Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Fast on its heels came MacPublisher and Ready-Set-Go but somehow neither caught on in the same way .
2 The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge .
3 He said he just carried on in the same direction .
4 ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’
5 The drive against corporations was carried out in the same spirit ; the only reason why the Whigs and Nonconformists had grown so influential in corporation politics was because the Corporation Act of 1661 had not been properly enforced .
6 New tasks for perception can only be carried out in the same way ‘ under the guidance of tactile appropriation ’ ( ibid : 242 ) .
7 Some business decisions can be carried out in the same way .
8 Also , enforcement is carried out in the same way by the weights and measures authorities , sections 27–33 .
9 Perhaps random spot checks could be carried out in the same way as breathalyser tests .
10 So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine .
11 I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other .
12 A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred .
13 Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect .
14 They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable .
15 Larger units of measurements in the metric system , are built up in the same way as the number system , based again on tens and tenths .
16 A cartridge pleat heading is made up in the same way as pinch pleats ( page 22 ) , but the bases of the small tubes ( pleats ) are not pinched up but left rounded by filling with a soft stuffing such as wadding .
17 Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes .
18 And secondly , and very much wrapped up in the same point with this , they 're also coy about the sort of people they 're looking for .
19 Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools .
20 Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail .
21 ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet .
22 The journey is a long one , but it is hurried over in a few words .
23 The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it .
24 The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days .
25 From a conservationist viewpoint , Hong Kong 's problem can be summed up in a few words : too many people .
26 The problem is that although the typeface may have the same name — indeed it may even come from the same original — it may not have been coded up in the same way .
27 ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . )
28 But even between children brought up in the same home with the same advantages , one with another , at 7 there are still huge differences .
29 The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in .
30 Anyway , as you know , we were almost brought up in the same bassinet , and , as I made out to Mama just a short while ago , if Isobel had to choose between the horse and me , the horse would come out best . ’
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