Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes . |
| 2 | The heroes of both these plays arrive upon the scene in a dramatic manner — adventurously entering through a window instead of prosaically walking in the door . |
| 3 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |
| 4 | This session is the cause of much joshing in the Right Said Fred camp , him saying how he 'd make sure he had a hot shower first and primed himself for action if he did it again , his partners enjoying wiggling their little fingers at any opportunity and ribbing him for his perceived shortcomings . |
| 5 | Otherwise every scrum would have ended with the scrum-halves and both sets of forwards wallowing in the mire with little chance of the ball every seeing daylight . |
| 6 | For the chick , it must have been like suddenly landing in the Sahara . |
| 7 | Over the years the number of grade Vs has quadrupled , with much over-crowding in the top end . |
| 8 | Pension funds have used property unit trusts as a cheap method of diversifying into the property market , without the problems associated with actually dealing in the properties themselves . |
| 9 | The investment represents a personal victory for the city 's Principal Arts Officer , Elizabeth Goodall , who has led a long campaign to educate local politicians of the cultural and economic rewards to be reaped from properly investing in the visual arts infrastructure . |
| 10 | William Pitt the Elder [ later Earl of Chatham ] had been educated at Eton and Oxford before briefly serving in the cavalry and entering Parliament , for the ‘ rotten borough ’ of Old Sarum . |
| 11 | Martin always starts by working out the elements in detailed pencil drawings which become works in their own rights , before lightly sketching in the compositions for his paintings |
| 12 | ‘ Quite a difference from actually lying in the river . ’ |
| 13 | This subtly psychological approach , no doubt based on much headbanging in the advertising agency , was nonetheless open to parody ( see pages 82–3 ) . |
| 14 | It had been sold in December by McCloy to an American widow who , having changed her mind without ever living in the place , had returned it to the agent 's hands and departed to spend the summer in Sweden . |
| 15 | Without even glancing in the mirror , he crossed the inner and middle lanes into the fast lane and , in fewer than ten seconds the speedometer needle was registering one hundred and fifteen miles an hour , but Mark was oblivious of the fact . |
| 16 | Important armed forces appointments made by Cédras included the reinstatement of former Col. Phillipe Biamby , who had been expelled from the army while commander of the Presidential Guard for allegedly participating in the attempted coup of April 1989 [ see p. 36586 ] , as Army Chief of Staff with the rank of brigadier-general , and the promotion of Col. Jean-Claude Duperval , a former Port-au-Prince police chief , to deputy army commander with the rank of major-general . |
| 17 | Seven months on , how I wish I could say that the Escort/Orion range is at least going in the right direction . |
| 18 | While these figures are still terrible , they are at least heading in the right direction . |
| 19 | Would there not be merits er at least putting in the requisite wiring in case at a future date , that a C A S O M for instance , became dual capable ? |
| 20 | I particularly thank my hon. Friend and his colleagues for recently calling in the Hillside and Brookshill development in my district so as to protect still further the local green belt land . |
| 21 | By deliberately pulling in the sail too tight over the back of the board you can try sailing sideways or even backwards . |
| 22 | More generally , however , the cycles have not acquired such good reservoir properties and the overall porosities are much lower than those formed by early leaching in the Z2 Carbonate . |
| 23 | Up to that time Parma had not been touched , and the Parmigiani had lived in the irrational hope that the Americans would not bomb the city because Toscanini , by then living in the United States , had persuaded them not to do so . |
| 24 | On 24 April a team of about 10 began to sort the books by then accumulating in the Davidson Room . |
| 25 | Do they see erm , if , if they migrate to the city in the urban areas then they realize they wo n't get a job , and have a job straight away , er well paying job but by actually living in the area they would and taking in at a job and they get a lot of contacts and then eventually after a period of time they job . |