Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is most demanding in terms of irrelevant information — the information I think is irrelevant , all the extras — bits and pieces … |
| 2 | And like , delicately hanging in the |
| 3 | So the judge was calling a witness who was an important link in the prosecution case and was thereby assisting in making that case . |
| 4 | Instinctively drawing in his limbs and curling his long back , the Perk sailed out of her grasp and over the edge of the steps like a furry stone in a leather jerkin . |
| 5 | A PRIEST carries on preaching in Hawaii — despite the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Iniki . |
| 6 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 7 | And every day of those five weeks has been a knife slowly twisting in a wound . |
| 8 | All of this ignores the nurses who have been unofficially deputising in medical roles for many years , according to senior nurse advocates . |
| 9 | Folly lay motionless , secretly revelling in her unaccustomed passivity , and watching him through half-closed eyes . |
| 10 | Bill , a widower , said he was secretly revelling in his new-found fame . |
| 11 | This is what is effectively happening in the scenario posed . |
| 12 | Therefore he strove to understand nature , and had ‘ The habit of wishing to discover the good and the Beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me ’ , thereby becoming in touch with ‘ plastic and vast , one intellectual breeze , At once the soul of each , and God of All ’ . |
| 13 | In particular , it is the producer 's task to have ‘ the ear of the public ’ , thereby representing in the music the feelings and values of ‘ a kind of imaginary democracy ’ ( ibid : 160–1 , 188–92 ) . |
| 14 | Jack and Richard Hannon keep on banging in the winners while others are rushing about like headless chickens in the belief that the sky is falling down . |
| 15 | Electronic data interchange , or EDI , is another of those information technology concepts that , after politely lurking in the background for a few decades , is suddenly forcing itself on our attention with unmannerly persistence . |
| 16 | The second smallest duck of the region , slenderer than Teal and rarely occurring in such large flocks . |
| 17 | I gave him a fair price for it , and I have let him carry on trading in smack . ’ |
| 18 | Although it was after three in the morning , Sophie could hear the low , penetrating drub-drub-drub of a bass-line and a siren somewhere wailing in counterpoint . |
| 19 | The crowds , eventually numbering in the thousands , evolved into a spontaneous anti-war demonstration and headed across town , disrupting traffic while shouting ‘ No blood for oil ’ and finally rallying at the United Nations building . |
| 20 | One out of every three restaurants had a problem with employee and customer slips during the past year , most occurring in the kitchen |
| 21 | The entrepreneurial characteristics of agency workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encourage agency working as an institution , can be likened to the entrepreneurial characteristics of self-employed , or labour only , subcontracting , building workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encouraged the growth of labour only subcontracting in the building industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( see Phelps Brown , 1968 ) . |
| 22 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 23 | As there are many persons of distinction in England who are pleased to honour the art of gardening by making it a considerable part of their amusement and have been greatly assisting in the introducing of large numbers of new plants , shrubs and trees into the English gardens and as some of these noble persons have studied the science of botany and are well acquainted with the characters and true names of the plants … their example will render it necessary for the professors of Gardening at least to know the plants they cultivate by their proper titles … |
| 24 | ‘ Much Binding in the Marsh or something like that . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Nice day ! ’ , in the style of Dickie Murdoch , the comedian in ‘ Much Binding in the Marsh ’ , the radio programme which was very popular at the time . |
| 26 | From 1940 , when he made his first broadcast as a quiz-master in the BBC radio series Ack , Ack , Beer , Beer , he was a constant broadcaster and in 1943 , by then stationed at the Air Ministry in London , he created and wrote with Squadron Leader Richard Murdoch the long-running radio series Much Binding in the Marsh , a take-off of a fictitious RAF station . |
| 27 | This was Much Binding In The Marsh . |
| 28 | She was quite uncritical of the sad , grand dress ; she understood only the pale , still doubtful , beauty , so wrong for its present period , so touching in its failure to be recognized or to please . |
| 29 | Here is a Roman theatre built over barrel-vaulted substructures but gently resting in part against the hillside . |
| 30 | Again , the 103/4 conveyed a perfectly tangible image , with the sound literally hanging in space in the room . |