Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [noun pl] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways , Britain is unique in allowing householders to carry out plumbing ( and electrical ) repairs and alterations in their own houses . |
| 2 | As the Patients ' Association noted , the Charter was an important step in enabling patients to speak up for themselves as individuals outside the organisational framework of DHAs acting as " champions of the people " and GPs as the patient 's agent . |
| 3 | Their agility gives them the edge , not so much in dispossessing an attacker but in evading attempts to win back the ball and in creating time and space for passing and regenerating their own offence . |
| 4 | Starfield and Mellits ( 1968 ) were successful in teaching 5-year-olds to hold on to their urine for as long as possible once a day for six months and enabled one-third of the children to become dry . |
| 5 | So they had every difficulty in getting bakers to work down there . |
| 6 | This divides the vista into short stretches , an important element in persuading drivers to slow down . |
| 7 | However , the evidence is not entirely conclusive , and in a period when lords were having difficulty in finding tenants to take up holdings , it may well be that the conversion from arable to grazing was forced on them . |
| 8 | Now I know that er , some of the details are in the confidential section of the , of the agenda , I shall be very careful not to breach confidentiality , erm , but the , the proposal is this , that erm , we make representations to ensure that the receiver considers the welfare of residents er , in making arrangements to wind up the affairs of private residential homes . |