Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Yet the great mystery of schizophrenia remains — it is still unclear precisely what role , if any , such factors have had in bringing about the first onset of the disorder .
2 DETECTIVES are appealing for help in piecing together the last movements of a man found dead in a street yesterday morning .
3 For example , the physical length of words lying to the right of the reader 's current fixation , plays an important role in determining where the next fixation will fall .
4 Slovenia in Milk Race CYCLING : Yugoslavia , who last competed in the Milk Race 30 years ago , will be represented by the breakaway state of Slovenia , which has joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in taking up the last places in a record field of 18 teams .
5 The 31-year-old Biasion pushed his new 16-valve Delta Integrale to the limit in making up the half-a-second per kilometre he needed in the fourth and final overnight stage .
6 There was no hesitation in working out the next number in the sequence — 13 .
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