Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] in the [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 New Level , track record holder at Sunderland and Brough Park , clocked a respectable 29.19 sec ( -10 ) winning his heat by 1 5 lengths , while Pond Pavarotti only just scraped through in the faster time of 29.15 , beaten 6 9 lengths by another North-East dog , Capricorn Note , which was also trained until recently by Williams .
2 James 's private quarrel with William now became irretrievably caught up in the greater feud between England and France .
3 Habermas 's theory involves a reflexive moment that was present but unsatisfactorily worked out in the earlier versions of critical theory .
4 Their quarterly meetings were anodyne affairs , chaired by a genial buffer named George Mackie ( later Lord Mackie of Benshie ) , whose deliberations were too often bogged down in the drearier aspects of Liberal Party policy .
5 It was a pleasure to discover that it had escaped the sort of wholesale restoration so commonly carried out in the earlier part of this century .
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