Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willa Cather 's My Antonia , which along with her other novels I was absorbing with great delight at this period , provided another couple with whom to identify , Antonia and Jim Burden , and I kept switching sides with these characters also . |
| 2 | Indeed , despite the fall in numbers of children living in residential care at any one time , some 25 per cent since 1971 in the United Kingdom but far higher for some types of care than others , recent research shows that residential care is still experienced by many troubled adolescents . |
| 3 | I 'd forgone breakfast because I had n't got to bed till four in the morning , lunch because I had a hangover and anyway I was late for the train , and due to the fact that it was — according to British Rail at any rate — still part of the extended Festive Period , there had been no buffet trolley on the train . |
| 4 | Increases in the elderly population — in both absolute and proportionate terms — have resulted from long term downward trends in the birth rate coinciding with decreased mortality at all ages . |
| 5 | By July they were objecting to overseas service at all . |
| 6 | One in four adults in Britain is suffering from mental illness at any one time , according to the Mental Health Foundation . |
| 7 | And to attribute knowledge of Truth to the voice of conscience in this way , or to the religious and ethical criteria of a particular form of life , inevitably brings Gandhi face to face with the problem of the relativity of truth and with the question whether under the circumstances one is justified in talking about absolute Truth at all . |
| 8 | Basically it was about certain British officials allegedly colluding in drug-test avoidance at some meetings in the early eighties . |