Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I later learnt that the corpse had been badly mauled in battle , the face disfigured by a crashing axe blow . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , the body was badly mauled in battle . ’ |
| 3 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 4 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 5 | Among the stars , mostly clad in graveyard black , who dutifully stepped along it , was Sadie Frost , wife of Spandau Ballet star Gary Kemp . |
| 6 | There is no doubt too that parents have become more aware that immunisation can carry a risk of adverse reaction and this has been most publicised in relation to the whooping cough vaccine . |
| 7 | A joint venture between English Nature and London Zoo 's Invertebrate Conservation team has resulted in Britain 's most endangered bush cricket , the wart-biter ( Decticus verrucivorus ) being successfully reared in captivity for the first time . |
| 8 | This account is rarely given in isolation . |
| 9 | There are changes — the numbers were exceptionally high , as the hon. Gentleman graphically indicated just now — but still no one could claim that Northern Ireland was badly placed in respect of our proposals . |
| 10 | The Design Change ( DC ) assessment has been successfully registered in LIFESPAN . |
| 11 | Wilkinson ( 1990 ) suggests that temporal adjuncts are rarely placed in theme position in Dutch . |
| 12 | Voice of all races similar : a meadow-pipit-like song , delivered in aerial song flight , rising from and returning to either ground or a rock ; and a sharp ‘ phist ’ , less high-pitched than Meadow Pipit 's and rarely uttered in triplicate . |
| 13 | Again both sides of industry are closely involved in their preparation , and in addition the Commission believes that trade unions should be " properly consulted in preparation of standardisation measures , and in the management of these Directives " . |
| 14 | If a good deal of conduct disorder could be prevented or successfully treated in childhood , it would seem that such intervention should have considerable impact on the prevalence of personality disorder and sociopathic behaviour among adults . |
| 15 | But if space and time are merely " forms of our intuition " , then the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity presents no difficulty , for in that case any two things can be numerically distinguished in virtue of their spatial position alone . |
| 16 | It is elegantly furnished in light , pleasant colours . |
| 17 | Part of the supportive service for export participation is export knowledge and a well established export department properly educated in export and marketing procedures . |
| 18 | But two short cuts are expressly discouraged in CAB training : the first is the adviser trusting to memory . |
| 19 | Glossily produced and containing lots of advertisements from local businesses ( eighteen of the thirty pages were advertising ) , Looking Right delighted in flippancy . |
| 20 | No doubt there will be some complicated arguments about the concept of recklessness in the civil courts since this concept , commonplace in the criminal courts , is rarely paraded in front of the civil judge . |
| 21 | In many of these parks , which are mostly located in savanna regions , tourists regularly drive off the existing game-viewing tracks into the dry terrain and there is concern that increased tourist traffic will detrimentally alter the environment . |
| 22 | ‘ You just get slowly immersed in politics , ’ he says , already finance committee chairman of Northallerton based Hambleton District Council . |
| 23 | When a linear amorphous polymer is in the glassy state , the material is rigid and brittle because the flow units of the chain are co-operatively immobile and effectively frozen in position . |
| 24 | inclusion : class B is wholly included in class A |
| 25 | The dynastic struggle was eventually resolved in favour of the Habsburgs , but not before the death of Zápolya in 1540 . |
| 26 | The third kind of relational information , that between speaker and bystander , is more rarely encoded in bystander honorifics . |
| 27 | The largely vertical tears , ranging from 20 to 60 cm in length , were successfully repaired in time for the opening of the exhibition . |
| 28 | Francis Pym 's dismissal from the office of Foreign Secretary was widely reported in advance during the 1983 general election ; the dismissals of Patrick Jenkin at Environment and Peter Rees at the Treasury in September 1985 were extensively trailed over the summer ; the same was true of Mr Biffen 's dismissal in June 1987 . |
| 29 | Iceland : the Althing , which began to discuss the agreement on Aug. 17 , eventually voted in favour of ratification — requiring only a simple majority — on Jan. 12 , 1993 . |
| 30 | Irish Short Stories selected by David Marcus ( Sceptre , £6.99 ) — A collection rich as Guinness and vastly varied in mood and style — from sparkling blarney to dark epic . |