or just possibly my contribution to the symposium on recursion in the current Analysis , though this is a little technical . ) |
| 9 | Ring them , or better still go to see them all , and ask if they are interested in carrying out the survey , how much they charge and when they can do it . |
| 10 | ‘ A man interested in finding out the truth , and therefore seeing that justice is done . |
| 11 | Transito Ramirez worked in the Ministry of Education preparing teachers ' materials and was instrumental in drawing up the report : |
| 12 | Russia 's huge wartime losses in both life and material , culminating in those sustained during the Brusilov Offensive , were instrumental in bringing about the Russian Revolution in 1917 . |
| 13 | In the early 1930s he was instrumental in setting up the child department of the Institute of Psychoanalysis . |
| 14 | A major plank of our community investment strategy is to work in partnership with the voluntary sector , at both national and local levels , and forgive me if I use I B M to instrumental in setting up the north-east environmental initiative in partnership with the ground-work trust , business in the community and Gateshead Borough Council . |
| 15 | As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting . |
| 16 | It may be that , in some areas , registration officers were less than assiduous in chasing up the laggards . |
| 17 | The politics are quite different , and if the SNP MPs really expected to be hailed as conquering heroes , then it can only fortify the impression that they were either negligent or culpably naive in thinking through the consequences of their actions . |
| 18 | This in turn means being even more strict and exact in measuring out the food and counting up the calories . |
| 19 | It is at least disconcerting and sometimes painful to have the memories flooding back to spoil the enjoyment of success , and what could be more effective in bringing back the memories than the sight of an unknown stranger receiving an honorary degree apparently for no good reason . |
| 20 | The report was useful in pointing out the confused state of the Company 's knowledge of its charities , and certainly the generosity would have been impossible without rigorous financial control ( from 1810 to 1816 , for example , expenditure had exceeded income by £10,000 , largely because of the work on the Company 's almshouses at Acton ) . |
| 21 | Although many ‘ remedies ’ have been tried , none is very useful in speeding up the process . |
| 22 | ‘ Is he involved in writing up the stocksheets ? ’ |
| 23 | I think we can help the Soviet populations to get through the coming winter , with , with , food aid , cos I think there gon na have a very bumpy winter er , in the economic sense , and then I think we should also , er , be involved in sorting out the military future of Europe , because it 's Europe as a whole that we 're talking about now . |
| 24 | As an assistant audit manager , she worked on the accounting and reporting side during the USM placing in December 1986 , and was involved in setting up the consolidation of C&R 's US interests . |
| 25 | Even Roquelaure 's omission to tell him that he 'd been involved in setting up the deal with Iran seemed less mysterious as the Métro train cruised beneath the Paris streets . |
| 26 | Amitha : I was n't involved in setting up the Group , having then not accepted my lesbian identity , but from what I could see there was a lot of resentful and suspicious comparison between the BWG and the LGWG . |
| 27 | Having looked at the equipment and principles involved in setting up the tank , we now approach the art ( and science ) of aquarium decor . |
| 28 | Firstly , there are transaction costs involved in setting up the cash index required for strategy 1 . |
| 29 | Everyone at was involved in setting up the procedures under the guidance of technical manager assisted by . |
| 30 | The Prince of Wales was involved in setting up the agreement under which , had the sale gone ahead , Crown Estate commissioners would have leased the land to the Nature Conservancy Council and its successor the Scottish Natural Heritage Agency . |