Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] in [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A laboratory study " " using the old ( Loomis ) classification of sleep stages allowed subjects lying In bed and getting to sleep to indicate when they were " drifting " or " floating " by squeezing a bulb . |
| 2 | I think we have something like a hundred and twenty nationalities living in Kuwait and enjoying the free school , the free hospital . |
| 3 | What we are seeing is not churchmen meddling in politics but following through the logic of their theology which Professor T. F. Torrance has dubbed ‘ a radical disjunction between faith and reason . ’ |
| 4 | A spokesman for the bank said it is to cut down on queues forming in branches and delaying service to its customers . |
| 5 | It is staffed by a dozen officers working in shifts but supposed eventually to have three times as many . |
| 6 | Gill Cutress and Rolf Stricker have made a career out of factory shops ever since Gill was made redundant there are , after all , probably only limited openings for zoologists specialising in ants and started to compile her own information . |
| 7 | School inspectors regularly say they are worried to see four-year-olds sitting at desks colouring in pictures or learning numbers , when they should be talking , exploring and imagining . |
| 8 | He turned to arms dealing in Africa and claimed , with some plausibility , to be an unofficial emissary of the French secret service . |
| 9 | In the Carboniferous swamps large trees with leaves , of the genus Cordaites grew to 30 or more metres in height , with long slim trunks terminating in branches that bore strap-shaped leaves up to a metre in length . |
| 10 | Out of the window Perdita could see children riding in pairs and dribbling balls in and out of soap boxes . |
| 11 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
| 12 | Hepworth , it seems , even resented foreign filmmakers operating in England and trying ‘ to poach upon the natural preserves of other lands . ’ |
| 13 | In a report to police committee members , Keith Hellawell praises the five schemes operating in Cleveland but recognises their financial problems . |
| 14 | If she then plays 3 rounds of Spades trumping in dummy and proceeds to knock out the Ace of Clubs , East can simply hold off to the third round and then lead a Diamond . |
| 15 | He also saw social antagonisms growing in Palestine and advised charity and justice . |
| 16 | The papingo shoot lasts for two hours with contestants shooting in rotation and taking as many shots each as the time limit allows . |
| 17 | He also emphasised in an article in the Financial Times the cost of politicians meddling in art and referred to President Bush 's ditching of John Frohnmayer , Chairman of the US National Endowment for the Arts . |