Example sentences of "that [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that eating in the kitchen has an attraction all its own . |
| 2 | Communicants were allowed to kneel to receive the bread and wine , and the 1552 Black Rubric , which had declared that kneeling in no way implied a real presence , was deleted from the 1559 Prayer Book . |
| 3 | The efforts made by Sussex police — and the three other UK forces that have set up a specialist antiques squad — are hampered by the fact that knocking in itself is not illegal . |
| 4 | Under these circumstances , it is scarcely surprising that walking in Britain is of diminishing importance , with total distance walked decreasing as is the percentage of all journeys that are made on foot . |
| 5 | The striking resemblance between this type of mutual support and that occurring in the human species accounts for much of the fascination of the chimpanzee for man . |
| 6 | Some people say that lurking in its depths is a fish so dangerous that oarsmen venture out at their peril . |
| 7 | Staff caring for elderly people mostly felt that keeping in touch was not a problem and systems for co-ordinating services had already been established . |
| 8 | The experimental results suggest that ageing in Drosophila has evolved in part as a consequence of selection for an optimal life history , and in part as a result of accumulation of predominantly late-acting deleterious mutations . |
| 9 | Whatever the justifications for introducing this policy , it serves to underline the fact that sentencing in murder cases is enacted without each case being considered individually , after hearing representations from the offender 's counsel , and without a sentence announced in court and subject to appeal . |
| 10 | The fact that believing in God involves an acceptance of uncertainty does not allow us to accept any degree of uncertainty , or that trust will also be misplaced . |
| 11 | He had thought that living in Normandy would make him ambivalent towards his old enemy , but he had spent too many years fighting the Crapauds suddenly to relinquish the need to see them beaten . |
| 12 | I think he realises that living in the same house would be very hard for both of you , and might lead to something that would worry your tender conscience no end . |
| 13 | Individuals believe that acting in a certain way will lead to certain outcomes ( the performance — outcome expectancy ) . |
| 14 | Tom Clarke , meanwhile , has to persuade a hard core in his own party that acting in concert with the SNP on certain occasions does not equate to dancing with wolves . |
| 15 | Sir Ivor Jennings once said " If Parliament enacts that smoking in the streets of Paris is an offence then , in the eyes of the English Courts , it is an offence . " |
| 16 | An interesting warning can be gathered from Pooley 's that remaining in such an area for more than one minute risks possible harm from radiation . |
| 17 | In his footnote , John Stuart Mill objects that economising in the use of names is not the sole purpose of classification : ‘ We could not have dispensed with names to mark the points in which different individuals resemble one another : and these are class-names . ’ |
| 18 | Belatedly , Manville realized that going in cold , straight to the top , had been a serious tactical error . |
| 19 | It can not , therefore , be a Christian insight to urge that speaking in tongues is an indispensable mark of life in the Spirit of Christ ; whereas it is an undeniably Christian insight to insist that love and holiness , so manifest in the life of the incarnate One , should mark those who claim to have his Spirit . |
| 20 | It is sufficient to notice here that speaking in tongues is one of the gifts of the Spirit to his people ( I Cor. 12:10 ) , and that the primary purpose is to enable the recipient to pray to God from the depths of his being and not merely from the conscious levels of his mind . |
| 21 | Most people readily accept that speaking in a foreign language presents a major differentiation and there are hilarious anecdotes in all multi-national companies to support this view . |
| 22 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 23 | Vatican two , in the decree on ecumenism number eight , certainly says that sharing in the sacrament should not be indiscriminate . |
| 24 | Some might say that sending in a college principal to validation events in order to advise on SCOTVEC policies is carrying things a bit too far . |
| 25 | He must not be allowed to think that staying in bed would solve the physical problems of his hemiplegia , as the opposite would certainly happen : he would become lazy , weak , and his spasticity would become more entrenched and pronounced . |
| 26 | Now the scholars amongst you will quickly realise that staying in a hotel near Balquhidder would lend itself to terms of geographic convenience to tackling Ben More , Ben Vorlich or even Ben Lawers . |
| 27 | Tucholsky once remarked that there were people who thought that staying in an elegant hotel made them elegant themselves . |
| 28 | In one important sense , however , it is questionable whether they yet constituted a distinct class of medreses in this period , namely that teaching in one or another of them appears not to have been a prerequisite for the holding of the highest mevleviyets . |
| 29 | It appears that starting in 1979 , the Intelligence and Security Group ( G ) , an Army Intelligence Corps unit based at Rheindalen , West Germany , had recruited five informants within the Irish community . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that starting in mid Devonian times and continuing on through the Carboniferous , a mid European ocean of uncertain width extended roughly along the line of the English Channel and then on eastwards into the European continent . |