Example sentences of "[coord] in [v-ing] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the social dislocation and consumer privations that Stalinism wrought , it must be said that the ruthless and heavy-handed mobilisation of human and economic resources did succeed in achieving impressive growth rates and in building up a solid industrial infrastructure in what , with the exceptions of Germany and Czechoslovakia , had been largely agrarian countries . |
| 2 | Additional benefits of tree-lined streams , in reducing the effects of nitrates and phosphates in the water and in shading out the choking growth of summer weed in a river bed , which may otherwise necessitate further expensive dredging , have been recognized by Dutch and German scientists for over a decade . |
| 3 | The more dedicated among them combed both the cultivated and wild places of the world in search of novelties and in doing so a good number of them lost their lives , in some cases in tragic circumstances . |
| 4 | However , we are shown that success does n't only depend on technical skill , but in selecting just the right view to paint . |
| 5 | Physical injury was frequent , not only in notoriously dangerous places like mines , where gas explosions added to the threat of rock falls , gun powder mishaps and shaft falls , but in grinding where the huge wheels sometimes shattered into flying slivers . |