Example sentences of "in [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to .
2 In Canada , the aims of the women 's pressure groups which played a major role in bringing about reforming legislation , have been described as follows :
3 She is well aware of the role small franchise businesses can play in bringing about economic recovery .
4 Sometimes it has played a pioneering role in bringing about new developments , such as the Renault agreement on the duration of holidays which then became generalised by legislation ( Despax and Rojot , 1979 ) .
5 The research agenda encompasses the challenge posed by public management-type reforms to established modes of policy planning and administrative evaluation in French government , and the difficulties encountered in bringing about new administrative values and behaviour in a country where public administration is regulated by administrative law norms that privilege the State in its dealings with citizens .
6 A second variable is the syntactic relation which holds between individual atomic descriptions , so conjoining atomic individuals through the use of and , for instance , is taken as a very strong influence in bringing about felicitous plural reference .
7 But if exchange rate variations are successful in bringing about automatic adjustment , then governments may have greater independence in the use of domestic policies .
8 It is important that the power of these opinion shapers is both recognised and utilised by the head in bringing about positive change .
9 Anomalies are important in evaluating rivals and in bringing about scientific change .
10 ‘ He believes the meeting was a constructive and valuable exercise and proved useful in bringing out prominent issues .
11 In view of the NUM 's capitulation this outlook assumes that coal will stay the main power station fuel with demand increasing marginally over the 1983 level by the year 2000 , with production probably falling slightly as a result of closures of high-cost pits and delays in bringing in new low-cost capacity .
12 She supported me enthusiastically in bringing in new work practices in the interests of efficiency , and in introducing new services and extending others .
13 One of erm questions which I was asked to address on this occasion was er in connection with the obtaining of new work was why erm do n't we er give financial incentives to er if they are successful in bringing in new work .
14 If anybody is successful in bringing in new work into the office , clearly that reflects in their achievements and their objectives , merely that reflects in their assessment so far as er their managers and are concerned and clearly that will will be reflected in their pay , so that will be the way that er we would normally tackle and that would be the way I I was prepared to tackle it .
15 They have been successful in bringing in inward investment and greater job opportunities in those countries .
16 Her background as a social worker helped when she intervened in the child abuse row and played a key role in drawing up new guidelines on how the social services should handle future cases .
17 This is a measure that will cause real and conspicuous hardship , and the Government should occupy the year before its implementation in drawing up proper measures to soften its impact on vulnerable groups , not all of whom will be covered by upgrading of benefits .
18 To date , it has been co-ordinated through a small Rome-based unit which assists tropical countries in drawing up national plans preventing forest loss .
19 It says that they have a right to have their own needs assessed , the wishes of the family and other carers erm , have to be taken into account carers have to be involved in drawing up local plans
20 It suggested that probation services took the lead in drawing up local initiatives for young adult offenders at risk of custodial sentences .
21 Those who are working as agency or casual workers " involuntarily " , whilst looking for a more permanent job , are also , by definition , not interested in building up long-term relationships with their employers .
22 In the meantime , he said , the French were making genuine progress in building up native forces although it would be some years before the Vietnamese would be competent to defend themselves .
23 There is a dilemma in building up modular degrees , whether undergraduate or postgraduate , on a discrete unit basis where the studies should be integrative across subjects .
24 As will be described below , the leader of the Serbian communists , Slobodan Milošević , has played a major part in whipping up anti-Albanian feeling in Kosovo .
25 Young fans found a new ‘ hooligan ’ identity created for them by journalists with a vested interest in whipping up public indignation .
26 In its wide range of forms , whether a road sign , a photographic image , or a subtle advertisement , visual communication is a constant influence in shaping out daily lives and colouring our attitudes and opinions .
27 He was therefore interested in stepping up controlled deliveries , and for that he needed intelligent , well-motivated CIs who could pose as suppliers .
28 However , Conventions , even ones backed by most of the nations of the world , have never totally succeeded in stamping out illegal trading in lucrative contraband .
29 Communicating in more than one language and trading in several currencies is a way of life in much of Europe , so many of our Community partners are already comparatively experienced in trading across international boundaries .
30 Be very specific in spelling out desired actions , avoid being vague ( not ‘ I wish she 'd be more helpful ’ but ‘ I wish she 'd help me with the weekend shopping ’ ) .
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