Example sentences of "in [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there he succeeded in attaching wires to a seriously ill patient and obtaining a continuous record of his heartbeat , probably the first electrocardiogram ever made , fifty years before its time . |
| 2 | Writing serves cognitive functions in enabling the child to redraft and refine thoughts and ideas , but it also serves social functions in transmitting messages in the wider world . |
| 3 | This curse will reverberate through the whole play and will not cease in wreaking havoc on the whole of Lear 's family until , with death as a result , ‘ The wheel is come full circle ’ . |
| 4 | Advertising is a potent force in maintaining smoking as an apparently socially acceptable habit : it swamps the health education message , reinforces the habit for those already hooked and recruits new smokers , the great majority of whom start as children . |
| 5 | In particular the government forces encountered problems in maintaining control of a town once rebel forces had been defeated ; when armed units moved on to another troubled area , rebels could regain control . |
| 6 | However , relatively speaking , Reagan and his staff , in the first year of his presidency , were brilliantly successful in maintaining control over the budgetary process and were able to ensure that the budget that eventually emerged was reasonably close to their original blueprint . ’ |
| 7 | The guide wire exchange technique can be useful in maintaining access to the common bile duct when the diagnostic cannulation has proved difficult , thereby aiding a successful sphincterotomy or stent insertion . |
| 8 | Indeed 75 per cent of fatalities in the iron and steel industry were reported in subcontracting firms during the 1970s ( Shirai 1983 p.74 ) . |
| 9 | Pledging that he will attempt to fight off all rivals with that incredible pay package , Cuervas said : ‘ We would be very interested in bringing Keane to the club . |
| 10 | McCrea ) , in the context of security , that the Government 's policy must always be conducted within the rule of law , and that that is a critical factor in bringing terrorism to an end . |
| 11 | Brandt 's emphasis on the annual variation of light and nutrients was modified by Alexander Nathansohn ( 1878–1940 ) , who pointed out that the vertical circulation of water played a vital role in bringing nutrients to the surface . |
| 12 | We 're sure Alan Sugar will be pleased to know he still has one fan left , and we have to admit that he did play a great part in bringing PCs to the masses . |
| 13 | ( v ) Pupils should learn how to organise and express their meaning appropriately not only for different specified audiences ( as for key stage 3 ) but also for generalised unknown audiences , eg in producing instructions for a game , letters to a newspaper , publicity campaigns , etc . |
| 14 | Demographic pressures were signally important in producing change in the educational system . |
| 15 | Fourthly , the mammalian carnivores are all alike in producing assemblages with no complete skulls at all . |
| 16 | What these experiments can not reveal is whether both the equivalence and distinctiveness treatments are effective in producing changes in the discriminability of the cues — clearly the observed difference could be obtained if just one of these treatments worked . |
| 17 | If it is the wife who dies , her personal representatives may not be aware of her interest in the house or may have difficulty in producing proof of the same , much to the detriment of her estate . |
| 18 | No longer able to live with the difficulties inherent in producing films from a British base , they lost touch with reality and discarded common-sense . |
| 19 | They imitated him in producing histories of the Capetian kings — the earliest being Suger 's successor 's work on Louis VII 's crusade . |
| 20 | That is where the real shortfall lies — in producing children with the skills , knowledge and enthusiasms to generate an innovative , competitive Scotland . |
| 21 | This decision was mainly due to the success achieved by AR 's in producing 13% of the company 's total new business income in 1991 — the company only began appointing ARs in 1989 . |
| 22 | As stated in the Introduction , this book is mainly concerned with ordinary settlements ( be they villages or farmsteads ) engaged in producing food from the land . |
| 23 | Even if this does not produce actual fracture it may cause very slight opening up of any planes of weakness in the presence of water , a case of a mechanical effect aiding a chemical process and a possible explanation of the success of the second part of Grigg 's experiments in producing alteration on the surface of his block of granite ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 24 | In charting development within the group two samples of boys have been used to reduce the task to manageable proportions . |
| 25 | For example , commercial microwave ovens are now an essential piece of equipment in catering establishments throughout the UK . |
| 26 | As the new government consolidated itself , Garway returned to his more customary role as the watchdog of the nation 's purse : in 1689–90 he was active in pursuing miscarriages in the supplying of the troops in Ireland . |
| 27 | On Sept. 24 , however , the communist New People 's Army ( NPA ) called off its two-month ceasefire , accusing the government of duplicity in pursuing attacks against the NPA , and of making a secret deal with the USA to keep the bases open . |
| 28 | If income support is in payment , there is unlikely to be any advantage for the local authority in pursuing maintenance as the DSS will simply reduce their contribution by the same amount . |
| 29 | This would at least save hours of research in pursuing vessels through a vast number of published reports , with only a frail memory for a guide . |
| 30 | Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it . |