Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leon sucked his way carefully round his host 's person and joined him in gazing at the red plastic blob . |
| 2 | I joined him in gazing at the large red lump forming just below the joint and we mused together . |
| 3 | So , I 'm sure members of this Committee have heard this on several occasions as we 've introduced the system , but we have had to put in a fairly complex and detailed system of assessing people 's needs , producing care packages to meet those needs , offering choice to those people , and responding to that choice , then doing what the D S S used to do , I E , a financial assessment of their ability to meet the costs of that care , and settling our contribution , and we 're involved therefore in contracting with the independent sector for purchase of that care , and with the collection of contributions from those individuals , with increasing numbers and increasing complexity . |
| 4 | Ash had never met Miss LaMotte , who indeed came out exceptionally to please me and to speak of her dear Father , whose Mythologies I have had some hand in bringing before the English public . |
| 5 | In reflecting on the varying complementarities of verse and prose in Shakespeare , then , we might ponder over van Gennep 's analysis of what he called ‘ the pivoting of the sacred ’ . |
| 6 | In reflecting on the cultural change that has come about in Edinburgh and beyond , the professor voices concerns which sound remarkably like those of Pat Kane , not noted for his establishment views . |
| 7 | In practice , this does not happen but the rationale for this policy in the context of trading funds is that , in competing with the private sector , the Treasury argues that the fund should be required to make charges that at least cover a normal commercial return on capital . |
| 8 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |
| 9 | They had their tea together , and Clare delighted in eating from the same plate as Tess . |
| 10 | Instead of the usual exercise in preaching to the converted , UKCMG members — real users rather than computer industry staff — brought with them a wealth of scepticism and experience to Thursday 's open systems stream that was both refreshing and alarming . |
| 11 | Hold down Alt and tap M once for each 0.5″ reduction in insetting from the left margin |
| 12 | The major difference between these two forms is that CPM assumes that the time required to complete an activity can be predicted fairly accurately , and thus the costs involved can be quantified once the critical path has been identified , whereas PERT assumes that time has to be estimated in drawing up the critical path . |
| 13 | He advanced money , in ever-growing sums , especially during the second and third Anglo-Dutch wars ; and showed great skill in securing repayment , in discounting operations , and in profiting from the high rates of interest which the government had to pay for ready cash . |
| 14 | These meetings are Making the most of the seventy fifth in shops , Involving young people in singing for the seventy fifth , Branches sharing fund raising ideas for the seventy fifth and Small World Theatre extracts from Moving , a play on the theme of refugees . |
| 15 | Attempting to get to grips with all the developments in nursing over the past five years is meat enough for any expert , and you will not be regarded as letting the side down just because you are not familiar with all the latest terminology or research in your clinical specialty . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most important and far-reaching change in nursing in the past ten years has been the wholesale move away from the subservient , passive role of the nurse who was accountable to doctors for any treatments she undertook , and to nursing supervisors for standards of personal conduct and discipline . |
| 17 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 18 | An example of this procedure is the Declaration on border controls and immigration which Britain succeeded in appending to the Single European Act . |
| 19 | The difficulty lay both in defining the ‘ upper ’ and ‘ lower ’ limits of the stratum within the hierarchy of social status , and in allowing for the marked heterogeneity of its membership within those limits : there was always , at least , an accepted internal stratification into grande moyenne and petite bourgeoisie , the latter shading off into strata which would be de facto outside the class . |
| 20 | Her heart cramped now as she thought of her husband 's folly in plumping for the easy money , as it had seemed , after three bad harvests — his airy promise to come home soon — his failure to return after his regiment had been disbanded in Madras and left to make its own way back round half the world . |
| 21 | Given that change in circumstances , we , it was felt that it would be prudent to propose to members a change to the actual statement which was in place , so that it would permit consideration of longer term borrowing , in particular circumstances and where it 's in the interest of the authority , and have the flexibility to do so , in relating to the prudent managements of its affairs , Chairman . |
| 22 | Being in London , he could exploit both the court and the merchant community as patrons , and would have been exposed to the new developments in surveying in the published works of Leonard and Thomas Digges [ qq.v. ] and others . |
| 23 | Difficulties sometimes arise when one of the parties refuses to join the other party in applying to the designated appointing authority to appoint an expert . |
| 24 | Kim obtained experience in his formative years in cooperating with the Chinese and with the Russians ; it is relevant to note he had no experience of working with the communists in Korea . |
| 25 | Four monologues begin at once , with the pace of the argument and the gaps in understanding between the four participants shown by the pregnant , rushing rows of dots . |
| 26 | On July 15 the Iranian Foreign Ministry protested about the action of some 230 United Kingdom members of parliament ( MPs ) in signing on the previous day a statement supporting the exiled National Council of Resistance , which was dominated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq . |
| 27 | The links that have developed in networking with the many voluntary groups that operate in the areas and the recognition of the individuals right to self-esteem and to develop an expertise in relation to living and functioning in their many roles , has changed my way of working with people — probably forever . |
| 28 | In returning to the old imagery of the prince as the bearer of the sword , the reformers had in fact triggered off an important set of associations . |
| 29 | The loss of reformist energy on the domestic front was another potential problem ( as de Gaulle seemed to acknowledge in returning to the old theme of participation in 1966 – 67 ) . |
| 30 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |