Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [v-ing] [art] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | If the police were to use excessive force in exercising an admitted power , they would be acting unlawfully , and their victim would be entitled to use reasonable force preventively . |
| 4 | Group identity , as Karl Hufbauer shows in his recent book The Formation of the German Chemical Community ( New Scientist , 17 March , p 744 ) has shown , can be a powerful force in rejecting a new theory , especially if it was a ‘ passing french fad ’ and some thing typical of the ‘ flighty French ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The two most likely services to trigger a process of decline are the post office , which often acts as a multiple service facility ( Taylor and Emerson , 1981 ) , and the primary school , which is not only a central feature of the community but also a vital ingredient in retaining a young and active population ( Jones , 1980 ) . |
| 7 | As a case in point , Mr Foulds cites — perhaps optimistically — its £200m , so far unprofitable , investment in building a national chain of estate agents . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Assessing the effectiveness of a programme in achieving a desired level of results is the newest and most difficult area of work that the auditor has to adapt to . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Was it not his father who had been the prime agent in advocating the educational route to success ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What do we have in mind in taking a causal circumstance to explain an effect in the given sense ? |
| 15 | MacArthur 's political intentions must be kept in mind in assessing the various policies and initiatives for which he was responsible in Japan and Korea . |
| 16 | Finally , because this book seeks to assist users of search in selecting a good headhunting firm for their particular needs , the survey asked how companies had come across the headhunters they had employed . |
| 17 | Four — the concentration in using the whole people of God in evangelism and commitment . ’ |
| 18 | First plant the tree or trees , followed by shrubs carefully selected for their usefulness in supporting a diverse wildlife community . |
| 19 | Where , however , the cost of providing a service is balanced or overtopped by amounts received for the service from others to whom it is provided , the man in the street might well , and probably would , say that the provider had incurred no expense in providing the particular benefit under consideration . |
| 20 | The difficulties encountered by the QM Department in supplying the similar khaki uniform authorized for enlisted men are described in Part 1 of this article . |
| 21 | Trilateralism was certainly an effective antidote to isolationism , even if it did not extinguish the assertiveness shown by the Lord Chancellor 's Department in securing a faster growth in the rate of expenditure on the courts and legal aid than did the Home Office on the police and prisons . |
| 22 | The quantity s/√n is known as the standard error of the mean and the degree of uncertainty in estimating the standard deviation of the population from a sample is given by , the standard error of the standard deviation . |
| 23 | The quantity is known as the standard error of the mean and the degree of uncertainty in estimating the standard deviation of the population from a sample is given by , the standard error of the standard deviation . |
| 24 | Rather than ‘ playing safe ’ by retaining the styling features of the Renault 5 , the product planners looked to the future in developing the new Clio . |
| 25 | Television dollars have in the past paid for the rising salaries but today 's bidders seem determined to pay less than the $1.45 billion CBS and ESPN bid in winning the current four-year deal for network and cable rights . |
| 26 | However , during a break in filming The Big Sleep I did join him and Robert Mitchum for a drink at a nearby pub . |
| 27 | True as that may be , he does n't break stride in saying the new deal on rugby 's doorstep has ‘ created the potential for people like Tim Horan to make a lot of money ’ . |
| 28 | The former Cabinet minister joined the pro-Tory Daily Mail in urging an early decision on membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism , something which was ruled out by a senior Cabinet source as jumping ‘ from the puddle into the pond ’ . |
| 29 | But all that would be to ignore its symbolic potency in defying a despotic age just lived through and narrowly survived . |
| 30 | If he were to defeat a Labour government as soon as it had taken office , the Liberals would be accused of frivolity in precipitating an unnecessary election , especially if Labour contented itself with moderate policies as it intended to do . |