Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] they in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of these are worthy of a wider audience and thus I make no apology for including them in this month 's Surgery ! |
| 2 | The other was the search in living tissues for the carriers or agents which determined these properties , i.e. the genes responsible for producing them in successive generations . |
| 3 | He says that the council is obliged by the government to take full responsibility for young offenders — and that includes paying for keeping them in secure units . |
| 4 | Mr Behbehanian , his banker , who believed that the British controlled every event in Iran , was still pressing him to repair there and to apologize to the British for insulting them in recent years . |
| 5 | The advantage of using them in this situation is their low cost and the speed with which the wall can be built up . |
| 6 | I had worked hard while I was on Amantani , reconstructing the bones of my experiences without the satisfaction of cradling them in apposite language . |
| 7 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 8 | Oh I never think of putting them in that . |
| 9 | Although the technology was not microprocessor-based , and the events are now thirty years past , the study 's theoretical approach and empirical findings are of such interest and relevance that it is worth describing them in some detail . |
| 10 | Thank you for providing them in 1990 . |
| 11 | Before including them in any press pack the question " Will this be of any use to the recipient ? " must be answered in the affirmative . |
| 12 | Anybody who is interested in helping them in either capacity should phone Mrs. Noakes on Petersfield 263749 . |
| 13 | England has an excellent crop of young players , but my role as Captain and Selector precludes me from naming them in these pages . |
| 14 | And he nibbled at her lips again , before catching them in another long exploratory kiss that brought her to a threshold of physical pleasure she had never before experienced . |
| 15 | WCS is also useful for testing micro-instruction sequences , before lacing them in read-only storage for permanent use . |
| 16 | The law is therefore most unfair to victims of negligence ; in limiting them in this way it totally ignores the reality of the situation . |
| 17 | Adopting a systematic approach to the analysis of the mismatches will help considerably in identifying them in future trials and deciding upon appropriate action . |
| 18 | ‘ I was angry ! ’ he admitted , thrusting his hands into the pockets of his trousers as he studied her , his eyes traversing her slender form , raking over the tangle of dark hair , her susceptible grey eyes , her full , sensual mouth , before lowering them in slow appraisal of her trim figure then returning them to her querulous expression . |
| 19 | John Newsom brought to that task an intimate knowledge of the workings of the Establishment , a rich store of anecdote ( much of it scurrilous ) , a delight in getting to know his fellow members and in entertaining them in princely style , and a huge sense of fun . |
| 20 | It is interesting to note how often foods only become fattening when man has had a hand in processing them in some way . |
| 21 | Our interest in these authors , and our reason for choosing them in particular , were also dictated by the fact that their writings contain abundant evidence of their psychological disorder , which they themselves often described in great detail . |
| 22 | Research on diabetes continues in many centres , including Oxford , where research on animals has led to techniques of isolating and purifying the human pancreatic cells that produce insulin with a view to implanting them in diabetic patients and curing the disease . |
| 23 | It is sometimes referred to as ‘ non-interventionist ’ observation , though I find that a rather jargonish term and I think bird-watching is a good simple way of referring to observation which is very similar to that of the ornithologist who constructs a ‘ hide ’ so as to be able to observe birds in their natural habitat without disturbing them in any way . |
| 24 | They must walk into position behind the rabbits without disturbing them in any way . |
| 25 | To date this has been placed on involving them in acute services where the current bulk of expenditure is for district health authority purchasers . |
| 26 | ‘ They deserve a chance and I had no qualms about putting them in this quality field . |
| 27 | I bloody well ca n't achieve that by sticking them in dull concrete abortions ! |
| 28 | Like the frottole they were music for a wide public and , as with the frottole , the printing-presses multiplied their popularity by producing them in alternative forms . |
| 29 | These individual ‘ building blocks ’ are called phonemes , or in some instances allophones , and by using them in various combinations any word can be constructed . |
| 30 | More often , two or more rhythms are used to give not only a more varied rhythmic interest but also a bigger canvas by using first one rhythm , then another , or by using them in various combinations and expansions . |