Example sentences of "[noun pl] operating [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chief officers also liaise with other administrative units operating in the locality ( such as the field offices of central government departments along with health and water authorities ) and there are also important linkages with other councils , members of the public , and local pressure groups ( such as ratepayers ' action groups , local trade union branches , tenants ' associations ) . |
| 2 | There were also reports of US and Saudi Arabian special forces units operating within the city . |
| 3 | Congruent Corp , a small band of techies operating from the heart of Manhattan , has come out with technology that will enable Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system to support X Window applications running on X terminals and workstations . |
| 4 | The development of a simple method of gall bladder cell culture from a readily accessble source will facilitate the study of several aspects of the gall bladder epithelial cell function and in particular the regulation of ion transport and hydrogen ion secretion , identification and cloning of the several antiport systems and channels operating on the cell membrane , regulation of mucin secretion and prostaglandin metabolism , and will enhance the understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms of gall bladder disorders . |
| 5 | Organizations operating in the north of the country spoke of recruiting seasonal workers from amongst people who had contacted them looking for permanent positions . |
| 6 | Many of the boats carrying Haitians were intercepted by US Coast Guard vessels operating in the area and their occupants held either on board or at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba where an emergency refugee camp was set up . |
| 7 | The fashionable discussion of incentives usually overlooks what may be one of the more potent of the disincentives operating on the productivity of the British labour force : the anticipation of domesticity , discouraging young women from seeking training and employers and educational institutions from providing it , even to women who do not take on a family or a traditional role within one . |
| 8 | There are at least seven haulage firms or drivers operating from the village . |
| 9 | The limitation on the scheme is that the works must come from galleries or artists operating within the region covered by Northern Arts 's territory . |
| 10 | A temporary ceasefire between the currently ruling United Somali Congress ( USC ) and groups operating in the south was announced after talks in the southern port of Kismayu on April 2-4 . |
| 11 | To acquire soundness of judgment is essentially a matter of absorbing a sense of the norms operating in the agency which guide discretion at field level . |
| 12 | KGB operatives in Eastern Europe : believed not only to monitor , but direct , the activities of East European counter-intelligence and security personnel operating within the WTO armed forces . |
| 13 | By the end of the Meiji period control was focused in a highly centralized state whose functions were carried out through Western style political , administrative and judicial institutions operating in the name of the emperor . |
| 14 | The act does not control what happens to cell cultures imported by companies operating on the fringe of the biotechnology industry — away from the watchful eyes of the HSE and GMAG . |
| 15 | Although a great deal of economic development has occurred , with at least 150 new or refurbished units constructed by 1982 , the total net number of new jobs for local residents has been very small , and about three-quarters of the companies operating within the area have relocated from elsewhere ( McArthur , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | These can give useful information on public companies operating in the sector . |
| 17 | Companies operating in the zone would be exempt from import and export duties and allowed a 10-year tax exemption , after which concessionary taxes would be applied . |
| 18 | New York , New York : Japanese companies already account for nearly a quarter of the 5,000 foreign-based companies operating in the city |
| 19 | In the areas of social policy , a separate protocol to which all the member states except the United Kingdom are signatories , is likely to have a major impact on companies operating in the Community , including a probable ‘ trickle-on ’ effect to companies based in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | Some companies operating in the consumer field have also seen the value of group luncheons in generating special features around products which are not very exciting and which do not really merit a series of individual lunches . |
| 21 | The demand for milk in the cities was met mainly by cow-keepers operating in the city itself or in the suburbs . |
| 22 | May I endorse most vigorously what my hon. Friend has just said about the benefits of NHS trusts operating within the health service . |
| 23 | Most attention has been focused on the ionotropic receptors ( like NMDA and kainic acid receptors ) , but it is clear that metabotropic receptors operating through the InsP 3 and DAG messenger systems have a profound effect on neural behaviour , including memory . |
| 24 | On 17 January 1989 , US District Court Judge Thelton Henderson issued an injunction against NMFS ordering the entire US tuna fleet to carry observers , and ordering all US tuna boats operating in the ETP without observers to ‘ immediately return to port or otherwise immediately act to carry on board an official certified observer . ’ |
| 25 | Second , even if the questions posed in the surveys are quantitative in nature ( for example : What do you expect the inflation rate to be in the next year ? ) and the average expectations elicited from the surveys in a particular market appear biased and inefficient , only a few ‘ sophisticated ’ individuals operating in that market could make the market function as if rational expectations were operating , even though many of the individuals operating in the market are not behaving rationally . |
| 26 | Throughout January increasing numbers of civilian refugees from Arakan province crossed into Bangladesh to avoid a military offensive launched by Myanman troops against Moslem Rohingya rebels operating in the area . |
| 27 | Such reform would have to be approved by the Djiboutian people in a referendum to be held once the " armed bands operating in the north " had been " chased off national territory " . |
| 28 | Civilian paramilitary units operated in several parts of Yugoslavia , notably among the Serbs of Kosovo and in Croatia , where extremists in the ruling Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) had armed themselves to counter the insurgency by armed bands operating in the republic 's Serbian municipalities . |
| 29 | Anti-competitive behaviour is defined as ‘ conduct aimed at other companies/partnerships operating in the market , including practices seeking to prevent new entry or drive out competition through loss-making pricing ’ . |
| 30 | The assumptions of total British dependence on the USA with which the Clark memoirs show successive British Governments operating in the aftermath of World War II and which were pleaded as necessitating the climb-down in November 1956 were already undergoing an examination which 1956 only accelerated . |