Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 Not raising her head , nor even starting , at the sudden clamour of birds squabbling out in the clearing .
2 Talking in a loud voice whilst approaching a hide is the guaranteed way to become an expert in identifying the back ends of birds flying off in a panic .
3 There was now a great congestion of horsemen milling around in the area between town and castle .
4 The other programme was the field theory initiated by Faraday , according to which electrical phenomena can be explained in terms of actions going on in the medium surrounding electrified bodies and electric circuits , rather than in terms of the behaviour of a substance within them .
5 Another report from Rabkrin accused Tsentroevak , the Central Refugee Evacuation Commission , of behaving in a very complacent fashion over the number of migrants piling up in the cities of Samara , Penza and Voronezh .
6 It 's a good sport for women to play in and there 's lots of developments going on in the sport and we would like to go into the under sixteens and the under twelves .
7 Most of the specifics , particularly tariffs , are the subject of talks going on in the company 's ATM Customer Advisory Council .
8 The sky is of a rich sea blue that is almost grotesque in its fullness of colour , broken only by an indignant stream of clouds piping up in the distant horizon .
9 But Messager knows that the best fairytales are about girls growing up in the danger of domestica .
10 I have no quarrel with Searle 's claim that ‘ mental phenomena are caused by processes going on in the brain ’ .
11 She could n't name many things she found lovable , but knew a thrill in being on the waterfront and always felt cheered by clouds racing along in the sky .
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