Example sentences of "in [noun] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | which can be thought of as a temporary , unexpected rise or fall in income ( for example , an unexpected increase in income resulting from a win at the races , or a temporary fall in income resulting from a short period of unemployment ) . |
| 2 | which can be thought of as a temporary , unexpected rise or fall in income ( for example , an unexpected increase in income resulting from a win at the races , or a temporary fall in income resulting from a short period of unemployment ) . |
| 3 | It was the NSF 's statistics that led President Carter 's administration to feed more funds to basic science , though it is doubtful whether the numbers help in decision making at a more detailed level — whether to increase or cut a laboratory 's budget , for example . |
| 4 | Agencies need to be aware that the European Court of Human Rights , in finding the United Kingdom Government to be in breach of articles six and eight of the European convention of Human Rights in recent child care cases , cited failure to involve the parents in decision making as a factor in their judgements . ’ |
| 5 | As Sam Somerville took off from Heathrow , Dr Barnard was sitting in his laboratory in Fulham staring at a small collection of pieces of debris spread on a crisp white sheet of paper across a table-top . |
| 6 | He estimates that an executive sous-chef working in a top London restaurant or hotel would be earning between £25,000 and £27,000 , whereas a head chef in contract catering at a director 's dining room , for example , would be doing very well to earn £20,000 . |
| 7 | Paul has over twenty years experience in contract carpeting including a number of years as an Interior Designer and five years with Peachgate , one of London 's largest carpet contractors . |
| 8 | Colonic washout induced mechanical removal of intraluminal 5-ASA with a secondary disturbance in absorption resulting in a rapid decline in the serum concentrations . |
| 9 | Sterling lost ground against a buoyant German mark as dealers took fright at the prospect of a fall in exports leading to a widening of the current account deficit last month . |
| 10 | Faced with such evidence , supermarkets are clamouring for information to label their goods ’ environmentally sound ’ , and there is an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling for a ’ chlorine free ’ paper industry ( Sweden already makes 95% of its soft paper without the aid of chlorine ) . |
| 11 | These seem to have the curious property that , although they can move fairly freely within a hadron , it appears to be impossible to obtain just one quark on its own ; they always come either in groups of three ( like the proton or neutron ) or in pairs consisting of a quark and antiquark ( like the pi meson ) . |
| 12 | Anne was shaken awake by the dreadful news that Eileen 's husband had been killed when his aircraft crashed in flames returning from a bombing raid . |
| 13 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
| 14 | * The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has launched a report in Brussels calling for a radical overhaul of the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 15 | ( 1 ) If there is a residence order in force relating to a child and the " residential parent " agrees to the provision of accommodation , anyone else with parental responsibility is powerless to object and can not remove the child . |
| 16 | In 1811 he won the competition for a complex of buildings in Plymouth consisting of a hotel , assembly rooms , and theatre ; and , his success with this important commission establishing his local reputation , he moved to Plymouth and remained for twenty-five years the leading architect of the neighbourhood . |
| 17 | Furthermore , should the level of perception of a toxic substance be lower than its TLV , then the odour is in effect acting as a warning to the workforce . |
| 18 | Joanne specialises in town and country planning and is currently involved in work relating to a major development in the town centre . |
| 19 | I was working in Burnley putting in a big textile plant in . |
| 20 | A person domiciled in a part of the United Kingdom may , in another part of the United Kingdom , be sued : ( 1 ) in matters relating to a contract , in the courts for the place of performance of the obligation in question ; … ( 3 ) in matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict , in the courts for the place where the harmful event occurred or in the case of a threatened wrong is likely to occur ; … ( 8 ) in proceedings — ( a ) concerning a debt secured on immovable property ; or ( b ) which are brought to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property , in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which the property is situated . |
| 21 | The decision on this paragraph turns on the proper construction of the crucial words ‘ in matters relating to a contract , ’ it not being disputed that the place of performance of the obligation in question ( if it exists ) was England . |
| 22 | ‘ Are proceedings relating to the wrongful repudiation of an ( independent ) commercial agency agreement and the payment of commission due under such an agreement proceedings in matters relating to a contract within the meaning of article 5(1) of the Brussels Convention of 27 September 1968 ? |
| 23 | The House of Lords having held that the swap transactions were void ab initio , the suggestion that the restitutionary claims in these actions are in matters relating to a contract seems to me to be placing a very severe strain indeed on the language of article 5(1) . |
| 24 | This is a tragedy , for biblical hermeneutics concerns the problems facing any ordinary person who wants to find meaning in texts coming from a remote past , and to understand in what sense they can be ‘ the Word of God ’ . |
| 25 | Marjorie was already in England convalescing after a serious operation . |
| 26 | There were two wounds , one abdominal and one perineal with a tube drain in place draining into a bag . |
| 27 | But he missed out because he had been in Copenhagen trying for a place in the Olympic team . |
| 28 | They have spent the morning in classrooms working through a command post exercise ; they practise passing information and responding to the numerous and varied problems that would be posed in a real headquarters . |
| 29 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 30 | In the case of processes , the division between those that make up the longue durée and those that belong to the sphere of conjonctures is bound to be rough ; there is no absolute division between a gradual increase in population lasting for a century and a cycle of growth and decline lasting a mere seventy-five years , a fact reflected in the organisation of La Méditerranée . |