Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Watch out for adders basking in the sun , ’ warned John , ‘ this track is known as ‘ adders ’ path ’ . ’ |
| 2 | This idea of an authority relation , giving the employer a special power of direction over employees not found between parties transacting in the market , has , however , been disputed , notably by Alchian and Demsetz , who argue that the employer/employee relationship does not differ in substance from any other relationship founded in contract . |
| 3 | To underline its commitment to the Ryan recommendations , the Institute simultaneously published two statements of best practice for companies reporting in the Republic and their auditors . |
| 4 | The treaty would be submitted to a meeting of states participating in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) in Paris in November 1990 . |
| 5 | Foxgloves form the foreground of my design this month , with sunflowers reaching up to the flocks of birds circling in the sky , above the cottage rooftops . |
| 6 | Autumn passage is difficult to disentangle from winter movements , which have been recorded immediately before severe weather , and the normal wanderings of birds wintering in the Channel . |
| 7 | Traffic screeched to a stop and dozens of people dashed to grab handfuls of notes swirling in the wind . |
| 8 | The crisis in the industry has now been reflected in the near-collapse of skills training in the sector . |
| 9 | By the time Mr Stephens came back , the snaps were almost done , the table was laid , crockery out , a split log burned on the fire , there was a neat pile of sticks drying in the grate , and tea went well . |
| 10 | Richard has worked with a number of manufacturers specialising in the contract field . |
| 11 | If we observe a pile of books hanging in the air , we might say : ‘ They must be resting on something . |
| 12 | The great leap , however , took place long ago , round about 1930 , and private-eye stories have since produced progeny of their own , much as the detective story produced that chain of books culminating in the crime novel . |
| 13 | The increasing number of units participating in the system also indicates an interest in the management awareness profiles . |
| 14 | Stress will certainly affect the levels of a number of hormones circulating in the bloodstream and it could well alter brain metabolism . |
| 15 | Back at school , she approached the classroom where she was to teach and saw a group of teenagers lolling in the doorway . |
| 16 | She was too conscious of Piers lounging in the chair opposite her to relax . |
| 17 | A similar tension existed between the need to create a set of standard expectations of schools participating in the project and the uniqueness and idiosyncrasies of each institution . |
| 18 | This may be due to the coarse resolution of the model ( 3.5 km vertically ) and a number of uncertainties remaining in the model calculations , such as the initial distribution of the volcanic cloud and the amount of SO 2 injected . |
| 19 | This was true of 6.5 per cent of defendants appearing in the Crown Court and 12.2 per cent who were proceeded against in the magistrates ' courts in 1999 , all of whom could be said to have suffered a double injustice . |
| 20 | This story concerns the sounds of footsteps walking in the ballast ; no one was seen but the sounds were very convincing and one respects the account of this mystery from Mr Leslie , who certainly did n't believe in the supernatural , preferring to find a logical explanation of this sort of thing . |
| 21 | Our principal approach is to examine in detail the records of scores of banks operating in the period . |
| 22 | As the change of room will have no effect on the number of guests staying in the hotel , no entry is made in the column showing number of guests ( Fig. 3.27 ) . |
| 23 | GREENPEACE is accusing Nuclear Electric of risking safety by refusing to delay commissioning of the Sizewell B power station — despite a risk of cracks developing in the head of the vessel which forms the ‘ heart ’ of the reactor . |
| 24 | As one recently retired 62-year-old put it : ‘ I had hardly had a chance to enjoy a couple of days pottering in the garden for the first time in years , when my wife was nagging me to go out and find something to do . |
| 25 | The ostler , whose accent was almost unintelligible , muttered that on the night the murders had been committed , I had been hustled dead drunk out of the tavern and into the hands of strangers waiting in the yard . |
| 26 | In all insects with normally developed antennae there is a pair of muscles arising in the scape and inserted on the base of the pedicel . |
| 27 | And she 's got kiwi fruits and peppers and all sorts of things growing in the garden . |
| 28 | It was held that an offence under that section had been committed where the accumulation emitted offensive odours which interfered with the personal comfort of persons living in the neighbourhood , but did not cause injury to health . |
| 29 | The role played by law in structuring and regulating relations between government and industry has only recently attracted the attention of academics working in the field of policy analysis . |
| 30 | The stink of hops hanging in the air , wafted over from Wandsworth breweries . |