Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be said that the forecast figures have probably turned out to be slightly high , particularly for 1991 , since it seems unlikely that the US Department of Commerce would have foreseen the downturn in the global economy which is now biting so hard in all industries . |
| 2 | Yet in a time of " unprecedented inflation , unprecedented wage demands and an unprecedented number of strikes " ' , most groups can be considered as having limited the fall in real earnings rather than as having maintained , let alone increased them . |
| 3 | For some architects , the removal of regulations which both provided guidelines for behaviour and also limited the areas in which competition existed has provided a stimulus since they now feel able to compete more efficiently in a less restricted arena . |
| 4 | The US operating margin was narrowly the highest , but the rise of over half in interest charges limited the rise in pre-tax profit for the whole group to 10 per cent , at £427million . |
| 5 | With growing educational opportunities , choice of job or profession has widened , although industrial recession and demographic factors have limited the opportunities in some businesses and trades . |
| 6 | The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it . |
| 7 | Detectives hunting the raiders have appealed for anyone who may have witnessed the incident in Brodie Avenue just after 6pm on Tuesday . |
| 8 | One suffragette , Rosa Lamartine Yates , recounted that she had witnessed the double-standard in action while standing bail for two women at the west London police court . |
| 9 | The last 20 years have witnessed the increase in procedural rights for licence holders or applicants , but the disbursement of such benefits is still subject to irrational distinctions . |
| 10 | He himself had consulted the judges in 1971 , 1979 and 1985 . |
| 11 | Namely , he will be inviting your Lordship to er look at whether or not the business the plaintiff 's would have failed in any event er because it is the defendants case relying er extensively upon the opinion of their expert Mr er that even if the plaintiffs had had the finances which were originally anticipated and had completed the deal in accordance with that , the probabilities are that this business would have failed in any event and that they would have incurred the losses they did er so I anticipate there is going to be a dispute between us as to the basis in which your Lordship is to determine compensation in this case . |
| 12 | On 2 July 1987 her husband had stopped the car in front of her and insisted that she should sign , but she refused . |
| 13 | For a long time we have made it clear that the largest restriction on the growth of the transplant programme is the availability of donated organs , although it is not a restriction which has stopped the programme in its tracks . |
| 14 | Once you have stopped the attacker in his tracks , then you can deal with the grip itself , but until then it is a second priority . |
| 15 | They had received the reports in the Place of Healing , where the body lay in the courtyard , protected from the flies and the heat by wet wrappings , waiting for someone to claim it and give permission for an examination to begin , before it was taken to the embalmers . |
| 16 | The Swiss Government has also submitted its application for membership , but has not yet received the assent in the referendum which it requires for this application to go forward formally . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , it 's shocked me that President Bush has gone out and ballyhooed the unions in Poland and yet he 's turned his back on us . ’ |
| 18 | We have overhauled the plans in some of the companies , we 've considered changes that should be done to erm make them more , actually more cost effective for the employee , there 's an element of shifting the cost to the employee while still providing them with coverage and I think the other thing is that erm given the the redundancies that have gone on in Camco and other parts of the group and cost cutting generally , it 's very difficult at this stage to predict you have all sorts of things like actuarial assumptions erm cost inflation of medical costs . |
| 19 | ANDES has criticized the way in which the mass media portray women and in 1975 staged a protest march against the Miss Universe beauty contest held in San Salvador that year . |
| 20 | Although he says that he intends to keep an open mind , Montagnier has criticized the government in the past for not supporting more research outside the mainstream and for not paying more attention to Africa . |
| 21 | Most of the Gnostic sects claimed to be Christian ; that is , to represent the secret tradition which Jesus had taught the apostles in private . |
| 22 | The man had n't grouted the tiles in properly he 'd used some sort of rough old cement and the water was just going through and staying there ! |
| 23 | Hourcade wrote of the Futurist exhibition in the Revue de France : ‘ One would swear that a clever pupil of the Cubists and an even cleverer pupil of Signac had painted the works in collaboration … |
| 24 | The few rooms were large and high and she had painted the walls in pale yellows and greens . |
| 25 | Rebecca , for some reason , had altered the pages in those books . |
| 26 | In order to restore those convictions , the Crown must say that the Act of 1968 has altered the law in such a way ( among others ) that anyone who , by a false representation such as a worthless cheque , induces an owner to sell property is thereby guilty of stealing . |
| 27 | In Britain , the 1990 Broadcasting Act has significantly altered the way in which the Christian faith can be represented in radio programmes . |
| 28 | With his account of the three categories , Habermas has also substantially altered the way in which ‘ ideology ’ can be considered . |
| 29 | Clearly , though , the scale and the nature of the crisis have altered the context in which struggles occur , and have set constraints on the effectiveness of inherited patterns of organisation and action . |
| 30 | The post-war switch to Peter Drucker 's pension-fund socialism has altered the form in which ownership is separated from control — and made hostile bids likelier to succeed — but it has not changed the basic issue . |