Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [vb pp] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some good ones to try are suggested in the table . |
| 2 | From the tone of her voice , I thought I was not going to be able to avoid being slung in the box and slipped off the Isle of Wight ferry . |
| 3 | Seton did not appear to resent being replaced in the governorship ; indeed he might even have been somewhat relieved , for it was a grievous responsibility in present circumstances and he had borne it sufficiently long . |
| 4 | The full horror which Londoners had to endure is commemorated in the re-creation — complete with the sounds of anti-aircraft fire and the acrid smell of burning buildings . |
| 5 | I said all you 've got to do is put in the microwave two minutes that 'll do it I thought oh my goodness . |
| 6 | A similar widespread refusal to co-operate was encountered in the diocese of Peterborough , where parishes such as Pattishall and All Saints ' , Northampton , witnessed prolonged battles between the churchwardens and the episcopal visitors over the position of the communion table . |
| 7 | Conservatives believe revelation to have been given in the past , as do all Christians . |
| 8 | Up to ten thousand people are known to have been killed in the earthquake which struck India . |
| 9 | By the end of April over 30 people were reported to have been killed in the violence and many hundreds injured or arrested . |
| 10 | Based on Iraq 's own admission [ see above ] it was believed that the air war might have killed 20,000 ( of whom an estimated 1,000 were civilians ) , while a further 15,000 troops were thought to have been killed in the ground campaign . |
| 11 | The main impediments to the free flow of people are those placed there to facilitate the free flow of motorised traffic , particularly road crossing barriers , signs embedded in the pavement and steps and ramps to carry the walker over or under the roadway. little seems to have been done in the way of formal schemes of assessment of pedestrian problems or of priorities for maintenance or design . |
| 12 | The first church here is believed to have been built in the fifth-century on the site of a pagan temple to Apollo . |
| 13 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 14 | This house and Palazzo Durini ( see page 126 ) are believed to be the first two town houses to have been built in the city after the population had been decimated by plague in 1630 , when , it was thought , as many as 70,000 Milanese died . |
| 15 | For the ultimate cultic sacrifice and voluntary shedding of blood was seen to have been achieved in the figure of the male , circumcised , saviour Christ . |
| 16 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 17 | Inevitably he painted ‘ La Canadienne ’ , but although she was deeply in love , Modigliani 's emotions never seem to have been engaged in the affair . |
| 18 | Dalby was held to have been decided in the way that it was because a direction was needed whether or not there was an intervening act , i.e. the words in Dalby did not mean what they said . |
| 19 | Rumoured to have been locked in the safe at KISS FM when a couple of acetates were given to the station in advance of release , this is an ultra-obvious semi-Italio belter which should keep floors jumping . |
| 20 | Roman interest in Scotland was only slight and patchy at best , and their general view seems to have been expressed in the Severus separation of Britain into superior and inferior provinces . |
| 21 | More than 5,000,000 marijuana plants were said to have been destroyed in the operation in an attempt to curb the flow of illegal drugs from the kingdom into South Africa . |
| 22 | Moreover large quantities of food awaiting shipment to drought-stricken areas were reported to have been destroyed in the fighting . |
| 23 | However , the vehement opposition to prison building by penal reform groups appears to have been vindicated in the light of a worsening of overcrowding and the further deterioration of regimes . |
| 24 | Consequently , sociological positivism can be criticized for giving the impression of setting out to demonstrate scientifically the truth of an approach which seemed already to have been assumed in the way the terms were defined . |
| 25 | ( Apart from the specific use of the word ‘ play ’ by Watson , much of the investigation seems to have been undertaken in the spirit of play . ) |
| 26 | His workshop seems to have been situated in the basement of his house , with his office on the ground floor . |
| 27 | The senses of polysemous words ( such as ’ charge ’ or ’ rate ’ ) are therefore most likely to have been used in the sense related to financial affairs . |
| 28 | A mechanical digger is said to have been used in the incident at the Abbey National office in High Street , Maldon , at 4 am . |
| 29 | Searches that predominantly involve specific words or phrases known to have been used in the source material . |
| 30 | They were thought to have been used in the death of Inspector Drewitt , firstly to shoot him and then to batter him . |