Example sentences of "in [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ) . |
| 32 | An Arabic-speaking Tunisian-American , Habib was the son of Phillip Habib , a former government agent who had played a big part in breaking up the French Connection in Marseilles during the 1960s . |
| 33 | If BL , with its strong union presence , is prepared to negotiate changes in the work organisation of maintenance when microelectronics-controlled machinery is first installed , and management makes some headway in breaking down the traditional craft structure , then presumably substantial changes are on their way in other companies . |
| 34 | A strong sense of regional identity characterises the Boards and has undoubtedly assisted in breaking down the traditional divisions between capital and labour . |
| 35 | Many of the large old psychiatric hospitals have succeeded in making good use of their facilities , in breaking down the whole organization into smaller , semi-autonomous units , and in ensuring generally that the emphasis is on the treatment and rehabilitation of the patients rather than simply on their care and custody . |
| 36 | However , he was quite correct in assuming she would not contact the person who had phoned her until she was sure he was well out of the way , so she set to work in sorting out the various tasks to be done . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | But Durie still feels uncomfortable at the club who backed him to the hilt in wiping out the damaging ‘ cheat ’ slur . |
| 39 | Jersey cops put out an alert to the Yard asking for assistance in tracking down the globe-trotting 27-year-old . |
| 40 | The figures for the three months to the end of November indicate that the policy of high interest rates is beginning to have an impact in slowing down the across-the-board demand for imports which has set Britain on course for a worst ever annual trade deficit . |
| 41 | Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things . |
| 42 | So for the animal-watcher it becomes a challenge , with every brightly coloured species encountered , to find out what particular advantage there is in giving up the quiet life and facing daily exposure . |
| 43 | Eighteenth July — it appears that a large attack by more than 1,300 British tanks on the enemy positions on the Caen front has been successful in tying down the German Panzer divisions . |
| 44 | Food chain Tescos is thought to be interested in taking over the imposing building . |
| 45 | However , an outside developer has expressed a serious interest in taking over the A-listed building and running it as both as a commercial mill and as a tourist attraction . |
| 46 | However , the bank can also use an exchange traded futures contract to further reduce its risk in taking on the forward contract . |
| 47 | He understood now , all right , and there was some comfort in taking on the complete burden of guilt , a kind of purgative sense of martyrdom , not unrelated to self-pity . |
| 48 | By the time the boat reached the island Sven Hjerson had still not succeeded in shaking off the ample , daisy-sprinkled form of Arabella Buckley . |
| 49 | There , despite the identical name of ‘ collective agreements ’ , it is regarded not as an adversary process but rather as a means of ensuring the full cooperation of management and workers in carrying out the economic and social plans and improving the management of undertakings ( ILO , 1980 ) . |
| 50 | They did improve in carrying out the correct sequence of treatment ( assessment , open airway , check breathing , check pulse ) . |
| 51 | Langley was a Household official who had assisted Robert Passelewe in carrying out the great series of Forest Eyres and inquests south of the Trent between 1244 and 1249 . |
| 52 | Our ignorance of the methods makes if difficult to establish accurate estimates of the effort involved in carrying out the various tasks ; we may at least gain some idea of the order of magnitude of the work . |
| 53 | The sometimes insensitive and arbitrary methods employed in carrying out the regrading exercise has aroused scorn , derision and even despair from those who were led to believe that substantial pay increases were to be honoured at last . |
| 54 | ‘ this approach is in accord with the approach of the general law of principal and agent in relation to fraudulent misrepresentations made by an agent in carrying out the specific instructions of his principal . |
| 55 | made clear , this approach is in accord with the approach of the general law of principal and agent in relation to fraudulent misrepresentations made by an agent in carrying out the specific instructions of his principal . |
| 56 | And , in practice , the external auditor will take account of this in carrying out the statutory audit . |
| 57 | Those who act at the place of business must be doing so on the business of the company and not their own account ; the crucial question has been said to be , ‘ Does the agent in carrying out the foreign corporation 's business make a contract for the corporation , or does the agent in carrying out his own business , sell a contract for the foreign corporation ? ’ . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Additional benefits of tree-lined streams , in reducing the effects of nitrates and phosphates in the water and in shading out the choking growth of summer weed in a river bed , which may otherwise necessitate further expensive dredging , have been recognized by Dutch and German scientists for over a decade . |
| 60 | But the military were accused of intimidation by the opposition ; their role in putting down the pro-democracy uprising in nineteen eighty eight , has n't been forgotten . |