Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law section three of the criminal law act nineteen sixty seven reads a person may use such force as is reasonable in the circumstances in the prevention of crime or in effecting or assisting in the lawful arrest of offenders or suspected offenders or of persons unlawfully at large . |
| 2 | I mean , obviously you 're playing in a rather … or driving in the fast lane when you 're doing this sort of thing . ’ |
| 3 | The hotel is surrounded by extensive grounds and nearby guests can spend leisurely days exploring the fragrant pine woods of the region or swimming in the translucent azure seas which lap gently at soft sandy shores along this wonderful coastline . |
| 4 | The individual must be able to convince himself that the next step is up to him and , no matter where he is staying or going , he always has the choice of leaving or turning in the opposite direction if he chooses to do so . |
| 5 | They 're always sawing , hammering or drilling in the wrong place . |
| 6 | It should not , Mr Mayor , definitely not be used simply as an easy option for those who could manage quite happily to provide for themselves , either renting or buying in the private sector but instead choose to let the state provide . |
| 7 | It was like putting on a costume for a play , or running in the three-legged race . |
| 8 | He saw the occasional pheasant and partridge winging rapidly away beneath him , or skulking in the brown grass and bracken . |
| 9 | How often she and Frank had spent the day down by the river , fishing for the cunning trout , or lazing in the damp grass , talking . |
| 10 | Korea extends for approximately 600 miles ( 965 km ) from the north-east to the south-west and is about 150 miles ( 240 km ) wide , although narrowing in the northern part of the peninsula to less than 100 miles ( 160 km ) . |
| 11 | The scheme he described to the Committee was visionary , in the sense that many of his suggestions have actually been carried out , although lacking in the architectural unity that he intended . |
| 12 | Fortunately rather than staying in the main house , she was able to stay with her sister Jane and husband Robert who , as he was a member of the royal Household , enjoyed a grace and favour cottage on the estate . |
| 13 | Elizabeth Rickards , vice-principal of Duff Miller Sixth-Form College in London , believes that new types of examination mean that cramming in the old-fashioned way is impossible . |
| 14 | What they find in reality is that working in the Middle East presents a different range of management problems of multinational workforces , and the range of contract locations , anywhere from a city base to remote desert or off-shore . |
| 15 | Suffocating and smothering in the gelatinous mucous … |
| 16 | It has the effect of increasing the surface area of a solution , thus increasing its speed of activity , and assisting in the total capability of a solution to suspend dirt much of it ending up trapped in the foam . |
| 17 | I had expected it to be best for trenching and shaping in the vertical position , but on all but the softest of timbers it failed to supply a substantial cut . |
| 18 | You can alter the numbers by : - 1 ) Highlighting the part you want to change with the mouse and typing in the new value ( the old value is automatically deleted ) . |
| 19 | All round the coast fishing provided the chief by-employment , outranking both clothing and tinning in the south-eastern quarter of the county . |
| 20 | The price wars that have left them bleeding and dying in the personal computer field this year are going to spread to the margin-rich personal computer server , Computer Reseller News predicts . |
| 21 | Walking and walking in the pissing rain . |
| 22 | Some conscripts were able to live at home for at least part of their service , reporting for duty at 5.30 a.m. and returning in the late afternoon — but usually only those who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it . |
| 23 | Fielding and fogging In the above example Anne hears what Bill says , but does n't allow herself to get deflected from her purpose . |
| 24 | Smoke on the Water E5/6 6b , Woman in Chains E4/5 6a and Rigging in the Frigging Arête E4 6a . |
| 25 | A Suitable Boy had been planned as part of a larger whole , a four or five-volume sequence opening in India in the period immediately following Independence and Partition and ending in the present day , when the heroine whose husband was sought in volume one had become a grandmother . |
| 26 | The sun beating down on them and the children splashing and laughing in the shallow end . |
| 27 | He unhitched his mare , and led her warily down the slope to the Goldbach stream , stumbling and shivering in the raw morning air . |
| 28 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 29 | Another aspect of this change is the erm the change in line fifty eight , where the business and saving in the current year carried forward has been increased to seven , nine , one , from five , nine , one , you can see in the report and you will see that |
| 30 | The final report of the working party considering the content of music courses in the National Curriculum strongly affirms the centrality of performing , composing and listening in the new syllabus . |