Example sentences of "operating in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ghana at Suame Magazine in the city of Kumasi , about 5,000 craftsmen operating in makeshift sheds , in small garages , and in workshops , offer a complete repair service to Ghana 's fleet of ageing vehicles , all suffering badly from a ten-year shortage of spare parts . |
| 2 | Some of the instruments on the telescope , especially those operating in ultra-violet light , were not expected to be seriously affected . |
| 3 | This extremely ambitious programme , co-ordinated by the Institute of Education at Ahmadu Bello University and operating in six ( now ten ) of the northern states , sought to effect a complete change of approach in primary schools , through new courses in either Hausa or English medium depending on the policy in operation in the states . |
| 4 | Among other efforts , the hotel recycles paper , using proceeds to plant an orchard containing fast disappearing traditional varieties of apple , sends candles and soaps to charities operating in developing countries , recycles bottle and donates proceeds to charity , is researching ways of recycling kitchen waste , has minimised the environmental impact of its golf course , has bought energy-saving technology such as timer switches and has discovered that 70 per cent of its guests would be more likely to return as a result of its environmental practices . |
| 5 | Still , even operating in small change every night was expensive . |
| 6 | Of the S.A.S. , operating in enemy-occupied territory in small groups , unable to be entirely confident of their Maquis contacts and with the Gestapo as a constant threat , a special kind of courage was demanded . |
| 7 | According to John Collier , the chair of Nuclear Electric , the new station would capitalize on Sizewell B ( due to start operating in 1994 ) and could produce electricity at less than 3p per unit , compared to just over 4p for Sizewell B and between 6p and 8p for the older stations . |
| 8 | An analysis of routine policing at least allows the possibility of empirical research being undertaken on police forces operating in divided societies , which is itself important because studies in the sociology of policing focus almost exclusively on police forces in stable liberal democracies . |
| 9 | Wells ( 1983 ) estimated that there were as many as 8000 subsidiaries of firms from developing countries operating in other developing countries . |
| 10 | The paper describes the EC Ecolabelling scheme and identities similar schemes operating in other countries . |
| 11 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd is to build a plant in the city of Tonami in northern Japan to produce 16M-bit memory chips : the new factory is expected to start operating in two or three years , and is expected to cost $260m and have capacity of 15,000 a month . |
| 12 | We can see this system of dominant values as operating in two main ways . |
| 13 | The division is now operating in two distinct business streams ; |
| 14 | To add to our established production areas , we have begun operating in new areas and are negotiating terms for entering others . |
| 15 | Teachers in this country are unaccustomed to operating in such a regulatory environment where the curriculum is concerned ; and local authorities have for the most part exerted little control over what is taught . |
| 16 | But he believes that ‘ the report clearly indicates that , as far as taxpayers are concerned — and given the difficulties of operating in one of the most hostile parts of the planet — they have had value for money ’ . |
| 17 | The refinery , operating in one of the world 's most competitive markets , in the most difficult year for a decade , gave BP Oil a reasonable profit last year . |
| 18 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the Islander aircraft have established a reputation as the Rolls-Royce of the skies , being virtually indestructible and operating in one of the most hostile environments in the world ? |
| 19 | The study seeks to identify the main constraining factors operating in each country , and to see to what extent these factors , and the ‘ mix ’ in which they seem to operate , vary from one country to another . |
| 20 | Suppliers operating in industrial markets dominated by a small number of large companies may find it possible to base their annual and long term forecasts on the expected purchases of these customers . |
| 21 | British ambassadors are now operating in all three Baltic capitals . |
| 22 | ‘ While we are not directly involved in the small end of the leasing market , we believe lessors operating in that field have suffered more than those concentrating on big ticket transactions . |
| 23 | This is referred to as the principle of actualism by Douglas ( 1980 ) citing Russian geologists Gorshkov and Yakushova and , whereas it is rejected by Douglas and also by Ollier ( 1979,1981 ) , it is possible to believe that although the past development of an area may not be explicable in terms of the processes at present operating in that area , nevertheless study of present processes may collectively help to illuminate the past . |
| 24 | She was suggesting that ‘ relevant ’ skills are best learned in the context in which they are relevant , and that teachers can never be certain that their pupils are acquiring the ability to cope in any particular context unless they see them operating in that context . |
| 25 | Second , even if the questions posed in the surveys are quantitative in nature ( for example : What do you expect the inflation rate to be in the next year ? ) and the average expectations elicited from the surveys in a particular market appear biased and inefficient , only a few ‘ sophisticated ’ individuals operating in that market could make the market function as if rational expectations were operating , even though many of the individuals operating in the market are not behaving rationally . |
| 26 | Er the second initiative was to form industry groups , er textiles , retail , er automotive erm chemicals and plastics , none of those industry groups will be surprising to you since those are all the predominant industry groups in the region but again forming groups , three , four , five people again across practice areas to get to know about that particular industry group so that they can focus on er er companies that are operating in that group er put on seminars er and have small workshops , they would attract those sort of people , those sort of businesses in and in that way penetrate the er companies . |
| 27 | The fund , which was expected to begin operating in 1991 and would be administered by Norges Bank , the central bank , would be used to reduce the dependency on the oil industry by means of foreign investment and investment in non-oil domestic industries . |
| 28 | Opted-out schools , operating in atomised isolation , in competition with each other and with the rump of the LEA system are unlikely to be capable of collective action in support of whole community needs . |
| 29 | The UK 's first so-called commercial nuclear reactor , the Calder Hall Magnox , Cumbria , began operating in 1956 . |
| 30 | The repository would begin operating in 2006 . |