Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A teacher is reported as speaking in the following way : ‘ Two huge girls were fighting . |
| 2 | But ‘ there was no cover up , ’ the Director of Water and Sewage was reported as saying in the Sunday Times . |
| 3 | In the Financial Times of March 28 Bush 's spokesman , Marlin Fitzwater , was reported as saying in the week following the talks that the President was concerned about " the possible collapse " of the Uruguay Round . |
| 4 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 5 | He refused to consider what he regarded as interfering in the judicial process and what they saw as moderating his policy of harassing the Free Church . |
| 6 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 7 | In summary , the future pattern will probably include the following ingredients : 1 recognition that oral reading and silent reading should proceed simultaneously , from entry into school ; 2 longer periods given to individual reading interviews , which will necessitate re-organisation of the curriculum , with a greater emphasis on group work based on collaborative learning ; 3 the group work will have clear outcomes , many of which will start with silent reading and result in reading aloud for communication ; 4 the teaching of phonics will be seen as one possible cueing system only , resulting in the use of more intrinsically interesting texts which will enable contextual hypotheses ; 5 the realisation that books as such may be diminishing , will demand that other forms of print are incorporated into reading aloud in school , for example , from computers and teletext ; 6 the teacher 's professionalism will be accepted as lying in the understanding of the reading process and the development of the child , and in his or her power to train the child to read independently for real purposes as early as possible . |
| 8 | The Bridge of Ice may be used to move friendly troops into hand-to-hand combat , in which case they may fight from the following combat round and count as charging in the first round . |
| 9 | At that time local authorities could be seen as acting in the interests of the majority — the phrase from the last paragraph of the 1978 extract from the Library Association record above ( omitted from the 1989 policy statement ) ‘ either on grounds of … a desire to ‘ protect ’ public morality' suggests so . |
| 10 | Such an outcome would place priorities on their head and , accordingly , the receiver should be seen as acting in the right of the debentureholder . |
| 11 | The result was the development of strong anarcho-syndicalist tendencies within the labour movement in which the potential for revolutionary political change was seen as residing in the trade unions or syndicats , so that ‘ the workers , schooled by militancy , made irresistible by the all-powerful weapon of the general strike , would take over society themselves , without need of a political party ’ ( Kendall , 1975 , p. 17 ) . |
| 12 | They could only accept evolution if it were a process that gave rise to regular , predictable developments in accordance with some preordained plan that could be seen as originating in the mind of God . |
| 13 | The solution to the problems of shirking and positional conflicts of interest is traditionally seen as lying in the governance function performed by the shareholders . |
| 14 | Poland 's long-term security was seen as lying in the creation of a Euro-Atlantic security system , and future membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) was confirmed as an aim . |
| 15 | This idea of a connection between the capitalist economy and a democratic political system appeared in various forms in accounts of the transition that was seen as occurring in the nineteenth-century European societies ( for example , as a movement from status to contract , or from authority to citizenship ) , and it has continued to have an important influence in political theory to the present day . |
| 16 | ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , written in 1927 , contains not only material quoted in Eliot 's 1926 survey , ‘ Lancelot Andrewes ’ , and recollections from Eliot 's own life ( some of which he catalogued when reminiscing in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ) . |
| 17 | ‘ You could say that … ’ he began cautiously , and after that Kate ensured the conversation stayed firmly on business rails until they arrived at the hotel which the team used when testing in the south of France . |
| 18 | The true self must be understood as engaging in the world in a specific way as part of a community . |
| 19 | In addition to the processes just described , repeated presentation of a stimulus also brings about those changes responsible for habituation that I discussed in Chapter 2 — changes that were characterized as resulting in the formation of a representation of the stimulus . |
| 20 | Spenser 's design was to change Elizabethan policy , to have Lord Grey and others of the New English who advocated severely repressive measures recognised as acting in the best interests of civilisation , social order , and true religion . |
| 21 | Of the 6111 recorded as working in the Royal docks , 5093 ( 83.3 per cent ) lived in Canning Town or Plaistow . |
| 22 | Paul Warhurst , Sheffield Wednesday 's make-shift striker , was rushed to hospital with a serious head injury sustained while scoring in the 8-1 win over Spora . |
| 23 | C There will be certain knowledge and skills that you will need to acquire while working in the surgical ward . |
| 24 | Sylvia was able to take from the cupboard only those items she could reach while standing in the hall itself . |
| 25 | Hengist chose a site just to the west of the existing settlement on an elevated position and constructed a Roman-style town based on knowledge gained whilst serving in the Roman army . |
| 26 | In this way particularization is viewed as operating in the service of categorization , rather than as the counterpart , which provides the possibility of negation . |
| 27 | As herons fish while standing in the pool , it is a simple matter to deter them . |
| 28 | I can not think of my own knowledge of the physical world in terms of my dispositions to behave , but only as my dispositions , construed as operating in the world of which |
| 29 | Gandhi acknowledged this and what he has to say about brahmacārya has to be taken as applying in the main to those who are able to accept the discipline involved in resolving to enter the third stage of life . |
| 30 | After a leisurely day on the beach why not relax with a cool drink in our Smugglers bar whilst taking in the superb sea and Exmoor views . |