Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [v-ing] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is emerging in the 90s with Post-modernism , particularly the kind of Reconstructive Post-modernism described by Suzi Gablik in her book ‘ the Enchantment of Art ’ . |
| 2 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 3 | All three are playing in the coca-cola cup this week … here 's the line-up … |
| 4 | Yes there are similarities in the sense that all are operating in the international environment I mentioned before . |
| 5 | If a school is to be effective , the staff should all be working in the same direction , rather than pursuing conflicting goals . |
| 6 | At least 70 people were killed and hundreds more were missing in the Romanian town of Focsani , 160 km north-east of Bucharest , after an earthquake struck on May 30 . |
| 7 | At any one time five were working in the Criminal Division and in the Queen 's Bench Divisional Court . |
| 8 | Of the fifty teams taking part in the parade , only eight were playing in the four finals , but there was still the prize for the best-turned-out team to be won . |
| 9 | I can only assume that it was from his previous experience as chairman of the Greater London council in 1985-86 that he learnt all about ’ getting your friends appointed to the key jobs ’ , and that that is why he assumes that the same is happening in the civil service now . |
| 10 | While Jube stood guard over Grant and the two youngsters , the other two truckers spent a fruitless few minutes checking to see whether the dangerous oriental was lurking in the immediate vicinity . |
| 11 | Another 140,000 are starving in the outlying villages . |
| 12 | In the 1830s the total number of European military officers serving in India amounted to only 4,487 , of whom 752 were serving in the royal army , as opposed to the regiments in the Company 's employ , thus reducing the total to a mere 3,735 . |
| 13 | I think that it would be true to say that , nowadays , most materialists want to avoid theories that are as nakedly behaviouristic as this , and want to accommodate the common-sense intuition that something inner and introspectible is missing in the blind or deaf , for example , in addition to their lost capacity to respond . |
| 14 | Something new was developing in the 19th century , argues the historian Albert Hourani , something ‘ created by the vast expansion of the European mind and imagination so as to appropriate all existing things . ’ |
| 15 | The story goes that one dismal morning they were detailed to take their Mosquito , ‘ D ’ for Dog , up for testing , and as there had been quite a party in the Mess on the previous evening , neither was feeling in the best of moods as they trudged out to dispersal at the crack of dawn . |
| 16 | Not these Tiller girls of course , although the most senior was performing in the forties . |