Example sentences of "[v-ing] in the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came on , walking in the same direction as Rachaela , the dilute snow sparkling in his hat like sequins . |
| 2 | It carries more textual meaning than an adverbial occurring in the same position . |
| 3 | If we analyse the relation between the event of " passively experiencing " denoted by have and that of saying or happening denoted by the infinitive , it becomes obvious immediately that the two must be conceived as occurring in the same stretch of time : one can only experience something while it is happening . |
| 4 | Confusingly , it was another Richard Hutchinson , of the City and later of Stepney , who was co-treasurer for sick and wounded soldiers , widows , and orphans from 1643 to 1660 and a judge for imprisoned debtors in 1653–4 , and who served as co-paymaster of the navy under the treasurers in 1688–71 , appearing in the latter part of Pepys 's diary . |
| 5 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that even if one ignores what is happening in the former USSR , there are other countries in the world that are potential aggressors and which either have nuclear capacity or may be near to acquiring it ? |
| 6 | Speaking to defence writers , he made clear he was against the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation taking over responsibility for all peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia should a ceasefire and peace be agreed . |
| 7 | Consequently things only started to get funny around four songs in , just as the band began bringing the stops off cleanly and ending in the same places . |
| 8 | And we 'd do anything to prevent another child dying in the same way . |
| 9 | Family grief : ‘ We talk about Danny a lot and would do anything to prevent another child dying in the same way ’ |
| 10 | Yoma 's former husband Ibrahim al Ibrahim , appointed by Menem as Chief of Customs at Buenos Aires international airport , along with a former government official , Mario Caserta , had also been accused of drug laundering in the same report . |
| 11 | The old craftsmen may have disappeared but in their place there is a bank , chemist , butcher , grocers , and many more essential services , trading in the same cottages built more than a hundred years ago , so not destroying the character and heritage of the village . |
| 12 | Thirdly , just as cross-linguistic comparisons can reveal general functions of language by contrasts between what is encoded in one language and not in another , so comparisons across stages of acquisition can be revealing in the same way ( Ochs , 1979a ) . |
| 13 | According to the Washington Post of Oct. 21 the number of guestworkers living in the former GDR had gone down to 85,000 and the German government was offering US$2,000 and a free flight home if they would leave . |
| 14 | While some members may have experienced a steady rise in their standard of living in the latter half of the period , others were in no position to benefit . |
| 15 | Possibly dinosaurs living in the latter phase had developed complex social structures , as today occurs in some reptilian genera . |
| 16 | ‘ Living in the same apartment as always , ’ Gina said . |
| 17 | ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 18 | There have been few detailed research studies that have examined arrest rates of those living in the same areas or sentencing in both the magistrates ' courts and the Crown Court in one study . |
| 19 | The main difference between the races in the data so far discussed was that in the arrest rates of Blacks and Whites living in the same areas . |
| 20 | We wished to compare those living in the same areas ( as we did for arrest rates ) and decided to exclude areas with less than 10 per cent . |
| 21 | One reason may well be that people living in the same locality share , whatever their class position , similar material positions . |
| 22 | I was n't going to turn her out with nowhere to go , you know , young lady — but perhaps it 's a bit hard on an old lady to go into a new place after living in the same cottage most of her life . |
| 23 | The author explores , in this paper , some philosophical arguments for equal distribution of scarce goods between people of different age groups living in the same society . |
| 24 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
| 25 | It is also the custom of certain groups who have migrated to Britain to pool resources between kin , either between people living in the same household or sometimes across households ( Anwar , 1985 , pp. 52–5 ; Brah , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | What such arrangements traditionally have provided is a large group of women , related to each other as in-laws and living in the same household , who operate their own quite complex social organization in which each gains significant support . |
| 27 | A rather similar pattern can be seen in the very different circumstances of the inter-war economic depression , when the Household Means Test meant effectively that young working adults living in the same household as their unemployed parents were expected to support them financially . |
| 28 | Recently , home responsibility was extended to include the care of elderly relatives not living in the same household . |
| 29 | In addition , it was shown that women living in the same household as the person for whom they were caring were more likely to be either working full-time or not at all ; part-time employment was taken when the sick or elderly person lived elsewhere . |
| 30 | Extended families living in the same household remain very common . |