Example sentences of "[vb base] in [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms of reference must be defined in advance , and appear in writing in the opening statement . |
| 2 | The porpoises delight in riding on the bow waves of motor boats , which has frequently proved to be a fatal mistake . |
| 3 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 4 | The fundamental question proved to be this : can the job creation and training schemes for West Belfast succeed in turning round the economic marginalisation and discrimination which the area has traditionally experienced ? |
| 5 | ‘ Which no doubt accounts for the ease you display in dealing with the public , ’ he said . |
| 6 | And we will therefore need to exercise great judgement and realism in the assumptions we make in planning for the future . |
| 7 | Businesses are alarmed at the costs they foresee in complying with the plan . |
| 8 | In Yorkshire cricket they believe in planning for the future . |
| 9 | I believe in working towards the soul and spirit and beauty of things . |
| 10 | In the course of their observations several authors comment in passing on the confusion created by gratuitous editorial practices of reducing note-values to half those that the composer thought appropriate — a muddle which is exemplified perfectly by the printing of ‘ five minims ’ where , in terms of the music example supplied , ‘ five semibreves ’ was meant ( see line 27 of p.13 ) . |
| 11 | yes and , and crime of course , yes , absolutely , erm er so erm yeah er yeah and go in thinking about the er thinking about the questions erm |
| 12 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 13 | The schemes of their economic alliance , Caricom , rarely come to much , because its members buy little from each other , and compete in selling to the outside world . |
| 14 | But if you persist in going for the burn , you can do as the Californians , and add to your kitbag a packet of small pieces of adhesive-backed plastic called Frownies . |
| 15 | The area can boast its own teenage gangs , named after the Los Angeles Crips and Bloods , who carry Uzis and specialise in shooting from the windows of moving cars . |
| 16 | The difficulties that public sector graduates have in getting into the senior positions in the professions have little to do with their academic accomplishments and much to do with the cultural stratification in society of which academic institutions are a part . |
| 17 | So far I have tried to argue that the competences people have in dealing with the outside world vary in kind , adequacy , number and distribution . |
| 18 | Living with somebody depressive has made me depressed on frequent occasions and th th the feelings of helplessness that you have in dealing with the person 's depression . |
| 19 | Despite the political problems that basically anti-Western regimes have in dealing with the TNCs , the Arab desire for Western , particularly US , technology is the crucial test , as Bassiry and Dekmejian ( 1985 ) illustrate in the case of the TNCs and the Iranian revolution . |
| 20 | Besides , the variations in the pattern and emphasis of such courses seem to have grown up largely pragmatically , as a function of the organizational ‘ discretion ’ that both institutions and academics have in responding to the needs , pressures and priorities they have perceived over a long period of time . |
| 21 | experience in dealing with the learned professions and the controlling authorities . |
| 22 | the assignment must be absolute , it must be in writing , notice in writing to the debtor is required . |