Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet if Richard Armstrong was writing according to a tried formula , concrete detail and well-conceived plots and the firm line of his character drawing helped him to achieve a special , moderate , even low- keyed reality in his books . |
| 2 | THE number of children on Wirral 's child protection register has jumped 10% in a year , according to the council 's annual social services report . |
| 3 | iv A family has received £400 in compensation after a coach holiday firm failed to provide the smoke-free transport specified in the brochure . |
| 4 | The law in this area is not confined to contractual relationships , but may also be based ‘ on the broad principle of equity that he who has received information in confidence shall not take unfair advantage of it . ’ |
| 5 | This paragraph seems to indicate that it may be possible for a person who has received information in confidence which he could have obtained through other sources to relieve himself of the 'special disability " under which he is otherwise placed by going to those sources . |
| 6 | The exhibition has aroused comment in the British press as the first to impose a stiff £6 entrance charge , albeit including an ‘ acoustiguide ’ a sort of sophisticated Walkman . |
| 7 | This extraordinary and highly convoluted story has aroused interest in many quarters from time to time . |
| 8 | Agency working has aroused interest in Britain not only because it is concentrated in particular local and occupational labour markets but also because of the special status that agency workers have in employment law . |
| 9 | As a result of the remits we have ensured that growth in net revenues , inevitably small given the recession of the last three years , has outpaced growth in costs , thus reversing the unacceptable trend seen prior to the programme . |
| 10 | It was one of the truly marvellous innings , one that no one who saw it could ever forget ; since it has been shown on television virtually every time rain has stopped play in any match since , it would be almost impossible to have forgotten it anyway . |
| 11 | To avoid disease activation , we add tamoxifen on the basis that it has proven efficacy in the treatment of breast cancer in premenopausal women . |
| 12 | The most significant welfare change , both in terms of numbers of people affected and the sum saved in public expenditure , has been the method by which this Government has calculated increases in social security . |
| 13 | Check 1 If Mr Smith shares his wage bill of $865.50 equally among 10 men , what does he pay each man ? unc Check 2 Joe has flown 54,825.00km in 100 hours . |
| 14 | Thus question time has limited use in obtaining the factual information necessary to enable M.P.s to scrutinise the activities of the Government . |
| 15 | These are all roads where the pedagogical tradition has pointed signposts in the wrong direction , making us search for English ( the nature of English conversation , at least ) where it is not — and where only a careful analysis of natural conversational data can get us on the right road again . |
| 16 | All work undertaken by solicitors and suitably qualified Fellows of the Institute of Legal Executives arising out of any act of negligence , breach of contract and/or breach of statutory duty as a result of which the victim has sustained injury in the course of medical care . |
| 17 | Keith is known to his colleagues as a quiet man , however he has hidden talents in that he writes poems and has penned many about his time with Rentokil . |
| 18 | Private detectives employed by the Kuwaiti government claim to have discovered that Saddam Hussein has hidden assets in more than 40 banks around the world , $2.4 billion of which are not frozen by UN sanctions . |
| 19 | Falkingham ( 1987 ) has examined trends in marital status for the over-65s from 1901 to 1981 . |
| 20 | This chapter has examined spheres in which the experiences of men and women diverge in modern Britain and differ in a way which is , typically , to the disadvantage of women . |
| 21 | In addition almost every page has painted decoration in the text , with brightly coloured birds , animals , faces and figures often entwined into the capital letters at the beginning of the lines . |
| 22 | The trend has provoked outrage in the US where this week Mark Chapman , the man who gunned down John Lennon , is touting his autobiography . |
| 23 | It is this persistent surplus , more than anything , that has provoked anger in Washington — and Mr Clinton 's remark that ‘ the possibility of obtaining real , even access to the Japanese market is somewhat remote ’ . |
| 24 | An unusual opportunity to do this has arisen from the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative , which has gathered information in precisely this form . |
| 25 | Because of Joan 's willingness and experience , she has undertaken work in a ward for those who are suffering acute mental conditions . |
| 26 | Alison Petch has undertaken research in a range of social policy areas , in both local authority and university settings . |
| 27 | Adrian Hadley , Salford 's £120,000 winger , has joined Widnes in a swap deal for Great Britain under-21 forward Jason Critchley and utility man Steve Wynne . |
| 28 | Five of the current Romanian international squad are playing in France , including loose-head prop Gheorghe Leonte who has joined Constantin in Mielan . |
| 29 | The Object Management Group has joined the Open Software Foundation and the OSF has joined OMG in a reciprocal membership deal . |
| 30 | The Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet has joined Greenpeace in calling for the project to be halted . |