Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Companies were also bound to match wages and conditions laid down in federal ( and sometimes state ) awards for their industry . |
| 4 | It is uncertain whether the principle laid down in Regal ( Hastings ) covers this situation . |
| 5 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Cuttings were made to ease the original gradients , causeways laid down in difficult places , and the roadway widened . |
| 12 | payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter . |
| 13 | At night when I lay awake in bed , vast processions passed along in mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending stories … ’ |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | No doubt he 'd enjoyed this association with young men , trousers and jackets endlessly tried on in curtained booths . |
| 16 | The man peered down in mock confusion . |
| 17 | Zara the kestrel , sitting on my glove with wings held out , tail fanned out and head bent down in typical hovering pose — she suspects I have food somewhere . |
| 18 | When exiting from the stage , a first violinist bent down in fake adoration to kiss her feet . |
| 19 | Suddenly the issue was resolved with terrible finality for them both , as the inner floors gave way and crashed down in flaming ruin . |
| 20 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 21 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 22 | The van drew up in Pretty Street and Miss Poraway and Mrs Abigail got out , Miss Poraway still talking about the cartoon , saying it would tickle her brother when she told him about it . |
| 23 | cloacal curl coiled up in bloodied alabaster , |
| 24 | After April 1988 , they will have to increase GMP built up in future years by 3 per cent a year , once it starts being paid . |
| 25 | La Principessa drew back in mock horror . |
| 26 | We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time . |
| 27 | Have ready a piece of butter muslin wrung out in warm water , doubled , and laid in a sieve standing over the bowl or deep wide jar in which the butter is to be stored . |
| 28 | His deathbed will ( 10 October 1424 ) reflected him fairly : considerable wealth , portioned out in particular for the completion of ambitious rebuildings of Bubwith church ( £300 ) and Wells Cathedral ( £667 ) , roadworks in Somerset ( £667 ) , and prayers for his soul , especially by poor priests in Oxford and friars in London and his diocese ( £667 ) . |
| 29 | Civil War conditions lingered on in other ways . |
| 30 | The other nomes trudged along in weary silence . |