Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part leading to such research , in part stemming from it , radical changes in the public attitude towards such matters have taken place in the last quarter-century . |
| 2 | While just under one in five ( 17 per cent ) of all persons in Great Britain are over pension age , they comprise more than one in four of those living on incomes on or below the social assistance level ( supplementary benefit between 1966 and 1988 and income support thereafter ) , and one in three of those living in poverty according to this definition or on the margins of poverty ( i.e. with incomes of up to 40 per cent above the appropriate social assistance rates ) . |
| 3 | Population decline has been halted in many areas since the mid-1960s to its present level of 346,000 , with employment in manufacturing trebling in this period and total employment growing by one-half ( Shucksmith and Lloyd 1982 ) . |
| 4 | In 1867 , whilst excavating in the ancient theatre at Ephesus , he found an inscription in Greek referring to some gold and silver statuettes , which , on festive days , were carried from the temple to the theatre by way of the Magnesian Gate . |
| 5 | Although the reduction in coca growing in this part of Bolivia has been significant , drug dealers in the Andes have the same easy access to coca today as they had five years ago . |
| 6 | In 1969 , a number of contributors to " history " had proposed the use of local documentary sources as a remedy for the perceived " crisis " in history teaching at this time . |
| 7 | I take it that the proceedings so far are conjecture — that the two of them are not in fact gazing into each other 's eyes — that Serafin is not waiting for Summerchild to supply an answer to her question . |
| 8 | One of his central points is that it is the already employed and relatively well-off households who are in fact engaging in such self-servicing . |