Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , despite the weaker Merseyside economy , MDC has undoubtedly succeeded in transforming the docklands ' image from that of a decaying twilight zone into a popular and fashionable urban environment . |
| 2 | On Aug. 15 the All-Russian Labour Conference held a plenary meeting , chaired by I. Konstantinov , a People 's Deputy who had participated in organizing the Industrialists ' Conference . |
| 3 | In any case , Fred Winterbotham first succeeded in charming the Nazis ' arch-ideologue Alfred Rosenberg and through him mingled attentively with the highest elements of the Party . |
| 4 | Eurotunnel 's only hope seems to lie in satisfying the banks ' technical adviser that his forecast can be reduced — which means at least to the contractors ' £7.5bn , if not to Eurotunnel 's own £7bn estimate . |
| 5 | A large portion of the State 's scarce resources was absorbed in upholding the serf-owners ' authority and subsidizing their income . |
| 6 | He had played a conciliatory role in ending the players ' strike during the last labour-contract negotiations in 1990 and some owners felt they could not fully trust him to be their man this time round . |
| 7 | Machine knitting plays an important part in stimulating the residents ' creative talents and a small textile workshop has been set up with some encouraging results . |
| 8 | In 1823 he was instrumental in establishing the Mechanics ' Magazine and the Mechanics ' Institute where , in 1825 , he delivered a course of lectures later published as Popular Political Economy ( 1827 ) . |
| 9 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 10 | In considering the solicitors ' application the Legal Services Committee prepared a submission based on what it considered was the inadequacy of the advocacy and training proposals . |
| 11 | His emissary , Menshikov , spent two and a half months at the Turkish capital and succeeded in reversing the Turks ' decision on the Holy Places . |
| 12 | If editors and programme-makers and journalists were more aware of their legal rights , and more courageous in calling the lawyers ' bluff , they might find that the law is not quite the ass it sometimes appears . |
| 13 | For rather than building sleek , new production models , they are interested only in giving the cars ' components a useful role for the future . |
| 14 | Being involved in running the students ' union shows many possible qualities — initiative , ability to communicate , organizational skills , energy and responsibility to name a few . |
| 15 | The bad debt problem had its roots in a complicity of fatalistic acceptance and in viewing the debtors ' ledger as a single balance sheet entity which needed to be financed , rather than a composite of unsecured risks of many colours . |
| 16 | This suggests that all in the kings ' followings , lesser men as well as great nobles , were involved in the action , and played a collective role in underwriting the kings ' commitments . |
| 17 | On appeals against the assessments , the taxpayers having conceded that they had received an emolument as a result of participating in the concessionary fees scheme but maintaining that the cash equivalent of the benefit had to be determined under the principle of marginal costing , the special commissioner found that the school incurred no additional expenditure in educating the taxpayers ' sons other than on certain items of equipment and on food that together cost less than the concessionary fees paid and allowed the appeals . |
| 18 | For example in studying the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 the analysis of the causes is further refined by their division into long-term causes and short-term causes : To encourage the analysis of evidence pupils must be asked to weigh up the sources which may contradict one another . |
| 19 | Best performance of the day was put up by Qannaas in winning the Ladies ' Open , by 12 lengths , from course specialist Phelioff . |
| 20 | In every case television in its full variety of formats has been the primary influence in projecting the parties ' images . |
| 21 | What 's involved in putting a Crowes ' song together ? |
| 22 | His experiences in covering the miners ' strike had reinforced his conviction that people were begging for his sort of paper . |
| 23 | Mr Hawke has embarked on a crusade to join the airlines in smashing the pilots ' claim , seeing it as a crucial challenge to the cornerstone of his government 's economic policy , the wages accord between government , employers and unions . |
| 24 | Similarly , in Hall v Wandsworth Health Authority ( 1985 ) 129 SJ 188 the court said that costs could be awarded when the respondents had been dilatory in answering the plaintiffs ' solicitors ' requests for discovery with no excuse and that leave to appeal from the master 's order as to costs was not necessary . |