Example sentences of "[vb pp] it in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away .
2 I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident .
3 The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear .
4 Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly , but they have done it in a different way .
5 ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry .
6 Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place .
7 Well , I have n't seen it in a little box yet .
8 And best of all , the Royston , Hertfordshire-based company has simply taken technology that it has already developed and used it in a creative way , which means the newspaper should be relatively cheap — no pricing was available , however , as the firm builds bespoke systems to suit a customers individual needs .
9 and they 've also got it in a dark green which is really nice .
10 Would she have told it in a different way ?
11 It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years .
12 The girls regarded it in a different light .
13 What about like contraception should be integral part of it , and abortion and the options open to you , but I think it 's very important that we are taught it , we 're taught it in a heterosexual basis , and that 's just not the case , and that just alienates people any more , really more from a very early age .
14 The court did not simply substitute its own view because Congress had assigned the task primarily to the agency which , because of its greater experience , placed it in a better position to resolve the matter than the Court .
15 The conclusion of the report was that the resilience and vigour of adult education in the county during the previous twenty years had placed it in a good position to consolidate earlier effort and made HMI confident that further development in the provision of liberal adult education would build on the foundation of the established tradition of co-operative endeavour between the LEAs and the Responsible Bodies .
16 And I 've placed it in a strategic position .
17 this suggests a recognition that cultural production is itself a form of knowledge or , as Hilary Robinson has put it in a recent issue of WAM ( No49 ) in discussing women 's body art , that artists could be said to be producing theory visually ’ .
18 Chairman Alan Brooker believes the company 's increased size has put it in a better position to win larger , long-term contracts , in line with DCM 's stated policy , and should lead to improved margins and faster growth .
19 Very often the examiner will have worded it in a particular way in order to enable you to show a little originality of treatment .
20 Curiously enough , these charming blooms turn to face and follow the sun as it progresses across the sky , a phenomenon you will find frustrating if you have planted it in a north-facing border , since they will invariably turn their backs on you .
21 I had purchased it in a back street in Alexandria , and had become , in a short time , unreasonably attached to it .
22 Antiracist educators have read it in a simplistic manner , however , much to the detriment of their pedagogic project .
23 Here again , in 1857 , statute took away the whole of the matrimonial jurisdiction from the Ecclesiastical Courts and vested it in a new court , the Divorce Court , which was enabled to do not only everything that the Ecclesiastical Court could have done , but also what previously needed the combined efforts of the Ecclesiastical Courts , the Common Law Courts , and an Act of Parliament .
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