Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of vortex stretching , considered in Section 6.6 , will thus be strongly present — although occurring in a random fashion . |
| 2 | Later we were joined in an organising committee by a number of other people who , although acting in a personal capacity , had through their paid employment or voluntary work direct experience of the issues which were to form the core of the conference . |
| 3 | Valium use , furthermore , focuses on individual malfunctioning : social and economic problems are dealt with in a framework of a medical model of relief of individual distress , alleviating symptoms rather than operating in a social context which may require familial or wider social change . |
| 4 | No wonder she had never got further than teaching in a one-roomed schoolhouse . |
| 5 | They like nothing more than wallowing in a cool mud bath in the mornings when the sun is not too high and then resting in the shade of an acacia tree during the scorching heat which follows . |
| 6 | Internal review will then be just a matter of mechanically scrutinizing numbers on a balance sheet , rather than engaging in a critical dialogue over the educational effectiveness of courses . |
| 7 | Apart from that , Novell says that it has extended and streamlined existing NetWare 3.11 code , rather than indulging in a complete re-write . |
| 8 | Although the four of them were practically knee to knee , he made as if speaking in a vast auditorium . |
| 9 | So are Barcelona under Johan Cruyff , as if participating in a benign conspiracy : two good results for Real and the Toshack era takes off . |
| 10 | Think about Elizabeth I , for instance , flirting with her ministers and conducting affairs of state as if participating in a ritualised love affair . |
| 11 | Remember that , if working in a large organisation , then someone might be asked to assess the DC who has no clue as to why the change is being proposed . |
| 12 | And then it is clear how Darwin has come to be thinking of a species as a population of individuals , with each member differing from every other because arising in a unique sequence of influences exerted by a unique succession of conditions and mates . |
| 13 | I first met Mr. Docherty , a 32-year-old man who originates from the Hemsworth area , while canvassing in a local government by-election in my constituency during March this year . |
| 14 | He stared at her while drawing in a deep breath , which expanded his broad chest further ; then he said , ‘ Well , if you want to know , you should n't look as you do ; you attract the wrong kind . |
| 15 | She had been inadvertently locked in a disused cellar and the only sound she had heard while cringing in a darkened corner was the incessant scratching as the rats scurried across the concrete floor around her . |
| 16 | What of sensations , perhaps the warmth one feels while sitting in a sunny window ? |
| 17 | Yet the reality has been so , so different , with the latest low occurring when he damaged medial knee ligaments while playing in a reserve match last Thursday . |
| 18 | The court may deny an action to a plaintiff who suffered damage while participating in a criminal activity . |
| 19 | John Parker , who himself took a nasty knock on the head while batting in a famous Press match at Harrogate in 1977 , stiffens his reader on page 9 by having the bumptious captain of Surrey keel over ‘ like a battleship hit by a torpedo ’ . |
| 20 | The original was made in 1890 , by the owner , while working in a High Wycombe factory . |
| 21 | Suppose that while shopping in a crowded store I become temporarily separated from a friend and in reply to his anxious call shout back " I am here " . |
| 22 | More accurately , it should be said : relationships as could be phantasised as happening in a happy family . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Because of maintaining an apparently different brand of theism , Hinduism is often viewed by those whose main contact is with the Near Eastern religions either as atheist or as believing in a different god or gods . |
| 25 | I visualized Alison as living in a classic North Oxford mansion set on a bosky avenue amid the murmuring of innumerable dons , so I was surprised to find myself directed up the hill to Headington . |
| 26 | When acting in a judicial capacity he is thrown back on his own resources , whereas in his ministerial capacity he is assisted by the staff of a major department of state . |
| 27 | The " ticket " of Clinton , 46 , and Gore , 44 , was widely hailed as ushering in a new generation of leaders . |
| 28 | Electromagnetic energy can be thought of as moving in a wave-like pattern at the speed of light . |
| 29 | John McLellan , coachman to L. McLean of Islay House was killed when breaking in a young horse attached to a cart . |
| 30 | When sailing in a straight line the CE will be almost directly over the CLR ( the daggerboard ) . |