Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can imagine animals like these darting through the undergrowth in search of food while the colossal reptiles lumbered obliviously around them . |
| 2 | Competition in the British market for water today is a reality with some forty plus rivals complet competing for a share in this growth area . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll be very disappointed if I 'm not competing for a place in the first one-day international on January 16 . |
| 4 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 5 | The two nations are collaborating on several satellite projects , including the L-Sat communications craft that British Aerospace is building for a launch in 1987 . |
| 6 | His mouth opened slightly , her tongue touched his upper lip once , then slipped away again ; she kissed him quickly on the cheek and turned , walked to a doorway , fumbling for a key in a small purse she took from her old fur coat . |
| 7 | In the British case ( and Saunders makes it clear that he is generalising about the home in British society ) the best way in which the occupant of a house can acquire ontological security is through being its owner . |
| 8 | Even allowing for a difference in the extent of lateralisation of executive aspects of speech , revealed by the Wada test , and receptive aspects , tapped by the dichotic listening technique , this figure of IS per cent is too high to accord with the evidence from brain damaged populations . |
| 9 | Now , by analysing a sample of customer addresses by ACORN he or she can set sales targets for each ACORN type ; and by allowing for the population in each type in each sales territory , he or she can set quotas which relate directly to the potential for business in each area . |
| 10 | In October parliament approved a revision of the 1990 budget , allowing for an increase in income from $252,000,000 to $285,000,000 and in expenditure from $300,000,000 to $347,000,000 . |
| 11 | In the cross-piece this is achieved by lashing through a hole in the cross member and around the outside of the stanchion . |
| 12 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 13 | For this writer it began when , shortly after stepping off the plane in Johannesburg , it became apparent that a few stitches sustained by the All Black winger Terry Wright in a training accident was deemed as worthy a front page news story as the continuous blood-letting in the Natal townships between rival ANC and Inkatha factions . |
| 14 | It 's never going to rumble through the floor in the way that a similarly priced 4x10 would , but they 're obviously catering for a gap in the market which is n't being filled very successfully . |
| 15 | Textbooks catering for the upsurge in legal education in the 1950s and 1960s sought to capture in print the mysterious unwritten secrets of a constitution which had emerged into the democratic world without appearing to have changed at all . |
| 16 | The final plank of the strategy is designed to improve the attractiveness of nursing as a career in competition with others . |
| 17 | Mr Thabane and the boy got out and pushed , struggling for a footing in the sand . |
| 18 | In a very short time , the two of them , together with Mrs Diggory , were fussing about the dog in the library , with bowls of warm water , blankets , an old sheet torn in strips , and even some milk laced with laudanum unearthed from the late Lady Merchiston 's store of medicines in the attics . |
| 19 | Men were struggling through the crowd in the street , a ladder between them . |
| 20 | Firefighters cut the man free as ambulance workers saved him from drowning after the accident in Teesdale . |
| 21 | Inevitably , I am elaborating after the event in intellectual terms . |
| 22 | But now the 14-man climbing team , mainly Territorial Army men , must sit tight at base camp , praying for a break in the weather . |
| 23 | I imagine that it was a bit like driving through a minefield in the war , the fact that we did not hit anybody was a miracle in itself ! |
| 24 | But I was not surprised when , several years later , I read that Sir Robert Armstrong , appearing for the government in the Spycatcher trial in Sydney , had admitted to cross-examining counsel that he had been what he called ‘ economical with the truth ’ . |
| 25 | Understanding general differences between spelling and speaking may help you to improve your own spelling , and may make it more interesting to focus on spelling as an issue in your writing . |
| 26 | When she had chosen the least remarkable and staggered downstairs in a pair of high-heeled purple boots the others got their revenge by wheezing about the room in hysterics once more . |
| 27 | There were two sons : John , the elder , became a solicitor 's clerk , dying as a bachelor in Lambeth in 1862 , while his brother Joseph , a house painter settling in Hoxton , assured the continuity of the Titford line by having a number of male children by his wife Elizabeth , née Griffiths . |
| 28 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
| 29 | The detective would n't be expecting two of them and , when Dana had been appearing as a model in London , Claudia would have been in Solihull . |
| 30 | And he could even be challenging for a place in the return leg of Leeds ' European Cup first round tie against Stuttgart at Elland Road at the end of the month . |