Example sentences of "of [v-ing] in [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This project thus aims to fill an important gap by providing the first comprehensive study of policing in Ireland from the 1830s to the 1920s . |
| 2 | ‘ The strain of living in Matlock during the week and returning home to Darlington at weekends was , in retrospect , building up almost imperceptibly , ’ he wrote . |
| 3 | It is a stance which has been nurtured by several things , family bereavement and an intelligent , contemplative nature amongst them , but was perhaps most impelled by the experience of coaching in Bangladesh in the winter of 1989–90 . |
| 4 | The invention of printing in Europe in the sixteenth century soon brought with it a number of books offering dream-interpretations for ordinary people . |
| 5 | This is a sad opportunity missed not to discuss the background to the production of the books listed in Mr Jentsch 's catalogue : the tradition of printing in Italy from the earliest printed books through to Bodoni and on to Mardersteig in the present century , and the vital role played by the publisher in the production of any limited edition artist 's book . |
| 6 | As chairman of housing in Lambeth in the early 1970s , he was every inch the small-minded functionary . |
| 7 | I wish to give notice that , because of the Minister 's disgracefully complacent answers , I intend to raise the crisis of housing in Wales on the Adjournment . |
| 8 | Despite an intensification of fighting in Kashmir in the first half of 1990 talks with India continued , with the fourth round completed in April 1991 . |
| 9 | Second is that by ordering ahead of conventionally-defined need , the CEGB is comparing the economics of investing in Sizewell with the economics of doing nothing , that is maintaining old plant . |
| 10 | In addition to illustrating the strength of feeling in Quebec in the aftermath of Meech Lake , the by-election also suggested that the new federal group was capable of eclipsing the Parti Québecois — which held seats in the Quebec Legislative Assembly — as the vehicle for resurgent Quebec separatism . |