Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golden lads and lasses had just breakfasted on golden toast , a little blackened at the edge in some cases , spread with golden shred or golden syrup . |
| 2 | Downstairs , when Jessica had stormed out , her parents had found themselves remarkably constrained by the stranger in their midst . |
| 3 | In the emergence of this ‘ young generation ’ of independent means lies the early identification of the sector of the population which was to be so effectively targeted by the market in the postwar era . |
| 4 | Creatures were not necessarily placed on the earth in the form in which they appeared now . |
| 5 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 6 | States escaped relatively unscathed last year ; not so cities and counties , which are less constrained by the law in matters of budgetary irresponsibility . |
| 7 | Your former employer should pay the amount so claimed by the Department in respect of social security benefits that you have received . |
| 8 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 9 | Missionary interest had been greatly stirred by the work in training ordinands in what was then the Gold Coast , by Dom Bernard Clements OSB . |
| 10 | He may have been pleased to get the job — but he was only shot into the spot in order to stand up for good , Christian , family values and to restore party morale in Cecil 's wake . |
| 11 | Cold water can hold a higher percentage of dissolved gases which , when suddenly warmed by the water in the aquarium or pond , will be released and cause supersaturation . |
| 12 | Britain by then had been at war with Germany for two years , but the Soviet Union was only drawn into the conflict in June by a sudden German invasion , whilst the US entered the war in December after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . |
| 13 | They will be greatly perturbed by the way in which his Department is undermining the provisions of my Badgers Act 1991 by issuing licences to more than 600 fox hunts to enable them to dig up badger setts and unleash terriers into them . |
| 14 | Males and females thus live in largely separate systems only integrated through the overlap in range . |
| 15 | The murky and seedy , small-time underworld of pre-war Brighton is brilliantly evoked by the Master in this most gripping of his ‘ entertainments ’ . |
| 16 | United Kingdom bilateral aid is naturally focused on the Commonwealth in Africa , but Zaire is a major recipient of the African Development bank finance and fund resources . |
| 17 | Mr Wood 's magnanimity was entirely invented from the manner in which he supposed great landlords in great cities behaved to their great guests . |
| 18 | The application of the rules was , however , greatly restricted following the decision in R. v. Electricity Commissioners , ex p . |
| 19 | However , this tablet was only set in the wall in 1456 , and is in conflict with an account written about events on 17 September 1387 . |
| 20 | Funnily enough , De Gaulle was one of the better behaved of the gang in all other respects . |
| 21 | The value of this procedure is much diminished by the decision In the Estate of Wipperman [ 1955 ] P 59 ; [ 1953 ] 1 All ER 764 , that an examiner may not include in the deposition any opinion as to the witness 's credibility ( Ord 20 , r 13(5) ( e ) ; note 39/13/1 in The Supreme Court Practice ) . |
| 22 | The fact that Chafe ( 1977 ) has suggested that information concerning agent and recipient is not necessarily stored by the individual in a specific arm is perhaps fortuitous in our comparison of English with BSL . |
| 23 | Fretwell may avail the doctor , but is somewhat discredited by the decision in N. C.B. v. |
| 24 | In the way by which he was brought up by hand and also how his hands are burnt and so scarred by the fire in which he tries to save Miss Havisham , perhaps showing physically the mental scars he has taken on through his treatment of others , especially Joe . |
| 25 | A sufficient element of damage is shown where expenses are necessarily incurred by the plaintiff in investigating and counteracting the machinations of the defendants . |
| 26 | By 1917 Unionists had more cause to fear than to rejoice , for the Labour movement had been greatly strengthened by the war in both its aspects ; increasing membership and growing militancy in the trades unions , growing confidence in the Labour party , the arrival of organized revolutionary extremism in the shop-stewards " movement all pointed to a grim future . |
| 27 | The interest of this curious bower is much enhanced by the manner in which it is decorated with the most gaily-coloured articles that can be collected , such as the blue tail-feathers of the Rose-hill and Pennantian Parrakeets , bleached bones , the shells of snails , & c some of the feathers are inserted among the twigs , while others with the bones and shells are strewn about near the entrances . |
| 28 | The SVR be highly congratulated for the way in which the emergency was dealt with . |
| 29 | EVIDENCE is emerging that thousands of women have been systematically and brutally raped in the conflict in former Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | C.6.2 if so required by the Vendor in writing within 60 days following it being notified , retain solicitors chosen by the Vendor to proceed on behalf of the Purchaser in accordance with the instructions of the Vendor and give to such solicitors all and every assistance and information as they may require . |