Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 2 | The age and sex distribution of children who had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia diagnosed in the study area conformed to expected patterns , with slightly more boys and a peak age at diagnosis of 3 years ; the excess of Down 's syndrome in young children with non-lymphocytic forms of leukaemia is as would be expected . |
| 3 | Lawyers and a shorthand writer gathered in the front room of his home in Beith , Strathclyde , to take his evidence before a court-appointed Commissioner . |
| 4 | Dr Mackintosh was a red-faced Scot with mousy greying hair parted in the middle and tiny gold-rimmed glasses on the tip of his rather short nose . |
| 5 | She was a very efficient , neat woman with a reddish face , her hair parted in the middle and drawn back tightly against her head . |
| 6 | With hair parted in the middle , he retained the appearance of a youthful student almost to the end . |
| 7 | Alexandra , in her new afternoon dress , her hair parted in the middle and drawn up by Lyddy into a series of padded puffs and curves behind , waited in the drawing-room on the edge of the sofa . |
| 8 | ‘ Self ’ turned out to be a dark-complexioned , somewhat solemn- looking young woman , with large eyes and swept-back hair parted in the middle . |
| 9 | The most sophisticated method of tying up land in strict settlement developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 10 | As the day progresses , the angle between the food source and the sun alters and the direction given in the bee 's dance changes accordingly . |
| 11 | Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 12 | Example 2:13 Right to display advertisement permitted by regulations The right to display in and on the demised property any advertisement permitted to be displayed without the express consent of the local planning authority by virtue of the Town and Country Planning ( Control of Advertisements ) Regulations 1992 or any modification or replacement thereof Example 2:14 Right to display advertisement in prescribed form The right to display on the front door of the demised property a name plate not exceeding in area and advertising the business carried on in the demised property and to display the name or style of that business on the name board situated in the entrance hall of the building of which the demised property forms part with letters provided by the landlord |
| 13 | The enthusiasm aroused in the other four members by the time of the Hague Congress was one indication that Britain was in danger of becoming rather isolated . |
| 14 | It was whistling slightly , as some part hidden in the cowlings cooled down . |
| 15 | Special finishes are of course completed in the time-honoured fashion ; sunbursts and other fancy finishes are carried out by hand . |
| 16 | There are two different classes of market counterparty : ( 1 ) A counterparty treated as a market counterparty on a transaction-by-transaction basis ; and ( 2 ) A person falling in a particular category listed in the COB Rules ( such as members of SFA ) who is treated as a market counterparty by virtue of his status as such , but ( except in the case of SFA members and inter-dealer brokers ) only in relation to particular classes of investments . |
| 17 | A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association . |
| 18 | Only one copy of Section 1 needs to be filled in , but ideally separate copies of Sections 2 , 3 and 4 should be filled in for each course taught in the appropriate field . |
| 19 | That was fine , but I had not reckoned with the excitement the case aroused in the popular press . |
| 20 | The lawn to the south of the house , shown on a plan by Bourginion , the French surveyor employed to redesign the garden , corresponds almost exactly with the description given in the second edition ( 1733 ) of the Dictionary , where Miller insists on frequent mowing and rolling to keep the grass in good order . |
| 21 | J. D. North has succeeded in reconstructing the St Albans escapement from the purely verbal description given in the surviving manuscript . |
| 22 | It was only when Fawn Hall testified , flicking back her hair in a fetching manner , that Inouye joined in the spirit of the proceedings , holding a piece of paper over his eyes to see her better in the glare of the television lights . |
| 23 | John was disgraced early in 1290 with his judicial colleagues for failing to prevent the chief justice of the court Thomas de Weyland [ q.v. ] altering the record of a case heard in the court . |
| 24 | Calcium oxide heated in the blast furnace turns very rapidly to calcium oxide plus carbon dioxide . |
| 25 | 46 ) oratory developed in the 460s , a result of the fall of the tyrants in Sicily , an event which prompted litigation about landownership . |
| 26 | Contracts were shortened and meat prices restrained ; the meat plant was nationalized and the export distribution channel lost ; the issue of land tenure for pastoralists became submerged in the much bigger ujamaa re-settlement programme of 1975 ; and livestock buying at markets was taken out of the hands of the traditional Somali buyers and for the most part placed in the hands of state agents . |
| 27 | As a result the written record of an earlier judgement given in the court , or of a grant , could create a prima-facie case for a favourable verdict . |
| 28 | As well as that , how could she admit to Bella that she had seen the money hidden in the drawer ? |
| 29 | One day on the weary way up from school a truck stacked with furniture ground past Martha ; when she reached Nana 's house she found the truck stopped in the overgrown yard next door , and a fat woman in a pink dress buying soda pop for a brood of children who stood around her looking fearfully at their new home . |
| 30 | A split developed in the Independent Smallholders ' Party on Dec. 29 , 1989 , with the founding session of the National Smallholders and Bourgeois Party , attended by 150 members from Smallholders ' Party branches . |