Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Close your eyes to that garlic bread literally squelching in butter ! |
| 32 | If ‘ story ’ suggests a narrative sequence towards which Double Or Nothing is gesturing , Federman it the same time questions each fictional possibility so thoroughly that the only reliable sequence becomes the narrative voice which is constantly shifting in person and tone . |
| 33 | The lease required a proportion of one-twelfth of " waste ore " to be made available at the end of every three years and made saleable — failure to do so resulting in forfeiture of all such material . |
| 34 | Today , it is difficult to define a particular Hautvillers style : all have a good fruit content , and although some are perhaps lacking in definition , the finest attain great distinction , balancing high extract with a delicacy of flavour . |
| 35 | Nor do I feel compelled to depart from that conclusion by the fact that , under the present practice , a local authority which acts as a relator in a relator action is required to give an undertaking in damages even though it is so proceeding in order to enforce the law in the public interest . |
| 36 | Merely lacking in opportunity . ’ |
| 37 | Yet it seems hardly less lacking in vitality , and manages to make its commendably brief duration of 86 minutes feel like a great many more as it toils though a youthful crisis of conscience . |
| 38 | I think they 're only coming in case there 's any money for them . ’ |
| 39 | In ‘ Lord of the Flies ’ the children have a more pragmatic view , only taking in consideration what will work , as when they find the ‘ candle buds ’ they destroy some and leave them . |
| 40 | In the most diversified locality examined , in south-east Peru , size has effects on not only diet and prey search but also capture methods , vertical position in the forest , habitat use and locomotory patterns , the larger primates apparently differing in diet as to the percentage of fruit versus leaves for example . |
| 41 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 42 | Whereas it hath been represented to us , upon the oaths of several of our trusty and well-beloved booksellers , that certain journeyman taylors , shoemakers , barbers , Spitaldfields-weavers [ sic ] , and other handicraftsmen , and that certain apprentices , shopmen , &c. have assembled in certain clubs , called Spouting-clubs , and , having there intoxicated themselves with porter and poetry , have presumed to make rhymes , and discharge them on the Public , under the title of ‘ Squires and Honourables , &c. &c. to the great annoyance of said Public , and of us , the said Reviewers ; WE do hereby ordain and decree that … [ everyone ] so offending in future , shall , for every such first offence , be chained to the compter , for a space , not exceeding twelve , nor less than six days ; and … for every such second offence , be not only chained to the compter for the said space of time ( more or less ) but be obliged to wear bob-wigs , and flapped hats without girdle or buckle , for the space of six months . |
| 43 | The methods available are constantly increasing in number and their utility is greater as the complexity of contemporary processes is revealed . |
| 44 | So breeding in captivity is vital to ensure the species survival . |
| 45 | To everyone 's surprise , the bodies of the tech and the scum warrior stayed in full view , soaring and bobbing on convection currents of superheated gases as if trying to swim away from the wall ; though the bodies were obviously changing in texture as they cooked . |
| 46 | The overture finishes to applause , the curtains open , thunder rumbles and lightning flashes to reveal me , arms raised skyward and apparently floating in midair , as a huge mirror silently descends and I speak the first lines : |
| 47 | One fact that was used to support the idea of a recent origin was the recognition that the human race is obviously evolving in culture and technology . |
| 48 | This has been greatly increasing in popularity in recent years and , according to all the forecasts , looks set to become even more widespread . |
| 49 | They bowed out of the European Cup at the hands of Dinamo Tbilisi , but they certainly went down fighting in front of around 6 , spectators . |
| 50 | ‘ Good news , ’ says Chairman James Hann , ‘ but still not really good enough bearing in mind the level of investment in our company — but we are getting there . |
| 51 | Sixty-five regardless bearing in mind we 've now offered women the opportunity to earn more money from the year two thousand and ten , and not retiring until sixty-five . |
| 52 | Suddenly flickering in sky summit , three or four together , |
| 53 | So bearing in mind the government itself has never iss er initiated any criminal action against auditors criticised in D T I reports , there are no effective sanctions . |
| 54 | And we are moving into an age , I think it must be recognised , where some of the traditional jobs for girls , for example , secretaries , shops , things of this sort , are actually being decreased because of the technological revolution , so bearing in mind that something like seventy per cent of women are actually in employment , it 's very important that a girl , at the age of thirteen or fourteen , does not decide to cut herself off from the possibility of employment in these technological , engineering fields . |
| 55 | ( e ) I would not think it right , especially bearing in mind the development of the concept of economic duress , to regard the categories of compulsion for present purposes as closed . |
| 56 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that it is important that we have a debate soon on Kashmir , especially bearing in mind that the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , in his capacity as deputy leader of the Labour party , has pledged his party to support self-determination for Kashmir ? |
| 57 | ‘ Is n't it also unacceptable that it took the management of British Nuclear Fuels longer than one might expect to make this incident public , especially bearing in mind that Dr Lewis Moonie [ a Labour front-bencher ] and I actually visited this site on Thursday and Friday of last week and were not informed that these excessive discharges had taken place ? ’ |
| 58 | A piece of ecological history that remains to be fully researched was the decision by a number of individuals , many apparently working in isolation from each other , to establish , like Darwin , permanent plots within which the fate of individual plants could be recorded over time . |
| 59 | Since the audience is presumed to possess similar views to the speaker , the speaker , in a real sense , is literally engaging in self-justification : the self is being justified by the self to the self . |
| 60 | The latter then binds to an InsP 3 receptor ( IP 3 R ) to mobilize stored calcium and to promote an influx of external calcium , perhaps working in conjunction with InsP 4 ( refs 9 , 10 ) . |