Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The continuous variable weight for height expressed as standard deviation score was adjusted for in the analysis of lung function . |
| 2 | We calculated the possible effect of birth weight for a given age of gestation on FEV 1 using the example of two children of 38 weeks ' gestation with the same attributes adjusted for in the analysis but one having a birth weight of 2500 g and the other 3500 g . |
| 3 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 4 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 5 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 6 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
| 7 | Finally , it seems also to be a taken-for-granted principle that in human affairs where there is order there is something corresponding to a rule to be looked for in the background of the actions which appear as orderly . |
| 8 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 9 | Where , on the other hand , we have sense-qualification , the property of A is not applied as a property in itself to the entity identified by N ( nor are any referential and perceptual correlates of the intensional property to be looked for in the actual referent , if there is one , corresponding to that entity ) . |
| 10 | Nothing fancy is looked for in the way of bait and tackle : it 's the basic hook , line and worm . |
| 11 | Now and then , waiters would serve us refreshing drinks from the bar and while we were busy unwinding , we were happy to know that the children were being well looked after in the Children 's Club . |
| 12 | Now Wedgwood generously agreed to waive the buy-back clause in return for a series of covenants ensuring that the house would be restored and looked after in the future . |
| 13 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 14 | It is clearly undesirable and often more expensive to admit or keep in district general hospitals or long stay hospitals old or mentally ill or mentally handicapped people who could be properly looked after in the community . |
| 15 | This may be appropriate , not only because hospital beds are usually expensive but also because most people prefer to be looked after in the community . |
| 16 | Fabrics are expensive , but they will last for years and give great pleasure provided they are looked after in the proper manner . |
| 17 | For most mentally-ill people are being looked after in the community anyway , by relatives and friends who can not bring themselves to have the people they love locked away . |
| 18 | People in the street are asked to prepare for an influx of refugees who will be looked after in the local church hall . |
| 19 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 20 | ‘ The problem with children 's books increasingly is that there are armies of people who are properly concerned with , for example , the way girls were always discriminated against in the past , ’ says Allan . |
| 21 | But when the church has spoken in these terms , saying in effect that women should not be discriminated against in the world , it becomes all the more problematical for it to appear suddenly to turn around and declare that women may not be ordained in the church ! |
| 22 | These researchers sent out simulated applications to test the hypothesis that applicants with Asian sounding names were systematically discriminated against in the shortlisting process . |
| 23 | ‘ But the first to benefit will be successful church schools because they might have been discriminated against in the past , ’ said Mr Fallon . |
| 24 | There 's a little tiny so you can imagine what it might have looked like in the old paper . |
| 25 | While the little foreigner was obviously insane , he was also generous and considerably less lethal than half the people the wizard had mixed with in the city . |
| 26 | Several documents gave rise to concern as they were wrestled with in the appropriate commissions , none more so than the all-important Dogmatic Constitution on the Church . |
| 27 | It was on the King 's suggestion to MacDonald that the Cabinet considered including in the Speech from the Throne in October 1930 a plea to ‘ all sections of parliament ’ to ‘ unite ’ in treating unemployment ‘ on national as distinct from party lines ’ . |
| 28 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 29 | An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . |
| 30 | We 've heard a lot this morning er about the merits of client server and where it 's come from in the last five years . |