Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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1 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
2 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |
3 | Craftsmanship in wood , leathern iron and silver was quite highly developed among the Yakuts in the seventeenth century , and they were almost the only north Siberian people to make pottery . |
4 | Invading fans are not only repulsed by the occupants in defence of their home ‘ turf ’ , but also by the police in their pursuit of law and order and the status quo . |
5 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
6 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
7 | This brings in the other theme of how money can corrupt which is obviously shown by the ways in which Pip 's attitude changes towards those around him by becoming condescending towards them and showing little respect and compassion . |
8 | But these values were much influenced by the changes in the value of the dollar , both in relation to other currencies and in relation to world prices . |
9 | It has been noted as a common error in response to ratio and proportion questions , but its incidence is much influenced by the numbers in the questions and particularly by context ( Bell , APU ) . |
10 | In England , belief in the uniformity of time was greatly influenced by the Puritans in their strong opposition to the practices of the Roman Church , in particular to the idea of special days in the ecclesiastical calendar . |
11 | The early sociologists were greatly influenced by the changes in patterns of life which they saw going on around them as industrialisation proceeded , and they were often deeply disturbed by what they saw . |
12 | The matter is made worse by the fact that the two offences are construed as being mutually exclusive ; and the resulting difficulties are not entirely overcome by the provisions in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 44 as to the verdicts open to the jury when they find that the accused committed an offence different from that charged ( cf. paragraph 90 ) . |
13 | The highlight of the Junior School charities programme is the Summer Charities Fair held on the lawns in June . |
14 | ( 4 ) The sales information , including the information about prices , was necessarily acquired by the defendants in order that they could do their work . |
15 | Material characteristic of medieval Latin writing that is widely exploited in the fabliaux in ways that are often both entertaining and probing is the dogma of antifeminist traditions : traditions which present woman , the daughters of Eve , as generally morally reprehensible and dangerous to man ; insatiable and extravagant sexual sirens with their bodies , and perjurers , temptresses or endless naggers with their tongues . |
16 | Japan , the United States and western Europe are generally regarded as the leaders in the present electronics revolution . |
17 | The poison was not given to the Indians in massive doses that would have provoked a reaction , but was administered drop by drop , until it brought about the loss of personality . |
18 | Any theme or emphasis on medium , subject matter or style was brought out by the selectors and was not imposed by the organisers in any way . |
19 | Television 's ‘ cumulative effects ’ are thus related to the ways in which it ‘ transmits reality and affects the imagery of politics and political figures ’ . |
20 | Use it for the darker colours ; the permanency of the pigments is not affected by the minerals in the water . |
21 | Trust in Hitler was scarcely affected by the lapses in morale , the poor mood , and the daily antagonisms generally predominant in shaping popular opinion during the spring and early summer of 1941 . |
22 | It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war . |
23 | If Tories are not flung to the lions in Blaenau , it can only be because lions are rare in the one-time mining valleys of South Wales . |
24 | This tradition has by no means wholly disappeared , although the power of the shop-stewards movement is now massively reduced by the changes in its traditional locations described above . |
25 | It also provided that divorce proceedings should be instituted when all the matters in dispute were to be finally settled between the parties in the context of the court proceedings . |
26 | My hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield has already enlarged upon the facts in the fine document which was produced in 1991 and I can only assume that they are correct . |
27 | Probably the best known of the quartets in Britain is No. 8 , composed in Dresden in 1960 and dedicated to the victims of Fascism and of the War , and in view of the constant use of the DSCH motif and the quotations from several of his own pieces , there can be little doubt that Shostakovich considered himself among their number . |
28 | Smart cards are perhaps the best known of the devices in the fight against school-dodging and they also contribute to security and safety . |
29 | Given sufficient food males were thus distributed with the females in large groups forming a hierarchically ordered collective collaborating in protection . |
30 | In the language of sociobiology , " kinship " , outside the immediate bond of mother/infant and , perhaps , sibling/sibling , is a biological relationship which may be discovered by the research worker but which is not known to the actors in the scenario under observation . |