Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
2 | Kaprun is an ideal centre for walking in beautiful alpine scenery , with every route you choose offering fantastic views particularly if you take the high alpine road up to the Gross Glockner , the highest mountain in Austria . |
3 | Indonesia had dissolved the previous forum , the Inter-Governmental Group on Indonesia ( IGGI ) , in March after accusing the Netherlands ( which chaired the IGGI ) of using the issue of aid as a tool for interfering in Indonesian internal affairs . |
4 | He saw nothing political about inviting an ex-priest to publicly denounce the mass as a blasphemy , and took the council 's refusal to let him use public property for this purpose as the state interfering in valid religious activity . |
5 | Pupils ' active involvement in the learning process is important in enhancing their knowledge and understanding in many subject areas . |
6 | The first half hour in fact with Wrexham banging in 2 quick goals . |
7 | Participating in a traditional bloody ritual called the grynd , that dates back over the centuries , Faroe Islanders each year herd large schools of pilot whales into shallow waters and then , with man and whale alike thrashing in red blood-stained water , the animals are gaffed , speared , or knifed to death . |
8 | These studies of whole body protein metabolism , however , simply reflect an average of events occurring in all individual tissues . |
9 | He believes that the direct exploitation of natural forest , as is occurring in many tropical regions , is equivalent to ‘ hunting-gathering ’ while the managed natural forests of North America , for example , have reached the ‘ farming ’ stage . |
10 | Afforestation on a localised scale is also occurring in many developing countries to provide a protective cover for the soil in agricultural systems that are threatened by excessive soil erosion and desertification ( section 7.2 ) , the provision of fuelwood and , in many cases , a crop . |
11 | The second smallest duck of the region , slenderer than Teal and rarely occurring in such large flocks . |
12 | The changes occurring in this limited biopsy series , in particular the inflammatory infiltrate , were on a minor scale and of no consistent pattern . |
13 | But , in fact , we do not have far to look to discover some characteristics of the mensural system still occurring in later French music , in works by Du Mont , Charpentier , Lalande , Couperin and later composers . |
14 | It concludes that damaging levels of sulphur are deposited on 75 per cent of all European forestry , with the most severe impact occurring in those eastern countries which were once communist . |
15 | To calculate the joint probability of the coincidence occurring in any one minute we multiply the two separate probabilities . |
16 | Metabolism of Insect Muscle — Some of the metabolic events occurring in active muscular tissue , especially in flight-muscle , are now known in considerable biochemical detail ( e.g. Sacktor , 1965 , 1970 ) . |
17 | Probably because of the very much greater stick forces and lower rates of pitch occurring in most light aircraft . |
18 | However , they are now appearing in such large numbers that many libraries have prepared Key word in context ( KWIC ) lists , which give the range of subjects covered in the various abstracting and indexing sources available in the library . |
19 | He left us just before Christmas 1982 , in a sudden transfer to West Bromwich Albion , after appearing in all seventeen League matches of 1982–83 . |
20 | No player not appearing in that particular game dared put his face round the door . |
21 | LOOKING like he is appearing in some designer-conscious jeans advert , Nicholas Cage steps out of a big white gas guzzler on a sun-baked road in Wyoming . |
22 | It cancelled the advertisement wherever it could but was too late to prevent it from appearing in some national newspapers . |
23 | ‘ THE end of flavoured crisps ! ’ — This was one of the headlines to a story appearing in most tabloid newspapers in May . |
24 | Brittle bone disease , or osteoporosis , which is usually only seen in the elderly , is now appearing in these young women , of whom there are several thousand in Scotland . |
25 | Compared with what was happening in contemporary marine invertebrates , the visible changes in mammalian skeletons during the early part of the Tertiary were fast and dramatic ; it did not take long before the roles of larger herbivores and carnivores were filled by mammalian animals . |
26 | It is happening in two main ways . |
27 | You see our most recent budget was largely constructed even neglecting what was happening in other industrial countries . |
28 | ‘ What is happening at the DVLA is happening in all civil service jobs in Wales . |
29 | But something is happening in that upper panel . |
30 | The amount of crappy car accidents happening in that fucking Neighbours . |