Example sentences of "in [v-ing] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader will probably object that a hideous primal trauma of parricide and rape is all very well for purposes of explaining the subsequent guilt and neurotic inhibitions of the perpetrators of these ghastly crimes , but can hardly hope to explain how they succeeded in transmitting their new-found superegos to their children , and certainly will not explain how , when all the primal fathers were gone ( a process which may have taken a considerable period of time admittedly , but which must have happened eventually ) , when there were no more primal parricides to be procured , human societies could still construct their civilization on the acquisition of the superego . |
| 2 | Six weeks later a great demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall demanded the establishment of a Merchant Seamen 's League to put the boycott into effect and " to assist them in maintaining their benevolent institutions for the aged and infirm " A short time ago , he declared in 1918 , he had received a document from four leading German trade unionists attempting to justify the U-boat campaign by arguing that " only a campaign of frightfulness against the British and neutral vessels trading to ports in the United Kingdom and the starving of the people of the British Isles would bring the war to a speedy close " . |
| 3 | The retiring incumbents had both served in their posts since 1983 and both had succeeded in bringing their respective enterprises out of loss and into profit . |
| 4 | For nature , after all , offers no other examples of causal chains in which events causally downstream refer back to the objects that are involved in producing their causal ancestors . |
| 5 | Some heads of department involved other staff in producing their self-appraisal reports , either through discussing what was to be written at department meetings and/or asking members of the department to write parts of it . |
| 6 | In the 1980s , the independents became a real force , recording technology is easily accessible , and bands are more energetic and enterprising in producing their own records and promoting themselves . |
| 7 | In producing their own versions of what the dialogue might have been , students will be practising language they are studying in their textbooks . |
| 8 | By contrast , recent partnerships have both parties equally active in pursuing their problematical objectives . |
| 9 | An additional source of business has been the increased use of external bank finance by non-oil LDCs in financing their economic development . |
| 10 | Free copies of the book are to be issued to parish priests throughout the region and it includes an appendix with details of the relevant articles of Italian law which will assist them in recovering their lost items . |
| 11 | If ever they lose the ability to scavenge energy , and put it to use in repairing their own fabric , then they are said to be dead ; and they begin immediately to fall apart . |
| 12 | Messrs Deakins and Hussain have certainly provided an unusual and , in many ways , provocative survey on the attitudes taken by banks towards small business customers , and in drawing their main conclusions , concentrate on the most important factors relating to risk analysis . |
| 13 | Since he believes that students may be aided in drawing their own conclusions if writers make their own value biases explicit , it is particularly important to do this . |
| 14 | Australia were painstakingly slow in building their second innings total , opener Mark Taylor taking four hours and 11 minutes to score 42 . |
| 15 | AT&T complains that US carriers wanting to enter the UK market not only have to invest substantial time and money in building their own networks , but also have no alternative but to negotiate with British Telecom for local access to customers . |
| 16 | The first of these errors lay in devoting their whole strength , defensively , to the ‘ aerial barrage ’ that was notionally to seal the air space above the German lines . |
| 17 | The central bankers have a vested interest in allowing their Japanese counterparts room for further interest rate cuts in Tokyo in an attempt to prevent further haemorrhaging on the Tokyo stock market which has hit stock prices in New York . |
| 18 | This change can not take place without the involvement of the people themselves and , therefore , they must be moved from their traditional passivity towards an active role in shaping their own lives . |
| 19 | If changes are to command public support , Londoners must play an active part in shaping their local service mix to meet needs which they have helped identify . |
| 20 | Wood Group Engineering Contractors were recently successful in re-tendering their existing contract with Amoco . |
| 21 | Six months after their initial media blitz , the BROTHER Movement 's ‘ Ghettogedden EP ’ finally emerges this month , having overcome difficulties in gathering their enormous roster of artists together . |
| 22 | Although Sag & Hankamer 's theory provides the basis of an excellent account of the considered judgement of literate people , it does not fare so well in explaining their ordinary language comprehension . |
| 23 | Their staff were generally willing to ‘ have a go ’ , and with some information and support went a long way in challenging their own attitudes and those of other children and parents . |
| 24 | The Business Start-Up scheme , which helps the unemployed in launching their own business , will be extended with the creation of 10,000 new places . |
| 25 | Students are also given a substantial introduction to a range of practical skills which assist them in applying their academic understanding of the problems of peace and conflict more effectively in their future careers . |
| 26 | There are two basic concepts of financial accounting which it will be useful to define before we discuss users and their needs , particularly because their use in ordinary language is often not helpful in understanding their technical meaning . |
| 27 | Staff will need help in understanding their own reactions to the patient 's behaviour . |
| 28 | Such men earned their profits by steering human cattle into the holds of shipping companies anxious to fill them , towards public authorities and railroad companies interested in populating their empty territories , mine-owners , iron-masters and other employers of raw labour who needed hands . |
| 29 | ‘ Those representing developed countries were primarily interested in protecting their own industries and jobs and security at the polls , not in protecting the environment . |
| 30 | These models suggest that women 's and men 's subjectivities stem from female and male animals , universally different interests , in protecting their genetic investments and spreading their genes widely , respectively . |