Example sentences of "engage in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will also be concerned to engage in spiritual warfare . |
| 2 | ( i ) If your salary grade is below PO1 ( that is below spinal column point 35 within the APT & C grades ) you are permitted to engage in extra mural employment provided it does not have any adverse effect on you performing the normal duties of your post . |
| 3 | Another great spiritual advantage was that the people 's occupation allowed them the opportunity to read good books or to engage in godly conversation whilst they were working away at their looms . |
| 4 | The failure to engage in that kind of self-reflection was part of a self-assurance over the wider common culture . |
| 5 | They have professional obligations to engage in that kind of scholarly work ; and , in that sense , be right up against the ‘ frontiers ’ . |
| 6 | If the formation and acquisition of knowledge has the character of a conversation , then students must be accorded an appropriate measure of freedom to engage in that conversation in their own way . |
| 7 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 8 | Unable to pay the rank and file an adequate salary , the government had been compelled to allow these semi-professional soldiers to engage in petty trade and handicraft and to farm a small plot of land . |
| 9 | But few were ready to engage in heroic resistance to the last . |
| 10 | Guarantees of economic freedoms included explicit recognition of the right of citizens to engage in private business . |
| 11 | Light continued to engage in private trade during the 1770s and early 1780s , notably in Salang off the north-west coast of Thailand . |
| 12 | to examine the effects of the decision to engage in paid work , or to abstain from it , on their social situation immediately prior to retirement ; |
| 13 | In the early part of the period there was little choice as it was unusual even for young , single women to engage in paid employment unless family circumstances demanded it . |
| 14 | In fact they were allowed some professional space ( albeit not specifically " as women " ) to engage in scholarly work on the " man to man " discourse with which the field was largely concerned . |
| 15 | Villages began to engage in increasing specialization within the general sphere of market gardening , with those nearest the towns producing the most perishable or bulky goods . |
| 16 | He also said that in the letter he told Mr Wilson that he was held in great esteem among Irish people , qualifying him to engage in political dialogue . |
| 17 | For the unions , the nature of state intervention in railway industrial relations emphasizes the importance of political contacts and the ability to engage in political exchange . |
| 18 | If by it we mean a support system to strengthen and assist those who wish to engage in political lobbying , well and good , but if we are to take on a proper campaigning role as Oxfam has done , then this would require additional staff with the necessary experience and specialisation . |
| 19 | If it is dangerous to engage in political protest ( and it is ) and , as one of my informants Biu complained , if it is pointless to reclamar , to argue with God ( and it would seem to be so ) , hungry and frustrated people can transform angry and nervous hunger into ‘ breakdown ’ and ‘ mental ’ problems . |
| 20 | This willingness by police and pickets to engage in violent confrontation was dramatically revealed during the 1984–5 coal dispute . |
| 21 | You need to engage in aerobic exercise three to four times per week in order to make physical progress . |
| 22 | Although it is sometimes useful to engage in hierarchical browsing , this is essentially subsidiary to the direct keyword approach . |
| 23 | People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time . |
| 24 | Several thousand supporters of that draft who had gathered outside the parliament building in Bratislava ( the capital ) were told by SNS chairman Vitazoslav Moric to continue a campaign of demonstrations ( begun on Oct. 5 with a large rally in Bratislava ) , and to engage in civil disobedience , until the National Council bowed to " the will of the Slovak people " and resigned . |
| 25 | First , that making a conceptual distinction in this way between ‘ university ’ and ‘ higher education ’ is to engage in philosophical pedantry . |
| 26 | ‘ Everybody had their suspicions about him , ’ said Jonathan Miller , who worked with him ; ‘ A lot of it you would discount because he had a tendency to engage in rhetorical hyperbole . |
| 27 | It is inevitably the case that these tend to be people who are not rich enough to engage in high-powered tax planning , or who , for lack of knowledge or advice , fail to take the necessary precautionary action . |
| 28 | The National Curriculum offers an opportunity for a school to engage in critical thinking about practice . |
| 29 | Evening Standard Co Ltd v Henderson ( 1987 ) concerned a production manager whose contract said that while he was employed , ‘ on no account are you to engage in outside work ’ . |
| 30 | And he told reporters before the meeting : ‘ I support the IRA 's right to engage in armed struggle — where it wages armed engagements is a matter for itself . ’ |