Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swearing in of civilian President |
| 2 | Nujoma 's policy statement — Swearing in of National Assembly and Council of Ministers |
| 3 | Instead , he has relied on great fitness and stamina to enable him to keep sprinting in at full pace , and speed of arm and perfect balance to capitalize on the momentum ; combined with an unrelenting desire to keep on taking more and more wickets , it has all proved irresistible . |
| 4 | The full force of the rising tide had reached the channel mouth and a foaming mass of water was pouring in with terrifying speed . |
| 5 | It is the pouring in of new wine , but the bottles must also be new or they will burst , and this is exactly what Mr. Alexander 's treatment does . |
| 6 | Indeed , in the very thick of the Suez preparations ( 14 September ) ‘ the Cabinet was about Plan G — the current plan for Britain going in with European federation ’ ; and then ( 18 September ) ‘ the Cabinet held its second meeting on Plan G for British association with the Messina powers in Europe . |
| 7 | I said , well she 's er she 's going in for medical secretary . |
| 8 | It was certainly an eventful day for Eddis as it was he who put Comrades further in front on 27 minutes , heading in from close range after Grant was unable to hold Philip Leckey 's firmly struck angled shot . |
| 9 | Attach the little burner to the base of the large balloon and insert the passengers into the large basket , fixing in with royal icing . |
| 10 | If he remained at liberty , he could authorise the calling in of outside help — hence , as insurance , the coup leader 's attempt to destroy the President s reputation by connecting him to the cocaine trade . |
| 11 | The main variations are caused by the phasing in of major re-equipment programmes : Polaris in the latter half of the 1960s ; RAF re-equipment in the early 1970s ; Army re-equipment in the mid-1970s ; the Tornado programme in the mid-1980s , and the start of the Trident programme in the late 1980s . |
| 12 | As part of the settlement to last year 's National dispute , the phasing in of Extended Opening Hours was agreed as follows : — 10.00am–4.00p.m. with effect from 1st May 1992 ; 10.00a.m. –4.00p.m. from 1st January , 1993 . |
| 13 | Sabbatical leave , further training for teacher trainers themselves , and the buying in of linguistic expertise could only go part way in breaking the vicious circle . |
| 14 | The Mid-summer eve fires have been recorded by Frazer in ‘ The Golden Bough ’ across Europe from Ireland to Russia , from Norway to Greece , and even spreading in to Moslem North Africa . |
| 15 | We ate the fish and polished off some cider while we watched the bombers blasting Caen , the British guns along the Orne joining in for good measure . |
| 16 | The incident , trivial in itself , of 20 November 1946 , culminated three days later in a terrible bombardment of Haiphong which was a prelude to pitched battles in Tonkin between the Vietminh forces and the French ; and although the usually quoted figure of 6,000 Vietnamese dead in Haiphong may be too high , the ease with which casualties of this order could be inflicted , with a French cruiser joining in at close range , suggested misleadingly that when French forces were fully engaged it would be such a one-sided contest that the Vietminh would learn the appropriate lesson . |
| 17 | It was thought that Iraq had chosen to respond to the appeal from a friendly leader of the Non-aligned Movement , rather than be seen as giving in to Western pressure . |
| 18 | Israel hopes to extract the maximum from giving in to American pressure — applied by the withholding of aircraft identification codes — not to join in the war . |
| 19 | Other Administration figures had been calling for Bush to boycott the meeting , on the grounds that the US was coming in for excessive criticism . |
| 20 | Racecourse officials and race starter Capt Keith Brown could also face heavy fines after coming in for stiff criticism . |
| 21 | Aintree race course officials and National starter , Capt Keith Brown , could also face heavy fines after coming in for stiff criticism . |
| 22 | Once the Iraqis had pulled out , Kuwaiti vigilantes began combing the city for any Iraqi soldiers still hiding in the ruins and for anyone known or thought to have collaborated with the enemy , with Palestinians coming in for particular attention . |
| 23 | Courtaulds Aerospace hopes the UN order will lead to more business , and inquiries are also coming in from other news organisations . |
| 24 | Tufnell 's sixteenth over , there you 've just pushed it out and a number er Lewis coming in from backward point . |
| 25 | Homing in on fixed rate offers |
| 26 | Homing in on top job |
| 27 | Mr Salem said there was an enormous increase in French , Dutch and Spanish shoppers cashing in on favourable exchange rates . |
| 28 | Margaret Ewing ( SNP , Moray ) challenged the Leader of the Commons , Tony Newton , who was standing in at Prime Minister 's question time , to clear up the confusion after giving advance notice that she planned to raise the issue . |
| 29 | This was particularly so on the Sunday when , in scorching heat , Brazilian fans ‘ danced , sang , shouted and screamed hysterically for every point scored by their players and ever fault by Germany 's Markus Zoecke , standing in for heat-stroke victim Becker , in what proved to be the decisive fourth rubber . |
| 30 | Taking part were the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of the five states ( with Deputy Premier Claudio Martelli standing in for Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti ) ; observers attended from the European Commission , the World Bank , the European Investment Bank and the new European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |