Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was small and dark , with rimless spectacles , and became matronly in middle age . |
| 2 | FoE 's local branch had paid £2,000 for a stretch of disused railway land , which it then sold on in square-metre plots to 1,700 supporters . |
| 3 | His more intimate followers met secretly in small closed groups , probably in the large villas of the wealthy landowners , and indulged in orgiastic rituals enhanced by drugs and alcohol . |
| 4 | Most of the management and men lived locally in New Cumnock or in one of the miners ' rows in the district . |
| 5 | Candles and oil-lamps gleamed weakly in distant windows and a torch shone briefly down by the ancient Cross as a link-boy led a gentleman home after a night 's revelry , by the shortest and hopefully , safest route . |
| 6 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 7 | Companies were also bound to match wages and conditions laid down in federal ( and sometimes state ) awards for their industry . |
| 8 | It is uncertain whether the principle laid down in Regal ( Hastings ) covers this situation . |
| 9 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |
| 10 | During the years of South Africa 's isolation from the world community and its suspension from the ILO , hybrid labour legislation was passed by the South African parliament which may or may not conform to the minimum standards for the protection of workers laid down in various ILO conventions . |
| 11 | Our understanding of the vertical ( as opposed to the horizontal ) movements of the lithosphere during continental rupture is largely derived from the interpretation of the sediments laid down in passive margin basins . |
| 12 | The importance of such rights , and the feeling that they were fundamental to the workings of society , is reflected in the fact that when one ruler ceded territory to another it was usually defined in terms of jurisdictions and local administrative divisions ( on the French frontiers , for example , baillages , prévotés , sénéchaussées or communes ) and not , as would now be the case , in those of lines laid down in precise geographical terms and illustrated by a map . |
| 13 | If people accept that they are governed not only by explicit rules laid down in past political decisions but by whatever other standards flow from the principles these decisions assume , then the set of recognized public standards can expand and contract organically , as people become more sophisticated in sensing and exploring what these principles require in new circumstances , without the need for detailed legislation or adjudication on each possible point of conflict . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what action he takes to enforce procedures laid down in national health service circular No. 1975 ( GEN ) 46 . |
| 15 | Cuttings were made to ease the original gradients , causeways laid down in difficult places , and the roadway widened . |
| 16 | payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter . |
| 17 | At first he steamed idly in ever-widening circles , waiting to be recalled to Havana ; then headed north for Miami . |
| 18 | The emergency law , applied only in exceptional cases , is similar to anti-terrorist laws adopted by many countries , including those used in Britain to deal with IRA operations . |
| 19 | Now there was nothing left to him but the conflicting passions of his terror and his furious pride , knotted together in inextricable warfare in his bowels . |
| 20 | Some anchoresses lived together in adjacent apartments and nearly all had servants . |
| 21 | ‘ They lived together in Red Hall and then he went his way and she went hers . |
| 22 | At night when I lay awake in bed , vast processions passed along in mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending stories … ’ |
| 23 | MULTIPARA — A term used mostly in medical literature , referring to a woman at her second or subsequent confinement . |
| 24 | NULLIPARA — A term used mostly in medical literature , referring to a woman who has had no confinements . |
| 25 | PRIMIPARA — A term used mostly in medical literature , referring to a woman at her first confinement . |
| 26 | It was the very symbol of wealth , and yet tradition had it that when the fish swam up-river in great numbers it was a harbinger of social unrest . |
| 27 | Local-scale studies in the Callanish area of Lewis ( Bohnke , 1988 ) similarly indicate that small pockets of birch , hazel , willow , rowan , and aspen woodland with some Lonicera periclymenum , Melampyrum , and ferns occurred locally in sheltered areas . |
| 28 | Take HEMA ( pronounced hee-ma as in Lima ) for example , a water soluble monomer used widely in medical materials . |
| 29 | Research into fluorescent tube lighting , used widely in commercial and public buildings , has made it possible to save over 90 per cent of electricity . |
| 30 | In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ . |