Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Some persist in doubting that the Japanese , whose famous discipline led to excellence in manufacturing , are creative enough to be excellent innovators too .
4 So successful were the organizers in organizing that the spontaneity of the demonstration quite drained away , and a vast crowd marched around central London and marched away again .
5 The ‘ special relationship ’ has long been a myth , one which the UK has more of an interest in perpetuating than the US , where the reality is that Britain is regarded as a second-rank nation .
6 Secondly , there may be difficulty in proving that the buyer orally agreed to the exclusion .
7 In Simmons v. Potter ( 1975 D.C. ) the defendants , second-hand car dealers , succeeded in proving that the commission of the offence was due to ‘ reliance upon information supplied to him ’ but failed to prove that they themselves had taken ‘ all reasonable precautions , ’ etc .
8 To go to the one man in the world most interested in seeing that the evidence never came out and then to put into his hands the means of ensuring that it never could come out !
9 A pupil whose difficulties in learning and in social interaction are connected with difficulties in seeing and the way that these difficulties are regarded by others will require both understanding and knowledge of the nature of the problems from the teacher .
10 For the record , Rutter and I now appear to be essentially in agreement on the lead-in-petrol hazard , and in accepting that the effects of lead on children 's intelligence is real .
11 This confusion is partly due to any difficulty we find in accepting that the solution to a long standing problem could be so simple ; confusion may also arise because , being influenced by the pace of today 's world , we presume that we are doing something wrong when we do not achieve immediate results .
12 The first question I want to ask of contemporary antiracism is whether it does not collude in accepting that the problems of ‘ race ’ and racism are somehow peripheral to the substance of political life .
13 The labels also tell us that the United States courts see nothing absurd in admitting the multiplicity of meanings that a statutory term can have , nor in accepting that the agency 's choice as to the precise meaning should govern .
14 In accepting that the world occupied by a majority of adult women would be different from that of men , feminists distinguished themselves from the mainstream of opinion only by their refusal to accept that women 's role was thereby rendered inferior .
15 It is this last uncertainty which influenced both Conrad ( 1979 ) and Meadow ( 1980 ) in suggesting that an MCE form of signing is most likely to satisfy deaf children 's needs .
16 Eliot returned to familiar themes in suggesting that the morality of the Morte Darthur was of that primitive type which was essential , whereas modern manners were things of the surface only .
17 Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status .
18 Both are in accord in suggesting that the way to decide whether a disposition is a trust or not is to look at the words it employs .
19 It takes a bit of an effort to get to the punchline in IBM Corp 's alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp to enable record stores to create compact disks on the spot at the request of the customer ( CI No 2,166 ) , because the deal is actually between IBM 's Fireworks Partners unit , which is buying a stake in Blockbuster 's NewLeaf Entertainment Corp subsidiary and creating a new company , Fairway Technology Associates , both in Deerfield Beach , Florida ; the latter has been formed to further the development of multimedia technologies and to operate the multimedia distribution system , which will consist of digital content databases , interfaces to broadband telecommunications networks , audio and video servers and content production and display devices — and we were all wrong in suggesting that the point of the system was to enable retailers to eliminate the problem of needing to stock thousands of slow-moving titles — the partners say the aim is ‘ to create a more enticing retail experience ’ .
20 Gladstone may have been slightly closer to the mark in suggesting that the public schools were part of the constitution .
21 Bea Campbell ( MT May ) is over-simplistic in suggesting that the Labour Party 's hesitancy in supporting the ‘ Do n't Pay ’ poll-tax movement is solely a consequence of its preoccupation with success in the next general election .
22 When Kepler refined the Copernican system , he broke with centuries of tradition in suggesting that the planets moved in ellipses , not in circles .
23 Indeed , to invite him to do so , it seems to me , can only be misleading in suggesting that the driver is entitled to some say in the matter .
24 In suggesting that the idea of higher education is hinged on self-criticism , I am not so much developing a personal concept of higher education , therefore , as drawing to the surface our common ( though largely hidden ) understanding of higher education .
25 He also develops Foucault in suggesting that the classification of space ( what he calls its ‘ regionalisation ’ and ‘ sequestration ’ ) is intimately bound up with these forms of surveillance and control .
26 And what leads me to that conclusion is the distortion that Mr brought in , in suggesting that the estate is worth forty million pounds .
27 ( 1.1 ) We have in fact already come close to the view that mental events are at bottom individual properties , or rather sets of them , in allowing that the interdependent existence of subject and content may be a matter of nomic correlation .
28 One suspects that Arsenal and Norwich are facing disrepute charges partly because of TV coverage at home and abroad and partly because between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning various sections of the media had built up a fine head of steam in demanding that the FA take action .
29 The large headstock , with its shallow pitch , looks quite in keeping and the mini-Schaller machineheads help lend an up-market air .
30 With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel .
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