Example sentences of "in [noun] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jade accessories featured in rituals designed to ensure good relations between emperors and the celestial powers on whom they depended to ensure the continued mandate of heaven . |
| 2 | Travellers ' tales , especially from traders , had in addition begun to circulate fictitious images of African peoples with bizarre physical features ( no mouths or noses ! ) ; accounts of the supposed promiscuity and general beastly immorality of African societies mingled with more accurate descriptions of the wealth and refinement to be found on the continent ( Walvin , 1973 ; Jordan , 1974 ; Husband , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | They have an important role to play in sessions designed to introduce young people to issues of health and safety , rights and equal opportunities at work . |
| 4 | They have a particular and unique role to play in sessions designed to introduce young people to issues of health and safety , rights and equal opportunities at work . |
| 5 | This was nowhere more true than on the northern border , where the nobles who held office as Wardens of the Marches , a system that had reached full development by the end of Edward III 's reign , were in effect allowed to maintain permanent standing armies at the Exchequer 's expense . |
| 6 | The Rules of the Supreme Court were in consequence changed to allow general use of documents read in open court — an ironic example of how the European Convention can still be necessary to enforce a principle which derives from , and should be fundamental to , British domestic law . |
| 7 | The mortality in patients randomised to receive conventional treatment alone , 9/30 ( 30% ) , was higher than in some previous reports . |
| 8 | Then he remembered something and knew he was in duty bound to take that risk . |
| 9 | Lady visitors were also co-opted in campaigns designed to instruct working-class mothers on practical morality m the home , supervising children 's play and paying careful attention to the bathing and sleeping arrangements of sons and daughters . |