Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school . |
| 2 | She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen . |
| 3 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 4 | Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce . |
| 5 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 6 | In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light . |
| 7 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 8 | His beard and teeth got in the way . |
| 9 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 10 | Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze . |
| 11 | Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution . |
| 12 | In any case other activities got in the way of getting to the Sunday services , but I managed the rehearsals and some weekday 5pm services . |
| 13 | When Parliament met in the autumn of 1381 , the Speaker expressed the view that the troubles had been caused by abuses in government , notably by purveyance for the royal household and by the levy of taxation for the defence of the realm , particularly as this did not prevent the King 's enemies from raiding England . |
| 14 | Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ . |
| 15 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 16 | On one island the macaques lived in the forested interior . |
| 17 | Even sex reformers like Havelock Ellis shared in the assumption that menstruation was debilitating , and by some this was seen as an educational disqualification . |
| 18 | The machine tools were housed to one end , the aeroplane assembled at the other , whilst the draftsmen lived in the loft . |
| 19 | The difficulty arose in the present case because of the Divisional Court 's decision in R v Board of Inland Revenue , Ex parte Goldberg ( 1989 ) QB 267 . |
| 20 | Savage , Evans and Savage ( 1981 ) could find no effects on reading performance of having introduced a one-handed fingerspelling system , though , not surprisingly , part of the difficulty arose in the methodology of the comparisons made . |
| 21 | Lord Devlin argued in The Enforcement of Morals that a shared morality is necessary for the continued existence of society , an assumption also central to Parsonian sociology . |
| 22 | ‘ The recession got in the way . |
| 23 | In 1966/67 and 1973/74 six or more birds wintered in the county , but the autumn and winter of 1974/75 were quite remarkable , with a total of 45–50 birds altogether , of which at least 20 wintered ; 15 or more arrived from the south at Beachy Head on 22 October 1974 . |
| 24 | Single birds wintered in the Cuckmere valley in 1963/64 , at Glynde Levels in each winter between 1966 and 1971 , and at Pevensey Levels in 1969/70 . |
| 25 | The Dover Harbour Board argued in the early 1980s that ferries would be both cheaper and more reliable than a fixed link , a stance later adopted by the Flexilink consortium of ferry companies in its attempts to convince Parliament that the Channel Tunnel would be a financial disaster . |
| 26 | In his last years Ewing wintered in the warmth of Pollok House in Glasgow , still working with Erskine on theological projects . |
| 27 | Lysosomes incubated in the presence of buffer alone were used as controls . |
| 28 | As Alan Dukes TD argued in the Dáil in response to the pastoral letter : |
| 29 | On 17 September Bevin and Acheson met in the State Department ; Acheson stated that the American government had decided it was necessary to proceed with a peace treaty within the near future . |
| 30 | In a separate case last Friday , Mr Justice Popplewell ruled in the High Court that the courts were not an appropriate place to decide a child 's educational needs . |