Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being with a prostitute is different from meeting a girl at a party and ending up in bed together , although there 's no difference in the mechanics of the sex . |
| 2 | People interested in agricultural improvement in the nineteenth century — in improving farming methods , in increasing the potential yield of land and in methods of improving the manner of storage of its produce — saw the formal lease as a mechanism for spelling out in advance precisely who was responsible for what , and for enshrining in legal terms how the land was to be utilised . |
| 3 | Another way of looking at the process is to regard the member of the pair of particles that falls into the black hole — ; the antiparticle , say — as being really a particle that is traveling backward in time Thus , the antiparticle falling into the black hole can be regarded as a particle coming out of the black hole but traveling backward in time . |
| 4 | Aksum had outlasted Jerusalem and Rome , going down in ruin only eighty years before the Norman conquest of Britain . |
| 5 | If you want to study the most refined version of clothes-talk , just look at all the elegant women who have been turning up in court recently . |
| 6 | Is the fire going out in Catholicism generally ? |
| 7 | According to this morning 's Irish Times , Dave O'Leary did n't get to play in the reserves and may have to undergo surgery on this achilles after breaking down in training yesterday . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you staying up in town overnight ? ’ |
| 9 | MOVING BACK IN TIME AGAIN WITH Sony 's new mid-price ‘ Columbia Jazz Contemporary masters ’ series , which takes the '70s as its core period ; ‘ fusion ’ ( rock-meets-jazz ) albums such as Weather Report 's ‘ Heavy Weather ’ ( starring the powerful and unforgettable Birdland , from 1977 on ) , John Mc Laughlin 's ‘ Johnny Mc Laughlin , Electric Guitarist ’ ( from 1978 on ; try New York on my Mind ) and the Mahavishnu Orchestra 's ‘ Birds of Fire ’ ( improvisation from 1973 on ) are high water marks , while future releases will include such important albums as Miles Davis 's ‘ Nefertite ’ and ‘ Filles de Kilimanjaro ’ . |
| 10 | I it , it 's your means of getting back in control then ? |
| 11 | If you 've got something that 's crying out in comparison about two labourers or two women or whatever . |
| 12 | Thus , firms can reward their staff by setting up bonus schemes related to the firm 's profits or otherwise relating pay to performance ; and ( 2 ) just as the partners will wish to impose restraint covenants upon themselves ( see Chapter 8 ) to prevent an outgoing partner damaging the continuing practice by setting up in competition thereto , so in the case of salaried partners , assistant solicitors and other key members of staff their terms of employment should include similar restrictionssimilar , but not necessarily identical . |
| 13 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 14 | A Partnership is a relationship between interested parties in Education and Industry who aim to improve the educational and vocational opportunities of young people by working together in order fully to understand and support each others ' needs and objectives . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , in the UK at least the value of education and business working together in partnership still needs assertion and justification . |
| 16 | He felt that the Eastern District , serving a widely-scattered , largely-rural population , working generally in co-operation rather than competition with Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board , and always seeking to maintain high standards , had nothing to fear from the amendment of grant regulations proposed in Recommendation 6 , an amendment which took into account quality of work , the needs of the region as a whole and the provision made by other interested bodies . |
| 17 | If Johnny is n't working hard in class then does the responsibility belong to the teacher and not the parent ? |
| 18 | Over the top , down the outside of the wheel , like being flung out into the night : dangling queasily in space then dropping like a brick . |