Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | this action is impossible if you either a ) do not hold the latch tool correctly ( the handle of the tool should be resting in the palm of your hand with the thumb uppermost and on top of the latch area of the tool ) or b ) if you do not apply some downward pressure to the knitted fabric with your free hand . |
| 2 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 3 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 4 | But Mr Jim Mattox , one of the two Democrats who will be competing in the run-off election for the party 's nomination on April 10th , tried in similar vein to take credit for executions even though , as Texas 's attorney-general , he is involved with civil cases , not criminal ones . |
| 5 | The 1st XI will be competing in the Flora Doris competition and the Noel Fisher competition , with an opening game against Alton . |
| 6 | Ernst & Young and Touche Ross are among the hundreds of organisations and businesses that will be competing in the World Corporate Games in London this autumn . |
| 7 | The station will be up for grabs on 19 November when teams from C&L and other companies will be competing in the City Monopoly Challenge at the Honourable Artillery Company to raise money for Children With Leukaemia . |
| 8 | It seemed to be competing in the age-old quest for the secret of perpetual motion and drove everyone bananas . |
| 9 | SCOTLAND will not be competing in the Hong Kong Sevens next year . |
| 10 | At Key Biscayne , a week before he expected to be competing in the doubles against Czechoslovakia in their Davis Cup quarter finals , he even started outlining some of the changes he would make should he be given the job . |
| 11 | David and Scott Lloyd are just two of the father/son partnerships who will be competing in the national finals at Quietwaters Hotel , Golf and Country Club later this month ( 24th–28th Feb ) . |
| 12 | For the remaining resources that will be needed , the trust will be competing in the national pool of capital resources that are available to NHS trusts . |
| 13 | Twice within 10 days Northern Ireland ‘ s 17-strong squad will be competing in the independent Baltic States . |
| 14 | Promoted by Rhyl Town Council , the festival has attracted leading London band Hillingdon , who will be competing in the top section along with a record 140 soloists . |
| 15 | my Lord I , I think it takes the view and probably not unreasonably that assuming good faith on the part of the disciplinary tribunal and assuming that there is er review by the courts , you will have complete objectivity and someone who has been excluded for a good reason , maybe fraud or something of that nature should not be competing in the first place , but he will not be excluded unreasonably and therefore if he was excluded unreasonably erm the fact of he 's exclusion could be anti competitive because it takes out of the market a player |
| 16 | ‘ You could be competing in the backstroke at Southport , and then have to travel to Cleethorpes or Torquay for the free style or breaststroke . |
| 17 | That 52–17 victory for Dallas will be sticking in the collective craws of a Buffalo side that has been so close , but never close enough . |
| 18 | What grade of oil should I be using in the main and transfer boxes of my 1972 Range Rover ? |
| 19 | ‘ My best bikes are over here and they are the ones I shall be using in the world championship . |
| 20 | At the start of each session you can place all the programs you will be using in the Active Task List . |
| 21 | The future exhibitions programme of the ICA supplies something of a guide to the sorts of significances that a critically-minded culture of a post-modernist kind will be pursuing in the next year or two . |
| 22 | Now would be her favoured time , now when the brothers would be gathering in the church for Compline . |
| 23 | ‘ I never thought I 'd be seeing in the New Year with Will Carling and company in Lanzarote . |
| 24 | You may be fumbling in the dark — both literally and metaphorically -but you might as well know what it is you might find ! |
| 25 | English National Soprano , Lesley Garrett will be singing in the third of the 4 concerts . |
| 26 | And she reports that the recession seems to be easing in the area , with companies expressing renewed interest in investment and acquisitions . |
| 27 | There was a smiling Chinese gentleman who cooked in the small forward dining car where the grooms , among others , would be eating , and an unsmiling Canadian who would be cooking in the main central dining car for the bulk of the racegoers and the crew themselves . |
| 28 | It is a great selling point for a house to be hanging in the National Gallery . |
| 29 | At the door she suddenly grinned at him , and when she had gone the grin seemed to him still to be hanging in the air , like the Cheshire cat 's . |
| 30 | They must be nesting in the rabbit-holes beneath the turf where the tent was pitched , and in the broch , where the queer chemical smell I had noticed came , not from the plants , but from the holes where the birds sat on their eggs . |