Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in escaping from the world to remote places and using lay brothers to find a vocation in tilling the soil , the Order was soon transformed into a wealthy economic organization . |
| 2 | Should the Slater Foundation accept , then , that it has performed a function in goading the LTA forward and retire from the arena and let them get on with it ? |
| 3 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |
| 4 | As this oesophageal motor activity is non-peristaltic in nature , it probably doies not have a function in clearing the oesophageal lumen from residual contents or refluxed materials . |
| 5 | honesty and a reduction in passing the buck |
| 6 | Some analysts said President Endara faces a struggle in establishing the legitimacy of his new government . |
| 7 | READERS might like to know that they can play a part in choosing the UK ‘ People of the Year ’ . |
| 8 | Everyone else finally dispersed on that Sunday , each having played a part in writing the Leeds Congress into the history book of the deaf of the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | The fear of precisely such pressure had played a part in persuading the Government not to push ahead too fast with the construction of a war economy . |
| 10 | These results certainly require us to take seriously the notion that retrieval process play a part in determining the outcome of a latent inhibition experiment . |
| 11 | Finally , the energy barriers to rotation about primary main chain bonds must play a part in determining the freedom of chains to slide relative to each other , both in the crystalline state and in the amorphous . |
| 12 | Other influences : In many cases the absolute size of the price of the underlying share may play a part in determining the option premiums . |
| 13 | The concept of technology , which plays a part in determining the appropriate model for the structure of authority in the organization , originally referred to levels of complexity in decision-making and manufacturing processes in industrial firms . |
| 14 | Dr Berg has suggested that the spread of family-based cottage manufactures played a part in determining the low status and value of women 's work even though it , and that of the increasing number of children they produced , was both necessary for the manufacture and significant for family earnings . |
| 15 | Just as the architecture built in the last thirty years in East and West Berlin reflects the different societies , so will what is to be built , play a part in determining the future of the united city . |
| 16 | Wandering around the cavernous warehouse that contains the Neighbours sets in Nunawading , Melbourne , she fondly points out various props which have all played a part in shaping the history of Ramsay Street . |
| 17 | The Government could play a part in advocating the recycling of plastics if it were to levy a small charge on each recyclable bottle . |
| 18 | The AL of maintaining a safe environment is , by nature , multidimensional and therefore , not surprisingly , many different factors play a part in influencing the way individuals carry out the activities involved . |
| 19 | Since the object of the session in the first place was to play a part in helping the patient to deal successfully with a problem which has been troubling him , provided the session fulfils that role we do not need to worry unduly about whether it was a real regression experience or not ( although , as I have already stated , I feel quite strongly that the majority of cases are indeed genuine ) . |
| 20 | Several different Ca 2+ -sensitive enzymes have been proposed to play a part in converting the probable induction signal , the entry of Ca 2+ through the NMDA channel , into persistent modifications of synaptic strength . |
| 21 | It is wholly inappropriate and a slur on parents ' intelligence to imply , as your correspondent does , that coercion and possibly intimidation have played a part in achieving the present levels of support for change . |
| 22 | Each employee plays a part in taking the product from its beginnings as raw PVC to flooring installed at the customer 's premises . |
| 23 | Parliament , particularly the House of Commons , plays a part in controlling the Executive in two ways . |
| 24 | It would , therefore , make sense if axons played a part in controlling the number of oligodendrocytes that develop in a myelinated tract . |
| 25 | Chapter 4 will show that the courts do , or at least could , play a part in controlling the quality of management decision making by laying down and enforcing appropriate standards of care and skill , but requiring judges to determine whether managers have complied with what are essentially procedural decision-making criteria is quite different from asking them to participate in the decision-making process itself . |
| 26 | It is possible that the highly artificial experimental condition could hav eplayed a part in increasing the number of HAPCs . |
| 27 | Additional factors which play a part in ensuring the endemicity of these worms are , first , the ability of the L1 to survive for months in the faecal pellet , and secondly , the persistence of L3 in the intermediate host for the lifetime of the mollusc . |
| 28 | But he also sub-divided these manifold elites into a governing elite , composed of all leaders who directly or indirectly play a part in ruling the society , and a non-governing elite who make up the remainder of the elites ( 1935 , vol. 3 , pp. 1422 — 4 ) . |
| 29 | Statute has also played a part in broadening the ambit of the record . |
| 30 | Lack of rigorous endoscopic criteria defining variceal haemorrhage such as those described by Buset et al , lack of standardisation for the time of entry , non-uniform management of the variceal haemorrhage during the whole study period , analysis of either the first or the recurrent episodes of haemorrhage and differences in patient sampling or variables recorded may all have a part in explaining the contradictions among some of the studies published on this matter . |