Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] in [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore he strove to understand nature , and had ‘ The habit of wishing to discover the good and the Beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me ’ , thereby becoming in touch with ‘ plastic and vast , one intellectual breeze , At once the soul of each , and God of All ’ . |
| 2 | Here is a Roman theatre built over barrel-vaulted substructures but gently resting in part against the hillside . |
| 3 | Again , the 103/4 conveyed a perfectly tangible image , with the sound literally hanging in space in the room . |
| 4 | Apparently acting in protest at the economic blockade , a 52-year-old Lithuanian factory worker , Stanislovas Zhamaitis , committed suicide by setting fire to himself outside the Bolshoi Theatre in the centre of Moscow on April 26 . |
| 5 | Bozer was apparently acting in protest at not having been fully consulted by President Turgut Özal on Turkey 's stance in the current Gulf crisis . |
| 6 | Since those relations were daily growing in importance with the increase in trade , it was becoming more and more essential that all should try and give life to that necessary fiction of government that every man knew the laws of his country . |
| 7 | but now they 're all set up and I 'm left alone and the children , three of them , have n't got time to look after me to give me what I , what I need and especially one in the truth , that one is less getting in touch with me than the ones that told me the truth , boys ring me , twice , three times a week , Julia rings every , every night , but Ted rings twice or three times a week , three times I could go , the one |
| 8 | But the term " Tithonian " , though not quite so lacking in respectability as the " Urgonian " , is usually reserved for the carbonate facies of alpine Europe , and is still disputing with the " Volgian " the honour of being the accepted international term for the topmost stage of the Jurassic . |
| 9 | Not only was Gannon jettisoned with professional coldness he was , at least according to the Gannon camp , somewhat lacking in payment for his part in the writing of The Smiths next single , ‘ Ask ’ . |
| 10 | The lease required a proportion of one-twelfth of " waste ore " to be made available at the end of every three years and made saleable — failure to do so resulting in forfeiture of all such material . |
| 11 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 12 | This has been greatly increasing in popularity in recent years and , according to all the forecasts , looks set to become even more widespread . |
| 13 | A piece of ecological history that remains to be fully researched was the decision by a number of individuals , many apparently working in isolation from each other , to establish , like Darwin , permanent plots within which the fate of individual plants could be recorded over time . |
| 14 | The latter then binds to an InsP 3 receptor ( IP 3 R ) to mobilize stored calcium and to promote an influx of external calcium , perhaps working in conjunction with InsP 4 ( refs 9 , 10 ) . |
| 15 | Mr and Mrs Bumble lost their jobs and became poorer and poorer , eventually living in poverty in the same workhouse that they had once managed . |
| 16 | And that 's beginning to show er up in the chemistry of the lakes and streams , some recovery of some lakes are already recovering in response to that reduction of emissions , but not all by any means . |
| 17 | No longer flailing with hideously encrusted , burnt and sinewed arms ; no longer bellowing in fury with the steel trap jaws of some gigantic insect or machine . |
| 18 | By the second week most people have sufficient confidence to sail in pairs or independently , just keeping in touch by radio . |
| 19 | Lowered on a helicopter ladder over Anfield , he could bellow his instructions through a loudhailer , thus keeping in touch with his players while observing the letter of UEFA law . |
| 20 | Creed and McGowan were already waiting in front of the elevator doors . |
| 21 | The rapist was already lying in wait for the twenty eight year old woman when she arrived home last night . |
| 22 | Many mothers with parenting difficulties had a long history of emotional problems themselves , and seemed generally lacking in sensitivity to their children 's anxieties and needs rather than deficient in specific child management techniques . |
| 23 | She led for most of the way at a terrific pace with Cardwell doggedly staying in touch before making a last-ditch effort in the final 25 metres . |
| 24 | I think , to come back to ‘ where does knowledge come from ? ’ , just how can you produce work that actually counters that weight of belief in the invincibility of people who are patently failing in front of your eyes ! |
| 25 | According to this understanding , people who make vows of celibacy are somehow standing in judgement over those who do not . |
| 26 | Beida was just falling in line by removing the large statue , it was argued . |
| 27 | It is in that latter role that Fodor ( 1976 ) has exploited the use of ‘ translation ’ and made the inference that the lower-level code must therefore mean the same as the higher-level code , thus arguing in effect against what I called ‘ implementation independence ’ . |
| 28 | Some of us found enough to interest us just sitting in front of the Upland Goose Hotel watching the birds in the harbour . |
| 29 | Hello , good afternoon erm I 'm just ringing in response to the previous caller you had on actually . |
| 30 | The German 20th Corps was still slowly withdrawing in face of the Russian centre on 26 August , when , to prevent further retreat , Ludendorff ordered Francois 's 1st Corps to smash the Russian left wing . |