Example sentences of "in [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rejection of a right of accession ensures that the intention of the parties remains the determinative factor in ascertaining whether accession is permissible . |
| 2 | Once an offer can be identified there is not usually any difficulty in ascertaining whether it has been accepted . |
| 3 | Thus while both DMTA and DETA can provide similar information about a sample , they can also be used in a complementary fashion , particularly when trying to identify the molecular mechanism of a particular process and in ascertaining whether or not the group is polar . |
| 4 | The pain in the building industry will be evident on Wednesday with results from Costain , expected to show losses of about £40 million in 1991 due to problems in contracting and housebuilding . |
| 5 | Oral tradition played a major part in transmitting and passing down this culture of superstition . |
| 6 | Some people are just much more sensitive and perceptive in transmitting or receiving data than others . |
| 7 | The guidance also covers the extent staff may go to in touching and comforting young people in children 's homes . |
| 8 | Do any of the districts want to be drawn on a choice or are you still maintaining the line which you have persisted in maintaining since we embarked on this discussion on Thursday , where we have two districts well sorry , Mr and Mr not agreeing in principle with the new settlement . |
| 9 | It is not necessarily an accurate description of the demands of the job , and the skill label may result more from the strength of the trade union or occupational group in maintaining that its members should continue to hold that position , than from a dispassionate assessment of the skill content of the job . |
| 10 | I 'm not alone in maintaining that he is the second sweetest man on earth . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that competition from both within and outside the profession will continue to grow , and efficient practice management in all its forms has become as important as technical skill in maintaining and improving profitability . |
| 12 | Grieco 's work has also pointed to the wider social importance of women in maintaining and enforcing the system of network reciprocity , even when not themselves in work . |
| 13 | Because of their place in maintaining and servicing a household and its members , it is of course likely that most of these exchanges entailing practical support were between women . |
| 14 | Commenting at a later stage on the commonly held expectation that London should lead developments in medicine , the Hampstead DGM was able to report that the Royal Free had ‘ in many ways been very successful in maintaining and consolidating its position ’ . |
| 15 | The UK legislation allows for the scrutiny of mergers , but is generally silent on the acquisition of dominant positions as opposed to the behaviour of firms in maintaining and exploiting these positions once achieved . |
| 16 | Throughout the year , the Group continued to invest in maintaining and enhancing the value of its tree existing core brands ; Wedgwood , Waterford and Johnson Brothers . |
| 17 | Their political interests in maintaining and extending their social position and power depend on a stable regime which they help maintain through repression , through the manipulation of potential dissenting groups and through maintaining the loyalty of other powerful social classes who have a conflicting interest in the distribution of state income ( Ziemann and Lanzendorfer 1977 ) . |
| 18 | The female , with her heavy investment in producing and raising her babies , is both the spatial and the behavioural focus of the social system while the males compete for ranges that contain mateable females . |
| 19 | But with the messenger business increasingly beset by price wars , market saturation , soaring development costs and flagging margins , Mr Gates is looking for fresh profit in producing and selling the message itself . |
| 20 | Note the important educational and pedagogic conclusion Phizacklea and Miles draw from their research : the significance of immediate daily experience in producing and reproducing inner-city working-class racism , in conjunction with the backdrop of a widespread nationalist culture of racism in British society , means that those who express racist hostility ‘ are very resistant to modification as a result of argument from outsiders ’ ( ibid. , p. 120 ) . |
| 21 | Thus social policy must be critically evaluated not only for its failure to eradicate poverty among older women ( and , to a lesser extent , men ) , but also because it occupies a central role in producing and legitimating both the poverty of a substantial proportion of older people and the marked inequalities between older women and men . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That is , what conversation analysts are trying to model are the procedures and expectations actually employed by participants in producing and understanding conversation . |
| 24 | It laboured under the title Certain Improvements in Producing and Regulating Electric Currents , and Improvements in Electric Time-Pieces , and in Electric Printing and Signal Telegraphs . |
| 25 | We have identified difficulties which may be encountered in realising that a problem has a legal dimension and in connecting that problem to the sort of work with which lawyers are commonly understood to deal . |
| 26 | ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’ |
| 27 | Gaskell was ahead of his time in realising that a craving for alcohol was a disease and the drunkard needed aid and sympathy rather than condemnation . |
| 28 | It seems , then , that , for the most part , black parents are not interested in sport and have no role to play in generating and sustaining their children 's involvement which intensifies despite the lack of parental support . |
| 29 | The potential of such different communal traditions and emerging subcultures as rivals to the dominant national culture in generating and legitimating beliefs , values and behaviour was disavowed . |
| 30 | Most day-release is concerned with socialising representatives into forms of collective bargaining which are under challenge , and carefully avoid encouraging creative thought about representatives ' role in generating and sustaining organisational change . |