Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although pupils with little or no sight will , with training , be able to cope with a variety of environmental situations and even obstacles such as odd chairs , waste-paper baskets or sharp-cornered pieces of furniture scattered or left about in unexpected places , these are an unnecessary and possibly harmful source of trouble for those with visual problems . |
| 2 | He worked for the British Ministry of Information in New York during 1915 , returning to England in 1916 to enlist with the Irish Guards , but was wounded and invalided out in 1917 . |
| 3 | Certainly many interiors that have been gutted or scooped out in this way would now be considered worthy of retention — notably many of Nash 's interiors around Regent 's Park . |
| 4 | Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation . |
| 5 | Death sentences had been judicially imposed or carried out in 1990 in 90 countries ; the death penalty was retained by every country in the Middle East , with Iran showing the region 's highest number of death sentences ( estimated at more than 700 ) , while in China the report recorded 750 executions , the highest number since 1983 . |
| 6 | This Board held that in the particular circumstances — the contracts having been neither framed nor carried out in British India — the profits derived from the contracts did not there accrue or arise . |
| 7 | The sentence and punishment is decided and carried out in private . |
| 8 | From now on , every rehearsal should be arranged and set up in this way , so that your band will sound the same every time you rehearse . |
| 9 | The first book , A Plea for the Faithful Restoration of our Ancient Churches , was based on a lecture that he had given and came out in 1850 . |
| 10 | Some were built by lairds for their own estates , or by burghs for the benefit of their citizens , to provide fresh meat during winter when , before the introduction of turnips as winter fodder , cattle had to be slaughtered and salted down in wooden tubs . |
| 11 | In spite of what one reads and hears , we can take that as being a pretty definitive er word on , on the fact that we 're not being conned or ripped off in any way at all . |
| 12 | Cos that 's where my father was born and brought up in that old house . |
| 13 | ‘ They are born and brought up in this country and subject to peer group pressure from the dominant culture in the 16–24 age group . ’ |
| 14 | This raises questions regarding the extent to which the standardised scores provide a useful basis of comparison for children born and brought up in this country . |
| 15 | I was born and brought up in this town and I thought and hoped my future was here . |
| 16 | ( q ) To remunerate any person , firm or company rendering services to the Company either by cash payment or by the allotment to him or them of shares or other securities of the Company credited as paid up in full or otherwise as may be thought expedient . |
| 17 | ( q ) To remunerate any person , firm or company rendering services to the Company either by cash payment or by the allotment to him or them of shares or other securities of the Company credited as paid up in full or otherwise as may be thought expedient . |
| 18 | This easement does not by any means apply to all developers and is in any case temporary : setting off the charge against the claims in this way will not be possible when the fund has been distributed and the money has been spent or locked up in some investment . |
| 19 | Father ran a butcher 's shop in which Fagg also worked until called up in nineteen thirty-nine . |
| 20 | And second , it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets . |
| 21 | These have to be tested and followed up in new lines of inquiry . |
| 22 | The attitudes are realised and represented in institutionalised and ritualised forms in which respect and contempt are tested and meted out in particular societies |