Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carbohydrates provide a good energy supply for the body as they 're converted into glucose , but make sure you 're eating it in the right forms . |
| 2 | When they measure your speed , they 're measuring your velocity really , they 're measuring it in a particular direction , along that road . |
| 3 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
| 4 | Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X. |
| 5 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 6 | They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is . |
| 7 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |
| 8 | So we 're showing it in a peaceful way because in the end of course we can destroy by the ballot and not the bullet . |
| 9 | ‘ Luce is fond of you and she does n't want to hurt you , but you 're putting her in an impossible situation by your pig-headedness . |
| 10 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 11 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 12 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 13 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 14 | ‘ We have spent a lot of time explaining it and we think people are approaching it in an open way . ’ |
| 15 | I said to Claire , I said , I 'm sticking them in the wrong one . |
| 16 | and I need to ensure that this experience erm well I I need to make sure that I will be evaluating it in a similar way as I went along . |
| 17 | if you 're gon na plan bare rooted trees and stuff you 've got ta be doing it in the dormant season , so you 're talking October , November possibly October . |
| 18 | Mr Sabin 's family has been in the publishing and bookselling business since 1865 and his son Mark will be joining him in the new venture , together with David Fuller , another former Ackermann director . |
| 19 | ‘ Lewis seems to be making it in the old alternative comedy scene , does n't he ? ’ |
| 20 | If we continue to ignore these people , especially the young , we may be fighting them in the near fu future as they are actively being targeted by the far right British National Party and other fascist organizations that are using this sense of desertion . |
| 21 | That is surely what most people want , and if only Mr Major had not taken Britain into the ERM and so impoverished them unnecessarily , they would be backing him in a clear majority now . |
| 22 | R's like they are putting you in a helpless position and expecting you to be able to operate from there . |
| 23 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 24 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 25 | ‘ Nowadays somebody who uses the word nigger is seen as racist , whereas Biggles is using it in a neutral sense that 's no longer there . ’ |
| 26 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 27 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
| 28 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 29 | Two five five , the reason why the Executive asked for withdrawal was because it 's moving us a bit too fast along this track , and it 's moving us in a particular direction before we 've had the time to think about whether that 's the right direction to go . |
| 30 | Well while he 's raking it in every bloody week for sitting on his behind in parliament there , he can pay for them ! |