Example sentences of "[v-ing] in a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discovery was made by a farmer 's son , Euan Baird , 16 , who was out walking in a private forestry plantation near the family farm at Scotston , Auchterhouse , a few miles north of Dundee . |
| 2 | Herodotus was able to establish some kind of time-sequence for the two centuries before his time , but he was a more diffuse writer than Thucydides , who was concerned with many events occurring in a shorter time interval . |
| 3 | These monitor and diagnose any problems occurring in a particular computer system , drops in temperature and changes in air conditioning levels . |
| 4 | Seventeen random numbers in the range 000 to 200 ( representing the record keys ) can be selected by choosing the first numbers within the required range occurring in a random number table . |
| 5 | You want to know what is happening in a Third World trouble-spot . |
| 6 | Over 600 amateur performers representing 11 Organisations including the League of Health & Beauty , Keep Fit , Margaret Morris , Medau , Slimnastics , Ballroom and Folk Dance , etc. moved in a kaleidoscope of colour within the splendour of the Royal Albert Hall enthralling their audience , ending in a grand finale flooding into the arena from every entrance and aisle , swirling round in one great happy group to celebrate this wonderful occasion . |
| 7 | A long , skinny , bare arm ending in a white silk glove was thrust out towards Sir Thomas . |
| 8 | He had always been very highly strung and eventually suffered a complete mental and physical breakdown before dying in a private lunatic asylum in Roehampton 2 January 1900 . |
| 9 | The systems were not designed for devolved budgets and the rapid proliferation of small self-supporting business units trading in an internal market place . |
| 10 | Ayesha reintroduces the central figure reborn from the apparent death at the end of She and now the sole survivor of the cult of Isis , living in a volcanic mountain fortress , this time in Tibet , and with some difficulty holding her power against a wild tribe in the valley , partly consisting of survivors from Alexander 's army , under the control of Queen Atene , who proves to be a reincarnation of the Egyptian princess , Amenartas , beloved of Kallikrates . |
| 11 | Even moving from high to low cost areas can raise difficulties — employees may doubt that they will ever be able to move back to their home areas or other more expensive regions once they have committed themselves to living in a lower cost housing area . |
| 12 | It 's like living in a bleeding watch factory . |
| 13 | Mrs Smith is a widow living in a small council flat in Bermondsey . |
| 14 | In 1986 , about 1.6 million children were living in a lone parent family . |
| 15 | this man managing , almost single-handed , a country as large as Scotland ; when one sees that man , living in a leaky mud hut , holding , by the sway of his personality , the balance even between fiercely antagonistic races , in a land which would cover half a dozen of the large English counties ; when one sees the marvels accomplished by tact , passionate interest and self-control , with utterly inadequate means , in continuous personal discomfort , short-handed , on poor pay , out here in Northern Nigeria — then one feels that permanent evil can not ultimately evolve from so much admirable work accomplished , and that the end must be good . |
| 16 | THE aristocratic former wife of a Scottish earl is now a prostitute and a junkie living in a high-rise council flat , a court heard yesterday . |
| 17 | People living in a nearby travellers camp were woken by the crash , they describe the scene as something from a nightmare . |
| 18 | My most valuable experience was a few years ago when I was living in a dingy student room in Grenoble . |
| 19 | To be living in a nuclear family household means parents and dependent children ( statistically speaking 2.4 ) with no other relatives or friends . |
| 20 | ‘ However , I would n't mind living in a huge London house in Knightsbridge , and being waited on by all those servants . |
| 21 | Both Law and Baxter liked a good time , but language problems , an over-attentive press and the sheer tedium of living in a big city hotel , conspired against them . |
| 22 | And is this why you are now living in an abandoned farm building near Glastonbury , in Somerset ? |
| 23 | ‘ Will it be with the Student Communist Party or Opus Dei ? ’ — both risks springing to the mind of a parent living in an ancient university city . |
| 24 | A DOCTOR spent last night shivering in a frozen food store room in preparation for some cold nights ahead . |
| 25 | West Custom Marine are now establishing in a modern yard nest to Lymington station . |
| 26 | Changing attitudes to energy saving in a low income area |
| 27 | And , say some , you can smell soap near the bathroom where Henry Wilson , US Grant 's vice president , caught a fatal chill while soaking in an Italian marble tub in 1875 . |
| 28 | They conceived that what they represented was accurate : Henry V as a play genuinely celebrating the national character , the Elizabethans were imagined as believing in a stable world order . |
| 29 | We have examined these processes in three different areas : perception as far as it can be determined from neurophysiological and laterality studies , remembering in a short-term memory context , and organisation in recall as it occurs in story-telling . |
| 30 | Another had kept a continual eye on the grain trade by serving in a Red Army supply regiment and then managing a state grain-collecting centre . |