Example sentences of "of [v-ing] in [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tait and his advertising agents hit on an idea for generic advertising , of filling the skies above New York with a message done by ‘ skytyping ’ — a development of skywriting in which five light aircraft , working on computer synchronicity , puff dots into the sky to form letters sixty feet high . |
| 2 | At high concentrations , the blood becomes a sort of chemical sponge , capable of drawing in whatever meagre supplies of water exist , even when the toad 's body already contains much more water than the surrounding area of soil . |
| 3 | A preliminary study has compared social work response and service delivery across organizational types , with the objective of seeing in what ways these differed , and whether any differences could plausibly be related to the factors ( for example of knowledge and skill ) said to distinguish in broad terms the organizational types . |
| 4 | The coding system used to record the physical nature and condition of items included an element which denoted the type of binding in which they were currently contained . |
| 5 | Those might be , for example , early stages of the retraining of walking in which a subject could still access and change the order of muscle movements . |
| 6 | Finite mind within the world also advances dialectically , from undifferentiated consciousness through objective awareness of things other than itself to the act of understanding in which the subject/object dichotomy is overcome . |
| 7 | What is more , it is in the pleasant position of operating in what is now the fourth most important UK application software market after word processing , spreadsheets and graphics . |
| 8 | The residents of Unity Flats are shrugging off the stigma of living in what has long been regarded as one of the city 's most undesirable areas . |
| 9 | Like a prison community , it is seen by respectable opinion as an area incapable of acting in what he calls ‘ an approved social manner ’ . |
| 10 | Produce pieces of writing in which there is a rudimentary attempt to present simple subject matter in a structured way , eg by means of a title and paragraphs or verses ; in which sentence punctuation ( capital letters , full stops , question marks and exclamation marks ) is generally accurately used ; and in which there is some evidence of an ability to set out and punctuate any direct speech in a way that makes meaning clear to the reader . |
| 11 | Produce pieces of writing in which there is a more successful attempt to present simple subject matter in a structured way , eg by layout , headings , paragraphing , verse structure ; in which sentence punctuation is almost always accurately used ; in which any direct speech is clearly set out and punctuated ; and in which simple uses of the comma , eg in lists , after long adverbials , are handled successfully . |
| 12 | Produce pieces of writing in which simple subject matter is organised and set out clearly and appropriately ; in which sentences and any direct speech are helpfully punctuated ; in which a wider range of uses of the comma , eg around appositional or parenthetic constructions , is evident ; and in which brackets or pairs of dashes are used where necessary . |
| 13 | Produce well-structured pieces of writing in which the relationships between successive paragraphs are helpfully signalled by appropriate connective words or phrases . |
| 14 | Can it be supposed that the Doomsday Book is the only sort of writing in which immortality is achieved ? |
| 15 | Pursuing the image further than the modesty of Wesley would permit , we could in theory have a manner of writing in which there is no style , in which content is presented in its nakedness.A more recent variant of this view is that of French stylisticians such as Bally and Riffaterre , that style is that expressive or emotive element of language which is added to the neutral presentation of the message itself . |
| 16 | By killing off the stable element of the fictional character , she abandons a realist notion of the individual identity and the narrative norms which subtend it , freeing the way for a concept of subjectivity and a form of writing in which these factors do not come into play . |
| 17 | In other words , philosophy is just a certain type of writing in which the signifying element of language has been illusorily repressed in favour of the signified . |
| 18 | wh I remember that when I was at home it was a mixed sort of meeting in which some of the people from the village were coming who you did n't really know but they had to be asked |
| 19 | In between times , among the many kinds of racing in which Mario indulged his taste for speed — and his need for money — there had been a bunch of sports-car races for Ferrari , generally teamed up with Ickx , the team-leader . |
| 20 | The sedimentologist assesses materials with respect to their conformity to an ideal of sorting in which perfection is realized in a deposit in which all particles are identical . |
| 21 | There were some , like Henry Armstrong at the end of the century , who urged a ‘ heuristic ’ method of teaching in which the pupil would be helped to make for himself the discoveries of Newton , Lavoisier and Faraday . |
| 22 | Nature printing is a very good example of a field of collecting in which the serious student can come to command a knowledge and expertise that the general bookseller is unlikely to match . |
| 23 | The proclamation of Lithuania 's independence took place late on March 11 as a result of voting in what was now to be known as the Supreme Council ( Taryba ; the Russian word soviet , literally meaning " council " , was dropped ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The police referred daily to the current price of gold announced by Johnson Matthey and pitched the prices they offered appropriately to the form of dealing in which they purported to be engaged . |
| 26 | This minor affair underlined the Army 's contention that nuclear weapons and air power were no substitute for troops on the ground in the type of fighting in which Britain was likely to be involved as long as she remained a colonial power . |
| 27 | Sandys ’ Reformation did exactly the opposite : his policies reinforced British military capabilities for nuclear war , while cutting the ships , aircraft and above all infantry needed for the type of fighting in which military forces have been constantly engaged in the latter half of the twentieth century . |
| 28 | a method of folding in which each fold opens in the opposite direction to its neighbour , giving a concertina or pleated effect . |
| 29 | But it has long been known from careful palaeontological studies that even in the thick development in the Cotswolds , there is evidence of two major breaks and a period of folding in what otherwise was a very peaceful period in British geological history . |
| 30 | This is a subservient way of talking in which everything is hedged about and nothing asserted outright . |