Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] in the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't take long to get Graham 's eyes looking in the same direction . |
| 2 | Possibly dinosaurs living in the latter phase had developed complex social structures , as today occurs in some reptilian genera . |
| 3 | With the narrow lanes around Bentworth , any approaching traffic would have had to give way and cars travelling in the same direction could have been held up . |
| 4 | In Berlin itself , there are over 4,000 Vietnamese , most of whom live three to a room in cramped hostels , paying well over the odds for the privilege ( Germans living in the same accommodation pay considerably less ) . |
| 5 | The author explores , in this paper , some philosophical arguments for equal distribution of scarce goods between people of different age groups living in the same society . |
| 6 | By being doctrinaire and parochial , it is easy to have a whole host of companies competing in the same home market ; but how many will be effective ( or even in business ) in ten years ' time ? |
| 7 | John Hick 's God and the Universe of Faith introduces the ‘ ecumenical ’ idea of many faiths believing in the same God . |
| 8 | In the worst possible case , with all errors operating in the same direction and all being at plus or minus two standard errors ( a most unlikely occurrence and an overstatement of the true joint confidence intervals ) , the estimated expenditure needs might range from £108 to £509 for every child aged 5–17 . |
| 9 | Zuwaya probably used marriages to create alliances with members of other lineages living in the same place , and to maintain connection with members of the same lineage living in different places , even though they did not feel the same ecological pressures as the members of the Saadi confederation . |
| 10 | Among carers living in the same household as the person receiving care , this difference is even more apparent , with 62 per cent of women providing help with personal care and 53 per cent being responsible for giving medication , compared with 43 per cent and 37 per cent of men respectively . |
| 11 | The only type of help in which , according to the 1985 GHS , men clearly outnumber women is in taking the disabled person out — 60 per cent of men compared with 49 per cent of women carers living in the same household as the person being given care ( Green , 1988 , p. 27 ) . |
| 12 | Carers living in the same household as the person receiving care , female carers , those with sole responsibility for providing care and those who were not economically active were especially disadvantaged . |
| 13 | There are five species of Dorylus or driver ants living in the same area of Africa . |
| 14 | In the case of ancient or medieval coinage the existence in different groups of coins of different or similar patterns of die axis may support or reduce the likelihood of some coins belonging in the same group . |
| 15 | Extended families living in the same household remain very common . |
| 16 | The inner-city indicators were based largely on territorial assumptions , for example that people might have close relatives living in the same street or the next street , and that people would work in the same places as some of their close neighbours ( L. Milroy 1987 : 141–2 ) . |
| 17 | The first reason why the market could no longer be perceived as limiting economic power was that the structure of the market ceased to correspond even loosely with the model of perfect competition which required numerous firms operating in the same industry so that no firm was capable of affecting the price of its product by varying the level of the output of that product . |
| 18 | On principle I am against owning too many establishments dealing in the same merchandise in the one town . |
| 19 | With such a system there seems little to prevent providers behaving in the same manner as providers elsewhere where reimbursement systems are in operation . |
| 20 | Problems may arise in respect of expatriates working in the same location on longer-term postings or even local company employees who are dissatisfied with their rates of pay in comparison with salaries and/or bonuses earned by fixed-term contract workers . |
| 21 | Would there be two bodies operating in the same field ? |
| 22 | According to the Washington Post of Oct. 21 the number of guestworkers living in the former GDR had gone down to 85,000 and the German government was offering US$2,000 and a free flight home if they would leave . |
| 23 | JB : It seemed natural that two painters working in the same vicinity with the same painting outlooks should share a studio which we 've been doing now for , how long ? |
| 24 | One way of looking at the effects of the kind of industry they work in is to see whether black people and whites living in the same area — inner cities for example — have similar rates of unemployment . |
| 25 | By an unfortunate twist of fate , Sunderland were to experience the full might of the cousins playing in the same team . |
| 26 | Clarke usually worked at home , often with their five daughters and three sons playing in the same room . |
| 27 | Among the Bangladeshis , the notion of interdependence of family members — both within and between generations — was clearer , underpinning the practices of parents and children sleeping in the same room and the extended family living together . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , species are real things , with real discontinuities between them — at least if we confine ourselves to sexual organisms living in the same place at the same time . |
| 29 | In addition , it was shown that women living in the same household as the person for whom they were caring were more likely to be either working full-time or not at all ; part-time employment was taken when the sick or elderly person lived elsewhere . |
| 30 | Women learn at an early age that most men do not like angry women living in the same house . |