Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.

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1 Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation .
2 These jennies were either collected in small workshops or placed out in cottages and seem to have brought increased earnings to many women in the cloth-working families , albeit for a short period until the machines got larger and , more importantly , the largely male-worked spinning mule began to replace the jenny .
3 Death sentences had been judicially imposed or carried out in 1990 in 90 countries ; the death penalty was retained by every country in the Middle East , with Iran showing the region 's highest number of death sentences ( estimated at more than 700 ) , while in China the report recorded 750 executions , the highest number since 1983 .
4 In other words , thirty-six ( or about two-thirds ) of the families that were resident in Willingham in 1575 had either moved or died out in the male line during the course of a century and a half .
5 A lot of their love would be rebuffed or thrown back in their faces .
6 This has to be seen to be appreciated , engines can be viewed from several angles , compared with one another , or taken in in one awe-inspiring vista .
7 we were close when I was in Washington , and whichever way you slice it he wo n't want my brother being buggered or beaten up in a New York jail . ’
8 If a man believes in a different god , or even if he uses a different ritual for worshipping the same god , blind faith can decree that he should die — on the cross , at the stake , skewered on a Crusader 's sword , shot in a Beirut street , or blown up in a bar in Belfast .
9 The misery of our troops huddled in their impromptu lines or strung out in shell-holes , can not be pictured in words . ’
10 Arguments over the validity of the notice and justification of the motives of the partners serving it are better left to an appropriate tribunal ( judge , arbitrator or mediator ) than carried on in acrimonious correspondence .
11 I shall suggest that caught up in those practices are in fact two different answers to this central question , each with its own implications for support work and criteria for evaluation , with the result that support teachers often feel themselves pulled in two directions at once .
12 No , you need n't do anything except come back in and write your report .
13 What is interesting to note about both the theory of public choice and Chicago School economic analysis of law is that their analyses , although wrapped up in the analytical apparatus of modern economics , reach more or less identical conclusions to Hayek .
14 He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules .
15 The office was smaller and tidier than the one used by Inside Out , although laid out in a similar way with desks back to back .
16 Although set up in 1974 in response to outcries about huge increases in domestic rates , it never came near to recommending their abolition or even their substantial replacement with another tax .
17 There are two groups of tropical diseases of importance ; those that are sexually transmitted — chancroid , granuloma inguinale , and lymphogranuloma venereum , and those that , although passed on in a non-sexual fashion , are closely related to syphilis and may be confused with it .
18 These developments are , quite naturally , producing fears in government circles that alliances are no more than cartels designed to restrain competition , albeit dressed up in new and more attractive clothes .
19 The data can then be analysed or altered and placed back in the database .
20 I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair .
21 In practical terms this means The Fix can be placed in a horizontal crack with a large proportion of the stem sticking out and fallen on in the knowledge that the device has been specifically designed to give an increased safety margin .
22 If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow .
23 The attitudes are realised and represented in institutionalised and ritualised forms in which respect and contempt are tested and meted out in particular societies
24 I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight .
25 The leaves flew and scattered around in fragments , brushing their bodies and sticking to their wet cheeks .
26 However do not let note taking become obsessional , it can tend to interrupt the flow of conversation if carried out in too much detail .
27 Ph D research may not in itself produce the major theoretical advances in science , but the personal developmental effects may , if carried out in centres of excellence , combine with good training to produce scientists capable of making such advances .
28 Now John Burnett found his good-natured and impressionable son falling under the spell of two far more intelligent men of dubious opinions , and caught up in a wild scheme for emigration to America .
29 Thus , once again , there is considerable potential for teachers to become confused between the relative demands of these two quite different approaches to moderation and caught up in a great deal of additional work .
30 Caught up in the concern to balance the power of the Commons is an attempt to recapture elements of the eighteenth-century constitution in a way that waters down the democratic side of the state machine ; caught up in the concern to secure a more independent House of Commons is an attempt to revive the pre-democratic nineteenth-century liberal constitution ; and caught up in the concern to limit parliamentary sovereignty is an attempt to limit democracy itself .
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