Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And like , delicately hanging in the |
| 2 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 3 | This is what is effectively happening in the scenario posed . |
| 4 | In particular , it is the producer 's task to have ‘ the ear of the public ’ , thereby representing in the music the feelings and values of ‘ a kind of imaginary democracy ’ ( ibid : 160–1 , 188–92 ) . |
| 5 | Electronic data interchange , or EDI , is another of those information technology concepts that , after politely lurking in the background for a few decades , is suddenly forcing itself on our attention with unmannerly persistence . |
| 6 | The crowds , eventually numbering in the thousands , evolved into a spontaneous anti-war demonstration and headed across town , disrupting traffic while shouting ‘ No blood for oil ’ and finally rallying at the United Nations building . |
| 7 | One out of every three restaurants had a problem with employee and customer slips during the past year , most occurring in the kitchen |
| 8 | The entrepreneurial characteristics of agency workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encourage agency working as an institution , can be likened to the entrepreneurial characteristics of self-employed , or labour only , subcontracting , building workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encouraged the growth of labour only subcontracting in the building industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( see Phelps Brown , 1968 ) . |
| 9 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 10 | As there are many persons of distinction in England who are pleased to honour the art of gardening by making it a considerable part of their amusement and have been greatly assisting in the introducing of large numbers of new plants , shrubs and trees into the English gardens and as some of these noble persons have studied the science of botany and are well acquainted with the characters and true names of the plants … their example will render it necessary for the professors of Gardening at least to know the plants they cultivate by their proper titles … |
| 11 | ‘ Much Binding in the Marsh or something like that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Nice day ! ’ , in the style of Dickie Murdoch , the comedian in ‘ Much Binding in the Marsh ’ , the radio programme which was very popular at the time . |
| 13 | From 1940 , when he made his first broadcast as a quiz-master in the BBC radio series Ack , Ack , Beer , Beer , he was a constant broadcaster and in 1943 , by then stationed at the Air Ministry in London , he created and wrote with Squadron Leader Richard Murdoch the long-running radio series Much Binding in the Marsh , a take-off of a fictitious RAF station . |
| 14 | This was Much Binding In The Marsh . |
| 15 | Big stars and a Father Christmas and reindeer and it 's all so bright just hanging over my head and stretching all down the road like a tunnel of hot colour all hanging in the sky so beautiful and magic . |
| 16 | More '79 than '69 , no fake Hendrix-Stones-Byrds impressions , which seems somewhat daring in the current ultra-conservative climate . |
| 17 | More '79 than '69 , no fake Hendrix-Stones-Byrds impressions , which seems somewhat daring in the current ultra-conservative climate . |
| 18 | These monographs are not only binding in the member countries , but also carry the force of law in the British Commonwealth and in former colonies of France , Spain and Belgium . |
| 19 | Future generations will condemn us for inaction in the face of what is obviously happening in the world at present . |
| 20 | The 23-year-old Southampton player , ranked a lowly 176 in the world and only appearing in the tournament on the back of a wild card , rocked the world No 6 with 6–3 , 3–6 , 6–3 triumph . |
| 21 | The 23-year-old Southampton player , ranked a lowly 176 in the world and only appearing in the tournament on the back of a wild card , rocked the world No.6 with 6–3 3–6 6–3 triumph . |
| 22 | Winter colds with much sneezing , coryza and headache as if it would burst which is worse ( < ) motion , in a person who is chilly and wants to be warmly wrapped and has much aching in the bones . |
| 23 | Fungus is rarely a primary invader of the fish , only occurring in the later stages of disease when fish are heavily infected by protozoa , flukes and bacteria . |
| 24 | The heroes of both these plays arrive upon the scene in a dramatic manner — adventurously entering through a window instead of prosaically walking in the door . |
| 25 | For the chick , it must have been like suddenly landing in the Sahara . |
| 26 | Over the years the number of grade Vs has quadrupled , with much over-crowding in the top end . |
| 27 | I enjoyed my time at Fontainebleau , especially wandering in the forest , hoping to see a wild boar . |
| 28 | and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes . |
| 29 | is only looking in the mirror |
| 30 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |