Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 2 | Orton was the longest serving prisoner of conscience in Africa . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel sure that this will lead to many of the girls following courses in Technology next year and hopefully , eventually seeking jobs in technology in industry ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We 're departing from the idea that microcomputers will be a fantastic source of telecommunications traffic in the future , ’ said Jean-Jacques Damlamian , France Telecom 's sales director , citing a study by DG Conseil that shows France 's 420,000 networked personal computers already generating $160m per year in revenues for all types of telecommunications traffic . |
| 5 | To consider the hypothesized eastward moving segments of lithosphere in Mongolia and China as involving ‘ micro-plates ’ is to employ the term ‘ plate ’ in quite a different sense from its original definition . |
| 6 | ‘ We were just discussing attitudes towards death in our respective cultures . ’ |
| 7 | When they were once more walking side by side in the dusk , Julia said gently : |
| 8 | My hon. Friend is also right that business wants regulations kept in bounds , with decent regulations so that markets are fair and open , but it does not want the masses of red tape that the Opposition are always recommending day after day in the House . |
| 9 | They watched the horses follow the tractor round the ever narrowing stand of corn in the centre of the field , and the tinkers who came to get work stood by with dogs and shot the rabbits that came surging out . |
| 10 | The Herbarium photocopier was still giving cause for concern in respect of a lack of information and instruction on its use . |
| 11 | Ordained in 1879 in Ripon Cathedral , he served his curacy at St Katherine 's Parish Church , Northampton , before later becoming Vicar of Swadlincote in Derbyshire . |
| 12 | I would like to record my thanks to the members of all sites who have given such enthusiasm and interest to this problem , this topic and that the erm County Council is now resourcing rights of way in a way which we felt was necessary and I would thank our staff for their persistence , patience and their continuing efforts with great er verseatue we I am grateful Chairman . |
| 13 | ‘ The obvious symmetrical properties of sea shells indicate the operation of a far deeper principle in nature than previously thought , one that could have far reaching implications for Science in general . ’ |
| 14 | Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr ( Subject of a celebrated prosecution in 1967 under the Obscene Publications Act ) , LAST EXIT is a tough , often harrowing film about life in a rough working class district of New York during the Korean War . |
| 15 | On Nov. 15 former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams was put on probation for two years , ordered to devote up to 100 hours to community service and fined a token $50 for unlawfully witholding information from Congress in the Iran-contra scandal [ see p. 38521 ] . |
| 16 | Those curtains are called ‘ precipitation ’ by meteorologists and are fast falling products of condensation in the atmosphere of rain , hail or snow . |
| 17 | Workers at all levels add value not solely or even mostly by tending machines and carrying out routines , but by continuously discovering opportunities for improvement in product and process . |
| 18 | In that same instant , the Angel Two launched himself out of his chair , the speed of his reaction almost taking Grant by surprise in turn . |
| 19 | And Cornwell said : ‘ We keep going two or three goals down and then putting teams under pressure in the second half . |
| 20 | Are they actually helping people to maturity in Christ ? |
| 21 | VXL is also currently supplying terminals for use in a large CMC Ltd project to computerise the Indian Railways . |