Example sentences of "of [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It draws attention to the centrality of preaching in the New Testament . |
| 2 | Yellow-like in colour it sort of floated in the air . |
| 3 | The latter occurs as a trick used to fool the natives in Stevenson 's ‘ The Beach of Falesá ’ , where ‘ the sound of singing in the wind ’ caused by an Aeolian harp is mistaken for spirit voices near a mock-temple of imitation gods , ‘ idols or scarecrows , or what not ’ . |
| 4 | Nessie had the pig bucket in her hand when she heard the noise of singing in the early evening air . |
| 5 | Lee realized that there was no longer a sound of singing in the bar and when she looked up saw ‘ Patricia ’ staring down at her . |
| 6 | I think what really happened then [ the third time ] there was a sort of crackling in the noises as if someone was falling down . |
| 7 | Furious at the strong wave of protectiveness that washed over him , despite all his suspicions , Guy bit out a curse that , in normal circumstances , he would n't have dreamed of using in the hearing of a woman . |
| 8 | There are two reasons for this : first , it provides a complete and convincing display of the art of drawing in the second half of the fifteenth century , with outstanding exhibits lent by major collections worldwide . |
| 9 | From Vitebsk it was heard that a railway-wagon workshop meeting convened on 30 March with the aim of helping in the requisition of church valuables broke up because of the ‘ thunderous outcries of believers ’ . |
| 10 | Jobs will be found in Harrogate as elsewhere , and if we 're thinking of lumping in the B one office use and the other B uses in with the manufacturing , I think it 's fair to say that office uses are going to be far denser in terms of number of jobs per hectare than manufacturing , and therefore the allocations may not seem to be as great as otherwise might have been demanded . |
| 11 | FORMER Tory party chairman Norman Tebbit last night highlighted the problem of ramraiding in the North-East . |
| 12 | He came across as a weak , indecisive leader wracked by doubt and in danger of drowning in the complexities of the problems that faced him . |
| 13 | Yet the confused young woman that was the real Diana was in grave danger of drowning in the tidal wave of change which had turned her world upside-down . |
| 14 | She was feeling rather sick at the thought of drowning in the creeping , sucking mess . |
| 15 | Perhaps it is the beauty of the surroundings , the tradition of stepping in the shoes of countless generations of faithful people . |
| 16 | The defeat of Flown in the Smurfit Champion Hurdle proved costly for many punters . |
| 17 | Each pattern proclaims that it has the solution instead of collaborating in the search . |
| 18 | He was apparently found to be running a temperature , but after a long season of competing in the best company , he may be past his best . |
| 19 | Well he , he , they were on their way to Norwich but they stopped off at Ipswich for a lunch , you see , and er I had , I looked after them , so , so that it should n't interrupt the other girls behind the counter or , or the waiter who was looking after his regular customers in the dining room , you see , er and so I used to erm and once I had I remember there was six black doctors came in and er and I was glad because it was nice to move about and instead of sticking in the office typing and then going out all alone , you see , while the Manager was on the district , you see , I liked it and er anyway that was a long time ago . |
| 20 | And , you know , lots of thumping in the hallways and stuff . |
| 21 | Davies uses data from a comparative study of the development of nursing in the UK and the USA to consider the historical experience of the different societies and its implications for hospital and community practice . |
| 22 | It might be claimed that studying routine policing in Northern Ireland avoids the real issue of policing in the province and that attention ought to be addressed to those sections of the RUC which are responsible for what Turk ( 1982 ) calls ‘ political policing ’ and Brodeur ( 1983 ) ‘ high policing ’ , such as the Special Branch , the mobile support units , which are in effect riot police , or the various surveillance units like E4A . |
| 23 | The conceptualizations of police work that are found in Easton not only fit what is known of police forces elsewhere , they parallel the portrayal of policing in the wider culture . |
| 24 | Community policing was once the normal form of policing in the United Kingdom , but the increasingly bureaucratic and professional nature of policing unintentionally yet progressively separated the police from the community , leading to more anonymous and impersonal contacts between them ( see Ericson 1982 : 24 ) . |
| 25 | The societal divisions and problems of relations between the police and the community which this style of policing is called upon to ameliorate in Northern Ireland are more severe than is normally the case , which makes the RUC 's implementation and operation of community policing of special interest and previous neglect of this aspect of policing in the province a significant oversight . |
| 26 | Mr Broady recounted the growth and development of policing in the area and showed many interesting slides , some dating from the earliest days of photography . |
| 27 | Erm certainly a lot of meetings in the early days , focused on the level of policing in the flats . |
| 28 | Or as tenants saw it , the lack of policing in the flats . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received from Cumbria county council on the question of policing in the county . |
| 30 | The research showed that while there is a great similarity in routine policing in Northern Ireland and more socially integrated societies , despite the common sense image of policing in the province , routine policing is affected by Northern Ireland 's social and communal division . |