Example sentences of "[v-ing] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reminded her of last night , and the feeling of walking in the moonless night with her own arm intertwined with Miguelito 's . |
| 2 | Walking in the surrounding area is really enjoyable . |
| 3 | On other occasions , he had been seen walking in the surrounding countryside at the dead of night , carrying sacks full of rocks . |
| 4 | Better ( > ) cold water held in the mouth ; cold air ; walking in the open air ; pressure . |
| 5 | Walking and walking in the pissing rain . |
| 6 | The Consumer Concerns survey carried out by the National Consumer Council ( NCC ) in 1979–80 revealed a quarter of all respondents encountering problems walking in the previous year , over half of which were considered serious . |
| 7 | After walking in the relative heat for two hours , we decided that it was time for a break , and this decision was reinforced when we spotted a river which looked perfect for a quick ‘ dip ’ . |
| 8 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
| 9 | Their independence reduced the executive 's capacity for interfering in the legal process . |
| 10 | Because planning is by definition interfering in the unfettered use of land and buildings , to be justified and accepted by the general public it must produce a ‘ better ’ answer than a free market would . |
| 11 | He refused to consider what he regarded as interfering in the judicial process and what they saw as moderating his policy of harassing the Free Church . |
| 12 | Their guests were assembling in the open-air piazza below . |
| 13 | Fielding and fogging In the above example Anne hears what Bill says , but does n't allow herself to get deflected from her purpose . |
| 14 | Rourke was watching her , and she was disturbed by the uncanny perception lurking in the blue gaze . |
| 15 | The more I looked at different societies , the more I saw the little traps lurking in the small print … |
| 16 | The spots of the leopard ( opposite ) lurking in the long grass help to destroy the solidity of its form , and the dappled patches on the coat of the clouded leopard ( above , left ) conceal it well in the broken light of the forest . |
| 17 | While Jube stood guard over Grant and the two youngsters , the other two truckers spent a fruitless few minutes checking to see whether the dangerous oriental was lurking in the immediate vicinity . |
| 18 | His ‘ peculiar gloating obsequious humour ’ , his ‘ sort of capricious self-satisfaction ’ lurking in the very midst of ‘ plaintive protestations ’ , are described and pondered . |
| 19 | That call was an hour and a half in coming , during which time he distracted himself thinking about the shows that were opening in the coming week . |
| 20 | However the Committee had felt that the reduced scheme was still worthwhile and he looked forward to the Museum opening in the near future . |
| 21 | Endill watched Tock make a hole in the wall , holding his hammer with both hands to stop it banging in the wrong place . |
| 22 | The most rapid rates of deforestation are occurring in the tropical rainforest regions , but deforestation is also significant in the savanna woodlands that occupy the drier tropical and subtropical regions . |
| 23 | Early in 1983 , a consensus seemed to be emerging among theorists using computer models of the atmosphere that this material , now spreading across the northern hemisphere , would lead to a cooling of perhaps half a degree Centigrade , with the peak effect occurring in the late summer of 1983 or the winter of 1983–84 . |
| 24 | The panel design will make it possible to track the responses of ordinary members to these internal party changes , and to the changes occurring in the external world . |
| 25 | The most striking non-deglutitive motility pattrn consisted of repetitive bursts of non-sequential pressure peaks occurring in the smooth muscle of the oesophagus . |
| 26 | The sheep is infected by ingesting the mollusc and the L3 , freed by digestion , travel to the lungs by the lymphatic-vascular route , the parasitic moults occurring in the mesenteric lymph nodes and lungs . |
| 27 | We would like to propose that many of the gestural sequences , both those directed towards the state of play on the football pitch and those occurring in the interactional posturing between rival fans , can be understood metonymically . |
| 28 | The finding that the length of pauses occurring in the subject-paced reading task is related to the difficulty of the material being read suggests that pause length is an indication of processing demands of some kind . |
| 29 | Perhaps half of the carbon dioxide introduced to the atmosphere has been removed by the ocean , primarily occurring in the northern hemisphere in the production of north Atlantic deep water . |
| 30 | If you want to include iron losses ( occurring in the magnetic core due to the periodically change flux ) as well , you should better consult a book having a bigger section on transformers . |