Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Peter founded the Wildfowl Trust in 1946 , and has lived at Slimbridge in a house surrounded by geese and duck ever since . |
| 2 | He was born in South Africa and he studied at the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge , and has taught in universities in Britain , in America , in West Africa and France and Germany . |
| 3 | The role of the link programme is to promote an exchange of ideas and has led to visits in both directions . |
| 4 | With its emphasis on universal downwearing , it was a negative and obliterating conception resulting from cerebral analysis rather than from observation and has led to sterility in geomorphologic thought and retarded progress in the subject severely . |
| 5 | Also selected for the first time is batsman Mohsin Chohan , who plays for the Bangor club and has appeared for Caernarfonshire in the past . |
| 6 | She filled her days and nights with activities and fell exhausted into bed in the small hours , disappointed that Lucenzo had n't contacted her . |
| 7 | Armitage suggested that the shortfall for fiscal 1990 was $96,000,000 and had arisen from cuts in Bush 's aid request imposed by Congress , whereas Manglapus claimed that the true figure , based on the estimated cost of other " unfulfilled promises " , was $222,580,000 . |
| 8 | They had tried a few in the Fahan Lodge Hotel after sailing back the night before , been seen off by two ugly English girls ( Morally ugly , said Rory — they would n't screw ) and had roared into Buncrana in the BMW and done the High Street bars . |
| 9 | His close associate Klaus Barbie had been sentenced for crimes against humanity in 1987 [ see p. 35417 ] and had died in prison in 1991 [ see p. 38459 ] . |
| 10 | Erm , er , the funding for that project which I understand has a total cost in excess of a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , has been met from a variety of sources , er , primarily local , but with a contribution from the County Council through the Leisure Services Committee , and also through the Resources Management sub-committee , and in a , indirect sense , in that the , the , the land transferred to the County Council from the District Council for a particular sum , when the project did n't go ahead , the land went back to the District , and had appreciated in value in the intervening time . |
| 11 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
| 12 | Asian women come from many different language groups , practise at least three main religions and have come to Britain in varied patterns of migration but ask them about their family life and the similarity of their experience stands out like the skeleton in an X-ray . |
| 13 | Licensed dealers have made markets in some USM stocks , and have dealt through stockbrokers in the rest . |
| 14 | And you wo n't like this , but since you 're fully vetted and have worked with Tweed in the past … ’ |
| 15 | General Robert E. Lee had almost won the day but had retreated to Virginia in spite of a final attack by the last of his reserves under General Hill . |