Example sentences of "engaged [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 27 September Mr Burton was asked to prepare , in conjunction with Vial , a plan for a building for the College , and to superintend any temporary erection or alteration in the premises engaged for the College . |
| 2 | He was going out and would be engaged for the following few days . |
| 3 | The unions provide advice in a variety of ways , some using legal staff engaged for the purpose and others relying on the general full-time officials supported by recourse to the private practitioner . |
| 4 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 5 | Certainly , the habituation process described in Chapter 2 will be engaged during the first stage of a latent inhibition experiment and might be expected to play some part in determining the outcome . |
| 6 | However , the information collected will be determined by the situations and activities in which the child is engaged during the period of time being sampled . |
| 7 | The distinction may not seem an essential one , but there is a difference : " strike-breaking " suggests a degree of capability for the work and willingness to do it which may have been possessed by the " rats " of " London and Liverpool " , 28 but was unlikely to have been displayed by the handful of girl apprentices actually engaged during the strike . |
| 8 | In December 1991 the Bar Council engaged as the Bar 's Equal Opportunities Consultant for a limited period to advise the Bar Council on strategy for implementation of the policy . |
| 9 | And yet , although Lloyd George was the author of the Free City proposals , they were approved by the Americans and the French , and had the Poles not been so heavily engaged against the Soviets by this time , they might still have attempted to seize Danzig by force — there was certainly little the Germans could have done to prevent such a move . |
| 10 | Note that the target must be an infantry or cavalry Mob of the kind that has to take an Animosity test itself , not a chariot , war engine etc , and not a Mob which is already engaged against the enemy . |
| 11 | Two days later , Momoh announced that allied Nigerian and Guinean troops were also engaged against the invaders . |
| 12 | Through its representation on the RAC , the District engaged with the Cambridge Board in a variety of discursive negotiations during 1938 and 1939 about their fundamental differences . |
| 13 | They are engaged with the issues not only as professionals , but as parents as well . |
| 14 | Note that the target must be an infantry or cavalry Mob of the kind that has to take an Animosity test itself — not a chariot , war engine , etc and not a Mob that is already engaged with the enemy . |
| 15 | So , by the time they went to Scotland , Boswell had visibly engaged with the project , which accounts for the everyday discipline he displayed in writing his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides . |
| 16 | General Aoun was then engaged with the Syrians on the one hand and Shamir Geagea 's Christian Lebanese Forces on the other . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman will be aware that we are now engaged with the United Nations in the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq . |
| 18 | If those interests are engaged with the law respecting the poor wretches who were arraigned for sorcery and witchcraft , he will find the law and the social background most luminously expounded in the prefatory note to L.A. contra Agnes Finnie ( pp 627–636 ) . |
| 19 | Your old ships , my lord King , were already engaged with the ships of Earl Siward and getting much the best of it . |
| 20 | We 're also engaged with the European Community in discussion over a bid for funding to develop social work , child protection and alternatives to institutional care and to other child care systems within Romania . |
| 21 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 22 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 23 | Not all the clergy and all the religious orders have been actively engaged in the pursuit of this ideal , but one or two orders have been ; for example , the Christian Brothers are devoted to the ideals of a Christian and catholic education , and supporters of the concept of a nation dedicated to God and at the same time distinctly Irish . |
| 24 | Charles E. Wilson , the newly appointed Secretary of Defence , graduated as an engineer but soon realised there were better things in life and he took a course in commerce and went into business and is now engaged in the most complicated of businesses — that of running a country . |
| 25 | Thus , a critical theory seminar engaged in the deconstructive analysis of a poem ( or , more likely , of another theoretical text ) is seen , in some muffled way , to be striking a blow against Thatcherism . |
| 26 | Traditionally , people who wrote criticism often also wrote poetry or novels , and engaged in the discussion of politics and public affairs . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , professionalism on American lines is still the ideal that academic administrators uphold , since it can indicate to sceptical politicians and the public at large that universities are engaged in the visible activity which generates ‘ performance-indicators ’ . |
| 28 | It is thought that in January the Bank sold pounds nine months forward when it was engaged in the task of restraining the pound 's advance . |
| 29 | It is a place to which resort , during the formative years of early adult life , those desirous and capable of learning how people engaged in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake go about their business . |
| 30 | It was a particularly testing time at British Steel as we were still engaged in the major retrenchment exercise and we also had the very difficult task of keeping the steel mills operating during the miners ' strike . |