Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the essential task of bringing in the new democracies of eastern Europe will founder on economic collapse , ethnic unrest and social upheaval . |
| 2 | The park , unlikely though it might seem , was not a job , not a political ideology , not a way of filling in the weary hours until she was old enough to retire , not even something to spite her mother with once and for all while she accepted everything else from her . |
| 3 | It was like filling in the blank spaces on a form and equally unprofitable . |
| 4 | Check spelling and grammar on the copy before filling in the real form . |
| 5 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 6 | But you 're going to get a wider latitude and difference of i of of strength of economy by bringing in the eastern bloc in the short term . |
| 7 | It 's simple to do this now by filling in the direct debit and covenant on the back of the donation form . |
| 8 | It would mean so much to us if you would give a regular amount under Covenant , by filling in the Direct Debit form and Deed of Covenant above . |
| 9 | It also makes clear that sentences in the abstract do not in general express definite propositions at all ; it is only utterances of them in specific contexts that express specific states of affairs , where the contexts achieve this by filling in the pragmatic parameters that indexicals are variables for . |