Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a dull , snowy night , with heavy grey clouds hanging low in the sky , the kind of night when hopes are destroyed and love is lost . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , he will not be proving that in the Derby . |
| 3 | Leland 's firm made the engines , transmissions and steering gear and Cadillac went from building two cars in 1902 to producing 1895 in the year between March 1903 and March 1904 . |
| 4 | Stepping high in the light gravity and brandishing the bag before her , she ploughed her way out into the open air . |
| 5 | Rice paddies stretched away endlessly on either side of the ship , and they saw crowds of Annamese in cone-shaped hats of palm leaf already at work , sometimes wading waist-deep in the muddy water . |
| 6 | ‘ I wonder if we 're handling this in the right way , ’ he said cautiously . |
| 7 | I think the idea of using this in the foreground er , as I was saying , with landscapes , and the same thing applies to seascapes as well , it 's nice to have a bit of detail lower down , but I do n't think that the the background , the sort of , main part of the photograph is terribly strong . |
| 8 | Now erm this is this is archetypical group behaviour , but whatever it is , it can not necessarily reflect erm that individual 's own erm peculiar self as it were using peculiar in the in the strict sense and proper to them , because as we 've seen what happens in a group is , is , is the individual . |
| 9 | John Keats called it ‘ negative capability ’ and it is akin to Ernest Hemingway 's ‘ becoming strong in the broken places ’ . |
| 10 | Matsutakes and chanterelles need undisturbed forest , something that is becoming scarce in the much-logged north-west . |
| 11 | Some plants and animals are becoming scarce in the intensely farmed parts of East Lothian but here is a chance to ensure that you will see them . |
| 12 | ROHITA looked special after blasting clear in the final furlong for a three-lengths win in the Payne and Gunter Fillies Stakes at Goodwood and it may take a good one to stop her in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot . |
| 13 | This led to Gibson being seconded in 1928 to work with Michels on the properties of gases at high pressures , and to ICI becoming interested in the chemical effects of high pressures , the theme of Gibson 's work on his return to Winnington in 1931 . |
| 14 | More and more people are becoming interested in the Darlington Wildlife Trust , formed last month , and membership is growing . |
| 15 | It 's good to see that so many children are becoming literate in the ways of the countryside and gaining knowledge of their responsibility for the planet . |
| 16 | And this time , without the distraction of her friends giggling in the background , she actually listened to what was being said , becoming absorbed in the detached examination of her character by a stranger . |
| 17 | They are most likely to occur because of a jerk in the cable causing an overrun , with the rope becoming tangled in the main wheel of the glider . |
| 18 | With a heavy sigh she lay back on the pile of beach cushions , closing her eyes against the early-morning sun , already climbing high in the sky . |
| 19 | Within seconds she was shivering , her lightweight clothing no protection against the bitingly chill wind , her hands and feet quickly becoming numb in the icy cold . |
| 20 | No longer used for England selection purposes , the event has been trimmed , condensed and diminished , and apart from upholding a vestige of regional pride is now becoming lost in the mists of tradition . |
| 21 | No longer used for England selection purposes , the event has been trimmed , condensed and diminished , and apart from upholding a vestige of regional pride is now becoming lost in the mists of tradition . |
| 22 | But in chemistry , physics and physiology , the laboratory sciences becoming prominent in the nineteenth century , there was little scope for the amateur . |
| 23 | As well as becoming proficient in the techniques of lobbying such as public campaigning and the use of the media , enterprises have frequently formed alliances with private interest groups , and ( as we shall see below ) , with their own workforces , in pursuit of their political goals . |
| 24 | Was he human , semi-human , immaculately conceived or was he just a human being who recognised that evil was becoming widespread in the world , and that mankind was in danger of becoming dominated by those who had much to lose if it were suppressed ? |
| 25 | The maiden flight of the A-12 had been scheduled for November 1991 , with a view to the aircraft becoming operational in the mid-1990s . |
| 26 | Preventive health measures which tackle the cause of why people are becoming sick in the first place could save vast sums of public money which are being wasted by the National Health Service treating the symptoms . |
| 27 | The importance of living up to what was required by one 's status and what one had been used to came out over and over again in the discussions of the time , and ‘ prudence ’ became a moral imperative in the process of becoming axiomatic in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 28 | All of us who teach know well the moments of self-doubt , the anxieties and the hesitations , as work is planned and executed and evaluated , the apparent failures and inadequacies bulking large in the mind 's eye . |
| 29 | Tony Booth , managing director of British Telecom International , said : ‘ Competition is becoming cut-throat in the transatlantic services . |
| 30 | Becoming educated in the way being argued for in this book requires a willingness and an ability to participate in a discussion oriented towards truth . |