Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nepal , dolphin habitat has traditionally been in deep clear water with swift currents , but hydro-electric development is occurring in many of the susu 's favourite remaining areas . |
| 2 | If what Jespersen suggests were true , however , one might expect to show some tendency to be dropped in the uses where it is " meaningless " and there is no sign of this occurring in any of the functions listed either by Buyssens or by Jespersen . |
| 3 | No I , I think there is , there is a lot of evidence that this is happening in all of the villages |
| 4 | If the record is n't happening in any of the media , it is probably best to cut your losses and pay the bill . |
| 5 | Conditions of living in most of the prisons are sub-human … . |
| 6 | The shots of the older child are termed cutaways , and they serve the very useful purpose of bridging time-gaps and of hiding jumps in the action , for instance the jump between the mother looking in one direction at the end of one shot and looking in another at the beginning of the next . |
| 7 | ‘ PowerSystems does n't currently handle differences like Spain 's extra rate VAT ’ , but according to Omicron 's Neville Merritt , ‘ the company is currently in the process of adding in all of the regulations recommended by Customs and Excise for 1993 . ’ |
| 8 | Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty . |
| 9 | Our last four away games ( Ipswich , Wed. , Tottenham , Everton ) were drawn with us leading in each of the last three , we need a win to put us back on track ! |
| 10 | The great abbey of Vézelay , dedicated to St Mary Magdalen , was so thronged with pilgrims in the early twelfth century that a rebuilding programme was carried out , resulting in some of the finest Romanesque sculpture to be seen in all France . |
| 11 | To maintain her riskless arbitrage , Mary was instantly required to sell her holding in Metal Bashers Ltd , buy shares in British Telecommunications to bring her holding up to 10% of her portfolio and sell part of her holding in each of the other 99 companies to reduce their average weight in her portfolio to 0.909% . |
| 12 | Eve Bendall ( 1976 ) in ‘ Teaching for reality ’ states that ‘ … the major part of written answers to nursing questions bear little or no relationship to the nursing performance of the writer in 80% of trainees ’ , and she goes on to say ‘ … we are producing trained nursing staff who are ( through no fault of their own ) woefully lacking in many of the skills they need . ’ |
| 13 | Are you quite mad , as well as totally lacking in any of the trappings of civilised society ? |
| 14 | It is of great significance that most of the NICs are presently or have been in recent times one-party states , not necessarily totalitarian in the classic sense , but certainly lacking in most of the genuinely pluralistic institutions that characterize advanced industrial societies . |
| 15 | Rather than suggesting a different incentive system , which would enable the agency to maintain at least some timber harvesting in many of the forests on the list , the agency is deliberately limiting its options . |
| 16 | Some clean sounds are available , but all the while you feel that there 's a beast lurking within , and that beast is let loose upon switching in either of the two gain controls . |
| 17 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — The government has decided to ban mining in most of the Kakadu wilderness park , where the film Crocodile Dundee was shot . |
| 18 | It did n't seem like a diet — in fact , if there was one sentence that kept reappearing in most of the letters I received , it was : ‘ You ca n't call this a diet , it 's more a way of eating ’ . |
| 19 | Club members help North-East riders with the cost of competing in many of the country 's championships . |
| 20 | Using Pope 's ‘ Mobil Guide to the North Island ’ we were able to look up what was worth seeing in each of the towns we passed through . |
| 21 | It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice . |
| 22 | Helped by a battery of mutualistic protozoa , bacteria and fungi , they have mastered the nutritional and energetic problems of surviving in some of the poorest and most indigestible foodstuffs , from dead logs to soil humus . |
| 23 | The Australian government has announced that it intends to allow logging in all of the country 's forests except those already protected as reserves or national parks . |
| 24 | Among western historians , Raymond fisher has established the centrality of fur in the seventeenth-century Russian economy and , more recently , Janet Martin has demonstrated that control of the fur trade ( the ‘ Treasure of the Land of Darkness ’ ) was an essential ingredient in the political domination of a succession of mediaeval states , culminating in that of the Muscovite Tsardom . |
| 25 | The view however , is spectacular , taking in most of the fifteen islands of the Westmann archipelago . |
| 26 | We covered a lot of sea miles in the Bristol Channel that year , taking in most of the ports , including the long haul up the Avon to Bristol Docks which in those days were still open to commercial traffic . |
| 27 | This is a sixty one date tour taking in most of the theatres in the central region . |
| 28 | The destruction area , spread across five miles , taking in some of the suburbs of Chicago itself . |
| 29 | Although this project failed to come to fruition even with Apple behind it — it was to lead us indirectly into more than a decade of adventuring in some of the most remote regions of Indonesia . |
| 30 | Industrial production has been falling in many of the world 's largest economies — over the last year it has fallen 2 per cent in Italy ; by 2.5 per cent in France ; by 6.5 per cent in Germany ; and by 7 per cent in Japan . |