Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had come all the way from Chatham in Kent , bringing Beryl in bridesmaid 's dress . |
| 2 | WITH ; some World cup players retired , others assisting clubs in France and Japan and a number unable to travel , Canada has come up with a new-look squad for a four-game visit to New Zealand in late March . |
| 3 | But as the week wore on and Damian made no attempt to see her at night , spend time with her or try to kiss her , she realised he was seeing Domino in the dark , humid hours when Rachel sat alone at home , tortured by jealousy , consumed with it , imagining them together and burning with impotent rage . |
| 4 | There were statements of intent , exhortations , graphs and charts all aimed at producing improvements in what was to me at that time the nebulous concept of ‘ Quality ’ . |
| 5 | Literature is an innovative resource book which offers the teacher a wide variety of interesting and practical ideas for using literature in the language class . |
| 6 | It seems that the construction workers building galleries in total darkness get their bearings and coordinate their work by sensing the magnetic field of the earth . |
| 7 | As we have already noted , Stephen was stoned to death within a short time of the Crucifixion , and Saul of Tarsus was pursuing Nazareans in Damascus . |
| 8 | Using objects in problem solving exercises |
| 9 | In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres , principally wool and mohair . |
| 10 | Our ‘ Aspects of Landscape ’ series , for example , continues on pages 15–17 with Martin Taylor describing how acrylic colours can be used with watercolours to achieve a convincing representation of landscape details such as grasses and tree branches , while on pages 18–21 Peter Partlington demonstrates how to simplify drawing birds in the start of a fascinating new series . |
| 11 | A consequence of seeing rules in this way is that a very high degree of consensus concerning the rule is to be expected among members cf the group or sub-culture in which the rule applies . |
| 12 | For example , is the student is encountering difficulty in transposing a formula while clearly understanding the problem , then specific assistance is appropriate . |
| 13 | One of the many proposals for using RIS in nuclear physics concerns the mass of the neutrino and its implication in the missing mass of the Universe ( New Scientist , vol 86 , p 308 ) . |
| 14 | They did n't stick their cards through your letter box or advertise in the Yellow Pages , And very often they were unreliable people , demanding payment in advance or trying to blackmail you . |
| 15 | The Gulf crisis had worsened Romania 's fuel problem , with Iraq refusing to honour its trade debt and the Soviet Union stopping sales of subsidised oil and demanding payment in hard currency . |
| 16 | All sectors , with the exception of construction , are forecasting improvements in sales , order books and exports , with optimists outnumbering pessimists by a significant margin . |
| 17 | In each case it is evident that physical geographers had to become conversant with progress in related disciplines and a number of excellent papers in Progress in Physical Geography ( 1977- ) provide reports reflecting progress in other disciplines . |
| 18 | The relationship between herbivores and plants has often been seen as some kind of arms race , but there have been opposing views in that , for example , spittle-bugs in the dry tropics of West Africa , rather than depleting valuable water resources may promote microbial activity beneath particular tree species , allowing them to take up nutrients in the dry season from the surface layers of the soil , provided that other roots can tap a deep water source . |
| 19 | They have created new capabilities for the production of widening ranges of goods and services without paying the cost penalties or producing variety in yesterday 's inflexible plants . |
| 20 | The technique of labelling granulocytes in mixed leucocyte suspensions using Tc-99m HMPAO has previously been described . |
| 21 | Characterization of DNA binding activities in nuclear extracts from Raji , RJ2.2.5 and AR . |
| 22 | Meryl , above , who revealed her singing talents in Postcards From The Edge , will play the role made famous by Gloria Swanson in the 1950 film . |
| 23 | Case Management Application , has been developed using ImageFlow in combination with Plexus ' flagship XDP image processing software and is claimed to offer 70% of the core functionality needed to develop most vertical market imaging applications . |
| 24 | Data sources are imperfect , data handling skills in short supply and the cause-and-effect processes long and complex . |
| 25 | Q17 Identify the major environmental factors which are responsible for producing change in markets . |
| 26 | Demographic pressures were signally important in producing change in the educational system . |
| 27 | Or maybe it 's simpler than that , and has to do with them seeing Tod in his natural environment , the doctor , the gatekeeper , his white coat and his black bag . |
| 28 | In Patterson v. McLean Credit Union the court had ruled that an 1866 Civil Rights law prohibiting discrimination in making a contract applied " only to the formation of a contract , but not to problems that may arise later " . |
| 29 | He first became director of education , Tonga ( 1916–19 ) , and thereafter held professorships in Cape Town ( 1921–5 ) , Sydney ( 1926–31 ) , Chicago ( 1931–7 ) with Yenching University in China ( 1935 ) , and Oxford ( 1937–46 ) with a fellowship of All Souls College and a wartime secondment to Sao Paulo . |
| 30 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |