Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly — and this takes care of the other payoff conditions needed to make the situation a true Prisoner 's Dilemma — they probably agreed with the generals in preferring to win the war rather than lose it . |
| 2 | It saw a role for internal assessment ( internal to the school ) in helping to release the school curriculum from total control by examination syllabuses originating outside of the school . |
| 3 | If you are interested in helping to guide the society through committee-work or know someone else who is ‘ good ’ on committees , please let the Office have that nomination ( with the nominee 's permission , of course ! ) by 19 February 1988 , so that if more than three candidates come forward , ballot forms can be sent out in good time . |
| 4 | An aid can be very helpful in the monitoring of speech and voice and in helping to assess the amount of background noise . |
| 5 | However , it may be noted that overtly ‘ theatrical ’ pieces tend to have key schemes to match from the earliest French cantata collections onwards , copying now stage action scenes in helping to dramatize the text , now divertissements in functioning independently from it . |
| 6 | The expert can judge the content , but the views of a novice may well be valuable in helping to judge the effectiveness of how that content is put over . |
| 7 | It was the end of an era , said site manager , who paid tribute to people 's efforts in helping to keep the factory going for so long . |
| 8 | ( WES ) Tonight we look at one small company that 's played it 's part in helping to reduce the dole queues . |
| 9 | AMNESTY International 's unrelenting pressure on the Peruvian authorities to respect human rights , initiated by the Peru campaign launched in November 1991 , appears to have a direct effect in helping to reduce the number of people who have ‘ disappeared ’ by the security forces . |
| 10 | On 30 August , Amery was saying how glad he was that Hailsham was outside the government ; ‘ I can look to him as an ally in helping to bring the thing to a conclusion reasonably soon . ’ |
| 11 | May we play our small part in helping to alleviate the poverty and suffering of the world . |
| 12 | With that perspective , it is perhaps not surprising to discover that decision makers often find the external information delivered to them by knowledge workers to be not as valuable in helping to solve the task in hand as they would have wished . |
| 13 | The English landscape is of a richly diverse nature and an understanding of the complex early factors which influenced the creation of its individual regions can only be of value in helping to ensure the preservation of its essential character . |
| 14 | Studies of this kind show much promise in helping to understand the PE spectra of moderately complex inorganic and organometallic compounds , but at present the empirical assignment of these spectra is fraught with uncertainty . |
| 15 | A paper which I and colleagues in Grampian prepared for Scottish General Medical Services Committee posed the questions does this present an opportunity for general practice to have greater influence in the provision of health care for our patients ? does it put general practice in the driving seat in helping to determine the range and quality of health service provision ? or might it constitute an intolerable administrative burden on the constrained resources of an increasingly cash limited primary care service ? |
| 16 | A spokesman for LEEL said they wanted the event to continue , adding : ‘ However , our involvement was in helping to establish the feasibility of the first event . |
| 17 | In the letter , the President supports the envoy proposal , pledges to take a more active role in helping to end the violence and criticises the role of the British Government . |
| 18 | Pearlin and his colleagues ( 1981 ) found that the same sorts of cognitive strategies which were commonly successfully employed by people adapting to chronic role strains were also effective in helping to neutralise the threat of severe events . |
| 19 | The butler was arguing with a tall fair man , threatening to send for the footmen to turn him away physically if he persisted in demanding to see the person who was refusing access to everyone , and particularly to anyone answering to the name of Cochrane . |
| 20 | Richard Needham , it was said , is only interested in appearing to develop the area in so far as it would assist him in his fight against ‘ terrorism ’ . |
| 21 | An opinion was expressed that such a purchaser under a suspensory condition ( that the money be only handed over on the certificate being got by the purchaser ) is not necessarily committing a violation of the Act , " assuming that he shows proper diligence in endeavouring to obtain the certificate , and is acting throughout in bona fide " : per Lord Trayner , ibid . |
| 22 | It appeared that the he was anxious to make amends for President Pompidou 's lese-mjaests " in refusing to attend the Persepolis party , and also to request special help for France . |
| 23 | Held , granting the petition , that where the hearing of an action was divided into two parts and there was an appeal to the Court of Appeal of New Zealand after the determination on the first part , justice required that an appeal therefrom to the Privy Council should lie if such an appeal would have lain had all the issues been determined prior to the appeal to the Court of Appeal ; that , accordingly , the judgment of the Court of Appeal deciding the compromise and cancellation issues in the respondents ' favour and dismissing the petitioner 's action was a final judgment for the purposes of rule 2 ( a ) of the New Zealand ( Appeals to the Privy Council ) Order 1910 entitling the petitioner to appeal as of right to the Privy Council ; and that , therefore , the Court of Appeal had erred in refusing to grant the petitioner leave to appeal and the Board in the exercise of its discretion would grant the petitioner special leave to appeal ( post , pp. 6G , 8B , D , F ) . |
| 24 | Having settled one set of problems and delineated a pattern for higher education , had Robbins left the way open for a succession of what Eric Robinson called ‘ small cadet universities ’ — ; some of which were in fact very similar to the CATs , and others of which might see no future except in aspiring to enter the university sector ? |
| 25 | They are useful in seeking to record the impact of a development or innovation in a particular context . |
| 26 | In seeking to promote the realization and wholeness of human nature , we attempt to correct our early unsatisfactory experiences . |
| 27 | Where this value is low , as with mercaptans for example , there are obvious technological and financial problems posed in seeking to control the emission of such odours . |
| 28 | However , the meeting is bound to increase pressure on European governments to adopt a more forceful approach in seeking to improve the environment . |
| 29 | In seeking to set the scene for the changing face of county hall , and in summarising the changing relationships between all involved in education , it is important to consider the meaning of ‘ delegation of authority ’ and the values it contains . |
| 30 | While much previous research by geographers , economists , sociologists and planners has tended to focus on the cases and consequences of industrial decline in the conurbations of northern Britain and London , this research attempts to break new ground both in examining the cause of economic growth and prosperity in southern England and in seeking to assess the extent to which the benefits of growth have been equally shared amongst different segments of the population in such areas . |