Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 2 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 3 | The Great Western pioneered the idea but it never caught on in the rest of the country . |
| 4 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
| 5 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |
| 6 | There was a vigorous life , both commercial and family , carried on in the basements of large Victorian terraces . |
| 7 | The teaching is carried on in the form of folklore and tribal legends . |
| 8 | This particular form of the game is not that old , having come in in the middle of the last century , when changes took place in the technology of pelota . |
| 9 | We 've come down in the middle of nowhere , and you calmly suggest we walk out ! |
| 10 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 11 | Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises . |
| 12 | The basic question at issue in the debate is whether the United Kingdom is to be carried along in the wake of those changes or to be a driving force for change . |
| 13 | Their style was exceptionally clear and one was carried along in the unfolding of an argument which seemed as majestically inevitable as the development of a Bach fugue . |
| 14 | That legislation can not be carried through in the remainder of this Parliament and will be a matter for the next Parliament . |
| 15 | The reforms of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , which were carried through in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment , included a secularisation of education and the recognition of the rights of the Slav subjects of the Empire to instruct in their own language . |
| 16 | As a testimony to one trade-unionist 's authority and stature , carried through in the face of some hostility within the administration and somewhat glacial relations with Denis Healey at the Treasury , it was a remarkable accomplishment . |
| 17 | The closure problem has come through in the appearance of another function F in the equation for E ; F is related to the Fourier transform of the triple correlation . |
| 18 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 19 | Companies tend to use a ‘ firewall ’ along their route into Internet so that individuals can not be looked up in the directory of users — a sort of ex directory . |
| 20 | As well as X400 , X25 , Async and Bisync , it is now also offering Odette File Transfer Protocol , enabling dropped sessions to be picked up in the middle of transmission . |
| 21 | She was picked up in the centre of town in broad daylight . |
| 22 | Lack of proper planning and provision is likely to be picked up in the review of day care services which local authorities are obliged to conduct every three years ( s19 ) . |
| 23 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 24 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 25 | For many Christian people who are caught up in the whirlpool of grief , the most difficult part may well be their realization that they are in fact feeling very distressed . |
| 26 | In 1952 , James found himself caught up in the tide of Cold War paranoia sweeping America . |
| 27 | Such sharks caught up in the net of pressganging were generally ideal raw material for the Guard . |
| 28 | What seems to me to need attention is … [ the ] movement of psychoanalysis away from content ( pre-Oedipal or otherwise ) to a concept of sexuality as caught up in the register of demand and desire . |
| 29 | In 1979 as a hospital worker , she was caught up in the Winter of Discontent . |
| 30 | He recognizes also that whether we like it or not we are ‘ caught up in the conflagration of Hi sā . ’ |