Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 4 | However , there are plans afoot to see if tutoring in primary schools has any effect on performance later on . |
| 5 | A recent issue of American Cosmopolitan had an even more blatant example : an article ( patronisingly titled ‘ Why not speak like a grown-up ? ’ ) listed various things for women to avoid when speaking in work settings , including tag questions , rising intonation and high pitch , because these things undermine a speaker 's perceived authority . |
| 6 | Acceptance of the offer of employment in the new location would have meant her mother being left alone for periods of seven or more hours as Mrs Cahuac would not be able to check on her at lunchtimes as she was able to do while working in Hackney . |
| 7 | Yeah but if you think about it , people laugh when you say oh like I believe in fate , bit more easier to believe than believing in somebody up there like looking at us in n it ? |
| 8 | It is also worth noting that dealing need not actually take place ; the minimum requirement is merely that the insider had reasonable cause to believe that dealing in the relevant shares would take place . |
| 9 | They used to believe that investing in big , publicly traded issues would keep their portfolios liquid even in a bear market . |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats happen to believe that investing in our children 's future will provide the highest dividends of all ; and the better quality of life which a good education brings . |
| 11 | The purpose of this paper has been to review some of the legal issues that organisations need to address when operating in an electronic documentation environment . |
| 12 | C There will be certain knowledge and skills that you will need to acquire while working in the surgical ward . |
| 13 | I do , I like , do you think I could have a copy of anything you 've got to date because lying in my desk this morning is something I have to prepare a briefing note for my chairman and I was thinking about that recent one , but I could n't put my hand on it Robert , absolutely updated on exactly where we are . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the ten years between 1973–83 two Lecturers and one Reader contributed full-time to research and teaching in the Language arts — Dr. Frank Whitehead ( reader ) , Mr. Alan England and Dr. Bernard T. Harrison . |
| 16 | The enthusiasm of both Margery Kempe and Richard Rolle for adopting a life-style which would itself openly express a response to God 's love as revealed in the Incarnation and their desire to teach others of this , betrays a deeply felt response to Franciscan teaching ; while Walter Hilton 's beautifully structured account of the progress to essential human fulfilment as inward discovery of the reality of Christ incarnate dying to sin but rising in love , one in heart and mind with God , places Walter Hilton squarely in the tradition of the theology of the Augustinian friars . |