Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had travelled widely in America on behalf of peaceful arbitration of international disputes and in 1893 had persuaded the Commons to resolve in favour of an Anglo-American Treaty of Arbitration . |
| 2 | Even the feeblest message of support from the British Young Socialists ( not of course from the Labour Party executive ) was cheered widely in Tiananmen Square . |
| 3 | The Buckau 's first series of trials at sea as a rotor ship was completed successfully in January 1925 . |
| 4 | The transfer of our central distribution operation to Brackmills , Northampton was completed successfully in October 1992 and it now handles almost 11,000 commodities . |
| 5 | This beam is then focused by an acoustic lens , the melon , a fatty body situated right in front of the blow-hole and conspicuous by its presence in many cetaceans . |
| 6 | But , just the same , Cara had fallen wholeheartedly in love with him , and a year ago she had married him . |
| 7 | General Monk , in the spring of 1660 , led a bloodless coup and declared that Charles II should become King , so a warship was sent to Holland to fetch him back to England , where he arrived before the end of May , aged 30 years , and was received rapturously in London . |
| 8 | An old magic lamp is hidden somewhere in Happyland . |
| 9 | Yet throughout Canada there are total immersion schools where children forego their parents ' mother tongue to be taught wholly in French . |
| 10 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 11 | Formed only in January be well-known songwriters David Llewellyn and Ian Sutherland , they play ‘ powerful , energetic dance rock ’ . |
| 12 | You 're flown down in helicopter to Leeds . |
| 13 | They did not speak Jove 's language ; they went to war clad only in shields and were , as Plato sternly put it , ‘ given to excess in drink . ’ |
| 14 | Company director Peter Wickens ' body was found , clad only in socks , on wasteland in west London . |
| 15 | It was Edward Balliol himself , clad only in shirt and breeches . |
| 16 | Yet more featured an emaciated man , clad only in underpants , lying face-down on a bed , his ribs and backbone pushing against his skin . |
| 17 | Clad only in garter belt and nylons , she was confident of her sexual attractiveness . |
| 18 | Hawk joined her , and , clad only in breechclouts , they ran through the sands , wrestled to a standstill — Hawk was wiry , but strong , and agile enough to compensate for her bio-improvements — and climbed the outer walls of Santa de Nogueira . |
| 19 | Baths were taken in the main block , which meant that pupils in A dormitory , including Mr Douglas , had to cross two playgrounds , in all weathers , clad only in pyjamas , dressing gown and slippers . |
| 20 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 21 | Though his proposals were whittled down in Congress , the Revenue Act of 1921 and later measures provided for big tax cuts on high personal incomes and the removal of the excess profit tax . |
| 22 | But I honestly do think that we are probably at the very bottom of the list for help for women amongst the 12 EC countries — we are certainly regarded so in Europe ’ . |
| 23 | When two sentences are placed together in sequence by a writer who does not want us to consider them as a continuous text , their separateness or disconnectedness must be positively indicated . |
| 24 | Moreover , when barons and knights gathered together in arms , as though for war , who could tell what conspiracies and rebellions might not follow ? |
| 25 | They 're gathered together in groups called ‘ galaxies ’ . |
| 26 | The statistics for these and other places are gathered together in V. A. Hatley and J. Rajczonek , Shoemakers in Northamptonshire , 1762–1911 , published as the Northampton Historical Series no.6 in 1971 . |
| 27 | The various operators are listed below in priority order . |
| 28 | Omi 's old head was bowed and her gnarled fingers were pressed together in prayer . |
| 29 | The method for the determination of free or combined ammoniacal nitrogen is given below in Section 13.2.8 of Part II . |
| 30 | The method for the determination of anionic and non-ionic detergents is given below in Section 13.2.13 of Part II . |