Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their effect was to compound the difficulty the liberal leadership had in bringing pressure for reform to bear upon the regime . |
| 2 | how far the review had been useful in producing proposals for change ; |
| 3 | Two thirds of Oxfordshire teachers consider that the scheme is useful in producing proposals for change in schools . |
| 4 | Teachers who claim to have been highly involved also claim to have used a wider variety of methods and feel more competent to conduct the review , believing it to have been more of a whole-school effort , more thorough and more useful in producing proposals for change . |
| 5 | Although two thirds of Oxfordshire teachers consider that the scheme has been useful in producing proposals for change in schools , the actual changes claimed are rather nebulous and a quarter of all teachers are unsure as to whether their review has led to any changes at all . |
| 6 | Significantly , given this generally positive response to the Oxfordshire scheme , it is perhaps surprising that only a fifth judge that it was very useful in producing proposals for improvements in educational practice : one of its prime purposes . |
| 7 | Teachers who see the scheme as useful in producing proposals for changes were again significantly positive in their attitudes whereas those not doing so were negative . |
| 8 | This can be particularly important in quantifying claims for site overheads . |
| 9 | Moreover British Telecom 's interest and experience , in using fibres for telephony and data transmission , is likely to guarantee it an option on providing optical trunk lines between the switch points of star networks . |
| 10 | With no product launches scheduled for at least another year or so , Sun says , it is interested in using ATM for multimedia networks and distributed processing environments . |
| 11 | Scanner technology , linked to graphics software , offers benefits in handling illustrations for publications , and Publications should make use of the colour scanner currently used by scientific staff . |
| 12 | But in practice , bullying takes place around the stalls ; there are mor difficulties in handling animals for routine inspection ; or the electronics break down and the key wo n't work . |
| 13 | Macho finance people who delight in delaying payments for months on end are the prime cause of the terminal disease " arterial cashosis " ( blockage of the cash-flow arteries ) . |
| 14 | Although no serious problems have arisen under this Article , there is a divergence of practice in applying compulsion for blood tests in paternity cases , where the Convention is often used . |
| 15 | When Jeremy Bentham , the radical jurist , philosopher and founder of University College , London , died in 1832 at the age of eighty-four he bequeathed his body to Dr Southwood Smith , an anatomist and author of Uses of the Dead to the Living , in which it was suggested that the difficulties experienced by medical schools in acquiring bodies for dissection could be alleviated if people chose to bequeath their bodies to them . |
| 16 | One might expect females to compete for rich food sources , for these are important to them in gaining nutrition for child-bearing and lactation . |
| 17 | I will be launching the birthday year in January when I hope that among other things , we might succeed in gaining recognition for Eglantine Jebb and our many achievements for children and I was delighted to be asked to chair the birthday advisory group and to be closely involved with activities during nineteen ninety four . |
| 18 | Mushtaq , bowling with the breeze behind him , dispatched Hick with a perfect legbreak and then hit Smith 's stumps as he tried to glance , a round-the-legs dismissal almost to rank in shuddering significance for England with Peter May 's notorious ‘ b Benaud 0 ’ at Manchester in 1961 . |
| 19 | Another possibility is that the noun descriptions suggest a particular set of activities which become dominant in addressing schemas for interpretation . |
| 20 | One can not overestimate the importance of Gould 's identifications in establishing foundations for Darwin 's subsequent theories , as well as the part they initially played as catalyst . |
| 21 | He opened the Hungarian Weeks series in Toronto on Oct. 17 , and held talks with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Ottawa on Oct. 21 , requesting his help in establishing guarantees for minority rights . |
| 22 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |
| 23 | A major criticism has been the delay in meeting requests for assistance from developing countries . |
| 24 | BGS has studied the hydrogeology of Jersey in response to the island government 's increasing difficulties in meeting demands for water , and has collaborated in a project to develop a simple and reliable technique for estimating groundwater recharge in the Sahel . |
| 25 | Jersey is a case in point : its rainfall is only moderate and its economy is greatly dependent on tourism , and it faces increasing difficulties in meeting demands for water . |
| 26 | Much of that research has , in turn , been inspired by an attempt , especially among American psychologists , to understand and predict ‘ giftedness ’ : as such , in seeking reasons for differences in creativity , their preference has naturally been to look for evidence of the latter 's association with excellence , superiority , and health rather than with maladjustment or psychological deviance . |
| 27 | He or she is unlikely to have any skill or previous experience in seeking compensation for injury and is , therefore , largely dependent on the legal advice sought and received . |
| 28 | But if we take a guess that there are thirty thousand , this means that in nineteen-ninety , three million people , or something like a tenth of the entire working population , will be engaged in writing materials for computers . |
| 29 | Mr Bush 's insouciance in snapping $870m for Panama and Nicaragua from the 1990 defence budget suggests that extra foreign aid for Eastern Europe could , without too much difficulty , be trimmed from the 1991 defence budget . |
| 30 | Upon reinstatement in the Commons after the impeachment of Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] , in 1667 he was prominent in advocating toleration for Nonconformists . |