Example sentences of "[v-ing] in a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that the possibility of a revolution occurring in a country where capitalism was poorly developed made him aware of the problem of setting up too rigid a sequence for human evolution . |
| 2 | ‘ I ? ’ she said , drawing back slightly into her crystalline , black-and-white reserve , and becoming in a breath notably more French . |
| 3 | The canisters were landing in a cornfield about half-a-mile away . |
| 4 | Was it really happening in a world where women can be lawyers , prime minister , soldiers or just about anything ? |
| 5 | He finished painting in a silence so icy she could almost feel its frosty fingers on her skin , then climbed down the ladder and handed her the paintbrush . |
| 6 | One felt that men had become brutalised by the preoccupation of not leaving their company and also not delaying in a place where death was raining down . |
| 7 | After two weeks in Czechoslovakia he was climbing in a style usually reserved for winter . |
| 8 | Like it will crack you up like when you see everybody else out driving in a car like , look at Terry and all and Debby , see all them driving a car . |
| 9 | You may also be eligible for a range of services if your child is considered to be ‘ in need ’ ; a technical phrase which is likely to include many children with HIV , or children living in a household where an adult has HIV . |
| 10 | Marion was living in a hut up on the moor . |
| 11 | All of us are living in a diaspora twice removed — that is , our ancestors were already immigrants when we were born , and we , or our families , have repeated it again , going this time to the country of our past colonial masters . |
| 12 | To live in one room after living in a country where houses are so open . |
| 13 | Most certainly , though , we should appreciate how fortunate we are in having medical services , caring people around us , and living in a country where natural disasters are rare compared with many places on this earth . |
| 14 | ‘ Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who 're cut out for the job . ’ |
| 15 | But for most of us , even living in a country where the language you are learning is spoken , you need a teacher , you need self-discipline , and you need to work . |
| 16 | Instead we are living in a time when we can watch a TV ad which tells us that cars which are way beyond the range of most people 's pockets are being ‘ handbuilt ( somewhere else ) by robots ’ . |
| 17 | In brief , both Lanfranc and Anselm were living in a time when the ancient consensus of local testimony , which had sufficed in the past for most matters of faith and practice , was being subordinated to more formal legal and rational procedures . |
| 18 | The work ethic is alive and well and living in a town where the official male unemployment figure is 15 per cent . |
| 19 | The king , living in a residence apart from the temple , where — significantly — he is rarely , if ever , mentioned in the archives , probably had charge of the secular administration of the town and the surrounding territory as well as control over relations with other states on Crete and overseas . |
| 20 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 21 | She had her bath , which seemed to help , washing away her sorrows as well as the accumulated scum of living in a house where , for a female , baths were difficult — she remembered Dr Neil standing in the outhouse in the yard , pouring water over himself , the water running beneath the short door — all that she could see of him being his head and his bare feet . |
| 22 | ARTS council chairman Lord Palumbo faces eviction after being accused of living in a house illegally for six years . |
| 23 | They knew someone living in a house there . |
| 24 | ‘ Untidy , uncared-for gardens are another giveaway which may indicate that an old person is living in a house alone . |
| 25 | We are , we are living in a world , we are living in a world where constantly there 's violence , does that happen in the animal world ! |
| 26 | They were completely serious moral beings living in a world where such terms usually had no content . |
| 27 | The reality is harsher ; raising sponsorship ; overall cost of travel ; making ends meet by living in a caravan instead of luxury hotels ; endless pressure ; missed putts ; loss of income . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , they were greatly concerned with the idea of obtaining exact knowledge of the workings of society , and , living in a period when the natural sciences were making real strides in knowledge , felt that the application of natural science methods to the study of society might produce similar advances in understanding . |
| 29 | and at the moment he 's living in a hostel where , I do n't know too much about it , where you have clean sheets put on for them |
| 30 | Living in a city again meant that he would have to stop looking like a derelict . |