Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tenant will not wish to restrict himself to too narrow a use , for while this might be satisfactory in the short term , if the lease is for 25 years much can happen to the tenant 's business , eg expansion or contraction resulting in the necessity for the tenant to assign or sublet the premises , in which case the assignee or subtenant may wish to carry on a different use . |
| 2 | There were no vegetables or corn growing in the fields . |
| 3 | Mehtab , for instance , had never seen her mother or father sunbathing in the back garden . |
| 4 | She remembered the rook or crow sitting in the hedge the night she had come away for ever . |
| 5 | Any course you choose to undertake before updating is made mandatory may not later satisfy the Boards if you decide to delay return to nursing or health visiting in the meantime . |
| 6 | Whenever the professor is engaged in research work within the University being research work which is funded in whole or in part by an outside body on terms that any invention , know-how , copyright or information arising in the course of such work shall be patented , dealt with or otherwise used or exploited in such manner as the outside body may direct , any such invention , know-how , copyright or information shall be subject to the terms of the agreement with the outside body and the professor is required to comply with all obligations including those of confidentiality imposed by that agreement . |
| 7 | A housing allowance/accommodation subsidy or company housing in the overseas location is provided as appropriate . |
| 8 | Some religious images show a god or goddess hovering in the air : this may imply a connection with bird epiphanies . |
| 9 | Mr Bell said that contract printing in the UK had been ‘ an absolute disaster ’ . |
| 10 | ( 4 ) In defending the ‘ flocculus hypothesis ’ , Ito fails to cite a study done in rabbits showing that motor learning in the VOR can be acquired without vestibular stimulation . |
| 11 | National Savings were particularly competitive in the 1980's when emphasis was placed on raising government funds from this source , largely because it relieved the need somewhat to borrow from the banking system which created credit and therefore inflationary conditions , and because of the fear that government borrowing in the long-term capital markets would tend to ‘ crowd-out ’ industrial and commercial companies from that market , and impede their ability to raise funds for capital investment and long-term growth . |
| 12 | ‘ How old would you say that man standing in the window of that house was ? ’ asked Penelope tentatively . |
| 13 | Later in the programme we ask are positive discrimination and chauvinism thriving in the Labour Party ? |
| 14 | She could hear Jenkins and Laidlaw talking in the bar room below her . |
| 15 | He remembered him as ‘ a brown bagger ’ , that is a man who to save money brought a sandwich lunch in a brown bag rather than waste time and money eating in the mess . |
| 16 | Silvicultural management has been practised since the 1920s , beginning first with regulation of the telling cycle and then the stimulation of natural regeneration by cutting climbers , removing uneconomic species and canopy thinning in the 1930s , as has been described by Kio and Ekwebelam ( 1987 ) . |
| 17 | As he uncovered them , he was confronted with the pageant , its gold and silverwork dazzling in the sunshine , and the weathercock gracefully bowing to the north in the breeze . |
| 18 | Mosley 's vision of cars and car racing in the next century would matter in this ecology-conscious age worried by recession . |
| 19 | Most of it consists of a list of banned substances by brand name , IOC category , points for and against from the doctor 's point of view , contained substances resulting in the ban and misuse resulting in the ban . |
| 20 | All of our clients staying in Murren have free entry to the swimming pool and whirlpool , squash , tennis and ice skating in the centre . |
| 21 | The top boy and girl assisting in the production of clients ' accounts , auditing and other financial services at Walton 's offices in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough will receive £150 of book tokens to help their A-level and degree studies . |
| 22 | Mr McDermott has been the editor of this section of the Financial Times for the past four years , and has written two books on Egypt and peace keeping in the Middle East . |
| 23 | The statement was also allegedly intended to calm the high level of irritation and dissatisfaction existing in the ranks . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ They have given the town record job losses , record home repossessions , record hospital waiting lists and record under-funding in the schools . ’ |
| 25 | BUITONI Balsamic Vinegar is lovingly manufactured all year round by a husband and wife living in the Modena region . |
| 26 | An MP who 's at risk of losing much of his personal fortune in the Lloyds insurance scandal is calling for legal action to stop what he calls the swindling , fraud and insider dealing in the insurance market . |
| 27 | The successor republics have all adopted presidential-type systems , although the degree of power and authority inhering in the executive president varies from republic to republic and according to prevailing political conditions . |
| 28 | ‘ Extensive ground and flight testing in the UK , including the measurement of static thrust and endless climb performance , often measured with electronic recording barographs , has demonstrated that the fourblade propellers , correctly matched to the airframe , give some improvement and that the Gomolzig silencers do not reduce performance ’ , says BGA chief technical officer Dick Stratton . |
| 29 | It was still only eight thirty and , apart from themselves and a man and woman sitting in the far corner , the bar was empty . |
| 30 | a. a man and woman sitting in the living room + the woman sitting reading quite happily — the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window + and gets himself ready and goes out + |