Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [adj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to many accounts , middle-class complacency was severely shocked by the evidence of the children 's condition : in Newcastle , for example , of 31,000 children registering for evacuation , 13% were found to be deficient in footwear and 21 % deficient in clothing ; in Scotland , 39% of children turned up in clothing that was ‘ bad or deplorable ’ . |
| 2 | ( In passing this is why how and why can function as interrogative adverbs to request identification of the means required to achieve some end or the reason for something . ) |
| 3 | An important step in establishing this was taken by Einstein in 1905 ( that amazing year in which , while working at the patent office in Berne , he also invented special relativity and explained Brownian motion ) . |
| 4 | Am I right in believing these are of terrestrial origin , and if so , how long do they survive in an aquatic environment ? |
| 5 | Get a letter in writing that 's |
| 6 | His foresight in writing this was valuable , for the Golf Illustrated article was likely to have been taken at face value owing to the absence of any information to the contrary ! |
| 7 | My original purpose in writing this was to warn of the dangers of censorship and to provoke debate in the lesbian and gay communities . |
| 8 | But you see I , I do n't know I can see what you mean , but I do n't know whether a move would be the answer cos I think you 're if you 're gon na stay in teaching this is what 's gon na happen . |
| 9 | In age-set societies , the changes in status involved in getting older are institutionalised to such a degree that they often constitute the very basis of political organisation . |
| 10 | When the ban on schools in providing these was lifted , it was made clear that schools alone could not afford them . |
| 11 | Even those that succeeded in coming alive were populated in their early days mostly by foreigners , that is , by non-Cornishmen , or they too would have failed . |
| 12 | I 'm saying erm , if I give you all a mailbox number immediately and then you never actually log in to your computers to see whether or not you 've got any mail that 's arrived , then there 's absolutely no point in doing that is there ? |
| 13 | A. Simple reaction time When a light is switched on ( or a note is sounded ) a button must be pressed as quickly as possible ; the delay in doing this is measured . |
| 14 | The aim in doing this is not to depress yourself but to be open to the possibility of self-improvement . |
| 15 | Whether his object in doing this was because of guilt in relation to Meehan or a continued desire for notoriety is impossible to say . |
| 16 | The difficulties they experienced in arguing this are clearly visible in Emily Pfeiffer 's attempt to counter the case made by doctors and scientists against more rigorous schooling for adolescent girls . |
| 17 | And so while these things here enable us to leave home , if you like , these things are buzzing round in our head and in marketing these are things we have to look at in order to , we have to be able to make product and then try and assess how will the tourist or potential tourist respond to this . |
| 18 | In the 1812 the members of the Academy , trained on quite different repertory , let their hair down in playing that is both crisp and alert , obviously enjoying their outing into this pop repertory . |
| 19 | But perhaps I 'm going to be proved to be over innocent in thinking that is a viable approach . |