Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dicey 's approach , nevertheless , lived on in the minds of lawyers . |
| 2 | Exploring Hidden Processes : what goes on in the heads of pupils doing simple addition calculations ? |
| 3 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 4 | Today every single living thing that has ever lived , from a bacterium to a plant or a fully formed animal , has been built according to specifications laid down in the molecules of the dna called chromosomes . |
| 5 | They were quite intimidating to a poor Waaf struggling along in the teeth of a gale , on a bike in a skirt . |
| 6 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 7 | Although the scheme seemed to be quietly dropped after the outcry about separating sheep from goats , in essence it lingers on in the policies of the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) . |
| 8 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |
| 9 | There was a vigorous life , both commercial and family , carried on in the basements of large Victorian terraces . |
| 10 | History lives on in the towns of Framlingham and Orford each with its own splendid medieval castle . |
| 11 | Koresh lives on in the hearts of such Branch Davidians as survived . |
| 12 | In front of me , the noble tradition lives on in the hands of a middle-aged commuter who , peering intently into his 101 Puzzles and Games for Boys , is joining up the dots incorrectly . |
| 13 | The union , he says , ‘ is an idea that lives on in the minds of our workers and their children ’ . |
| 14 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 15 | In a moment we were in mid-stream , caught up in the arms of the river . |
| 16 | I remember the scandal surrounding her in the Seventies , when she appeared to be just a naive young girl caught up in the trappings of fame . |
| 17 | Gentleness keeps us from being caught up in the illusions of the world . |
| 18 | Caught up in the swathes of colour and movement are the small objects we adopt and discard in our life-long struggle to define ourselves — objects and images mass produced , touched with personal desire — cherished and abandoned … ’ |
| 19 | This argument can make little appeal to anyone not caught up in the artifices of philosophy . |
| 20 | The new social movements of the 1970s and the 1980s emerged outside the formal party structures precisely because of the way in which the parties of the Left , which should have articulated new emancipatory concerns , were caught up in the compromises of the 1940s . |
| 21 | MANTES , caught up in the coils of the Seine in northern France , has a rich history and is proud of its association with the great Impressionist painters . |
| 22 | Patrick Swayze is a doc with oedipal jitters who goes to India to find himself , only to get caught up in the struggles of the native people earning a crust on the heaving streets of Calcutta . |
| 23 | The legal process , when invoked , has to be speeded up in the interests of the child . |
| 24 | Len 's mop of unruly fair hair always made him stand out in a crowded goalmouth but , even over 30 years later , he continues to stand out in the memories of Palace fans who saw him play for our club . |
| 25 | Her original research at this period , carried out in the laboratories of the Royal College of Physicians , concerned studies on coloration in plants , crustaceans , and fish . |
| 26 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 27 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 28 | We developed this very useful paddle stroke back in the days of long four metre GP kayaks . |
| 29 | Anyone looking round in the weeks of Christian Aid could see this really was ‘ the churches in action with the world 's poor ’ , and that while this action was firmly based at St. Andrew 's & St. George 's it was done ‘ in company with people form other churches ’ . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |