Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took it from the cupboard and as usual became engrossed in the other pages of the newspaper . |
| 2 | The aim of the project is to document and interpret the complex relationship between gender roles , family structures and marriage ceremonial and the ways each has changed in the twentieth century . |
| 3 | It was only recently a town that offered waged work for women , though much of that has disappeared in the past few years , and it was never a town that invited black workers . |
| 4 | All that has changed in the past year . |
| 5 | The increasing switch to populist methods , and the threats to public order and the political anti-semitism with which this became associated in the public mind , meant that Mosley 's movement went increasingly beyond the pale . |
| 6 | This has resulted in the gradual piling up of the Himalayas . |
| 7 | It appears to be quite selective as to which fish it invades , some becoming covered in the mutated cells into which the virus has incorporated its own genetic material , others escaping . |
| 8 | This had begun in the late thirteenth century , and the edicts were falling thick and fast under Philip the Fair in the early fourteenth century . |
| 9 | The pressure of higher salaries , labour shortages and office rents was by 1989 causing more government departments to think of moving sections of work to the North , as some had done in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 10 | The transportation of useful plants from one part of the world to another had begun in the eighteenth century , and we saw in the previous chapter how Kew Gardens became the hub of the British empire 's efforts to replace indigenous species with imported ones of greater commercial value . |
| 11 | By way of postscript to these observations , some have discerned in the latest Soviet systems a greater introduction of new technology than is normally the pattern : a reflection , perhaps , of greater design confidence , but just as possibly the expression of worry about the pace of technological change in the present decade . |
| 12 | Not too much has appeared in the public prints on the conference , but Reuter reporters Russell Blinch and Judith Crosson have been on the spot taking it all down ; this page is compiled from their reports . |
| 13 | Much has changed in the European energy picture over the past decade and much will change over the next two , yet one central preoccupation persists and will persist , and that is Europe 's dependence on imported oil . |
| 14 | ‘ Too much has happened in the last year , ’ he said , ‘ and too much change around a candidate is not wise . ’ |
| 15 | Any model struck by a cannon ball takes a strength 10 hit resolved in the normal manner . |
| 16 | Any model struck by a cannon ball takes a strength 10 hit resolved in the normal manner . |
| 17 | According to statistics provided by human rights and business organizations , 1,598 Guatemalans had been murdered , 2,517 had suffered bodily harm and 906 had disappeared in the first six months of 1989 . |
| 18 | Fourteen-year-old Sabine had remained in the roomy attic which had been hers since nursery days . |
| 19 | Of the seven warmest years in the 20th century ( which were , in order , 1990 , 1988 , 1983 , 1987 , 1944 , 1989 and 1981 ) six had occurred in the last decade . |
| 20 | Maori mothers were significantly more likely to have smoked in the previous two weeks than non-Maori mothers ( χ 2 =201 , df=3 , p<0.001 ) ( table IV ) . |
| 21 | However , parallel cousins who may in reality be half-siblings are also likely to have lived in the same household . |
| 22 | The working party prepared written submissions drawing comparisons between the Bar 's training and that proposed by the Law Society but taking account of the experience solicitors would be likely to have had in the lower courts . |
| 23 | Something like twenty-five of these have appeared in the last two years and more are on the way . |
| 24 | They are perhaps owe something to the tabloid newspapers and colour supplements , as these have emerged in the post-war years , with their high illustrative content and minimal text . |
| 25 | I need to know his home address , his occupation , and his business address , and if any of these have changed in the last five years . |
| 26 | These have resulted in the better definition of defect dependent growth , morphological control by physical and chemical means and the influence of structure in both the surface and the dispersed phase on the growth process . |
| 27 | In my local hospital in Withington , the number of beds for the elderly has decreased in the past few years from 140 beds to barely 20 . |
| 28 | ‘ The substantial improvement we reported for 1992 has continued in the first three months of 1993 following a further sharp reduction in our worldwide underwriting deficit . |
| 29 | But we all get changed in the same room when we 're at concerts . |
| 30 | A thousand lay sprawled in the broken trains . |