Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be neurological involvement similar to that occurring in adult acquired syphilis , but the onset is , of course , at a much younger age . |
| 2 | The duties of a Resident , Temple asseverated , were such as to give ‘ opportunities for the exertion of any degree of administrative capacity , tact , and industry ’ , and , amplifying : ‘ It may readily be supposed that this keeping in touch with the people without impairing the authority of the Emir and consequently of the whole native administration , is no easy task , and one on which any amount of administrative tact and ability can be exerted . ’ |
| 3 | No that thing waterproof walking in lake , wahey |
| 4 | And how turbid … it then sort of goes through this darkening in turbidity . |
| 5 | The inability to protect children from such abuse has been the subject of a succession of inquiry reports , in which the main reason given for this failure has been some failing in procedure such as the lack of communication among the agencies involved . |
| 6 | Despite a general rise in attendances , several clubs were on the verge of bankruptcy and limped from one financial problem to another playing in front of miniscule crowds often in grounds designed to suit manic-depressives from the dark ages . |
| 7 | the situation 's significantly different bearing in mind the primary requirement on the planning system by virtue of P P G one to provide ade adequately for development . |
| 8 | Your answer will probably be something like this Bearing in mind that we have already allowed for sleeping , eating and formal classes in the full week , the balance represents 4½ working days at 8 hours per day , available for private study . |
| 9 | is quite high bearing in mind the fact the national average . |
| 10 | However , we helped secure an enhanced sea bed survey , the results of which could help put an end to this dumping in future . |
| 11 | The task will fall to the manager to persuade advice workers to attend race-awareness training in addition to popular updating in welfare benefits ; managers may have the task of explaining to management committee members why they now need training after so many years without it ; it will be the manager 's job to be attuned to advice workers ' weaknesses and tactfully point them to the relevant additional training ; the manager must find a balance in workers ' meetings between training , casework and group support . |
| 12 | 2 Working in advertising |
| 13 | Skuas and jaegers — predatory gull-like birds — winter at sea but feed almost entirely ashore on insects and small mammals during the breeding season ; phalaropes , divers and several species of ducks similarly switch from marine foraging in winter to feeding and breeding on the tundra wetlands in summer . |
| 14 | Seen on the ground the Piper Apache is a chubby little bird , somewhat dated and rather sedate looking in comparison with its younger cousin , the Twin Comanche , but there is an impression of dependability and a promise of comfort . |
| 15 | It faces several more years of economic self-restraint , with no real easing in prospect until the second half of the 1990s . |
| 16 | The central defence appeared WOODEN and very much lacking in pace . |
| 17 | Do not leave too much sitting in laughter lines or they will seem like crevices ! |
| 18 | A survey of the over 75s living in South Wales revealed that 86 per cent had either visited or stayed in a general hospital ward compared with 33 per cent for a geriatric ward ( Salvage et al . |
| 19 | Drink driving continues to appear as a factor in road accidents in Lothian and featured in 366 accidents in 1990 , 17% of these resulting in injury . |
| 20 | In 1991 , 363 accidents involved drivers affected by alcohol with 23% of these resulting in injury . |
| 21 | An estimated 40 new firms have already joined the big three specialising in GP computers since the Government 's controversial plans for a management orientated NHS were published in January . |
| 22 | I honestly believe that it could not be more inspirational playing in front of a home international crowd . ’ |
| 23 | erm no doubt there 'll be lots of inquests as to why and what and everything else but we did lose that and we lost it badly and from then onwards the outcome was pretty inevitable bearing in mind the erm views of the independent . |
| 24 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 25 | And then we talked of more interesting things , things by now as familiar to me as legend , in a sort of litany , each speaking in turn . |
| 26 | By the early hours of Monday , February 4 , they are all swimming in alcohol . |
| 27 | He was educated at Nottingham High School , Rugby School , and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he obtained first classes in both parts of the classical tripos ( 1908 and 1909 ) , in part ii specializing in archaeology , and won several classical prizes . |
| 28 | So they 're all coming in costume as it were ? |
| 29 | Erm but I put the company into liquidation at that point , because of the problems we were all having in industry , and started again about a year , two years ago . |
| 30 | Dickens was writing before Marcel Proust and James Joyce , in their different ways , represented this endless swirling in fiction . |