Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The captain has the responsibility of having the report of the shoot , the names of the people who entered , minutes of their AGM and the prizewinners written up in the records .
2 Other commandos may have got ashore for — as mentioned earlier — some German guns were silenced beyond John Roderick 's objectives , but after landing no other commandos got away in the MLs .
3 His scheme for the amalgamation of Nigeria , which Lugard had been sent out to accomplish , differed completely from the one proposed by Lugard : Lugard 's scheme envisaged a strong governor , Temple 's a weak one , with the responsibility for local affairs placed firmly in the hands of the Residents .
4 Perhaps wisely they did n't react either , as farmers gathered noisily in the streets .
5 The formula does not contain silicone so it wo n't create build-up on the hair which can sometimes affect the result of chemical treatments carried out in the salons .
6 The quality of a work of art , that is to say the maximum level of effectiveness of a work of art , resides in the precision of the means employed to achieve the most profound results , to release the hidden resources locked away in the depths of the reader 's psyche .
7 Thus , paradoxically , changes introduced ostensibly in the interests of rationalizing field officer activity are condemned as irrelevant and unnecessary attacks upon field level autonomy impairing the very efficiency the agency seeks to foster .
8 The long trestle tables were set out in the meadow and garden lights strung out in the trees , and soon the diners began to arrive .
9 The levels detected upstream in the Friends of the Earth study are broadly comparable to those measured by the ministry in samples nearer the coast - where official models would predict a higher amount of radioactivity .
10 But because the declaration and injunction are remedies in private law as well as in public law , there are also procedures contained elsewhere in the Rules of the Supreme Court for applying for these remedies .
11 Contoured hills hide car parks tucked away in the hollows out of sight — for the cars of yachtsmen , fishermen , ramblers and bird watchers .
12 So , in the space of three years , the curious puzzle of the shrinking Sun has taken researchers from the studies of dusty old records locked away in the files of the world 's most famous observatory to speculations about the internal workings of the Sun and a grim warning of the possible climatic future that will confront the next generation of human beings on an already overcrowded planet .
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