Example sentences of "of [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It draws attention to the centrality of preaching in the New Testament . |
| 2 | Nessie had the pig bucket in her hand when she heard the noise of singing in the early evening air . |
| 3 | She was feeling rather sick at the thought of drowning in the creeping , sucking mess . |
| 4 | Yet the confused young woman that was the real Diana was in grave danger of drowning in the tidal wave of change which had turned her world upside-down . |
| 5 | This distribution , as Map 4 shows , extended an existing regional concentration of minting in the north-eastern part of Charles 's kingdom . |
| 6 | The emphasis on LAN Manager as its primary networking facility ignores the state of networking in the real world . |
| 7 | We will return to this problem of spacing in the following section , with a more extended discussion on consonance and dissonance . |
| 8 | They reminded her of last night , and the feeling of walking in the moonless night with her own arm intertwined with Miguelito 's . |
| 9 | We have read the various articles which have appeared in the Press over the last few days which accuse us of cheating in the recent Test series against England . |
| 10 | I experienced the problem about five years ago , when I had a bout of wheezing in the late summer . |
| 11 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 12 | He was entranced by all that he thought it meant , the warm curve of young lips , the gentle gleam of understanding in the steady eyes . |
| 13 | Recently it has been shown that Raman spectra may be obtained from a wide variety of samples using a combination of an interferometer capable of operating in the near-IR region and a near-IR laser . |
| 14 | The dependence/independence continuum in the model of living serves as a reminder that all people experience change of dependence/independence status for the Activities of Living in the normal course of the lifespan . |
| 15 | On one hand the public demands ever more complex and advanced technology while at the same time mistrusting and denigrating the scientific/technological base that helps to produce today 's high standard of living in the developed world . |
| 16 | His prescriptions for a ‘ dignified and durable tourism ’ were : first , to limit the number of visitors and levy a $150–200 fee that would go directly into a conservation fund ; second , include conservation awareness as part of the visit ; third , improve the existing facilities rather than build new ; and fourth , work to improve the standard of living in the adjacent city of Siem Reap . |
| 17 | This argument was later extended with respect to the experience of living in the modern metropolis , which Simmel suggests provides for a massive intensification of stimulation and experience , but which threatens to overwhelm us as objective culture ( 1950 : 409–24 ) . |
| 18 | The distinctive feature of man 's mode of living in the modern age is his concentration into gigantic aggregations around which cluster lower centres and from which radiate the ideas and practices that we call civilization . |
| 19 | In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ? |
| 20 | As to GATT , a trade war between America and Europe would be bad for people 's stand of living in the long run but it would n't have much direct effect on Courtaulds . |
| 21 | Yet villagers continued to flock in searching for work , lured by often misplaced hopes , discontented with their inability to secure a decent standard of living in the rural areas , or driven out by the impossibility of securing any living at all . |
| 22 | Under this heading the commitment to reduce disparities between the standards of living in the various countries and regions of the Community was given greater emphasis . |
| 23 | He could have boasted to world leaders of the model communist state he and his comrades have created , now widely recognised in the world , with happy contented people enjoying the highest standard of living in the Eastern bloc . |
| 24 | It produces the archetypal image of the Christian , afraid of life , always trying to climb back into the Garden of Eden , by creating a world of fantasy if necessary to inhabit at the expense of living in the real world . |
| 25 | Excluded from the political process in their newly adopted lands , where they were not allowed to vote , and anxious to ensure a higher standard of living in the New World than they had enjoyed at home , they were instrumental in the creation of early workers ' organisations and political parties in Latin America . |
| 26 | The Bowie findings were by no means conclusive , but they were yet another sign of the hidden dangers of living in the nuclear shadow . |
| 27 | By 1911 , Umberto Boccioni who was dead by 1916 , was grappling with the emotions of modern life ; the impact and anxieties of living in the stroboscopic uncertainties of a mechanised urban environment . |
| 28 | Such investigations indicate clearly and forcefully that poverty is still very much with us , and that any complacency about rising standards of living in the post-war period inevitably banishing poverty must be quickly dismissed . |
| 29 | over and above the cost of living in the past 12 years . |
| 30 | The problem of living in the big stone-built Manor House on the edge of the village , with the trees shielding it from the road , and the drive . |