Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oral tradition played a major part in transmitting and passing down this culture of superstition . |
| 2 | At the same time , local government and even more directly administered or corporatist elements of state action at the local level ( DHSS local offices , Manpower Services Commission , Health Authorities ) are , as Goodwin ( 1986 : 3 ) puts it , ‘ important in administering and implementing locally the decisions reached in central government , where weaker and subordinate groups are not dominant ’ . |
| 3 | One of them was his habitual slowness , especially in handling and totting up cash ; for , before he took up duties in the foreign exchange department of Lloyds in the semi-basement room at the branch at 20 King William Street ( no wonder that the eyes and back , at the end of the day , turned ‘ upward ’ from the desk ) , he worked for a period behind the counter . |
| 4 | This concentration on christology is of the very essence of Barth 's method , but the greatness of his theological achievement lies not simply in the method and form of the whole , but in the way in which he succeeded by this means in re-integrating and casting quite fresh light on all the great leading themes of classical orthodox belief . |
| 5 | Much to his credit , the author is even-handed in his criticism of conservative evangelical and ecumenical groups for the rationalisations ( theological and promotional ) which both employ in justifying or covering up non-growth situations ’ ( IRM April 1971:127 ) . |
| 6 | Local transport agencies should be asked to consider changes in timetabling or re-routing where this might be to the benefit of staff . |
| 7 | Government ministries and departments and state-controlled companies were sometimes more engaged in ‘ turf wars ’ ( ‘ la guerre des administrations ’ ) than in overviewing and collaborating over long-term developments . |
| 8 | In living and working together , people develop mutual antagonisms which have to be counteracted by sublimated sexual energy if life and work are to continue . |
| 9 | Its range extends from bass to alto but it is most happy in the tenor register , where it is effective in sustaining or filling in the harmony . |
| 10 | The client is encouraged , and initially assisted , in developing and carrying out strategies for testing thoughts and beliefs about what might happen , e.g. ‘ If I ask my boss for a raise he 'll sack me or bite my head off . ’ , |
| 11 | Examples of confusion in defining and acquiring exactly the type of management information which is needed for specific tasks and policies emerged from a widely publicized aspect of management in further education in the 1980s . |
| 12 | Also its signals would contain a lot less noise , particularly important in measuring and handling very weak signals . |
| 13 | Accuracy in measuring and cutting out is essential . |
| 14 | Mild temporary disorientation is a common experience in flying and does not normally cause trouble for experienced pilots who learn to disregard the erroneous sensations . |
| 15 | But besides this more obvious point , there are subtler connections between voice and body : Cicely Berry observes that ‘ an introverted and thoughtful person often finds more difficulty in speaking and does not carry the thought through into the physical process of making speech ’ . |
| 16 | How much time is spent in backtracking and catching up with work ? |
| 17 | Clemens Krauss had taught classes in the past but he had left the whole thing in the hands of a Professor Wunderer and a man from the Vienna Philharmonic who was interested in conducting but had n't the slightest idea how to go about it . |
| 18 | Donaldson was not , however , quite correct in stating that Burn always followed the Vitruvian principle of waiting to be sought . |
| 19 | He completely lost interest in feeding and became very listless . |
| 20 | They live their first few months in the river , then migrate downstream to the sea ; they spend two or three years in feeding and growing out at sea , during which they cover thousands of miles ; and when mature , they migrate back to exactly the same river , and same tributary , as they were born in . |
| 21 | The most overwhelming support came for the Revenue 's work in deterring and seeking out tax dodgers . |
| 22 | In saying that go over , erm obviously I 'm all for that , but in terms of sort of holding on to what they 're doing I just had written down to mention that you know , we did n't have some sort of mechanism to , to share you know |
| 23 | In saying that hang on , no , hang on . |
| 24 | This is certainly minimalist : in abstracting from stress and alliterative patterning , he loses useful diagnostic devices , and it may well be that higher-level patterning is crucial in determining and explaining how phonological constituents behave metrically . |
| 25 | Electronics specialist or not , he regarded himself primarily as a classicist and– indeed , he was totally fluent in reading and writing both Latin and Greek . |
| 26 | Teachers should encourage them to develop their personal tastes in reading and to become more independent and reflective . |
| 27 | Specialise in collecting and trading underground , hard-to-find manga comic-books like Angel , Uncoloured and Blind Logic . |
| 28 | There is more than relief in outrunning or fighting off danger : there is a real pleasure . |
| 29 | In the climate of the Third Reich itself , it goes without saying that the barrage of Nazi propaganda could not be without effect in extending and deepening already prevalent anti-Semitic attitudes . |
| 30 | This would normally result in overshooting and flying out of the field altogether . |