Example sentences of "in [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experiments of the last 30 years in bringing up the young have failed . |
| 2 | Russia 's huge wartime losses in both life and material , culminating in those sustained during the Brusilov Offensive , were instrumental in bringing about the Russian Revolution in 1917 . |
| 3 | His success in summoning up the devil he knew blinded him to any awareness of his own part in bringing about the final outcome . |
| 4 | The odds are that a relationship that engenders such trust in infancy will continue to engender it in later childhood too , and who is to say at the end of it all that one period was more crucial than another in bringing about the final result ? |
| 5 | I congratulate the Minister on his personal involvement in bringing about the increased commitment to renewables . |
| 6 | Leaving this setting and changing to a role where qualitative evaluation is more relevant and personal effectiveness in bringing about the desired changes can be more easily assessed can be stressful . |
| 7 | He was thus able to make , economically , this form of phosphorus which was a main factor in bringing about the widespread use of safety matches . |
| 8 | The role of natural selection in bringing about the gross changes in the evolution of animals is thus brought into question . |
| 9 | These succeeded in bringing out the noble , Edwardian character of the music ; but failed to convey adequately its restless , questioning and sometimes despairing elements — as Elgar 's performances did so clearly . |
| 10 | Obviously , the short lives of all those babies and children will have a great effect in bringing down the average figure as even the least mathematical of us will be able to understand . |
| 11 | The Founding Fathers in drawing up the American Constitution had , after all , two aims , not one . |
| 12 | Tagg looked for prompt and well-considered short lists of candidates , shrewd advice and help in drawing up the brief and specification , and some form of guarantee and after-sales service . |
| 13 | The government , indeed , had made careful preparations , both in conserving fuel stocks and protecting the power network with the aid of other European nations , and also in building up the co-ordinating powers of the police nationally to deal with mass picketing . |
| 14 | However the map does require more intellectual effort than does the routine not only in making decisions about how to proceed but also in filtering out the required information from the massive irrelevance ( for a particular task ) which is equally available . |
| 15 | So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics . |
| 16 | On neither occasion were the media at all interested in covering the good news ; they were interested only in hyping up the bad news . |
| 17 | Although the defection of Clarence , in particular , can only have enhanced Richard 's standing in the king 's eyes , the real contribution of the rebels to Gloucester 's advancement lay in opening up the existing power structure by removing several of Edward 's closest supporters . |
| 18 | Although the defection of Clarence , in particular , can only have enhanced Richard 's standing in the king 's eyes , the real contribution of the rebels to Gloucester 's advancement lay in opening up the existing power structure by removing several of Edward 's closest supporters . |
| 19 | For many years Plugger has specialised in searching out the rare and unusual fish which come into the American hobby , so I came prepared to take fish home with me — but nothing on this scale . |
| 20 | Because of the difficulties involved in searching out the true cause of an accident it is important to recruit highly qualified personnel , and it is no secret that AIB has sought — usually with success — to skim the cream off the aviation industry when it comes to personnel selection . |
| 21 | No harm in picking up the extra dough , so long as I was doing my client 's work at the same time . ’ |
| 22 | If you experience difficulty in picking out the individual knots , use a magnifying glass . |
| 23 | Saturday 's goal was the product of some poor defending by Celtic and the alertness of Mason in picking out the ginger nut of Alex McLeish , but , again , they relied on a defender to score . |
| 24 | And , of course , you should also be prepared to spend a good deal of time in looking out the everyday facts as well , those bustles and bonnets and antimacassars and plush tablecloths . |
| 25 | As was seen earlier , overtime plays a much greater role in pushing up the average gross weekly earnings of the male manual than of the male non-manual worker . |
| 26 | The Thatcher Governments have been successful in pushing down the relative pay of low-paid workers . |
| 27 | The mass demonstrations of the first year are rare these days and the army and Shin Bet security service have been chalking up success after bloody success in hunting down the masked youths who throw petrol bombs and kill collaborators . |
| 28 | The mass demonstrations of the first year are rare these days and the army and Shin Bet security service have been chalking up success after bloody success in hunting down the masked youths who throw petrol bombs and kill collaborators . |
| 29 | In adding up the total output of the United Kingdom , for instance , there is no single physical unit of measurement that can be used : the millions of different types of goods and services are all measured in different units — for example , steel is measured in tonnes and cloth is measured in metres and it is , of course , impossible to add tonnes to metres . |
| 30 | There is no doubt that this work has been enormously fruitful in pointing out the detailed strategies and rhetorical manoeuvres involved in the expression of racism . |