Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 2 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 3 | She was small and dark , with rimless spectacles , and became matronly in middle age . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 6 | The application of sophisticated mathematical techniques and other Blue Skies approaches in engineering may come about through collaboration , but the important point to realise is that once formal or rigorous methods have been developed and applied successfully in one field of engineering , they may be applicable , suitably modified , to others and perhaps lead to more reliable specifications and designs in general . |
| 7 | This led on in later generations to a widespread belief among orthodox Christians that the Bible should be looked upon as a compendium of truths directly revealed by God , inerrant and totally consistent in all its parts , and thus the supremely authoritative source of information not only on points of doctrine but on any other matters on which it might touch . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Photojournalism and the birth of photography are briefly touched on , Context and Ambiguity expanded on in some depth , ethics briefly considered and a fair selection of illustrations from the exhibition are included , including Robert Capa 's The Last Man to die , Leipzig , Germany and Chris Steele-Perkins Famine in Karamoja Province , Uganda , images that are almost commonplace today . |
| 10 | In the Construction sub-sector , for example , the use of railway-owned vehicles on aggregates traffic ceased altogether in 1989 , following the withdrawal of a pool of 16.5 tonne opens based in the Peak District . |
| 11 | Most of the management and men lived locally in New Cumnock or in one of the miners ' rows in the district . |
| 12 | We were a group of young people who all lived locally in one of the poorest areas on the outskirts of San Salvador . |
| 13 | He read widely in all spheres of learning and became inspired with the idea that he had a mission to introduce the learning of western Europe to his countrymen in Serbia . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He and Julius Sumawe , of Tanzania , passed halfway in 1:04:45 after easily discarding the rest of the field in the first kilometre . |
| 16 | But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff . |
| 17 | Buck got down in two for a par and strode off to the 18th tee two strokes in the lead . |
| 18 | It looked odds on to go to extra holes but unfortunate for Michael he three putted , Colm got down in two won 1up . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Companies were also bound to match wages and conditions laid down in federal ( and sometimes state ) awards for their industry . |
| 21 | But otherwise the main principles of planning law , laid down in 1909 , were maintained : future development should accord with an approved town planning scheme ; compensation to be payable to landowners injuriously affected ; and betterment to be payable to a local authority when an increase in land values accrues as a result of planning proposals . |
| 22 | The said finished Products shall be purchased at the prices laid down in cl 5 and the said packaging materials at cost to the Supplier plus five percent . |
| 23 | It is uncertain whether the principle laid down in Regal ( Hastings ) covers this situation . |
| 24 | Stately horse chestnut trees guard the green , and that sacred piece of greensward , the cricket pitch , laid down in 1929 , is the perfect backdrop for the players in white clothing . |
| 25 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The report says that the site does not meet the criterion laid down in 1976 by the Institute of Geological Sciences for the disposal of radioactive waste , which requires the hydrogeology of a site to be " simple and determinable " . |
| 28 | My view was that we should examine whether the money was reaching those that most needed it and whether the priorities of the system laid down in 1945 were still the same . |
| 29 | A State exercising a right by a provision of a treaty to which it is not a party is bound to comply with any conditions laid down in that provision , or elsewhere in the treaty for the exercise of the right . |
| 30 | 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 . |