Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [det] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What advantages or disadvantages are there in using this with students ? |
| 2 | He is currently engaged in editing all of Purcell 's court odes and welcome songs for the new Purcell Society edition . |
| 3 | Victorian culture , with its concentration on individual responsibility and the primacy of the family , had played the dominant role in shaping much of Nonconformity ; it was inevitable that in its turn Nonconformity should absorb much of that culture into its way of thinking . |
| 4 | There is but one objective — to find the cause of the accident — and all parties are equally interested in establishing that without distortion or national bias . |
| 5 | In essence , what has stood me in good stead all these years in broadcasting is spotting good people and waiting for them to come forward with what interests them ; what obsessions , what passions they have in translating those into programmes . |
| 6 | Twenty minutes later , after a diplomatic phone call , Shiona had succeeded in smoothing some of Henri 's ruffled feathers . |
| 7 | Respect for Animals hopes to take up where Lynx — successful in forcing half of Britain 's fur farmers out of business and making fur unfashionable — left off . |
| 8 | Because he did not wish to be ordained , his Fellowship at St John 's College , Cambridge , lapsed in 1852 ; but he was fortunate in getting another at Pembroke College , and then in 1858 was elected to the Lowndean Professorship of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge , which did not require that the holder should be a clergyman . |
| 9 | If you 're interested in buying any of Neil 's pieces , he gives the to charity shops to sell . |
| 10 | Inevitably less time could be spent by the researchers in doing this on behalf of the control samples ; though by the time of the second and third assessments , the circumstances of , and services received by both action and control sample members were well known both to researchers and development officers . |
| 11 | War was resumed , and the French now succeeded in reclaiming most of Aquitaine , leaving only Calais and a thin coastal strip under firm English control . |
| 12 | We are now producing our traditional ‘ Palatine Bitter ’ in large cans and 2-litre PET bottles suitable for the take-home trade , and our sales force has made encouraging progress in placing these on off-licence and supermarket shelves . |
| 13 | Also , it does not easily take into consideration key interests in housing such as absentee landlords letting as a business . |
| 14 | The processes involved in mapping these to relations are described more fully in Section 4.8 . |
| 15 | The experience of the GLC between 1981 and 1986 in putting this into practice is of great significance , not only in changing the role of economics and employment objectives within planning but also for its lessons about the nature and potential effectiveness of local economic policies . |
| 16 | Irwin succeeded in establishing his own , but not in destroying that of Gandhi , which acquired a greater effulgence every time — eight in all — he trudged down Lutyens ' great new processional way , opened with brilliant festivity just a week or so ago , carrying only a manila folder and his ever-present staff , to meet the lord of all the world that most of his fellow Indians knew . |