Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He snatched up the worm-cake and bit into it , forcing the bitter chocolate past the awful gagging in his throat . |
| 2 | He also understood what few canvassers of the more earnest sort admit , even to themselves : that canvassing in a parliamentary election is not supposed to change electors ' minds . |
| 3 | The Local Government Act 1972 specifically states that the only business which can be transacted is that appearing in the summons convening the meeting . |
| 4 | There may be neurological involvement similar to that occurring in adult acquired syphilis , but the onset is , of course , at a much younger age . |
| 5 | But there is no hope of that occurring in the foreseeable future . |
| 6 | Mocking laughing in this position is truly shocking . |
| 7 | It carries more textual meaning than an adverbial occurring in the same position . |
| 8 | Only two appeared in more than one newspaper — each appearing in both the Sun and the Star . |
| 9 | Of course , making an unauthorized copy of an Esperanto– English dictionary would infringe copyright , if only that subsisting in the typographical arrangement . |
| 10 | To do this , we need to extend the list of treatments to give C , N , P , K , NP , NK , PK , NPK all eight appearing in each block ( assuming there is no confounding ) . |
| 11 | Another possibility is that the timescale represents recurrence in a physical limit-cycle , for example unstable flaring in a pair-plasma . |
| 12 | Oh yes , I could do that , thought Grainne , sleepless and still half drowning in the warmth and the sweetness . |
| 13 | Mr McGill repairs a window to make it safe , paints the air raid shelter door , does some concreting in the garden . |
| 14 | Otherwise there 's going to be chaos there if they do n't stop now and look within themselves instead of all of this interfering in other countries which they 've done in the past . |
| 15 | He notes that , although nearby supernovae are somewhat rare , an event such as this occurring in 4 BC would make a lot of statistical sense . |
| 16 | There seems little likelihood of this occurring in the case of executive directors , at least unless the risk of liability were to increase massively , but a reduction in the supply of more modestly remunerated non-executives is not implausible . |
| 17 | If what Jespersen suggests were true , however , one might expect to show some tendency to be dropped in the uses where it is " meaningless " and there is no sign of this occurring in any of the functions listed either by Buyssens or by Jespersen . |
| 18 | Action has been taken to prevent this occurring in the future . |
| 19 | The duties of a Resident , Temple asseverated , were such as to give ‘ opportunities for the exertion of any degree of administrative capacity , tact , and industry ’ , and , amplifying : ‘ It may readily be supposed that this keeping in touch with the people without impairing the authority of the Emir and consequently of the whole native administration , is no easy task , and one on which any amount of administrative tact and ability can be exerted . ’ |
| 20 | No that thing waterproof walking in lake , wahey |
| 21 | After some searching in the entrails of the massive wall , they located an insulated , though hot , hatch — and undogged it . |
| 22 | Old stopcocks were not made to a standard size and it may take some searching in plumbers ’ merchants to find something that will enable you to connect new copper pipe . |
| 23 | They are linked into this patterning in different ways , according to their own inward subtle or ‘ mental ’ structure . |
| 24 | According to him , there were some 800 men living on the island at that time which would suggest a total island population of around three thousand , approximately half living in Funchal . |
| 25 | In spite of some grumbling in London , the loan was a triumphant success , bringing in £112,000 . |
| 26 | And if you if you compare those diagonal markings with the sorts of markings on on er some of these other stones , these these are a bit diagonal but if you look carefully they go there 're some going in that direction and some are going that direction . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll come and do some measuring in the morning if that suits , ’ she said . |
| 28 | I mean poor dogs and this , I mean we 've said it all before it 's not viable , four dogs and a semi that you do n't exercise , four dogs that er appear particularly one of them to be housed in the same little area , day in day out with a curtain on the door , so that there 's not even light going in there |
| 29 | On trying to get this going in Hartlepool the other week they attracted about six men . |
| 30 | And how turbid … it then sort of goes through this darkening in turbidity . |