Example sentences of "in [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I joined him in gazing at the large red lump forming just below the joint and we mused together . |
| 2 | Leon sucked his way carefully round his host 's person and joined him in gazing at the red plastic blob . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By the time of the committee 's first meeting on March 5 controversy had mounted further still as allegations were made that " names " working inside Lloyd 's had an unfair advantage in trading at the insurance market . |
| 5 | If , on the other hand , there are readers who are more interested in laughing at the past than in understanding it ; if they find disease and human suffering good for a giggle as well ; if they think that a sort of free association of ideas is a good substitute for historical explanation ; and if they are unperturbed by gross defects of style and grammar , then they will enjoy Andrew Nikiforuk 's The Fourth Horseman : A Short History of Epidemics , Plagues and Other Scourges . |
| 6 | It seems that the church could perhaps take a lead in looking at the implications of suicide , and at possible ways of providing services to try and prevent it . |
| 7 | In looking at the size of endowments for these houses it is important to recognize the wider benefits that are secured . |
| 8 | What worried me in looking at the Franks Report is that it was the same group of ministers on the same committee that were dealing with the big issues of war and peace in Middle Europe , with the procurement of nuclear weapons systems . |
| 9 | In looking at the first of these it must be recognized that no map , however detailed or carefully compiled , can perfectly represent the ‘ ground truth ’ , while in the second instance , the digitizing process merely serves to compound the errors present in the original map ( Poiker 1982 ; Blakemore 1984 ) . |
| 10 | This involves students in the examination of conflicts between and within societies , and draws on the insights of political scientists , historians , social scientists and philosophers in looking at the origin and nature of such conflicts and the means of resolving them . |
| 11 | Too often time on site is absorbed in dealing with contractor 's queries rather than in looking at the work . |
| 12 | In looking at the child as a whole person , the involvement of the child 's parents is essential . |
| 13 | But first , in looking at the history of classical principles in the previous chapters I have left loose ends untied and contradictions unresolved . |
| 14 | In looking at the industries in which black workers work , we are only examining the kind of work they do — what industry they are employed in . |
| 15 | This argument is partly illustrated by Becher ( 1981 ) who , in looking at the ‘ cultures ’ of various disciplines , found that academics showed a remarkable intolerance of each other 's disciplines . |
| 16 | The two essential parts in looking at the adequacy of the diet are : |
| 17 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 18 | Maxfield ( 1987 ) in looking at the fear of crime , found that this profoundly affected a minority of people 's lives . |
| 19 | Nonetheless the key to understanding this formalist revolution might lie in looking at the content of proto- and early modernist works . |
| 20 | In looking at the services to be provided , it is recognised that some duties require a more responsible level of staff than others . |
| 21 | In looking at the way in which schools and colleges were managed after the 1988 Act , the Commission pointed out that LEAs would have a less directive role but would still have to monitor the services of schools and colleges . |
| 22 | For example , in looking at the way in which primary-school teachers respond to new ideas in environmental study and mathematics , Briault and West ( 1990:20 ) pointed out that teachers came to understand environmental studies more fully by engaging in such work [ i.e. action learning ] , became more confident about investigative approaches in mathematics by undertaking problem-solving activities in a supportive , non-threatening climate . |
| 23 | It has also helped in looking at the functions of the business in outline . |
| 24 | I think environmental discount and environmental considerations are factors which we 'll come back to in in looking at the migration rates , so you 're going to have another shot at this one . |
| 25 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 26 | Researchers within the tradition of accommodation theory have been most active in looking at the detail of " monolingual " interactions in an attempt to see exactly what it is that speakers are doing . |
| 27 | Indeed , in looking at the structuring in a different guise , we have got erm , something less than seven percent of total costs , that relate to erm , indirect management and administrative costs . |
| 28 | I would say that it 's a general applicability and it er governs the erm size that one should have regard to potentially in looking at the matter from the local plan point of view . |
| 29 | I notice from the erm County Council 's own er document for today that they remind us that the Panel in looking at the present structure plan in nineteen eighty erm considered whether the county 's wish at that time to have this broad erm kind of sweeping up policy was appropriate . |
| 30 | In looking at the process of database creation , the value of databases in the school library will be seen to extend beyond immediate access to specific information . |