Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] in the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electronic data interchange , or EDI , is another of those information technology concepts that , after politely lurking in the background for a few decades , is suddenly forcing itself on our attention with unmannerly persistence . |
| 2 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 3 | As there are many persons of distinction in England who are pleased to honour the art of gardening by making it a considerable part of their amusement and have been greatly assisting in the introducing of large numbers of new plants , shrubs and trees into the English gardens and as some of these noble persons have studied the science of botany and are well acquainted with the characters and true names of the plants … their example will render it necessary for the professors of Gardening at least to know the plants they cultivate by their proper titles … |
| 4 | Future generations will condemn us for inaction in the face of what is obviously happening in the world at present . |
| 5 | The 23-year-old Southampton player , ranked a lowly 176 in the world and only appearing in the tournament on the back of a wild card , rocked the world No 6 with 6–3 , 3–6 , 6–3 triumph . |
| 6 | The 23-year-old Southampton player , ranked a lowly 176 in the world and only appearing in the tournament on the back of a wild card , rocked the world No.6 with 6–3 3–6 6–3 triumph . |
| 7 | and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes . |
| 8 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 9 | It causes no pollution , either in terms of fuel consumption or noise , yet finding yourself suddenly cowering in the shadow of a huge coloured parachute at the top of a hill where you imagined yourself to be alone , bursts the illusionary balloon of solitude and remote wilderness for me . |
| 10 | The only reaction was from the latter , his masked face suddenly turning in the direction of one of the cameras . |
| 11 | Peter Noonan has been patiently waiting in the wings for six years , and finally , whether it was seeing Terry so happy , realising that she was n't getting any younger , or the fact that I told her I was thinking of getting married , sh — ’ |
| 12 | Brown has been important to White because he provides the top-level training practice that has been so lacking in the build-up to this world championships . |
| 13 | Giving away 6lbs , Reg Hollinshead 's colt lost nothing in defeat , only buckling in the shadow of the post , having been under heavy pressure from well over a furlong out . |
| 14 | So getting in the right with God is impossible for human beings to achieve by their own efforts . |
| 15 | The Abbey Mill had been replaced with The Old Mill House ( number 2 in Millers Green ) in the late 18th century , an original millstone apparently surviving in the cellar to this day . |
| 16 | This may be one reason why ecological engineering was slow to reach Britain , and Scotland in particular , only arriving in the mid-1980s on a tide of environmental consciousness . |
| 17 | Even in the midst of " participating " we are constantly interpreting in the light of what we know and expect . |
| 18 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |
| 19 | The bungalow is literally sitting in the path of progress , surrounded by redevelopment and waiting to be bulldozed . |
| 20 | He did make the inevitable protest of the recently released prisoner : was he to be hounded wherever he went , just because of the recent trip ‘ abroad ’ , and surely that debt was paid in full and he could be allowed to start again in , of all places , his old home , which he was only visiting in the hope of finding where his parents had moved to ; to lose touch with his dear mother was not to be borne ; he needed to talk with his parents , to explain things to them , and ask for their forgiveness . |
| 21 | Here that of the deputy was clearly defined , and entailed engagement with policy , management and development rather than merely covering in the event of the head 's absence . |
| 22 | Nevertheless critics of liberal legislation that ‘ destroyed ’ the common lands failed to remember that , although the commons may have contributed to ‘ the independence and dignity so striking in the demeanour of the Spanish peasant ’ , the price of these social benefits was a level of agricultural production that precluded progress . |
| 23 | In a couple of landscapes executed at Carrières Saint-Denis , where he had spent a week or so working in the company of Derain , late in the autumn of 1909 , Braque had already begun to transform the subtlety and observational quality of the Roche Guyon landscapes into tighter , more arbitrary compositions , reminiscent in the emphasis on the vertical and horizontal structure broken by forty-five degree diagonals ( and also in colour , which is once again darker and harsher ) of the Maisons à Estaque . |
| 24 | An example is the coinage of the Greek colonies in southern Italy , most of which reduced the weight of their silver coins by one-sixth in the early third century BC , thereby aiding in the classification of their coinages . |
| 25 | When a dispute did arise , and the government was confident of the outcome , then no quarter would be given : as with earlier strikes , such as that involving the steel industry , the government 's resolve to weaken the unions , thereby aiding in the regeneration of British industry , would be displayed — as a ‘ demonstration effect pour encourager les autres ’ . |
| 26 | Those early genera that survived had a built-in immunity to ultraviolet radiation , thus helping in the struggle for continued survival . |
| 27 | The language of formula and the mass market , already appearing in the world of 1880s British music hall song ( see A. Bennett 1986 : 9–10 ) , is heard particularly clearly in the United States against the backdrop of the new industrial methods of ‘ Fordism ’ . |
| 28 | We were doing our first two weeks square bashing in the RAF as boy entrants . |
| 29 | What he wrote was already forming in the minds of married women torn between homes and the lure of careers , between the roles of sex objects or earth mothers . |
| 30 | Gould lost no time venturing into the field , taking with him on some excursions his nephew Henry , who was understandably thrilled by the prospect of driving bullock carts ; his servant James , who he was zealously training in the art of taxidermy ; and sometimes his assistant Gilbert . |