Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only that , but he must have swallowed the large Garry Dog I had on the line , which must have floated down in an unrestricted way to him . ’ |
| 2 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 3 | The composition and terms of reference of urban development corporations will be changed immediately and they will in due course be wound up in an orderly way . |
| 4 | Her eyes filled with tears , but she made no attempt to blink them away , too caught up in an internal struggle which she knew could determine her life forever after . |
| 5 | Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’ |
| 6 | Positivists , of all varieties , have consequently been caught up in an endless quest for a universal , objective but non-legal concept of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind . |
| 8 | Many of the movements in the 1960s were reluctant to take this step , largely because of their hostility to the bureaucratic character of traditional parties , and they seem to have formed no clear idea of how the desired transformation of the economy , the political system and cultural patterns ( including education ) could actually be carried out in an effective way . |
| 9 | The major part of the nominee 's work must have been carried out in an academic institution in the UK or Republic of Ireland and the person must currently work in such an institution . |
| 10 | The major part of the nominee 's work must have been carried out in an academic institution in the UK or Republic of Ireland and the person must currently work in such an institution . |
| 11 | This study , carried out in an Italian series of patients accurately selected for the absence of other known aetiologic factors , and the presence of well established serum markers of autoimmunity , confirms previous observations made with a first generation ELISA that a wide overlap between the two above conditions does occur . |
| 12 | They were on weak ground , for there were no precedents for this , and on 8 March the Cologne assembly , now meeting at Mulhouse , divested Philip of this title and denied the validity of his election , saying that it had been carried out in an unusual place and that the count Palatine and the archbishop of Mainz had been absent . |
| 13 | While the police are clearly involved with formal social control , it is apparent that much of their work is carried out in an informal manner . |
| 14 | It was clear that the Great Casterton defences had been planned and carried out in an unhurried manner and with military precision . |
| 15 | The established church believed teetotalism was taking the place of God and was carried out in an un-Christian spirit . |
| 16 | The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote . |
| 17 | The paper is clipped together by firm bulldog clips at the top edge of the required piece of hardboard , so allowing the charts to be turned over in an upwards direction . |
| 18 | After flying on land , the group were then whisked off in an airborne plane to Robert Carrier 's restaurant in Suffolk for a sumptuous lunch . |
| 19 | These examples may seem to be somewhat removed from the experience of a child who has grown up in an inner-city slum . |
| 20 | The city 's funeral barons had turned out in an unprecedented expression of their admiration and their sympathy , and Creed took full advantage of the fact . |
| 21 | A deer has had to be put down after its leg was ripped off in an illegal snare . |
| 22 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 23 | Large British forces had been tied up in an expensive operation to which there seemed to be no obvious military solution other than counter-guerrilla operations in Sabah and Sarawak and the deployment of large forces to discourage further escalation of the conflict . |
| 24 | He 's like a gazelle , Lee thought , that once ran free and now finds itself all tied up in an unregulated zoo . |
| 25 | I have pointed Out in an earlier essay , for example , that the distribution of certain fossils corresponds remarkably well with the old Austro-Hungarian Empire , though it is doubtful whether the Hapsburgs had much control over evolution . |
| 26 | As pointed out in an earlier chapter , security was placed in the hands of the army as part of the innovations of the Whitelaw administration . |
| 27 | In South-west England block and basin limestones and shales and spilitic basic volcanics were laid down in an extensional basin developed at the western end of the Rheno-Hercynian zone . |
| 28 | Inside the field centre she 's set up in an old barn , 30 eight year-olds are being introduced to life on the farm . |
| 29 | He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money . |
| 30 | Savognia had been brought up in an anglicised fashion . |