Example sentences of "in [noun] of [v-ing] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this means that the reader who approaches the Bible in a purely detached way is in danger of failing to appreciate its primary purpose , which is a practical , dynamic one . |
| 2 | In spite of trying to help them on the voyage , Margery was left alone at Dover . |
| 3 | In spite of having sponged herself down in cold water to close the pores , and liberally applied powdered chalk to absorb the perspiration , she could feel the rivulets of sweat running down her back and the insides of her thighs . |
| 4 | Ruth Baird , in spite of having broken her leg in March , walked 100 miles in the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa during September , and in July , Muriel Jessop , with her husband Bill , completed a 150–mile circuit of Mont Blanc in ten days . |
| 5 | When colleges of education in the 1960s were clamouring to employ Brian Way as their external examiner and his children 's theatre companies were a household name throughout the country 's education authorities , Dorothy Heathcote was relatively unknown in spite of having held her university post since the early 1950s . |
| 6 | Bearing in mind the broadly similar repayment period , he might also be surprised that a £1.40 weekly instalment ( over 25 weeks ) carried a rate over three times as high as a £1.50 one ( over 21 weeks ) in spite of seeming to save him 10p every week . |
| 7 | From the teaching point of view , it is worth noting that Thomas is not under the pressure that children normally face in school of having to get their first thoughts down on paper in a finished , final form . |