Example sentences of "[verb] in [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour councils , throughout the length and breadth of the country , have delighted in presenting high bills to ratepayers and charge payers and in providing poor services . |
| 2 | Vice-President Spiro Agnew , operating as Nixon 's " hatchet man " , delighted in identifying new recruits for this list of " demons " . |
| 3 | Angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibitors may act in reducing glomerular basement membrane pore size . |
| 4 | Does anyone have information which would assist in getting this piece of equipment back into use ? |
| 5 | We must define the Europe that we want to see far beyond Maastricht and how we believe that the Maastricht summit can assist in achieving that Europe . |
| 6 | Their role in fostering education and R & D assumes far greater proportion than hitherto in conditioning their success in attracting those foreign firms who might assist in achieving national aims . |
| 7 | A further advantage is that the hens will assist in controlling unwanted bugs and slugs . |
| 8 | A background paper ( Appendix D ) describes some of the limitations of conventional floristic and monographic writing , and outlines some of the ways in which computing can assist in conducting scientific research in these areas and in making the scientific information thus obtained available to ourselves and to others . |
| 9 | The General Conditions are basically standard but the following comments are worthy of note : — Condition 2 — Claims Procedure On the happening of any event immediate notification to the company is desirable , as an immediate examination by an Engineer Surveyor/Loss Adjuster can assist in learning full details of any accident including the cause . |
| 10 | Visualisation of the tubal lumen may assist in planning rational treatment of infertility , permitting surgery or tubal transfer of embryos or gametes if the mucosa is normal . |
| 11 | Iodophors stain soiling matter such as milkstone and so can assist in indicating physical cleanliness . |
| 12 | A specialist recruiting agency will assist in finding suitable candidates for the CSO post , whereas the scientific post will be advertised in Nature , along with some other science vacancies . |
| 13 | CACI 's BRANCHPLAN can assist in answering these questions by analysing addresses held by the branch . |
| 14 | Roughly chop the potatoes and cook in boiling salted water for 10 to 15 min or until soft . |
| 15 | Cook in boiling salted water until tender , about 12 min . |
| 16 | Cook in boiling salted water for 10 min , or until tender . |
| 17 | The problem lies in using that information for selection . |
| 18 | Its strength lies in transmitting factual information where a telephone call may disrupt a meeting or colleague 's thought processes or where you can not see if an office door is open or closed . |
| 19 | The long-term prediction is that the only defence against AIDS lies in effecting behavioural changes and anthropologists are being employed to study behavioural aspects . |
| 20 | We are all bound for Spasov , and all the fun as well as the sorrow lies in aiming that way . |
| 21 | The difficulty lies in building real quality into the products . |
| 22 | But according to Conrad Welling , of the US company Lockheed , the way ahead lies in exploiting polymetallic sulphides . |
| 23 | The unfamiliar part of the process lies in relating these questions to a computerized end product . |
| 24 | But to the Labour party , it seems that the solution always lies in having more ex-teachers , more ex-educationists and more establishment figures who alone , Labour thinks , are capable of doing the necessary inspections in our schools . |
| 25 | this is not to say there is no problem for the plaintiff in such a situation , on the contrary the difficulty lies in obtaining sufficient evidence to identify the separate point sources . |
| 26 | Its only interest lies in elucidating English usage . |
| 27 | In addition , four exploration wells have been drilled in surrounding onshore areas of Great Britain . |
| 28 | For the genealogist , however , the principal value of the returns lies in the help they provide in tracing elusive ancestors . |
| 29 | It also helped in identifying important variables which had not previously been thought to be particularly interesting . |
| 30 | The rest of that evening was occupied in selecting suitable hiding-places for the eight hundred horsemen towards which the enemy hopefully could be lured . |