Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIREMEN had to release a baby yesterday after her leg became trapped in the bars of her cot . |
| 2 | Thereafter , male mortality rates in the last decades of life have been so much greater than those for females that a significant disparity has developed in the numbers of men and women in the older age-groups . |
| 3 | While I am far too gentle and decent a person to criticise any Opposition Member who has joined in the expressions of appreciation of this action , I have to say , in the kindest possible way , that if the defence policies to which the Opposition subscribe — I include all the Opposition parties — were implemented , we should not be ordering a rowing boat , let alone three frigates . |
| 4 | Furthermore , by means of various statutes , e.g. the Fire Safety and Places of Sport Act 1987 , etc. , Parliament has placed in the hands of local authorities the power to control the condition and usage of business premises . |
| 5 | I said to the Leader of the Opposition that ’ jerk ’ is not on the list of unparliamentary expressions but , bearing in mind the nature of this debate , it would help the House if he refined what he has said in the interests of good order . |
| 6 | Bettelheim has said in The uses of enchantment ( 1976 , p.3 ) that ‘ If we hope to live not just from moment to moment , but in true consciousness of our existence , then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives ’ . |
| 7 | Every other improvement for the guitar has occurred in the realms of hardware and pickups . |
| 8 | It is very clear from the findings of the Survey that little or no change has occurred in the patterns of demand for the major categories of material studied on earlier occasions : the overwhelming majority of items requested are still modern publications , and the demand for foreign-language publications ( and , indeed , for publications in particular foreign languages ) has remained constant . |
| 9 | Mr Dinkins has stayed in the headlines by pandering to Jewish sensibilities , and by removing from his campaign a volunteer who once read an antisemitic poem on the radio and praised it . |
| 10 | Since these limits show up most clearly when the property under trust has arrived in the hands of a third party , the questions dealt with here concern primarily sale of the trust property and alienation by other means , such as when the property of the trustee has been sold up to pay his creditors . |
| 11 | For over a century the control of certain aspects of British social life has rested in the hands of the police forces of England and Wales . |
| 12 | The brewery is unique in many respects , especially as a result of the outstanding beauty of its buildings , pond and meticulously maintained surroundings , this being due in no small part to the fact that it has remained in the hands of the Arkell family for well over a century . |
| 13 | The concept of greater parental involvement was favourably received , and this involvement has increased in the years since Plowden . |
| 14 | Readers must decide for themselves but should bear in mind the words of the man who has followed in the footsteps of Mr Jason Donovan as the eponymous star of Joseph And His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat : ‘ It 's not the easiest thing in the world to be Phillip Schofield 's girlfriend . ’ |
| 15 | The division has followed in the footsteps of Pochin 's mobile concrete pumping division who achieved the accreditation last year . |
| 16 | The experience he has gained in the mines at immediately a man g a man who has been in the mines goes down there again his er n er he gives himself away , because , just because of the experiences . |
| 17 | For the past 26 years he has worked in the offices at the Courtaulds Chemicals power station on the Spondon site . |
| 18 | Today 's modern tendency to place large orders in anticipation of escalating prices has resulted in the owners of cellarless houses being obliged , more often than not , to store their orders with the wine merchants themselves . |
| 19 | Whilst gradation may have much in principle to commend it , certain criticisms may be voiced at the form which gradation has taken in the jurisdictions under consideration . |
| 20 | Barclays , a British bank , has fought in the courts for years to overturn California 's tax . |
| 21 | For example , the Church of Scientology has fought in the courts of Australia to be defined as a religion in order to be able to claim tax-exemption , while The Science of Creative Intelligence ( Transcendental Meditation ) has fought in the courts of the United States to be not given religious status so that it can be taught in the public ( State ) schools — a practice denied to religious organisations by the First Amendment of the United States ' Constitution . |
| 22 | For example , the Church of Scientology has fought in the courts of Australia to be defined as a religion in order to be able to claim tax-exemption , while The Science of Creative Intelligence ( Transcendental Meditation ) has fought in the courts of the United States to be not given religious status so that it can be taught in the public ( State ) schools — a practice denied to religious organisations by the First Amendment of the United States ' Constitution . |
| 23 | Feminism has lived in the bellies of Irish women for hundreds of years . |
| 24 | Sound advice from a man who has lived in the eyes of the media for the past 10 years . |
| 25 | They wanted the House of Commons to represent the opinion of the middle orders of Britain for ( as one reforming MP put in 1830 ) " there has arisen in the minds of the wealthy and enlightened middle classes of the country a conviction that there did not exist between them and the legislature a sufficient link " . |
| 26 | It turned out there was a military call-up in New Zealand , which he avoided by feigning epileptic fits ( a device he subsequently found described in The Confessions of Felix Krull , by Thomas Mann ) , but which had the beneficial effect in his case of getting him placed on national assistance , an invaluable windfall for a poet . |
| 27 | Indeed , the extent to which the Situationist influence has flourished in the spheres of art and popular culture is noteworthy and contrasts with the absence of the movement 's influence in other domains . |
| 28 | Things did go wrong … she 'd trusted in the powers of justice and compassion before , and she 'd lost her mother … she 'd trusted Mortimer with her friendship and he 'd betrayed her … trusted Guy with the whole of her heart and soul last night and all the time he 'd been laughing behind her back at the ‘ sexy redhead ’ from Chesters … |
| 29 | Some of her own childhood seemed trapped in the pages on which she had dribbled chocolate and , years ago , marked specially loved pages with sweetpapers and scraps of hair-ribbon . |
| 30 | In St Erconwald 's church , Athelstan had just finished the Mass for the dead and was now blessing the corpse of Tosspot , an old drunkard who 'd lived in the cellars of the Piebald Horse tavern . |