Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] in a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , between the upper strata of the landed aristocracy and the wealthiest members of the industrial and commercial society there were many links ; and gradually these two elements came to be joined together in a single ruling group … |
| 2 | THE best of east and west are being fused together in a new joint venture designed to give Courtaulds a dynamic presence in coil coatings throughout Europe . |
| 3 | Cut-price chains Presto and Lo-Cost , caught up in a bloody head-to-head battle with discounters like Kwik Save , managed only a small profits increase . |
| 4 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 5 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 6 | The ‘ best ’ rooms have chimney-pieces picked out in a canny false-stone effect ( in fact no more than mortar ) or else ornamented by rubbed and painted bricks . |
| 7 | Since it is essential , not only that the glue should be heated to about 150°C. but also that there should be no appreciable gap or space in the joint , the gluing operation had , in practice , to be carried out in a heated hydraulic press . |
| 8 | Therefore , the notion of being whirled around in a low-level steep bank , at maximum take-off weight , would surely have been viewed with scepticism by pilots and aircrew . |
| 9 | Around the catafalque are some of his most powerful magical items , which lie scattered around in a strange quasi-circular pattern as if they were being drawn to the catafalque in a spiralling motion and suddenly stopped . |
| 10 | However well charted the world may be there is still adventure , danger and hardship for some travellers to endure : Christina Dodwell experienced ‘ cold terror ’ while crossing the rapids of the Laigap River in Papua New Guinea ; Dervla Murphy survived an attack by wolves and several rape attempts ; Rosie Atkins , travelling round the world with her husband and two children , was trapped overnight in a battered old coach by a landslide in Ladakh . |
| 11 | Like George Habash 's PFLP , from which it had broken away in a brutal revolutionary schism , it was opposed to Arafat 's gun-and-olive-branch approach towards Israel and therefore outside Arafat 's control . |
| 12 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |
| 13 | This mass of people , all dressed in their Sunday best , bedecked with badges and brass , hovers like a human shield , while the Royal in question inspects whatever is on show , shakes a few select hands and exchanges benign pleasantries , before being whisked away in a grand black limousine . |
| 14 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 15 | Novice anthropologists are not all birds of a feather but most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in a modern industrialized society of the sort which presupposes a particular type of major distinction between private affairs and public affairs . |
| 16 | But if you were Jewish , and had grown up in a strict kosher home it might be difficult to accept , even if you now had a broader view through your conversion to Christ . |
| 17 | The navel , as the central feature of the body , is usually enlarged and emphasized and sometimes the entire stomach is thrust forward in a protruding shield-like form ; the limbs are shortened and seen as simple tubular forms , or reduced to a few incisive , sharply differentiated planes . |
| 18 | Examples included direct imitation , expansion of the child 's utterance into a phrase or sentence which captures the child 's intended meaning , extensions which include a novel contribution , and recastings in which the child 's meaning is reflected back in a different syntactical form ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 19 | If a major war in Europe appears likely , the flights will disperse up to 160 km from their main operating base so that they can not be wiped out in a single nuclear attack . |
| 20 | It is also how one must determine whether others have acted well or not , so far as externals go , though how far they have acted well in a proper inward sense , that is , how far they have been truly guided by the categorical imperative , rather than by the calculations of self interest , is hidden away in the depths of their being , hidden perhaps even from themselves . |
| 21 | But remember that they 're tucked up in a nice warm greenhouse and it can be pretty chilly outside . |
| 22 | Her slender body was untidily bundled up in a big leathery jacket and she was wearing long , shiny red boots . |
| 23 | It was clear that the free-enterprise ( indeed , Thatcherite ) peoples of Hong Kong were likely to be swallowed up in a huge Marxist empire of uncertain direction . |
| 24 | This was the first time in history that a trade union banner had been borne aloft in a great military and naval display . |
| 25 | The incidence of high rates of non-returners is borne out in a Far Eastern Economic Review report which suggested that out of the 50,000 scholars sent abroad since 1978 , at the start of the reform decade , only 20,000 have returned . |
| 26 | Mrs. Bidwell , clad now in a navy-blue working overall and carrying a plastic bucket in one hand and a mop in the other , led the way . |
| 27 | Before that , the first three of these forces have to be brought together in a Grand Unified Theory ( GUT ) . |
| 28 | That study and other environmental studies commissioned by the Cardiff Bay development corporation and South Glamorgan county council were brought together in a detailed environmental impact assessment by Liverpool university . |
| 29 | By contrast , gas ca n't be burnt alone in a diesel-type compression-ignition engine . |
| 30 | These are then linked together in a set logical sequence to teach the beginner continuity of movement . |