Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 2 | It was n't just that copies of knitting patterns in a popular British magazine were regarded as subersive , or even that the border guards had strict rules about the permitted length of visitors ' hair . |
| 3 | Whilst standardised scales have the advantage of producing data in a form which simplifies the process of analysis and facilitates comparisons with other studies , they can not take into account the whole range of factors which may influence an elderly person 's mental state at any one time , or the way in which he or she answers questions . |
| 4 | Around 100 15-year-olds were combining the excitement of a French experience with the reality of the hotel and catering trades in a novel combination designed to boost their success in school exams . |
| 5 | Around 100 15-year-olds were combining the excitement of a French experience with the reality of the hotel and catering trades in a novel combination designed to boost their success in school exams . |
| 6 | And seeing Richard in a white coat . ’ |
| 7 | The idea of catching aircraft in a ‘ glorified tennis net ’ mentioned by Mr Smith also has its application in the field of unmanned aircraft , where a number of types are routinely recovered this way . , |
| 8 | One adverse critic of Dustin 's performance was the young and eccentric English actor Victor Henry , who , on seeing Dustin in a bar after the show , emptied a glass of beer over his head . |
| 9 | A typical career path might be a young European starting in the hotel industry as a management trainee , gaining experience in a variety of establishments in the far East and Europe , then progressing from , say , a major hotel chain through the food and beverage side to a management position at the top end of the leisure market . |
| 10 | I suggest keeping crabs in a species only set-up , with a chemical buffer to create alkaline conditions . |
| 11 | Imagine your response if , when you were depositing funds in a building society account , your attention was drawn to the fact that if you died only the original investment would be returned , but if you lived you would keep all of the interest . |
| 12 | Earlier studies , which equated the convective heat flux in the magma to the conductive heat flux through the solid overlying roof , indicate that the typical temperature differences driving convection in a magma chamber are 0.1–10°C . |
| 13 | Four visiting musicians from Czechoslovakia have been wowing drinkers in a local pub . |
| 14 | Occasionally , he managed to obtain temporary work : once checking stock in a publisher 's warehouse — hardly the sort of job for an ex-officer and far below his not inconsiderable intelligence — and on another occasion , because of his clerical and administrative experiences in the War Office , helping to sort out the vast archive of a deceased general . |
| 15 | In the main text explanation , the distinction between sounds and spelling is mentioned and so it seems a pity that the obvious procedure , of explaining phonetics in a little more detail , was not followed . |
| 16 | You will recall our previous correspondence on this issue noting that the proposed changes by the European Commission were likely to have an adverse effect on those driving minibuses in a voluntary capacity for sporting purposes . |
| 17 | Such are the arguments in favour of abandoning RE , and by law adopting secularization in a literal sense . |
| 18 | This cofactor is required for lipase activity in the presence of bile salts above the critical micelle concentration and acts by anchoring lipase in a one to one molar ratio to the bile salt emulsified triglyceride substrate . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've learnt to do so much more than I ever thought I was capable of , from mixing cement and laying bricks , to walking 200km in a fortnight , ’ said Kirsten . |
| 20 | Measurements of body damage ; for example , if you find that keeping chickens in a particular way results in a large number having broken bones before they die , that is important in assessing the effect of that condition on the welfare of the animal . |
| 21 | The concentration of buffering substances in a solution is expressed in terms of alkalinity , the inverse of acidity . |
| 22 | Then the egg-laying will begin in earnest , with the female sliding across the site with her abdomen touching the surface and depositing eggs in a straight line as she proceeds . |
| 23 | Thus patronage of sports , the arts and learning are all useful means of gaining publicity in a manner which casts a favourable light on the organization , and , ultimately , on its products . |
| 24 | Because when you do that then that encourages you to , oh yes , well we can , you know , that went quite well but we ought to have done that and that and then you immediately , you , you 're eager to do other things and people get used to splitting up and tackling things in a focused way . |
| 25 | Repide and is today the dominant rule , with the wider principle , that directors owe fiduciary duties to shareholders per se , gaining ground in a number of states . |
| 26 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
| 27 | His method , however , was to preserve peace by keeping Europe in a state of discord and alarm . |
| 28 | While the new narrative is based in part on a broader concept of realism , it also seeks to increase the expressiveness of prose by representing reality in a non-mimetic manner , encapsulating it in the way that poetry has traditionally done . |
| 29 | Even so , the machine factor remained an important consideration , in particular what was seen as the growing practice of instructing boys in a single process . |
| 30 | Move to the Right , accept Witte 's or Stolypin 's terms for a few posts in the cabinet , and they risked becoming hostages in a regime over which they would exercise no control . |