Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 2 | The entrepreneurial characteristics of agency workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encourage agency working as an institution , can be likened to the entrepreneurial characteristics of self-employed , or labour only , subcontracting , building workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encouraged the growth of labour only subcontracting in the building industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( see Phelps Brown , 1968 ) . |
| 3 | The success of Never Mind the Bollocks did nothing to heal the rift rapidly developing in the Sex Pistols camp , between McLaren and the group , and among the members of the group themselves . |
| 4 | The big house ( Brigade H.Q ) was also deserted , the transport and the staff had just left , except the jeep still standing in the driveway . |
| 5 | A partial and passionate critic also writing in the middle of the nineteenth century was John Ruskin , as devoted to Turner as Baudelaire was to Delacroix . |
| 6 | This force may be expressed in a person , ‘ old man ’ , ‘ old woman ’ or other names being given to the mythical figure supposedly dwelling in the last sheaf of wheat . |
| 7 | In theory , it is a simple matter to overthrow a wilting strongman and replace him with a civilian president conveniently waiting in the wings . |
| 8 | ’ Rainforest ’ turns out to be the squawking tropical bird noise already playing in the Centre , so I settle for the crashing waves and seagull cries of ’ Ocean ’ . |
| 9 | The film ended with Wayne assuming responsibility for an orphaned Vietnamese boy to the strains of The Ballad of the Green Berets and the sun apparently setting in the east , a scene which outraged his critics but apparently brought tears to the eyes of many less demanding viewers . |
| 10 | One of the most important of the many articles manufactured in this shop are the steel carriage springs , each of which is submitted to a test quite as severe as that applied to the guns in Woolwich Arsenal , before it is sent out to administer to the comfort of the travelling public , the test chiefly consisting in the dropping of heavy weights upon the springs . |
| 11 | OIES is an international research institute currently specialising in the study of economic and political aspects of world oil and gas , the energy problems of developing countries and the economic development of oil-exporting countries . |
| 12 | The Abbey Mill had been replaced with The Old Mill House ( number 2 in Millers Green ) in the late 18th century , an original millstone apparently surviving in the cellar to this day . |
| 13 | In 1973 the Fauna and Flora Preservation Society of London sponsored a comprehensive survey of the Asian elephant , one of the most important aspects of which was an attempt to take a census of the population still remaining in the wild . |
| 14 | He turned and tossed a penny at the lad still squatting in the corner . |
| 15 | He had no doubt that , mentally , most of the group now waiting in the library to be interviewed were following his actions almost to the minute . |
| 16 | Vodnik was in many ways a typical figure of the European Romantic movement , drawing inspiration from the oral folk tradition of the peasants , which had a vigour and directness often lacking in the more formal literary tradition . |
| 17 | With the war now raging in the Middle East we might feel tempted to question such certainty . |
| 18 | When the length of one side has been marked out on the moulding , again position the moulding in the mitre box and with the saw now travelling in the opposite guide slots , make a further mitre cut to complete one side . |
| 19 | Big stars and a Father Christmas and reindeer and it 's all so bright just hanging over my head and stretching all down the road like a tunnel of hot colour all hanging in the sky so beautiful and magic . |
| 20 | ‘ So many separate bits of evidence all pointing in the same direction . |
| 21 | We have , then , student wittingness and intellectual maturity both pointing in the same direction . |
| 22 | It 's alright to park erm a non police car but there was a policeman actually sitting in the car while two of them loitered in there . |
| 23 | Each layer or sheet , of which there may be 50 or 100 altogether , contains fibres of the protein collagen all pointing in the same direction within the plane of the layer , so that each sheet has a readily ( if you have an electron microscope ) discernible direction or polarity associated with it . |
| 24 | another former manager still living in the area is Mark Lawrenson … he fell out with the Maxwells … he knows the club inside out … and has a great record … |
| 25 | another former manager still living in the area is Mark Lawrenson … he fell out with the Maxwells … he knows the club inside out … and has a great record … |
| 26 | He looked down and saw his colleague still lying in the mud , not daring to move . |
| 27 | Perhaps this was because Galileo had claimed of heat that its ‘ generally accepted notion comes very far from the truth … inasmuch as it is supposed to be a true accident , affection , and quality really residing in the thing which we perceive to be heated . ’ |
| 28 | That means one million pounds for every miner now working in the coal mining industry . |
| 29 | This was a most enjoyable set , with the orchestra obviously delighting in the direction and the audience lapping it up . |
| 30 | For the future a holiday group is planned in conjunction with the playscheme already operating in the parish . |