Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four main conclusions were drawn : first , war was a senseless act , which could never be a rational tool of state policy ; secondly , the 1914–18 war had been the result of leaders becoming caught up in a set of processes that no one could control ; thirdly , the causes of the war lay in misunderstandings between leaders and in the lack of democratic accountability within the states involved ; and fourthly , the underlying tensions which had provided the rationale for the conflict could be removed by the spread of statehood and democracy . |
| 2 | The committee was becoming caught up in issues that did not fall within its remit . |
| 3 | She coughed loudly and said loudly , ‘ And I 'm gettin' frozen up in all these draughts . ’ |
| 4 | Duff , who won the title when representing Auchinleck back in 1988 , but now resident in England and representing his new country , looked to be heading for the quarter-finals when he opened up a 6-1 final-set lead over Dennis Catunarich . |
| 5 | The business of claiming from a company is becoming wrapped up in more and more paperwork and bureaucracy . |
| 6 | Strong presidential powers were vital for the next two to three years to prevent reforms from becoming bogged down in ‘ pseudo-democratic ritual ’ . |
| 7 | The child 's grandmother was screaming for help after becoming bogged down in mud when she plunged into the water after the youngster . |
| 8 | The other advantages inherent in the strategy were that ( i ) it enabled the allied forces to capitalise on their superior mobility and air power by minimizing the possibility of becoming bogged down in a static war ; ( ii ) it made the allies less vulnerable to attack by chemical weapons , as such weapons were most easily used from a static defensive position against an enemy engaged in a frontal assault ; ( iii ) it offered the possibility of cutting off all forces within Kuwait and southern Iraq — including the Republican Guard — thereby enabling the allies to destroy Iraq 's military capability in addition to liberating Kuwait ; and ( iv ) it meant that the allies would capture a swathe of Iraqi territory , a potentially useful lever in the event of the negotiation and implementation of ceasefire conditions . |
| 9 | The talks appeared to end unsatisfactorily , after becoming bogged down in disagreement over power-sharing proposals . |
| 10 | Instead of keeping headcounts up in case of an influx of work , firms are resorting far more to the use of temporary staff . |
| 11 | Yeah that 's a nice er , slot , were you looking to go out in the garden ? |
| 12 | They had seen that the house was on fire and there was a man running about , wanting to go back in . |
| 13 | In a review of studies on productivity and ageing carried out in the 1950s and 1960s , one researcher concluded that ‘ productivity is , by and large , affected only minimally , if at all , by age . ’ |
| 14 | It was an act familiar to anyone , that is almost everyone , who has suffered from those self-inflicted illnesses that inspire only a feeling of wanting to curl up in a ball and be alone . |
| 15 | The development of the clay tile industry in England has been along peculiarly narrow lines , plain tile makers tending to grow up in isolation in the Midlands , and pantile makers emerging on Humberside . |
| 16 | The association says the new surge of interest comes from people wanting to buy early in the New Year to take advantage of lower interest rates , bargain prices and the wide selection of property on offer . |
| 17 | Obviously there 's a lot of sterilizing going on in the meantime and all this . |
| 18 | I have to use sleeping tablets to help me sleep at night because I 'm dreading getting up in the morning in case anything 's happened further . |
| 19 | It is equally hard to imagine countries capable of producing surpluses stonily refusing to do so in the face of an evident need . |
| 20 | It is interesting that the Treasury was only willing to publish the White Paper in the autumn of each year after rather than before the hard decisions fur the third year had been taken , and made no commitment to publish the Medium Term Economic Assessment , actually refusing to do so in 1971 . |
| 21 | Champion Nigel looking to bow out in style |
| 22 | Sun 's warm and cuddly alliance with AT&T , the original cause of the bloody Unix wars , has now turned almost 180 degrees with Sun looking increasing out in the cold . |
| 23 | ‘ Independently of climbing over rocks and fallen stumps of trees , the sportsman has to creep and crawl beneath and among the branches with the utmost caution , taking care only to advance when the bird 's attention is occupied in singing , or in scratching up the leaves in search of food ; to watch its actions it is necessary to remain perfectly motionless , not venturing to move even in the slightest degree , or it vanishes from sight as if by magic … |
| 24 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm disappointed but not devastated and I 'll be cheering Kriss on in Rome . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Insulting , then , ’ she agreed quietly , determined not to lose her temper , although if he was going to carry on in that vein the chances of her keeping it for very long were absolutely nil . |
| 27 | And consumer problems and consumer decisions are certainly not going to go away in retirement because we 're all , including myself who retired at the March , are still going to be faced with consumer decisions . |
| 28 | Now this is and I must admit when he pulled the trigger then I thought that was going to go right in the back of the net . |
| 29 | And when the wedding 's gon na be and what you 're gon na wear and what you 're going to go there in and how many children you 're gon na have and how many years you 're gon na be married . |
| 30 | ‘ From now on , when you 're acting sergeant , everything 's going to go down in my book . |