Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
2 | There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well . |
3 | Several schools commented on the importance of involving the whole school in living up to the agreed health policy . |
4 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
5 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
6 | Herodotus 's Histories and Aeschylus 's Agamemnon serve as touchstones for Brooke-Rose 's novel , for in going back to the classical period , it is able to return to the point at which these distinctions began to be associated with different ways of talking and writing attributed to fact and to fiction . |
7 | My guess is that I am not alone in waking up to the stunning brutality of boxing . |
8 | She suspects me of a form of vanity in sidling up to the existential questions . |
9 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
10 | In showing off to the raw recruits he might even throw the small plane into such daring bankings or dives that it could n't be manoeuvred out of . |