Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The new enclosures varied in size according to the size of the farms .
2 Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year .
3 The grass was added in staccatto strokes from the angular corners of a selection of Polychromos Pastels , offering a tonal scale of green colour values .
4 A number of these proposals were included in legislation presented to the Congress by Sarney on Aug. 16 , which was accompanied by a bill preparing for the privatization of 18 state concerns in the steel , chemicals , fertilizers , mining and shipping sectors .
5 The pilgrimage intentions together with our own personal needs were included in prayer led by the Bishop .
6 They have been helped along the way by CoastGuard , a treatment for the micro organisms contained in sewage discharged into the sea launched by Chlor Chemicals ' Watercare business last year , and a newspaper story comparing Weston 's beach favourably with a Barbados resort favoured by Princess Diana .
7 ‘ Every man caught in night moves towards the light ’ — this line of Victor Hugo 's is one that Julian Green has both loved and realised in his own life .
8 A weighted mean of all the scaled images is then calculated , with the weighting factor being selected in order to bias against the presence of any abnormalities .
9 Government privatization plans , already set in train in June with the flotation of one-third of the shares in the Ibusz travel agency and the reopening of the Budapest stock exchange [ see p. 37620 ] , were framed in legislation approved by the National Assembly on Sept. 18 .
10 It was written in sub Gone with the Wind style , was longer than the American Civil War and took almost as long again to identify what sort of food was actually on offer from amongst the jokey prose .
11 But the 1979 limit represented the highest possible number of children for a school — higher than was desirable , since it was imposed in order to deal with the rise in the birth-rate of the mid-1960s .
12 I was also immensely proud when Gavin Campbell , who fronted last week 's B B C D E C appeal , told me that words could not describe the tremendously high quality of Save The Children 's work in Malawi , Mozambique and Sudan , which he had recently visited in order to film for the D E C appeal .
13 The graphics are well drawn , and all the major pieces of Allied and German hardware are represented , with many of the pieces not normally seen in computer wargames like the British Sexton Self propelled gun , and the massive JagdTiger Tank destroyer .
14 The enteral administration of terra fullonica shifted the curve of spillover endotoxaemia seen in disease controls to the right ( Figure ) .
15 Such changes are made in English to account for the notion more than one and for the notion meaning approximately in the past in verbs .
16 Further to the west the Ingleton Parish Register for the period records after many burials that the dead were " buried in wool according to the act " and in Swaledale itself , when Ann Baker was buried in 1692 at Grinton Church , her father , Adam , a lead-miner from Oldgang , was fined five pounds for not burying his daughter in wool .
17 The statement of individual educational need in the case of a child with severe limitation or blindness should give an indication of levels of indoor and outdoor mobility and whether individual mobility instruction will be needed in order to cope with the ordinary school environment .
18 The latter ranged from problems caused by errors in the monthly computer account statement to problems faced by governing bodies having to decide on which cuts were needed in order to keep within the budget .
19 This monitoring was needed in order to guarantee to the electors in a local authority that an appropriate service was being provided .
20 The experiments were performed in order to test for the following experimental hypotheses .
21 No addition to or variation of these terms is binding on the Buyer unless agreed in writing signed on the Buyer 's behalf by its Purchasing Director .
22 But it has n't been reflected in traffic flows on the A sixty one to date .
23 This is shown in percentile bands with the fiftieth percentile line shown in the middle ( i.e. fifty out of one hundred children at that age will be of that weight or height ) .
24 A model of the barn was used in court to explain to the jury how all five had climbed onto straw bales .
25 This exercise would be especially useful if it was used in work looking at the development of castles , from motte and bailey , to stone keep , to sophisticated fortress .
26 One of two originally purchased by the late Frank Sanders , many parts from this ‘ Fury have been used in other rebuilds over the years .
27 BELOW The type of tools and techniques used in excavation varies with the country and climate and the resources available .
28 This enables various devices to be used in order to discriminate against the much more abundant elements and molecules which would otherwise swamp the 14 C signal .
29 Engels ( 1874 ) , in an essay on authority directed against the anarchists , commented upon violent political revolutions that ‘ a revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is ’ , but he did not go on to consider whether the authoritarianism of an armed revolutionary struggle might not subsequently become firmly entrenched in the practices of a post-revolutionary government ; and he could not foresee that the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ( a phrase which he and Marx occasionally used in order to refer to the political dominance of the working class , conceived as the vast majority of the population , in the initial phase of socialist society ) would be transformed into a plain dictatorship and a reign of terror , turned against the people themselves .
30 The government did no intend then to be used in order to restore to the districts responsibilities they had lost to the counties , but many districts hoped this would be possible .
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