Example sentences of "in [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to .
2 Sometimes it has played a pioneering role in bringing about new developments , such as the Renault agreement on the duration of holidays which then became generalised by legislation ( Despax and Rojot , 1979 ) .
3 The main problem associated with this approach is the difficulty of judging how far a rise or fall in the number of inhabitants was the vital factor in bringing about those changes of which we can be certain , notably those in wage and price levels .
4 ‘ He believes the meeting was a constructive and valuable exercise and proved useful in bringing out prominent issues .
5 Her background as a social worker helped when she intervened in the child abuse row and played a key role in drawing up new guidelines on how the social services should handle future cases .
6 This is a measure that will cause real and conspicuous hardship , and the Government should occupy the year before its implementation in drawing up proper measures to soften its impact on vulnerable groups , not all of whom will be covered by upgrading of benefits .
7 To date , it has been co-ordinated through a small Rome-based unit which assists tropical countries in drawing up national plans preventing forest loss .
8 It suggested that probation services took the lead in drawing up local initiatives for young adult offenders at risk of custodial sentences .
9 It says that they have a right to have their own needs assessed , the wishes of the family and other carers erm , have to be taken into account carers have to be involved in drawing up local plans
10 Certainly there could be links between the two universes of discourse of biology and psychoanalysis , but it was premature and unnecessary for Freud to engage in building up such links before he had established his theory within psychoanalysis .
11 Those who are working as agency or casual workers " involuntarily " , whilst looking for a more permanent job , are also , by definition , not interested in building up long-term relationships with their employers .
12 In the meantime , he said , the French were making genuine progress in building up native forces although it would be some years before the Vietnamese would be competent to defend themselves .
13 There is a dilemma in building up modular degrees , whether undergraduate or postgraduate , on a discrete unit basis where the studies should be integrative across subjects .
14 In its wide range of forms , whether a road sign , a photographic image , or a subtle advertisement , visual communication is a constant influence in shaping out daily lives and colouring our attitudes and opinions .
15 He was therefore interested in stepping up controlled deliveries , and for that he needed intelligent , well-motivated CIs who could pose as suppliers .
16 Communicating in more than one language and trading in several currencies is a way of life in much of Europe , so many of our Community partners are already comparatively experienced in trading across international boundaries .
17 These , in turn , had derived from an experiment in wiring up 18 homes in Milton Keynes — hardly a representative scheme .
18 Be very specific in spelling out desired actions , avoid being vague ( not ‘ I wish she 'd be more helpful ’ but ‘ I wish she 'd help me with the weekend shopping ’ ) .
19 It does claim to be an explanatory account in singling out important features of people 's conception of authority .
20 As a broad generalization , it is thus reasonable to say that the role of tight labour markets in driving up real wages eclipsed that of competition in product markets as the boom progressed .
21 The mutual assistance of harem owners in driving off non-reproductive males may be the basis of herd formation in the gelada baboon .
22 In a detailed paper on the issues involved in opening up disciplinary hearings , the PCD asked at the December Council meeting for guidance before moving forward .
23 Companies which make first-use plastic might prefer recycled plastic to be used in opening up new markets , rather than competing with their products - for example , by substituting for timber .
24 It no longer makes 9mm rounds for small arms , or Giant Vipers , a weapon that may play a vital role in opening up Iraqi minefields during an allied offensive .
25 It might also include more state help in opening up foreign markets .
26 Orwell 's jibes at Auden 's emigration to New York in January 1939 , too , with Christopher Isherwood , were to be echoed shortly after by Waugh in Put Out More Flags ( 1942 ) , which he composed on a troopship .
27 Many thousands of separate natural minerals which fit this definition have been described , and , especially in the nineteenth century , scientists spent decades of their lives in searching out new ones .
28 In searching out these opportunities and exploiting them the producer is thus performing the entrepreneurial role in the market process .
29 Their sensual lives consisted in picking up half-drunk girls in pubs and spending the night with them , perhaps only seeing them once or twice more , or never again .
30 There is a new interest among scholars in seeking out forgotten writers whose works represent the experiences of women or of the poor .
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