Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A girl was sunbathing on a lounger in the courtyard outside Culley 's window . |
| 2 | It is not entirely without foundation : holidaying on the cheap in such places as super-smart St Moritz , Zermatt and Gstaad is next to impossible , whatever the tourist offices there might say . |
| 3 | This is where I performed my gravity-defying experiments with the wind before returning to the cliff-top in the company of a couple of other walkers who , like me , were thoroughly enjoying these extraordinary conditions . |
| 4 | No drama school panel is looking for the ultimate in audition technique but candidates should possess a noticeable degree of competence and self-awareness . |
| 5 | I 'm not looking for the exotic in my photographs . |
| 6 | I 'm not looking for the exotic in my photographs . |
| 7 | These distinguished prints are divided into eight parts , ranging through The Poor in Paris , Manet and Spain , Paris Spectacle , Olympia , Portraits , War and Commune ( referring to the FrancoPrussian war of 1871–2 ) , Japonisme ( the theme of an exhibition in Sunderland a year or two ago ) and La Parisienne . |
| 8 | Mr Kellett calls for a major shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly in an article in the British Medical Journal . |
| 9 | Yet the Empire which the British Navy defended , and which made Britain an Asiatic power , or a world power , or indeed a power at all , was not the few million kith and kin living in North America or in Australasia or mingling with the Dutch in South Africa . |
| 10 | I was listening to the two in the back working their way through a typical RAF ditty with the repetitive chorus of , ‘ There 's only one bar — BOO ! |
| 11 | And all officers and ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majestyes and their successors according to the same in all times to come … |
| 12 | So Paul is looking to the unconverted in Spain , the church in Rome at the heart of the secular empire , and the church in Jerusalem where there were social needs of poverty to be lovingly dealt with . |
| 13 | The Italians are getting jumpy after drawing against the Swiss in Cagliari . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 15 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |
| 16 | The Ryehill Course near Bloxham in Oxfordshire is where we 're going for the first in a new series of the Friday Feature . |
| 17 | It should be worth waiting for the last in which Mick Ryan 's Les Amis ( 3.40 ) is well drawn and must be fancied on her two lengths defeat of Quinta Royale at Folkestone . |
| 18 | We go offshore power-boat racing with the best in Britain . |
| 19 | I guess Damien Hirst did n't go clubbing in the mid-Eighties in NY , otherwise he might have noticed a shark in a tank in artist Eric Goode 's nightclub , Area . |
| 20 | With a string of achievements already to his credit , including the development of such diverse destinations as Dallan in China and Rostov-on-Don in Russia , the former chief executive of the Greater Glasgow Tourist Board hopes to see Derry move forward as a ‘ unified community capable of competing with the best in Europe ’ . |
| 21 | Some recent estimates of the cost nationally in the United States give an idea of the probable scale : curbing carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels could absorb between 1 and 2 per cent of GNP , with the sums rising into the trillions in the next century . |
| 22 | The Chief Alkali Inspector commenting on the above in his 109th Annual Report on Alkali , etc. , Works , 1972 , said : |
| 23 | Speaking at the latest in a series of milk producer meetings , Alan Wiseman said that the firm had just exchanged contracts on a nine-acre site . |
| 24 | Pilot X was cruising for a bruising in many respects in Worst Day 9 . |
| 25 | Graham Sheward , a 54-year-old from Colchester , is no stranger to gritting his teeth and mixing with the best in various stamina events , feeding off an Army career which included a back-breaking spell in the Parachute Regiment . |
| 26 | Those so-vital components are totally unconcerned if they are travelling in the latest in airline development or in a 1940s technology propliner . |
| 27 | Soon after the French Revolution in England , and starting in the 1830s in New England , waves of religious adventism began to sweep across the nations . |
| 28 | You 're preaching to the converted in us , but you 've got to get at everyone else . |
| 29 | We have a number of ways of dealing with the elderly in Western societies . |
| 30 | There were five ancient parishes within the Borough of Bedford and in the second half of the eighteenth century they experienced increasing difficulty in dealing with the poor in the town . |