Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BP Norway is participating in an ambitious national research initiative which aims at increasing Norwegian oil and gas reserves in producing and approved North Sea fields by 2500 billion barrels by the year 2000 . |
| 2 | A temporary period of peace during an otherwise acrimonious debate on a motion of confidence in the government permitted all party leaders to join backbenchers in praising and warmly applauding the two men who dominated Ireland 's political scene throughout the 1980s . |
| 3 | As well as supporting the Group 's production units in optimising and controlling process activities , research teams also undertake investigations into the qualities and properties of raw materials , plant design , suitability of packaging materials , environmental issues and the development of new products , and research and planning for the operating units . |
| 4 | Such pessimism should not , however , discourage the imaginative computer work that is developing in many bureaux or deny the role of computers in profiling and statistical work , such as that discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 5 | Some such concept is required to explain why different individuals reach different solutions in diagnosing and providing remedies for particular situations . |
| 6 | Until 1986 Stock Exchange participants were either brokers , who acted on behalf of clients in buying and selling securities , or jobbers , who held stocks and shares and dealt with brokers as the market required , and acted rather like wholesalers of securities . |
| 7 | The monitoring/evaluation process associated with LMS should assist schools in identifying and meeting the needs of pupils ; funds could then be much more readily targeted to meet these . |
| 8 | Such an initiative would ‘ give central government a firmer basis for the development of national policies and the deployment of resources ; and provide a checklist for authorities and schools in formulating and reviewing their curricular aims and policies in the light of local needs and circumstances … |
| 9 | Helen may do some painting and Elizabeth likes to work at drawing shapes and picking out words as first steps in reading and writing . |
| 10 | ( He claimed in his memoirs that the Spanish ambassador had planned the incident and had spent almost 500,000 livres in organising and arming a mob of 2,000 men to attack d'Estrades and his retinue . ) |
| 11 | Belief in one 's hypothesis has been found to lead to errors in observing and in recording the results of experiments . |
| 12 | And in the reviews of the Section d'Or and the progressive Salons of 1912 , there are indications that the works of Kupka , Picabia and Marcel Duchamp were generally recognized as having gone in some way beyond those of the original Cubists in daring and novelty . |
| 13 | These had advantages in handling and in instant access to a desired image without any winding . |
| 14 | We have argued in Chapter 1 that computer databases offer advantages in storing and presenting the data over manual or computer file-based systems . |
| 15 | The dynamic of any pricing systems or ceilings in adjusting or creating the range of care services needed to meet assessed need , together with the importance of client need and social work values being reflected in purchasing strategy . |
| 16 | 17.4 For the individual author , writing can have cognitive functions in clarifying and supporting thought . |
| 17 | This can result due to reductions in overmanning and improvements in other types of slack management procedures . |
| 18 | The mother is the " outside agency " which provides for the baby 's needs in feeding and those multitudinous attentions which are condensed under the heading of " mothering " . |
| 19 | Saul of Tarsus after his Damascus road experience spent three days in fasting and prayer ; that showed he was in the receptive mood which invited the Spirit to come . |
| 20 | 16.14 In chapter 7 we say that literature plays an important role in improving abilities in speaking and listening , and in writing , as well as in reading . |
| 21 | Literature has an important role to play — in a variety of ways — in improving abilities in speaking and listening and in writing , as well as in reading . |
| 22 | Afterwards he met Morris , who suggested the way that he should go in combining his radical conscience with his practical abilities in making and designing . |
| 23 | Most in the occult agree that the paraphernalia they use are simply aids in contacting and manipulating the power . |
| 24 | ‘ Many of our recent troubles in retaining and maintaining public confidence might have been less severe and more easily solved if we had not begun to depart from the traditional relationships between ranks , ’ he added . |
| 25 | That should mean more loyal customers ( and lower costs in getting and keeping them ) , less reliance on price discounting and higher profits from services which add more value . |
| 26 | They live their first few months in the river , then migrate downstream to the sea ; they spend two or three years in feeding and growing out at sea , during which they cover thousands of miles ; and when mature , they migrate back to exactly the same river , and same tributary , as they were born in . |
| 27 | Use the various spelling lists published e.g. Schonell 's Essential Spelling List ( in Essentials in Teaching and Testing Spelling . |
| 28 | Such problems as length of journey leading to even further disorientation in some instances , problems of incontinence and travel sickness , problems of timing for carers in preparing and receiving back the sufferers . |
| 29 | That is , what conversation analysts are trying to model are the procedures and expectations actually employed by participants in producing and understanding conversation . |
| 30 | Help for project managers in establishing and maintaining software production procedures and standards . |