Example sentences of "[v-ing] in what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt no fear that either the militia or the rebels would molest him or his men , since all the troubles were occurring in what he thought of as the richer areas . |
| 2 | We had to placate them by appearing in what they thought was acceptable guise . |
| 3 | The bombs from the mortar are now exploding in what we believed to be German positions in the wooded area to our front . |
| 4 | By living in what their parents called sin , they nailed their colours to the mast of youth revolt , while enjoying the security and mutual support of old-fashioned matrimony . |
| 5 | In short , one way of understanding Burgess is that he is describing the moral careers of immigrants ; some successfully adapting and eventually living in what they and respectable Chicago society saw as the ‘ front regions ’ of the desirable suburbs . |
| 6 | Building on these basic premises , we constructed a conceptual framework which integrates the dual experience of disability and ageing in what we have termed the ‘ disability/ageing career ’ ( see Figure 1 ) . |
| 7 | Like a prison community , it is seen by respectable opinion as an area incapable of acting in what he calls ‘ an approved social manner ’ . |
| 8 | The Canadian position is that the board of directors , provided it is acting in what it considers to be the best interests of the company , must have the discretion to take defensive measures against an imminent take-over . |
| 9 | To him , the " checks and balances " of Natural Selection were only some of the forces operating in what he saw as the evolution of spirit or mind through matter . |
| 10 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 11 | Well when the hay was dry , th it was raked up it was all er When it was cut it was lying in what we called swathes , you see ? |
| 12 | She soaped all of him , delighting in his textures and curves , delighting in what her touch did to his body . |
| 13 | Therefore she said not one more word about her shitty father , but only listened , sharing in what she knew was a moment in his life he could never forget . |
| 14 | Sir Thomas said in a low voice , throbbing in what he hoped was emotion . |
| 15 | Had she merely stated that she did not wish to have a baby , she would have been considered failing in what she saw as her role in life . |
| 16 | With confused feelings , she smiled back , but she found herself staring in what she realised must seem a naïve display of stunned surprise . |
| 17 | Counter-intuitively , keeping imports low may boost France 's trade deficit in manufactures because it prevents French firms specialising in what they do best . |
| 18 | Once such a crude proto-lens is there , there is a continuously graded series of improvements , thickening it and making it more transparent and less distorting , the trend culminating in what we would all recognize as a true lens . |
| 19 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 20 | Biting in what she might have said , she stood , and strode over to the door . |
| 21 | He sat at his desk , reading reports but not taking in what he read . |
| 22 | you 're not taking in what he 's doing . |
| 23 | You soon sense if your audience is with you and taking in what you 're saying . |
| 24 | If we understand people as continually persisting in what we have earlier termed ‘ identity projects ’ it need come as no surprise to find increasingly affluent households necessarily consuming pastiche , the extraction of history out of context , and superficiality as a normal way of life . |
| 25 | ‘ Just putting in what you think , like in the old days . |
| 26 | It is n't very long Should n't be in there long just a matter of signing all the things , checking all the details over , putting in what he has n't filled in already . |
| 27 | He had never forgiven her for intruding in what he had seen as his family , his responsibility , the only inheritance his father had left him . |
| 28 | Her back was as straight as a ramrod , which made her feel a little more dignified while engaging in what she considered the unladylike art of cycling . |
| 29 | ‘ Nonsense , Saul ! ’ said Araminta , smiling in what she evidently felt to be a winning fashion . |
| 30 | Myself and Parco Polo seeks meaning in what it does to us , and it left me thinking that the late Italo Calvino has a lot to answer for . |