Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detailed information on company operations is found to be available only from the individual concerns , and in order to determine the types of materials handling undertaken in the region , a detailed questionnaire has been distributed to over 350 companies , and over 150 replies received . |
| 2 | In short , they are seriously at risk of committing further offences and becoming trapped in the revolving door of custody . |
| 3 | Some good quality bags also have an anti-snag strip sewn between the zip and the baffle to prevent the fabric itself becoming caught in the zip . |
| 4 | We have n't gone , in physics , seriously into trying to understand the biological aspects , but then you see biology is becoming dominated in the last ten years by the understanding of basic biochemistry of cells . |
| 5 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 6 | And the process by which the contextualizing is carried out would itself invite interrogation and theorization ; Marxists committed to ‘ cultural materialism ’ would be impatient of a form of contextualizing founded in the history of ideas . |
| 7 | It appears to be quite selective as to which fish it invades , some becoming covered in the mutated cells into which the virus has incorporated its own genetic material , others escaping . |
| 8 | Many years ago , at a race relations meeting held in the church hall of a Black church in the American South , I saw a striking picture of the head and shoulders of a Black man on the cross , simply called ‘ Black Christ ’ . |
| 9 | Her soft hands were so unaccustomed to such hard work that it became — temporarily , Miss Mates said , until they hardened — difficult for her to help with the fine sewing , and the darning and repairing needed in the little house . |
| 10 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 11 | From the fact that the whaler was lying stopped in the water and that Cousteau , his hand resting idly on the tiller , appeared to be expressing no great degree of interest in anything , it was obvious that his wait had been a vain one , a fact he confirmed on his arrival on the bridge . |
| 12 | Non-allergenic , non-perfumed wet wipes ( or baby wipes ) are best for cleaning the anal area , to avoid the risk of faeces remaining clogged in the pubic hairs . |
| 13 | It was an uninjured man , lying sprawled in the dust , flies crawling over his smooth eyelids and into his gaping mouth . |
| 14 | But there was no suspicious heap lying grounded in the shallows , no flotsam or jetsam at all . |
| 15 | If that is the case , it 'll no doubt be going going gone in the only way a tardis knows how . |
| 16 | Every time an angler casts and curses when he loses his line , I , too , now curse as I think of some wild creature getting enmeshed in the deadly snare he has inadvertently set . |
| 17 | Simple : Kenya is a market for Guinness products and Sainsbury needs to stop dolphins getting caught in the nets used to catch the tuna it sells in its supermarkets . |
| 18 | This prevents the possibility of the hoop tilting upwards and getting caught in the underside of the carriage as you knit towards it . |
| 19 | ‘ I was dreading getting caught in the fall-out from this evening 's episode of the Rose-and-Dora show . ’ |
| 20 | They were things like a servant getting shot in the chest when a big party went out shooting , or a boat capsizing on the lake , nearly drowning the four occupants . |
| 21 | £65/$90 The volume covering the American drawings from the 2,000-strong Lehman holding housed in the Met. |
| 22 | Getting recognised in the street ! |
| 23 | Lean away as you do this to avoid getting hit in the face with a snap punch . |
| 24 | Instead there is a vile soda , so sweet that drinking a couple of glasses is probably no worse for your teeth than getting hit in the mouth with a bottle of the stuff . |
| 25 | If , as often happens , you decide that you would really rather be a writer than an art person , re-read the paragraphs under the heading Writing , about getting started in the writing side of the business . |
| 26 | The stories always came out well in the end , and if one of the officers was a coward or incompetent , you could be sure that by the end of the story he would have done the decent thing and charged the machine gun nest singlehanded , getting killed in the process . |
| 27 | Getting dressed in the morning is exercise . |
| 28 | getting dressed in the morning without a fuss |
| 29 | And as everting co-ordinates , it makes getting dressed in the morning so much less complicated . |
| 30 | They would have had more chance of getting established in the late 1980s . |