Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having achieved power in certain situations , the military has great difficulty in maintaining it without the support of other important groups in society . |
| 2 | For some young people , especially those in areas of high youth unemployment who are attending special youth training programmes for trainees with learning difficulties , this operation may never succeed in bringing them into employment ( Wilkinson 1990 ) . |
| 3 | Even though most of these reforms benefited from widespread political and public support , de Gaulle had played a critical role in bringing them to fruition . |
| 4 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 5 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 6 | ‘ But my intention in bringing you in here was never to enjoy the pleasure of your body . |
| 7 | Judge Owen stayed the proceedings last November , ruling the trial should not go ahead because delays in bringing it to court amounted to an abuse of the court process . |
| 8 | A few reporters , shunning the handout , gave an impression that the American press was opposed to the war , and indeed played a large part in bringing it to an end , an impression that journalists have since been content to foster . |
| 9 | It is very profitable to the place , as also in the number of shipping employed in bringing it to London ’ . |
| 10 | He had had his rest , his metabolism responded well to an occasional crisis , he had long known there was one looming here , and he may have sensed that there were advantages , both public and private , in bringing it to a head before the end of his premiership . |
| 11 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 12 | And God 's word is used in bringing us to new birth , in bringing us , er to faith in Jesus Christ . |
| 13 | The seller has no difficulty in producing them for the buyer in any quantity provided he has sufficient notice to schedule production , and purchase needed materials and components . |
| 14 | It seems more likely that Taylor was correct in attributing it to Sheldon 's poor opinion of his judgement . |
| 15 | Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) is an American attorney turned corporate pirate , who wo n't find time for his children ( Charlie Korsmo and Amber Scott ) and sees no irony in accusing them of childishness . |
| 16 | She is mistaken in accusing me of that . |
| 17 | She directed her anger at her husband as well as Luke and was frustrated by her husband 's passivity and lack of activity in helping her with the problem as well as more generally in their relationship . |
| 18 | Anybody who is interested in helping them in either capacity should phone Mrs. Noakes on Petersfield 263749 . |
| 19 | It was important to learn about , for example , bookselling from experienced booksellers who then , accepting the genuineness of my interest and the possible value of my research , were generous in helping me with it and allowing me to carry out surveys in bookshops . |
| 20 | She was also instrumental in nudging him into giving 25 per cent of the positions in the Socialist Party to women . |
| 21 | Parents may feel suspicious of these , or resentful , and will need help in using them to best advantage . |
| 22 | In using them in classrooms and in discussing them with colleagues , teachers will change them , replace them , and develop their own , more immediate to their own teaching circumstances . |
| 23 | We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation . |
| 24 | Therefore we are not justified in using it for a quality of material things . |
| 25 | And it is convenient to consider him as an entrepreneur even with respect to the resource he owns ( in the sense that , in using it for his own production process , rather than selling it at its market price to other producers , he is ‘ buying ’ it at an implicit cost ) . |
| 26 | Unfortunately there is a confounding factor of experience in this : the earlier sign has been learned the more experience one is likely to have had in using it by the time the sign language testing occurs . |
| 27 | They were slightly embarrassed that he had been left out , but had agreed at the time that there was no sense in phoning him at home because he would have nothing useful to say . |
| 28 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 29 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
| 30 | For the latter , the self-interest lies in being fully and finally in charge of one 's working life , in recovering it as part of a life of one 's own . |