Example sentences of "[v-ing] in the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the days since her visit to me , her mind had become so used to the idea of walking in the vicinity of birds that it had seemed quite a natural thing to do . |
| 2 | The urge to empathise is strong , but the projection is often rewarded by understanding in the case of animals . |
| 3 | The latter are the main pigments occurring in the eye of insects from many orders . |
| 4 | any name which is the same as a name appearing in the index of names kept by the Registrar of Companies ( s. 714 ) ; |
| 5 | Now the taxation of the plaintiff 's bill of costs , came before master er and er in his taxation , it seems , and I 'm , I think I 'm right in saying it , it seems that erm there is no substantial dispute as to the particular items in the various bills of costs with which he was concerned , it maybe that if there were a discrepancy , he has , he dealt with it and nothing has been said before me today , er to suggest that the figures appearing in the bill of costs ought to be varied and accordingly I have not er have to consider the detail items in the bill of costs , the only issue I did n't decide is whether master was correct in disallowing interest for the period that he did , er Mr for the plaintiff says that he was wrong er that there was no good reason for disallowing him any interest and that accordingly I on this appeal should erm discharge or reverse that part of taxing order as disallowed interest . |
| 6 | Regis said : ‘ I do n't blame Linford one little bit — appearing in the number of rounds that he has would have taxed the strength of a superman . |
| 7 | Paradox 4 does n't ignore what 's been happening in the world of Windows , either . |
| 8 | It might seem odd that this kind of thing is happening in the age of Aids , but none of the home porn stars I interviewed seemed very concerned . |
| 9 | This is particularly paradoxical and revealing in the case of notions . |
| 10 | She had only been there a few minutes , revelling in the multiplicity of objects and fabrics , when a little maid crept in and indicated shyly that she would unpack . |
| 11 | It was hard enough to stare at his photograph and make it come to life , but it was impossible to imagine the figure in the picture living in the sort of conditions which Normandin and others had described . |
| 12 | However , as noted in passing in the case of fishes , conditions in the oceans are likely to have been less drastically affected than those on land . |
| 13 | Culture is so often used to justify nationalism today perhaps because people are a little embarrassed to give the more traditional grounds for believing in the existence of nations : the idea that nations are characterized by common biological descent , ethnic origin or race . |
| 14 | Once started , she was difficult to stop : she had the trick of pausing in the middle of sentences rather than at their end , which made polite interruptions next to impossible . |
| 15 | Rounding in the company of others is a different matter , as you can use the rules to help you . |
| 16 | After his return Mozart 's compositions included experiments with keyboard concerto writing in the form of arrangements of sonata movements of works by some of the composers he had met on his journeys ( Honnauer , Eckard etc ) ( 8 ) . |
| 17 | Serge Mallet ( 1969 ) , writing in the context of developments in political theory in France , and hence particularly concerned with issues of class consciousness and conflict , took a view directly contrary to Woodward , arguing that new technology was leading to the development of new forms of class conflict that would threaten fundamentally the stability of the existing structure of the capitalist enterprise . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Yet he has an instinct that this synthetic world is more in tune with the way things are going in the hierarchy of ideas , than the Parisian world of half-wild ducks cooked in their own jus and ideas located on different niveaux . |
| 20 | Fujimori announced on June 23 the capture of three Sendero Luminoso central committee members , Yovanka Pardave Trujillo , Víctor García Castano and Tito Valle Travesano , a former president of the Association of Democratic Lawyers specializing in the defence of detainees on terrorist charges . |
| 21 | The central core of the town was mostly occupied by those families which had lived in Dronfield before the momentous decision was taken in 1873 by the new company of Wilson Cammell to found a large steelworks specializing in the manufacture of rails made from Bessemer steel . |
| 22 | She had a degree in Romance languages from Wellesley and after doing her postgraduate work at the Sorbonne she had travelled extensively across Europe before returning to the States where she was recruited by the FBI , specializing in the use of firearms . |
| 23 | Particular attention should be paid to the double row , to hay lying in the shadow of trees and hedges , and to the inevitable lumps at the corners . |
| 24 | The trade unions are a problematic force both in and on the uneasy edges of the system of power ; a variety of factors have conspired to produce an upsurge of competing participants and conflicting demands ; elected governments have frequently shown themselves to be weak and vacillating in the face of pressures and problems ; and certain democratic aspects of the British polity have heaped problems on to the capitalist economy in a way that has " crowded out " opportunities for growth . |
| 25 | It was too far away to make photography worthwhile , but through binoculars we could see that it was trying to cover the remains of its meal by pawing snow over it , and that a group of glaucous and ivory gulls were standing around , no doubt waiting in the hope of leftovers . |
| 26 | In the text James Mill writes that it is ‘ obvious , and certain , that men were led to class solely for the purpose of economizing in the use of names ’ : |
| 27 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 28 | A rise in average temperatures of three degrees centigrade could occur by the year 2030 , resulting in the melting of glaciers and icecaps , and widespread flooding of lowland . |
| 29 | [ see illustration overleaf ] The stratigraphical framework of the project has been controlled by detailed collection and identification of graptolite faunas , resulting in the formulation of subzones within the turriculatus Zone of the Llandovery . |
| 30 | However , to translate this vision into effective classroom practice resulting in the amelioration of standards and the quality of learning experiences , teachers do need appropriate training to equip them personally and professionally for the task . |