Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resulting group territoriality is possible in the chimpanzee since the locomotory costs in maintaining it are sufficiently low . |
| 2 | The recognition of blocks within ageing counsellees is therefore an important skill , but like so many others in counselling it is a perceptual rather than a concrete skill . |
| 3 | In counselling it is the emotions behind the words that need to be pursued . |
| 4 | It was said to me recently , by a railway enthusiast , no less , that , when you have a car , the only cost in using it is the petrol . |
| 5 | Macho man usually prefers talking to his own sex because it 's safer , and he 's more interested in proving he 's as ‘ male ’ as his peer group than in entering a relationship which requires an ability to give , to love , to be tender . |
| 6 | The intention in suggesting them is to stimulate further thought about other possible frames . |
| 7 | Small firms operate a scheduled working week 10 per cent longer than large firms and in manufacturing it is 15 per cent greater . |
| 8 | H. P. We used to keep an eye on pubs where the sergeant and the constable used to do a month at a time , visiting the cinemas , theatres , and public houses , licensed places , and do some pubs , night after night — just checking things , and at five past ten , you 'd be right in checking they were keeping to closing time . |
| 9 | It should be noted that this figure excludes sales to the UK sector of the North Sea which are not classified as exports and reinforces the point made in last year 's survey , that the Mechanical engineering sector in Grampian is having considerable success in widening it 's export markets . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | This kick is especially useful when a fighter has been knocked to the ground and his opponent is closing in for the kill , although in training it is learned from a standing position . |
| 12 | Then , since there is no believing without some doubting and since believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt , we can say as Christians that if we doubt in believing it is also true that we believe in doubting . |
| 13 | No , if a complaints made in writing it 's good . |
| 14 | The applications of copper-based metals were extensive , and as new alloys became available through developments in smelting they were exploited in new ways . |
| 15 | But in wondering it is interesting to compare a much more recent success , David Henry Hwang 's M Butterfly . |
| 16 | You 've got to have all that side of it , and if you 're in teaching it 's a bit ridiculous to be in any job if you do n't know something about the history of it . |
| 17 | You were you were late in sending it were n't you ? |
| 18 | I think his success in getting them was part of the reason I did not get them . ’ |
| 19 | The effort involved in removing it is totally out of proportion with the financial gain anyone could hope to recoup from its sale as scrap metal and firewood . |
| 20 | Very interesting to have a review from you of the O D A's work , both with regard to central and Eastern Europe and the developing world and I 'm sure I speak for everybody in saying we are delighted minister that you spent the third part of your , your speech looking at the U N convention on the rights of the child which as you rightly say , is very close to the heart of Save The Children . |
| 21 | To deny them to the least of our brethren is to deny them to ourselves , for in saying they are irredeemable we are saying there is no hope for us either . |
| 22 | There was no point in saying they were nothing to do with me , because I 'd got so many — just over a hundred charges of fraud and deception . |
| 23 | She wanted so much to confide in Cissie , to share her secret , and after all Cissie was right in saying she was no longer a child . |
| 24 | I 've I think I 'm right in saying she was something to do with erm that boy who |
| 25 | Mr Modrow also criticised the party 's former leader , Mr Egon Krenz , who he said had been far from honest in saying he was a reformer . |
| 26 | Mr Modrow also criticised the party 's former leader , Mr Egon Krenz , who he said had been far from honest in saying he was a reformer . |
| 27 | Little point in saying he was godfather to one of them . |
| 28 | The Ramblers ' Association magazine was exaggerating in saying he was proving a disaster and that there were widespread complaints about his actions . |
| 29 | It was a little Mini van that he ran around in saying it was for the band but really he had it because he thought it was ‘ a good shagging mobile ’ with just enough space in the back for ‘ entertaining ’ . |
| 30 | But Anselm may have shared their disappointment : the tasks for which he felt the full weight of personal responsibility were very harassing , and his success in performing them was open to serious doubt . |