Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beat cream cheese until smooth , beat in melted jelly . |
| 2 | It is believed that the sequence of events that led to core damage involved equipment malfunctions , design-related problems , and human errors , all of which contributed in varying degrees to the accident ( US NUREG-0600 , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | Rhys was a close personal friend of Corliss Lamont , that great champion of free speech in America who contributed in large measure to the ultimate defeat of Senator McCarthy 's witch-hunting . |
| 4 | Each contributed in different ways to the Watkinson counter-reformation that began soon after he took over as Minister of Defence in October 1959 . |
| 5 | There are gulleys gouged in cold hills |
| 6 | A marvellous bird , sometimes called the Chinese Phoenix , which dwelt in ancient China . |
| 7 | The few were shrewd , powerful , influential and dined in high political places ; Bernard knew it , and did not care . |
| 8 | In that particular case the judges pronounced in general on the right of free speech , but did not go so far as to appoint experts to ascertain whether the accused was right in his criticism or not ( see The Art Newspaper No.14 , January 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 9 | It was he who pronounced in open court that a husband was entitled to beat his wife so long as the rod he used was no thicker than his thumb . |
| 10 | One of the things that 's left over from school is an absolute terror of hearing my name pronounced in public . |
| 11 | What ought to remain is a technique for learning , and a grasp of intellectual principles that may be applied and reapplied in different circumstances . |
| 12 | This was Paul Bedford ( c .1792–1871 ) , a popular actor who excelled in low comedy and whom CD mentions by name in Sketches of Young Gentlemen . |
| 13 | Like most young men of his background he excelled in outdoor activities — deer-stalking , mountaineering and shooting . |
| 14 | This is not to deny that there may be good reasons why members of religious minorities should have sought a career in science and why they excelled in particular areas . |
| 15 | Worthy and Markle cite basketball , finding that whites excelled in free throws from a static position and blacks at field goals on the move . |
| 16 | A sealed wooden crate , twelve feet by six , with WERNER FRACHT , ERHARDSTRASSE , MUNCHEN stencilled in black paint across its facing side . |
| 17 | He turned his face to the breeze and drew in great lungfuls of the fresh salt air , then looked back at Meg . |
| 18 | It altered the relation between dominant and dominated groups by creating new apparatuses with different modes of administrative rationality , and drew in key intellectuals and professional experts . |
| 19 | Dimly his voice reached her as she drew in deep breaths of air . |
| 20 | They crossed the field at a leisurely walk , and as Lucy drew in deep breaths of the clear , crisp air she felt thankful for her jacket 's protection against the sharpness of the southerly breeze which whipped colour into her cheeks . |
| 21 | High earning possibilities could have a compensating effect , for if they increased the " idleness " of those already employed , they also drew in new hands . |
| 22 | Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , chapter 41 embodied in statutory form a principle which was to be resoundingly extended and proclaimed a century later by Wyclif : that church property might be recovered where the purpose of the original benefaction was neglected . |
| 24 | Oral communications , being face-to-face and immediate , are more limited than those in literate cultures , where meaning can be held and validated in impersonal ways . |
| 25 | Forms one of the postgraduate degree streams in Ecology and Resource Management described in general on this page . |
| 26 | Forms one of the postgraduate degree streams in Ecology and Resource Management described in general on page 123 . |
| 27 | Forms one of the postgraduate degree streams in Ecology & Resource Management described in general on page 124 . |
| 28 | Take the case of Essex Junior School in Newham described in Spare Rib issue 55 : |
| 29 | The idea was Rupert Sheldrake 's hypothesis of formative causation , which he described in New Sciente of Life in 1981 and outlined in New Scientist in 18 June of that year ( vol 90 , p 766 ) . |
| 30 | Then attention switched to a Superintendent Miller of pugnacious appearance , who described in clipped and guarded police-speak how twenty-year-old Samantha Abberley had been abducted nine days previously . |