Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the war Winnicott had left the actual practice of physical paediatrics behind , his outpatient clinic at Paddington Green becoming in effect a department of child psychiatry based on psychodynamic theory and on his particular way of using it . |
| 2 | It may surprise you to discover that the continued life expectancy of a forty-year-old man in Britain today has scarcely increased at all on that of a forty-year-old man living in Britain a century ago . |
| 3 | Courses were still expected to provide ‘ as balanced an educational experience as possible ’ , and to aim at developing in students a number of abilities : |
| 4 | With infinite care and patience , Theda first cleaned the frail and malodorous body from head to toe , enduring in silence a barrage of abuse and complaint the while . |
| 5 | In the meantime , the Lebanese parliament , whose members are meeting in Taif a year after their failure to elect a president led to the creation of rival Lebanese cabinets , is itself in the last stages of life . |
| 6 | The Asian countries , meeting in Bangkok a month ago , mobilised a vigorous attack on the values that they think are being imposed on them . |
| 7 | Although Blake may have given the impression to the prison authorities that he had accepted his sentence and settled down to serve it ( it would surely have been odd had he done otherwise ) , in reality neither he nor the KGB had any intention of him remaining in prison a day longer than necessary . |
| 8 | As the bus was waiting in Bondgate a lorry carrying scaffolding reversed into the back of the bus . |
| 9 | Middlesbrough will be allowed to spend £20.2m , resulting in £14 a head off poll tax bills and a six per cent cut in services . |
| 10 | Which would be slightly down on er the number that we got in last year , erm , the next factor , erm , is not as yet a fact but is almost a certainty , that , er , all , we will not succeed on the present basis in persuading D O E that we should have any increase in t to reflect er er an increase in work , and next year we 're anticipating getting in effect a stand still budget . |
| 11 | She rummaged frantically in her handbag as if the key were a vital clue , its loss disastrous , seeing in imagination a phalanx of accusing eyes , the police demanding she account for it , Father Barnes 's tired and dispirited face . |
| 12 | Falling rolls and rapid technological and social change are bringing about constant adjustments and shifts in the secondary school curriculum , demanding in turn a degree of flexibility and adaptability on the part of the teaching force . |
| 13 | The most important feature of the programme of advance factory building is the emphasis on concentration , particularly since the mid-1960s when the policy of ‘ trigger areas ’ was adopted , involving in effect a strategy of growth centres within areas of serious population loss . |
| 14 | The government have therefore controlled the money supply , creating in effect a mini-depression to avoid this likelihood , but unfortunately they have also stifled the very lifeblood of a healthy industry , a buoyant home market . |
| 15 | Within the main outcrop of Ashdown Sand lies Ashdown Forest , a large tract of open heathland , reaching in places a height of nearly 220 metres , and surrounded by extensive woods . |
| 16 | What was this because you were standing in water a lot ? |
| 17 | The wording of subsection ( 1 ) shows quite clearly that it is addressed to the legal purpose of legal effect of consent to treatment , namely , to prevent such treatment constituting in law a trespass to the person , and that it does so by making the consent of a 16- or 17-year-old as effective as if he were ‘ of full age . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Tom might have been talking in jest a while back , but there 's nothing to say you wo n't have another family between the two of you . |
| 19 | Practitioners like Sallie Purkiss have stressed the importance of preparing in advance a checklist of the topics pupils want to cover and the questions they want to ask , even though , in the interview itself , children need not adhere rigidly to the list . |
| 20 | This is not to say that a science and technological education had to take on this character , for clearly there were and always have been those who are committed to inspiring in students a love of , and a care for , their subjects in those disciplines . |
| 21 | A third question , which would have to be solved , is whether regulatory bodies , such as the Securities and Investments Board , the Bank of England and the Department of Trade and Industry , would be deterred from providing confidential documents and reports without receiving in return a guarantee that they would not be publicly disclosed . |
| 22 | When the security forces sought to empty the pastor 's house of its possessions , a human chain of several dozen formed around the house , setting in train a flood of protest that was to escalate into what appears to have been a massacre on Sunday . |
| 23 | As such , the experience of beauty is not only highly motivational , setting in train a search for more similar experiences , it also establishes a model for effective learning . |
| 24 | It set the tone of the renewed debate which in the coming decade was to divide Western Europe even further , at the same time as setting in motion a groundswell that eventually produced the European Community . |
| 25 | If you do nothing about those feelings , the recipient will probably be totally unaware of them ; if you translate them into action , you may well be setting in motion a train of events which will cause harm and destruction , bringing as much grief to yourself as to the object of your ill-will . |
| 26 | Shah was setting in motion a chain of events which would lead to the bitter Wapping strike , when Murdoch took on the print unions — previously assumed to be invincible — and won . |
| 27 | Although some developers provide low cost or rented housing within their schemes , the majority of housing is aimed at the upper end of the market thus setting in motion a house price spiral which effectively freezes the locals out of home ownership . |
| 28 | A method or approach to working together has been devised with the explicit intention of creating a relationship and setting in motion a process which supports the moves towards normalisation whilst still tallying with the emergence of self-advocacy . |