Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce . |
| 4 | His beard and teeth got in the way . |
| 5 | Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On one island the macaques lived in the forested interior . |
| 8 | The machine tools were housed to one end , the aeroplane assembled at the other , whilst the draftsmen lived in the loft . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Lysosomes incubated in the presence of buffer alone were used as controls . |
| 12 | It focuses on how human groups lived in the past and the effect these activities had upon the ecology of the landscape . |
| 13 | Lane c : nuclei incubated in the absence of alpha-amanitin . |
| 14 | Lane a : nuclei incubated in the presence of 1mg ml -1 alpha-amanitin . |
| 15 | Brief enthusiastic accounts surfaced in the popular press every now and then , offering highly suspect details on her ‘ phenomenal ’ sailing characteristics . |
| 16 | Most cases occurred in the first 48 hours of detention ( until July 1988 Austrian law allowed detainees to be held incommunicado for 48 hours ) . |
| 17 | The day of the Agricultural Fair approached and passions rose in the village . |
| 18 | SIR — I would like to comment on the paper by Townsend et al , who reported that spring phytoplankton blooms occurred in the absence of vertical stratification of the water masses . |
| 19 | As in Mesopotamia and Egypt so in the Aegean the import of lapis lazuli occurred in the context of stratified societies . |
| 20 | Between them they are responsible for handling 95 per cent of the criminal cases tried in the country though a few who are convicted in this way ( just over 4,000 in 1999 , which is 1.6 per cent of all indictable offenders convicted in the magistrates ' courts ) are committed to the Crown Court for sentence . |
| 21 | Small , possibly ancestral forms occurred in the early Triassic ( 225–215 million years ago ) in South Africa ; types such as Noteosuchus , Howesia , and Mesosuchus . |
| 22 | If " adornment " is to be identified in linguistic patterns which have no semantic utility , we can point to the alliterations clustered in the last few lines . |
| 23 | Beyond the door was a slight recess blocked by a thick metal iron grille , and behind it four pairs of cruel red eyes gleamed in the darkness . |
| 24 | Her eyes gleamed in the candlelight . |
| 25 | The fighting cocks lived in the house with us , sleeping under their owners sarongs , and periodically exploded , at all hours , with stentorian " cock-a-doodle-doos " — or , rather , their Indonesian equivalent , for here , of course , the animals speak differently . |
| 26 | Parliament granted the fixed and certain term which the agreements between the parties lacked in the case of tenancies for the duration of the war and which the present agreement lacks . |
| 27 | When the new class of bourgeois manufacturers and traders arose in the nineteenth century , it was able to merge with the commercialised aristocracy through marriage , and through the newly reformed public schools and universities . |
| 28 | Above me , the gaily painted signs of the taverns and food shops creaked in the wind and mocked my hunger . |
| 29 | White rags fluttered in the trees . |
| 30 | White rags fluttered in the trees . |