Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , now they 're both ethers try and name them first in naming them take the biggest hydro-carbon chunk that you can find and pretend that that was an alkane so the smaller chunk then becomes the substituant . |
| 2 | What 's more , releases like this , and the others in the series , are extremely valuable in allowing us to form a fuller picture of the musical background against which giants such as Brahms are judged . |
| 3 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 4 | If we lack the information that is vital in enabling us to gain a subjective awareness of our real interest then we are hardly likely to be a position to get together to organise . |
| 5 | Doctors who are aware of food intolerance and experienced in diagnosing it have a different statistical outlook . |
| 6 | Just as selection via the 11-plus , was the decisive influence , the gaining of school-leaving qualifications is now crucial in deciding who gains the best jobs . |
| 7 | And Dearle claimed that in addition to the small scale of their work and the inexperience of their members , the committees also suffered from a difficulty in gaining the support of employers , especially in persuading them to grant the young worker time off for further education . |
| 8 | But in terms of turnover in staff I would I would be fairly confident in saying we have the lowest one of the lowest if not the lowest in any direct sales operation . |
| 9 | They see no problem in joining us to visit the elderly of the village ’ . |
| 10 | The injunction that Churchill gave Hugh Dalton , in asking him to oversee the Special Operations Executive , was ‘ to set Europe ablaze ’ . |
| 11 | In Bejing he met the Chinese President , Yang Shangkun , the Prime Minister , Li Peng , and other senior officials . |
| 12 | In determining what constitutes a reasonable prospect it is to be assumed that the prospect given by the facts and other matters known to the creditor at the time he entered into the transaction resulting in the debt was a reasonable prospect ( s 271(4) ) . |
| 13 | Unless you have a specific allergy , there is no great harm in taking something to relieve an isolated headache . |
| 14 | There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club . |
| 15 | In covering its spending the Central Bank had fuelled inflation by printing " trillions " of australs . |