Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French king Robert the Pious ( 996 – 1031 ) allegedly delighted in generosity to the poor , in acts of humility , such as when he washed the feet of 160 clerics with his own hair , and in making gifts to churches . |
| 2 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |
| 3 | It will be offered in conjunction with the Department of Environmental Health , Edinburgh District Council and has been designed in collaboration with the Royal Environmental Health Institute for Scotland . |
| 4 | These national criteria have been designed in connection with the new General Certificate of Secondary Education and are intended to ‘ offer a concise account of the understanding , knowledge and competences which should be developed in the course of following the syllabus ’ . |
| 5 | Two court cases were still awaited in connection with the simultaneous uprisings at Santa Barbara and El Frontón prisons in which at least another 100 inmates were thought to have died . |
| 6 | Sainte En grace the saint was in fact Portuguese , and said to have been martyred in Saragossa in the fourth century . |
| 7 | The main charges being investigated were acts committed in relation to the 1968 invasion by Warsaw Pact troops and to the November 1989 demonstrations as well as more general charges involving abuse of official authority , political interference in legal proceedings , illegal property and currency transactions , and embezzlement . |
| 8 | A subject who not only finds science exciting but also believes it can be applied to help people and produce wealth and employment could hardly be bettered in answer to the white coated caricature with which Ian Fells began . |
| 9 | Something more than a vote was expected in return for the major posts , but essentially they too were employed to aid the development of a political interest . |
| 10 | As a juvenile romanticist Kingston , like his contemporary Ballantyne , used the device of the intrusive author accepted in his time and , besides , the didacticism expected in books for the young , didacticism made easier by the continuity and the extent of time afforded by serial publication in the boys ' magazines of the period . |
| 11 | Elderly women with bleeding varices seem to outnumber men , perhaps to be expected in view of the lower incidence of alcoholic cirrhosis and the longer life expectancy of women . |
| 12 | In the case of the Stommeln Synagogue , located in Pulheim-Stommeln in the extreme west of Cologne , an unusual exhibition venue has been created which has excited attention with its sensitive presentation of single works by Jannis Kounellis and Richard Serra . |
| 13 | Located in Bilston in the Black Country , Perry Poultry buys oven-ready poultry , which it processes for a prestigious range of customers including Marks & Spencer , Sainsbury 's and Kentucky Fried Chicken ( Perry makes Zingers , Kentucky 's new line of spiced burgers ) . |
| 14 | In the blowfly Phormia this system helps to regulate feeding : a group of 4–8 neurons are located in branches of the median abdominal nerve and respond to changes in the volume of the crop ( Gelperin , 1971a , b ) . |
| 15 | The two female characters could be read as established types of women , untrustworthy to , or just unworthy of , men , paralleled in fact in the French fabliaux . |
| 16 | Galloway has commented that ‘ teachers and magistrates who see legal sanctions as the solution to the problem of poor attendance might be more happily occupied in search of the Holy Grail ’ . |
| 17 | The sword hardly varied in form from the twelfth to the fifteenth century : it generally had a two-edged blade , about 40 inches in length . |
| 18 | He apparently wishes the official title of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be dropped in favour of the archaic President of the Board of Trade . |
| 19 | ‘ I felt if I was dropped it was not too bad to be dropped in favour of the second-best hooker in England . ’ |
| 20 | The TT300 programme was not supported by the Ministry of Defence and was dropped in favour of the larger EH.101 utility variant . |
| 21 | The basic lunge punch is dropped in favour of the short swift jab or the very fast reverse punch . |
| 22 | Another nightmarish error let in Swail in the ninth but his inexperience proved significant with the winning line in sight . |
| 23 | After a lifetime of being emotionally devoured by him , she was suddenly discarded in favour of the detestable Damian Flint . |
| 24 | A point of typographical interest is that the printers of broadside notices and ballads continued to use the old ‘ black letter ’ or Gothic founts of type long after they had been discarded in favour of the Roman letter for printed books ; so that many of them can take us back in spirit and atmosphere to the Gutenberg Bible and Caxton working at the Sign of the Red Pale in Westminster . |
| 25 | Within a few months of its publication the government had launched a huge inquiry into pensions which was to produce a series of changes — including the right of employees changing jobs to either take a pension with them , or leave it with the previous employer and have it uprated in line with the retail price index up to a maximum of 5 per cent . |
| 26 | General Baratieri , hearing he was to be superseded in command of the Italian forces , advanced by night with three columns through the rocky hills and gorges near Adua to give battle to Menelik 's army , which numbered a hundred thousand men . |
| 27 | If such an allotment would be prohibited by foreign law , or would only be permitted subject to compliance with onerous filing or other obligations , the scheme can be modified in relation to the overseas shareholders in question by providing for the consideration securities to be allotted to an independent trustee who will then sell the securities and account to the shareholders with the net proceeds . |
| 28 | All 27 MPs belonging to the Jatiya Party voted in favour of the new reforms despite the party 's expressed preference for presidential rule . |
| 29 | The Chinese parliament has voted in favour of the controversial Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river , the biggest hydro-electric project in the world , which will be capable of generating one-eighth of all the power now produced in China . |
| 30 | Three further Ki–115s were reported in Japan in the early 1970s at Kanda , Koganei-City and Tokyo . |