Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're flown down in helicopter to Leeds . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The items between the top of the partition and the gap formed by the moving of the instance are shuffled down in order to remove the gap . |
| 4 | Moser ( 1978 ) typically deals with the way information is broken down in interpretation from sentences and context into meaning , and one can only presume that she proposes a similar process for the reconstruction of the message in the second language . |
| 5 | There had been reports on April 2 that a meeting to discuss the formation of a more representative government had broken down in disagreement between Crown Prince Saad and representatives of a coalition of merchant groups , Islamic parties and former members of parliament . |
| 6 | In an immediate response to the latest left-wing guerrilla offensive , the government on Sept. 5 ruled out the renewal of peace talks which had broken down in March [ see p. 38809 ] and were suspended indefinitely in May . |
| 7 | Peter would like it ; poor Peter , who had broken down in bed the night before , and wept that he had failed her , failed her as well as — but he could n't actually articulate that . |
| 8 | The prosecution claimed in its opening address that one of the men accused of the killing had broken down in front of his wife and confessed to the murder . |
| 9 | Black gravel shows the fish 's colours well , but has not caught on in Britain as much as in Europe . |
| 10 | Medical experts are surprised at the speed at which the latest flu virus has caught on in Scotland . |
| 11 | MEDICAL EXPERTS SURPRISED AT SPEED / ' FLU ' VIRUS HAS CAUGHT ON IN SCOTLAND . |
| 12 | Sunflowers have already caught on in France and now a handful of farmers are trying their luck with the new crop here . |
| 13 | When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled . |
| 14 | According to observers the significance of the vote in terms of national politics was that it would increase the likelihood of the minority government seeking to secure the support of the Progress Party for the 1990 budget , which was due to be voted on in parliament in December [ see below ] . |
| 15 | TWO LAWSUITS resulting from Christie 's $39.6m sale last May of Impressionists from the collection of Hal Wallis , the Hollywood movie producer , are reported on in Art and Auction , the monthly magazine . |
| 16 | They may be picked on in revenge raids by the security forces after attacks by armed opposition groups or protests by political groups . |
| 17 | For the most part , agricultural education which includes education for horticulture , forestry , poultry husbandry and dairying is carried on in specialist colleges of agriculture and horticulture , together with some general technical colleges . |
| 18 | Nobody thought trade could be carried on in India without a network of factories and fortifications , which meant that there would have to be a company with a charter to run them — the idea that the government might provide them would have struck the merchants as inappropriate and would have alarmed the politicians who would have had to impose taxes to pay for them . |
| 19 | Before Reflexology was researched and developed in America in the 1930s , work on reflexes of the feet had been carried on in China for thousands of years . |
| 20 | For example , Kerr ( 1968 , p. 16 ) defines the school curriculum as ‘ all the learning which is planned and guided by the school , whether it is carried on in groups or individually , inside or outside the school ’ . |
| 21 | a purpose connected with his business as a manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in trailers carried on in conjunction with his business as a motor trader . |
| 22 | However , Rita calmly carried on in spite of this rather inconvenient technical hitch . |
| 23 | Parler died in 1399 , but his sons John and Wenceslas carried on in Prague , Vienna and Milan . |
| 24 | Alternatively , s.22(1) of the Alkali , etc. , Works Act 1906 provides for formal complaint to be made to HM Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate via their inspectors , by any local authority or inhabitant of the district , if a process to which the Act applies is being carried on in contravention of the provisions of the Act and a nuisance has arisen . |
| 25 | They ignored the prior consultations , the use of friendship between secretariat officials and local chairmen which ensured that the business of government was carried on in ways which often responded to local needs . |
| 26 | The taxpayer had carried on in Hong Kong the business of exploiting rights by granting sub-licences to overseas customers . |
| 27 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 28 | Thus the structure of the section presupposes that the profits of a business carried on in Hong Kong may accrue from different sources , some located within Hong Kong , others overseas . |
| 29 | On the commissioner 's submission the requirement of condition ( 3 ) would be otiose , since it would be sufficient to show that profits were earned by a business carried on in Hong Kong to make them taxable . |
| 30 | The relevant business of the taxpayer was the exploitation of film rights exercisable overseas and it was a business carried on in Hong Kong . |