Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patrol boat , on loan to the council from the police , is now crewed by Vandaline workers who have been specially trained in boathandling and who also have passed swimming tests and been briefed on river byelaws and enforcement . |
| 2 | Most people regard the sex act as a uniquely personal activity and find difficulty in imagining that anyone else could be suffering from the same problems as themselves . |
| 3 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |
| 4 | They ignored pressure from the Central Authority to await common agreement on a matter they were surely right in considering as one best left to the judgement of each area according to local conditions . |
| 5 | In order to be able to explain what is involved in saying that something actually exists , it is necessary first to clarify the characteristic features of man 's own manner of existing . |
| 6 | ‘ The fact that in saying that you clearly mean to reassure me , ’ said Lydia , ‘ shows that you do not know me at all well . |
| 7 | My first impression was how well everything runs and in saying that I really am paying a tribute to previous chairmen . |
| 8 | It would therefore not be very surprising if the present generation of grand unified theories was wrong in claiming that nothing essentially new will happen between the electroweak unification energy of about 100 GeV and the grand unification energy of about a thousand million million GeV . |
| 9 | The pre-emption thesis is wrong in claiming that they too are pre-empted . |
| 10 | Would I be right in thinking that there really are people with ‘ green fingers ’ and should we be doing more to encourage our younger generation to take an active interest in the garden ? |
| 11 | But A J Lubin is mistaken in thinking that he now announced his intention to become an artist . |