Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] in [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You avoid the airport crushes and delays and the interminable transfers driving need take no longer than flying in many cases . |
| 2 | The reason for chlamydia 's comparatively late arrival on the microbiological scene is that , although behaving in many ways like a virus , it is in fact a highly specialized and adapted bacterium . |
| 3 | However , they have consistently opted to eke out a living by temporary migration and wage labour rather than leaving in such numbers so as to exceed natural population growth , and thereby ease the pressure . |
| 4 | It sounded better than burning in those fires of hell that Mrs Parvis once mentioned . |
| 5 | Similarly no one who has attended the Yeats Summer School in Sligo will deny that the seminars and lectures are less profitable than driving to Glencar , or Gort , and walking in those places , or wandering in the demesne of Lissadell and under the shoulder of Ben Bulben . |
| 6 | Communicating in more than one language and trading in several currencies is a way of life in much of Europe , so many of our Community partners are already comparatively experienced in trading across international boundaries . |
| 7 | A multilingual thesaurus is one which can be used to support indexing and searching in several languages . |
| 8 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |
| 9 | He spent some time climbing about and peering in all directions . |
| 10 | There are few physical symptoms that can be observed , apart from vomiting , fainting and sweating in some cases . |
| 11 | After all , the planning policies of the earlier postwar period were explicitly designed to reduce congestion and overcrowding in these areas by decanting lower-paid people to the New Towns and redeveloping the inner areas at lower density . |
| 12 | It is at the forefront of research and teaching in many disciplines and has formed close links with industry and commerce locally , nationally and internationally , whilst , at the same time , providing a caring and supportive environment in which students and staff can develop their abilities to the full . |
| 13 | And it was a you know it was a great happiness and release to shed a million other activities and flying in all directions thinking the acting was n't enough and I was n't enough for acting . |
| 14 | I 've been doin' all sorts of jobs since then , and livin' in all sorts of lodgings , and now I 've been chucked out of me last place because I did n't 'ave any job or any money . |
| 15 | In the instances reported in this chapter , the high-performance strategy was introduced to existing plants which retained , at least in part , traditional methods of working and managing in some areas , and are thus qualitatively different from new design plants , in Lawler 's terminology . |
| 16 | The same argument applies if output has been increased only through the work-force taking fewer hours of leisure and putting in more hours of work . |
| 17 | This division of the tribes cut across their earlier affiliations and origins since most of those on both sides of the Thames Estuary had been Gallo-Belgic migrants crossing the Channel and settling in these areas , mainly as a consequence of Caesar 's advance into Gaul in 39 BC and possibly earlier . |
| 18 | In the religious paraphernalia and artwork of their culture , we see a religion half formed , with elusive nature spirits appearing and disappearing in all kinds of manifestations , now taking on the status of a fully-fledged deity , now evaporating into an atavistic mist . |
| 19 | In fact , I have to spend a lot of my time asking silly questions of people while standing in all sorts of silly places . |
| 20 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 21 | Hypo Foreign & Colonial Marketing has launched Protected Capital Plus , an open-ended Jersey-based rollup fund which aims to provide security for the original investment while locking in any gains in the FT-SE 100 Share Index each quarter . |
| 22 | Two main types of explanation are offered as accounting in these terms for the distinctive ways in which women and men approach moral questions : these are , first , predominantly biological explanations , and , second , predominantly social or cultural explanations . |
| 23 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 24 | We rounded them up , pulled up the anchor with some difficulty from the sticky mud ( when chartering in these waters , make sure you get a boat with a windlass ) and set off . |