Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The size of the new government 's legislative majority was also considered to be destabilizing in that it would encourage factionalism within the National Party . |
| 2 | I am employed here as a nurse in the premature baby intensive care unit and I 'm certainly kept very busy , the work often made more difficult but challenging in that I work alongside people from around 30 different countries . |
| 3 | These are self-report inventories where the testee has the possibility of cheating in that he can respond with an answer which he considers will give him a good score rather than providing a completely truthful one . |
| 4 | Level of intelligence affects communicating in that it influences learning ability . |
| 5 | After leaving school at 16 , she began to draw more and more : ‘ It is quite close to acting in that it 's to do with reflecting on life — how you see people and the fascination of trying to distil the essence of a person . |
| 6 | Th the fire , the those feet are catching in that it 's not being used you might just as well switch it off . |
| 7 | That I 'm organizing in that I have now done a little bit more research . |
| 8 | As a rounded account of the rise of Saddam it has one serious failing in that it pays far too little attention to the economic and social development of Iraq over the past 20 years . |
| 9 | Failing in this they had then strangled her and thrown the body downstairs to give the appearance of suicide . |
| 10 | They had grown so used to her not joining in that they had not really noticed that she had stayed up there when they came down . |
| 11 | anyway we , we had a petition that when it came up that er , that the new E E C rules were coming in that they would , they 'd going to have to have a clean way if you are you are and a dirty way out you know |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll be happy with Mike 's place for the moment , ’ said Colin , again rubbing in that he knew a thing or two about some of Sheffield 's leading businesses , and that there is no substitute for that kind of detailed and expert and intimate knowledge . |
| 13 | Archaeologists can reveal only very fragmentary glimpses of how people lived at any period , but what they imagined and thought is beyond recovery — the meagre scraps of records are useless or , at best , tantalizing in that they provide details torn from their context . |
| 14 | ROBERT Crawford 's quintet for clarinet and strings , which received its premiere at Strathclyde University with the Edinburgh Quartet and clarinettist Douglas Mitchell , seemed a pleasant piece , appealing in that it explores the musical possibilities of letters from Crawford 's name , and satisfying in that clarinet and strings blend in a mellifluous combination . |
| 15 | The first order of meaning is available to participants but the second order of signification is a ‘ hidden ’ level of meaning in that it is not readily available to participants ( who might believe striptease to be erotic ) and needs to be generated by an analyst who knows that it is there and so looks for it . |
| 16 | the only thing to bear in mind is that we a little bit careful w with the changing environment we 're working in that it , with it only being pushed forward by direct projects if if nobody else wants it we could be wasting some of our money . |