Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [pron] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historical research has thus proved more successful in demolishing old myths and theories about the relationship between crime and social change than it has in replacing them with sustainable generalizations . |
| 2 | The Padre had wasted no time in equipping himself with fresh and healthy bearers and now had himself carried with exhilarating swiftness in a litter to where the Collector was standing with the General . |
| 3 | At first he took an exuberant delight in the books and in embellishing them with fantastic quasi-scientific detail , for , after the slapstick of his first book with its visit to the comic African court of the Jolliginki where the black Prince Bumpo yearns to be white , the tone is increasingly sophisticated and inventive . |
| 4 | There was perhaps a better chance of enlisting the reader 's belief in Ayesha in involving her with that most believable hero , Allan Quatermain . |
| 5 | But two things have happened : schools must now be uncertain in comparing themselves with each other because the Education ( Schools ) Act 1992 has created dilemmas about the mediation of inspectors ' and advisers ' reports . |
| 6 | Originally rivals , they have succeeded in identifying themselves with one another by means of a love for the same object . |
| 7 | I will therefore follow Althusser 's associate , Etienne Balibar — who gives the clearest and fullest exposition of this idea — in discussing it with this sort of example in mind . |