Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , now they 're both ethers try and name them first in naming them take the biggest hydro-carbon chunk that you can find and pretend that that was an alkane so the smaller chunk then becomes the substituant . |
| 2 | And Hill recognises he owes both his famous and late dad and his predecessor at Williams , Nigel Mansell , thanks for their efforts in helping him to land the chance he now has . |
| 3 | The workplace became the main interface between these economic and political pressures and the members of linguistic minorities … the role of language in the workplace is a crucial factor in helping us understand the relations of production in which members of linguistic minorities are involved . |
| 4 | Writers of porn in the States have also been quick to acknowledge their role in helping us to face the epidemic . |
| 5 | Woosup Koh , managing director of IMS ( Scotland ) , paid tribute to the involvement of Locate in Scotland both in bringing the company to Scotland and in helping it to complete the deal in less than two months . |
| 6 | The loss of his parents was very important in helping you understand the character of Piggy . |
| 7 | Most sections of the left were interested , not in stopping the war , but in using it to swing the balance of social power away from Britain 's traditional rulers . |
| 8 | The father 's real purpose in allowing me to visit the family was not so much to get help , but to recoup the £40 he had spent on satanist scriptures , which he wanted to sell to me . |
| 9 | Jonadab had made it clear that he had done his son-in-law a favour in allowing him to jump the queue and buy four of his grey shirehorses and now Stephen had to screw up his courage and confess that one was dead . |
| 10 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 11 | It would imply that Labour was ill-advised in ever tabling the amendment , and in believing it to undermine the opt-out . |
| 12 | She challenged the opposition leader to join her in urging them to accept the ‘ generous ’ pay offer ranging from 9 to 16.3 per cent over 18 months ‘ or at least to have a truce over Christmas ’ . |
| 13 | Attlee , for his part , was equally strong in urging me to accept the majority opinion . |
| 14 | Critical reservations about New Historicism are overwhelmed by the benefits it has produced in forcing us to reconsider the relations between texts , historical contexts , and the methodologies we use in both establishing and unravelling these relations . |
| 15 | Once Richard had launched his attack on the Woodvilles , moreover , he exposed himself to recriminations should Edward V come to power , and this in turn may have played some part in deciding him to take the throne . |
| 16 | Once Richard had launched his attack on the Woodvilles , moreover , he exposed himself to recriminations should Edward V come to power , and this in turn may have played some part in deciding him to take the throne . |
| 17 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |
| 18 | Another set of problems that has serious implications for the social survey involves issues to do with data analysis rather more than collection but , none the less , does have a bearing in getting us to understand the limits of the survey and of variable analysis . |
| 19 | And Dearle claimed that in addition to the small scale of their work and the inexperience of their members , the committees also suffered from a difficulty in gaining the support of employers , especially in persuading them to grant the young worker time off for further education . |
| 20 | But in terms of turnover in staff I would I would be fairly confident in saying we have the lowest one of the lowest if not the lowest in any direct sales operation . |
| 21 | They see no problem in joining us to visit the elderly of the village ’ . |
| 22 | The injunction that Churchill gave Hugh Dalton , in asking him to oversee the Special Operations Executive , was ‘ to set Europe ablaze ’ . |
| 23 | In Bejing he met the Chinese President , Yang Shangkun , the Prime Minister , Li Peng , and other senior officials . |
| 24 | That he was regretting his impulse in inviting her to spend the weekend with him was obvious . |
| 25 | Paige subsided , aware of a grim satisfaction in knowing he felt the strain every bit as much as she did . |
| 26 | This may not be easy to prove , as if the precaution is possible it must be taken , even if the risks involved in taking it outweigh the benefits . |
| 27 | The word has been interpreted as meaning that the precaution must be taken even if the risk involved in taking it outweighs the benefit ( Boyton v Willment Bros Ltd ( 1971 ) ) . |
| 28 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |