Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara felt slightly sick , but there was no point in wading deeper into the morass . |
| 2 | SCO says it decision was based primarily on Intel Corp 's reported success in catching up with the performance promised by the ACE environment , and that it will re-focus its Open Desktop Unix efforts on the forthcoming P5 80586 part . |
| 3 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 4 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
| 5 | There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well . |
| 6 | Does the Prime Minister recall my earlier concern that the parameters that he was instrumental in drawing up at the Rome summit , to separate an incipient European Community defence policy from NATO 's responsibilities for the defence of Europe , should be preserved ? |
| 7 | On that occasion we lost no time in speeding over to the courts , finding a judge , and obtaining an injunction almost at once . |
| 8 | Nonetheless he stands out as a prophetic beacon , a fresh and radical thinker whose radicalism did not lie in attempting a consciously ‘ modern reinterpretation ’ of Christian faith , but in struggling afresh with the heart of the matter , and charting out a very different course from those being recommended on all sides around him . |
| 9 | Two respondents indicated that all ordinands in their college have their singing voices assessed during their training , and then receive instruction as necessary , Others offer training in singing only at the request of the ordinand , or the tutor or parish placement supervisor . |
| 10 | Both focal and central places were important in the past and the concept is useful in explaining much in the landscape today . |
| 11 | This is very much in keeping moreover with the nature of comparative clauses , since , as has been seen in the discussion of need and dare , they contain an inherent non-assertiveness . |
| 12 | ‘ the whole object of the section is to assimilate the practice in winding up to the practice in bankruptcy , which was established in order to enable assignees , who are now called trustees , in bankruptcy to find out facts before they brought an action , so as to avoid incurring the expense of some hundreds of pounds in bringing an unsuccessful action , when they might , by examining a witness or two , have discovered at a trifling expense that an action could not succeed . |
| 13 | But Mr Davies , who leaves behind a lower paid £85,000 at the commission , conceded he would have little difficulty in signing up for the business priorities agreed by the CBI 's governing council for the incoming government . |
| 14 | He resolved that the occurrence could be sorted out in daylight and that there was no point in groping about in the dark . |
| 15 | But COS influence was at its most profound in passing on to the service the principle of casework , for this embodied a number of middle-class assumptions about individualism , character , and family responsibilities . |
| 16 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 17 | Clinging onto things , breathing little , inching a slow way forwards , I achieved again a sort of numbness to my basic state and in looking upwards to the stars at every pause felt lighter and more disembodied than before . |
| 18 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |
| 19 | In looking back at the department 's achievements , one has to accept that reorganisation which Judy and Simon have already referred to , has because of its sheer scale and impact on N C V O been something of an abiding preoccupation over the past twelve to eighteen months . |
| 20 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 21 | Several schools commented on the importance of involving the whole school in living up to the agreed health policy . |
| 22 | It is best in such cases to set out the contra agreement in writing right at the outset . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) If the Company shall within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares concerned and shall give notice in writing thereof to the Proposing Transferor , he shall be bound , upon payment of the Prescribed Price , to transfer such Shares to the respective Purchasers thereof . |
| 24 | ( 4 ) If the Company shall within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares concerned and shall give notice in writing thereof to the Proposing Transferor , he shall be bound , upon payment of the Prescribed Price , to transfer such Shares to the respective Purchasers thereof . |
| 25 | They should have been brought back to see what they do in saving more for the government , and all the extra work they 've caused . |
| 26 | No point in turning up at the school if young Nick was n't going to be there . |
| 27 | The majority of socialists agreed with the Communist Party in turning away from the abstentionist logic embraced by the ILP . |
| 28 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
| 29 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
| 30 | In going ahead with the book , he ignored warnings that he would be seen as a traitor to the industry and could become the most hated man in Hollywood . |