Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of assessment incorporates a number of key elements and involves the assessors ( including users and carers ) in bringing to bear a wide range of observational , communication , interpersonal , cognitive , and analytic skills . |
| 2 | In the long run , however , the time wasted in nagging exceeds the initial investment in time and effort involved in training children that parents mean what they say . |
| 3 | You will play your part in helping to preserve a distinctive beer style for future generations to enjoy . |
| 4 | It remains to be seen to what extent the operation of the new mergers policy will prove successful in helping to preserve a competitive environment throughout the EC . |
| 5 | Mr Houghton still glows proudly when recounting Corning 's role in helping to create the electric light-bulb after Thomas Edison came to the company in 1879 with his ideas . |
| 6 | On the economic front Gorbachev in particular also stressed the importance of the trade agreement as well as several other agreements with US firms in helping to transform the Soviet economy . |
| 7 | The seminar will form part of a study-action programme developed by ASI to see what role communication can play in helping to resolve the various ethnic and religious conflicts in the region . |
| 8 | A small minority of overdose patients have psychological difficulties for which a problem-solving approach will be insufficient , except in helping resolve the current crisis . |
| 9 | Our Ministry for Women will have a central role in helping to develop a nationwide childcare strategy , including out-of-school and holiday provision as well as care for younger children . |
| 10 | Ward objectives are invaluable here in helping to identify the practical experience . |
| 11 | As they were forced to respond to the pressure for constitutional change the established interests saw a glint of light at the end of the political tunnel and came to entertain the hope that if the middle classes were allowed a subordinate share of power then they just might turn from being poachers to gamekeepers of the system and so side with the aristocracy in helping to keep the working classes in order . |
| 12 | What Kintsch and Vipond argue is that readability research has asserted an interest in helping to produce a sensitive matching of reader to printed text , but has in fact ignored one of the most vital aspects of this — the question of text-reader interaction . |
| 13 | Apart from simple evasive and defensive reactions , in which they play a dominant role , reflex arcs seem mainly to be involved in perfecting movements that are initiated by central mechanisms or in helping to maintain the nervous system in a state of adequate excitation . |
| 14 | THE role of the church in helping to topple the Communist order in Poland and East Germany , compounded by the fact that it was the fate of a Protestant clergyman in Timisoara that triggered the unrest in Romania , has raised the prospect of Romanian churches becoming a focus of political resistance . |
| 15 | Professor Ferguson and I said that a routine clinical history and examination ( preferably in private ) were essential in helping to establish the correct diagnosis and treatment of all patients , particularly in people who might be under the mistaken impression that their symptoms were due to allergy . |
| 16 | But more than that , it was evident that in struggling to attain a communal harmony which was in all likelihood unattainable , Britain ran the risk of throwing away her only chance of retiring from India in good order . |
| 17 | It is a great accomplishment in singing to take a melodic line up to a position of potential energy , and to hold it there , poised and ready to plunge like a kingfisher . |
| 18 | Gandhi acknowledged this and what he has to say about brahmacārya has to be taken as applying in the main to those who are able to accept the discipline involved in resolving to enter the third stage of life . |
| 19 | It creates difficulties for the jury ( in interpreting its meaning ) , for the victim ( in focusing the trial on her behaviour ) and for the Crown ( in endeavouring to overcome the stereotyped notions of consenting sexual relations from which the jury is likely to derive its interpretation of consent ) . ’ |
| 20 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 21 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 22 | Georgia 's President Zviad Gamsakhurdia continued to warn of the prospect of Gorbachev attempting to impose presidential rule , and he told the Georgian Supreme Soviet on Feb. 27 that he believed that Gorbachev was preparing to detach South Ossetia and the other troubled enclave of Abkhazia from Georgia if the republic persisted in refusing to sign the new Union Treaty . |
| 23 | Miss Fluck had not long changed her name to Miss Dors , and anxious to make her feel at home , the vicar decided to call her by her old name — though he was scrupulous in remembering to include the all-important L. ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , ’ he began when the great moment arrived , ‘ I am going to ask you to welcome a very special person here this afternoon . |
| 24 | His views on divisive issues such as abortion , crime and affirmative action were not clearly defined , however , and it was generally thought that this factor , together with his general pragmatism , would assist him in seeking to heal the current divisions within the Republican Party . |
| 25 | Natural selection gives the responsibility for progress to the individuals who make up the population ; in seeking to do the best for themselves , they help to guarantee the future of their species . |
| 26 | ( 3 ) In seeking to explain the unusual course the case had taken , the judge gave excessive expression to his own views in a manner which , although critical of the prosecution , was hostile to the defence . |
| 27 | In seeking to formulate an adequate policy for liberal adult education in rural areas , the demarcation between Chapters II and III over course provision was patently unrealistic . |
| 28 | THERE are certain problems in seeking to identify the intellectual foundations of the functionalist style in public law with a particular political ideology . |
| 29 | Francis Bacon took that line when he suggested that , in seeking to understand the immediate causes of physical phenomena , the experimental philosopher should not be diverted by metaphysical considerations concerning the purpose of the phenomenon in question . |
| 30 | As Southern has remarked , this passage , only part of which I have quoted , illustrates the difficulties encountered in those days of telling the time and Walcher 's anxiety for precision in seeking to establish the exact correlation between the phases of the moon and the solar calendar . |