Example sentences of "in [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
| 2 | The vigour with which Lenin pressed his own view of the Party played a major role in crystallizing the latent divisions among the Social Democrats . |
| 3 | The skill in planning consists in the decisions taken in completing the two columns so that the overall network time is minimized without contradicting the logical sequence in which the jobs must be done . |
| 4 | The skill in planning consists in the decisions taken in completing the two columns so that the overall network time is minimized without contradicting the logical sequence in which the jobs must be done . |
| 5 | He says on a 500-acre farm the cost of an innocent error in completing the complicated forms might be a loss of more than £100,000 over a two-year period and assured bankruptcy for the farmer concerned . |
| 6 | In completing the ten steps the trainees may come up with different answers from ‘ what happened ’ . |
| 7 | A few of the population are employed in maintaining the two lighthouses , Skroo at the north end and Skaden at the south end . |
| 8 | Ake ( 1985 , p.175 ) puts this well when he suggests that indigenization may have ‘ reinforced the division of labour between the Nigerian bourgeoisie ( as specialists in maintaining the political conditions of accumulation ) and foreign capital ( as specialists in production ) ’ . |
| 9 | The joint chiefs of staff assessed Korea in September and concluded that ‘ from the standpoint of military security , the United States has little strategic interest in maintaining the present troops and bases in Korea … ’ . |
| 10 | It must be admitted that the famous mould may well have strayed upstairs from the cultures on the floor below , and is perhaps to be included in the long list of profitable discoveries which arose from a lapse in maintaining the highest standards of laboratory practice . |
| 11 | Supervision is vital in maintaining the highest standards : every Rentokil branch has dedicated supervisors as well as drawing on field biologists and quality assurance inspectors whose salaries are not related to any trading performance incentive . |
| 12 | Octavia Hill was an energetic propagandist and played an important role in bringing the appalling problems of filthy , overcrowded slum dwellings to the attention of government and of philanthropists . |
| 13 | My right hon. Friend has been successful in building on the work of our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in bringing the constitutional parties together . |
| 14 | IBM Corp , Apple Computer Inc and Motorola Inc are months ahead of schedule in producing the first fruits of their PowerPC RISC alliance , Associated Press reports . |
| 15 | So there is less data to store , less work involved in producing the different presentations of it , and of course less scope for error . |
| 16 | The problem throughout is to identify what motivates financial participants to choose one option rather than another in pursuing the basic aims of any corporate system : to create wealth and to keep on doing so . |
| 17 | There is much work to be done in enumerating the real needs of minority elders for services and to develop services which respond to the cultural needs of these communities . |
| 18 | It may however be helpful madam speaker , er Madam Deputy Speaker , if I seek to clarify er when an individual auditor is operating in his capacity as such and whether a partner in an auditing practice who is not involved in audin er in auditing the regulated institutions is deemed nevertheless to be operating in his capacity as auditor . |
| 19 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 20 | We 're becoming involved in helping the nuclear operators in Eastern Europe to upgrade their plant . |
| 21 | In certain respects this disruption within the civilised centre results from the controlled masculine Artegall being unable to finish his work in subduing the savage margins in Eirena 's kingdom . |
| 22 | It will then combine the resulting findings to examine how in using the various techniques the interaction can be directed into one of the options instead of the other . |
| 23 | Crime is often equated with the term deviance , but there are problems in using the two terms interchangeably , as substitutes for one another . |
| 24 | There are a few things to be wary of in using the fifty millesimals . |
| 25 | Like those of the Arts and Crafts movement who came after him , he took his inspiration from nature , believed in using the best materials and dedicated craftsman . |
| 26 | We follow Hill in using the elastic constants K ( bulk modulus ) and G the shear modulus as the best pair to use for discussing isotropic materials . |
| 27 | After the conclusion of the first hearing , it came to your Lordships ' attention that an examination of the proceedings in Parliament in 1976 which lead to the enactment of sections 61 and 63 might give a clear indication which of the two rival contentions represented the intention of Parliament in using the statutory words . |
| 28 | He further accepted that the court should only attach importance to clear statements showing the intention of the promoter of the Bill , whether a minister or private member : there could be no dredging through conflicting statements of intention with a view to discovering the true intention of Parliament in using the statutory words . |
| 29 | However , both bodies recommended changes in the form of legislation which would , if implemented , have assisted the court in its search for the true Parliamentary intention in using the statutory words . |
| 30 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |