Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are still many systems where the man is in the control loop , for example in vehicle driving and in most manufacturing production processes . |
| 2 | There really is something to celebrate as the new hospital opens — its consultants say it is the best in the country — with a standard of care and treatment equalling that in private hospitals combined with the facilities to continue pioneering research into skin disease . |
| 3 | So we went , which was the backdoor to Started onc singing Once In Royal David 's City you know , cos I knew he , he liked that . |
| 4 | For in accepting that age and , more importantly , insanity could influence the degree of individuals ' responsibility for their actions it was also accepting that in some cases , and to some extent at least , human actions could be seen as determined . |
| 5 | The average income elasticity of demand for imports was of the order of 1.5 to 2.0 between the late 1950s and the early 1970s , but this obscures quite wide variations between goods and there are strong grounds for believing that in expansionary phases the ratio rose to as high as 5.0 or 6.0 ; and even the average for manufactured goods was just over 3.0 [ Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 6 | ( It is worth remembering that in those days the Grand National fences did not incorporate a sloping apron of gorse on the take-off side to help the horses jump accurately : the take-off side was sheer , and consequently more difficult to gauge correctly . ) |
| 7 | Although I concentrate in this chapter on sexual difference and on cultural and racial differences in the last chapter , it is worth remembering that in some contexts they interrelate . |
| 8 | But the fact remains that , while other people were shivering and in obvious discomfort , I felt impervious to cold . |
| 9 | The character of the Nun 's Priest is a complex of knowledge , attitude and sympathy : knowledge of learning , literature and the ars praedicandi ( " art of preaching " ) , attitudes of detachment from but understanding of the rarefied world of speculative learning , and of sympathy towards the commoner run of humanity for whom this learning is mystifying and in practical terms irrelevant . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most striking have been the experiments that show that the presence of the neutral weak interaction in addition to the electromagnetic interaction does indeed lead to a parity violation in electron proton scattering and in certain transitions in heavy atoms . |
| 11 | These had advantages in handling and in instant access to a desired image without any winding . |
| 12 | Now , I know that these people have worked all their life to get their money and their saving savings and things like that , but if they 're able to manage on wha with less benefit from the government , surely they should n't have to watch other people who struggling and in dire needs because of that ? |
| 13 | Do it in daylight , in the dark , when it 's raining and in windy conditions . |
| 14 | The faces are horribly contorted as if suffocating or in great pain , and their eyes seem to follow anyone who passes . |
| 15 | Indeed , there is a case for supposing that in complicated matters it is likely to be the worst one . |
| 16 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 17 | If the level of foreign news keeps up it will turn again to its shareholders , says Mathews , adding that in that event : ‘ I would be very surprised indeed if they did n't make more resources available . |
| 18 | That is why Britain largely escaped enclave development and why we must augment Hobsbawm 's assertion that the home market " provided the broad foundations for a generalised industrial economy " , by adding that in this provision it was materially assisted by an overseas market for manufactured goods of a kind possessed by no other economy . |
| 19 | On the point of commenting scathingly that not everyone could be expected to be as cold-blooded as he was , Gina hesitated , finally deciding that in this case discretion was certainly the better part of valour . |
| 20 | I began by noting that in 1987 building societies were at the forefront of financial sector reporting , but the influence , in particular , of the EC has narrowed the gap over the past five years , so that the rules applicable to banks ( The Companies Act 1985 ( Bank Accounts ) Regulations 1991 ) and building societies ( the 1992 regulations ) are now very much in line . |
| 21 | In this connection it is worth noting that in another context , and in another part of the same Act , Parliament has made express provision for cases in which the suitability of particular accommodation is to be determined by the court in the course of ordinary litigation . |
| 22 | The concern in the present section is with purely reactive circuits and it is worth noting that in dual versions the frequencies at which the reactance becomes zero or infinite is the same , one circuit being resonant ( ) whenever the other is antiresonant ( ) and vice versa . |
| 23 | The timing of operations is much more important in microprogramming than in conventional programming . |
| 24 | Chairman , could I just mention to the Committee , on Shropshire child care links , erm , the County Council of course , is also the registration body that erm , registers childminders and day care , and erm , while obviously this is very much to be supported and ties in with Social Services ' own requirements to promote child care , it should not be seen , and we should perhaps , Bruce make a , we can have discussions with , we should be careful to endorse , the giving of this money does n't necessarily imply or endorse the standards of the people on their books , who may be people that the County Council in another arm , are investigating and in some cases , taking action to close down . |
| 25 | See during the war we had , we had a lot of er minesweepers down here and they were all in these trawlers , fishing trawlers that 's all they were and they used to go minesweeping off the coast , from here to Yarmouth and then , and Yarmouth and Lowestoft they had theirs , they used to like meet and cos they used to be out four days minesweeping and in four days . |
| 26 | Local communities will be fully consulted and their loyalties and interests will be central to the commission 's task in deciding whether in any area a single tier of local government could provide better accountability and greater efficiency . |
| 27 | The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks . |
| 28 | Secondly , it almost goes without saying that in real life people will not be presented at the point of sale with a neat , comparative ranking of ( say ) five different credit options , with one end of the scale of choice giving much better value than the other . |
| 29 | The nature of elision may be stated quite simply : under certain circumstances sounds disappear ; one might express this in more technical language by saying that in certain circumstances a phoneme may be realised as zero , or have zero realisation or be deleted . |
| 30 | It almost goes without saying that in contemporary society a certain amount of money is an important human requirement , not necessarily for its own sake ( though that may also be the case ) , but because it is the wherewithal for other requirements . |