Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 On May 22 a 25-year old man committed suicide in Kwangju by leaping in flames from the roof of the mortuary building which contained the body of Park Seung Hee .
2 Walking in sandals on the lanes of south-west France . ’
3 This effectively prevented them from interfering in matters of state , or fomenting rebellion .
4 In the course of Yeltsin 's visit the two sides signed 24 joint statements , documents and memorandums of understanding in areas including military and technical co-operation , space exploration , nuclear energy development , border security and armed forces reduction , trade and economic co-operation and educational and scientific exchanges .
5 A new and distinctive chapter was opening in relationships between the masses , more numerous , more literate , and better organized than ever before , and middle-class organizations and agencies who were realizing more urgently than ever before that new initiatives were needed to bridge the great abyss of class .
6 There are literally thousands of Latin words occurring in texts of interest to the local historian — and these may date from the sixth or seventh centuries down to the seventeenth .
7 The focus on the pattern of births among the very poor , a feature of the American concept of the underclass , one which prioritizes ‘ single-parent female headed households ’ as major issues ( blaming the mothers ) , appeared explicitly in Joseph 's 1974 Birmingham speech when he maintained that , because an excess of births was apparently occurring in mothers of social class V , ‘ the balance of our population , our human stock , is threatened ’ .
8 Typically , we find ellipsis occurring in exchanges like this : Are you going to the theatre tonight ?
9 Large losses are occurring in warehouses of all types and are causing concern .
10 This latest colour-display moving-map ( which already shows pilots where all airfields , restricted airspace , TMAs etc are located ) is now also able to superimpose lightning strikes occurring in storms within the area of the map .
11 What can be stated with some certainty is that ‘ London ’ is by no means the be-all and end-all of the emerging story and that an ‘ explosion ’ is occurring in terms of new record labels .
12 Already we have seen microspeciation occurring in trees in Trinidad and Tobago ( section 6.2.6 ) , but it has also been suggested that in crossing major faunal boundaries , plant species may undergo so-called ‘ cryptic ’ speciation with major differences in fruit sizes and so on , associated with different dispersers ; i.e. obscured rather than obscure in that herbarium material is rarely preserved with fully ripe fruits and complete field notes .
13 Solcia et al , in a recent review of the published reports , gathered 14 cases of fundic argyrophil carcinoids ( including our first two cases ) , all occurring in patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome and MEN 1 .
14 All this was before he became a jazz legend , writing such hits as ‘ Flat Foot Floogie ’ and appearing in films like Hellzapoppin .
15 He was one of the biggest cinema stars of the 1960s. appearing in films like The Servant , opposite Dirk Bogarde , but James Fox abandoned his career in 1973 to become a born again Christian .
16 Despite Smith 's editorial and Esmail and Everington 's short report the medical establishment in Britain will do little to correct the situation other than wonder how to find new barriers or regulations to stop the foreign sounding names appearing in applications before them .
17 I think you have seen already the EOC 's concern expressed about what is happening in things like women 's centres .
18 More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa .
19 It was not necessary to break up large collective and state farms ( as was already happening in parts of Georgia and the Ukraine ) to give peasants more incentive ; they could form associations or joint-stock companies or leaseholders .
20 Sports Illustrated is definitely a leading indicator as to what 's happening in sports in the U.S. and clearly rugby is not .
21 As we mentioned in the first chapter of this book , egalitarian marriage is now widely promoted as an ideal , but recent research indicates that there is a wide gulf between what is said to be happening in terms of sharing in marriage and what actually happens .
22 During the war when so much was happening in terms of national legislation , the extension of planning powers and the marked widening of Government involvement in affairs of land and development .
23 I do not think that it would be proper for me to get involved in what is happening in terms of the Mirror Group pension fund .
24 That is not the coal lobby talking — that is the view of senior people in National Power who know exactly what is happening in terms of electricity generation in this country .
25 It 's also happening in places like Coventry in England where rappers of the calibre of MC Evaready are pumping out tracks like ‘ To The Point ’ ( Reachin ) .
26 But we also want people to understand what is happening in places like Latin America so they have a better awareness of why Oxfam is trying to help .
27 Later on in the morning , a class of 15 and 16 year olds is painting in oils for the first time .
28 Although there are at least ten references to his actually painting in oils in his diary , there are no comments on the medium in the guide .
29 However , many functional designs were protected through the artistic copyright subsisting in drawings of the design for the full term of life of author plus 50 years .
30 These dreams tend not to be about sudden drops or stumbles , but of long drops from high buildings or down deep holes , ending in collisions with the ground , or perhaps with miraculously soft landings .
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