Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The table top and the bottle provide the main compositional accents , while the remainder of the surface is broken down in secondary vertical and horizontal sections . |
| 2 | So the delicate gilded furniture and the rococo mirrors had gone from his office ; and in their place were desks and chairs that renaissance princes might have sat on in perfect safety , even if they had weighed three hundredweight . |
| 3 | These were low-paid , largely female , occupations mainly unmechanized and carried on in small workshops . |
| 4 | There are many businesses that can be carried on in rural and residential areas without causing unacceptable disturbance … |
| 5 | Arguments over the validity of the notice and justification of the motives of the partners serving it are better left to an appropriate tribunal ( judge , arbitrator or mediator ) than carried on in acrimonious correspondence . |
| 6 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 7 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 8 | Young enthusiasts drove across the border to join the freedom fighters who had appealed to the world to help , but the world in general looked on in anguished impotence as the rebels were extinguished . |
| 9 | What 's happened is that policy makers 've shifted the emphasis instead of protecting tariffs they 're protected using long long tariff barriers right which are a lot more invisible to er , to G A T T do n't come under erm G A T T regulations , what those tariffs do nevertheless , tariffs have , have come down in manufactured goods right , erm , since the second world war when G A T T was er , was established . |
| 10 | In Britain alone , Glasgow St Enoch 's was torn down in European Architectural Heritage Year ( 1975 ) ; Birmingham Snow Hill was allowed to rot for years and finally demolished on safety grounds , epitomizing a technique in all too frequent use — deliberate and wanton neglect given as a justification for removal . |
| 11 | Then they were sat down in neat rows , boys on one side and girls on the other . |
| 12 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 13 | As a result , a whole range of measures including stricter disciplinary codes , work reorganisation and redundancies have been carried through in large numbers of firms ( Hyman and Elger , 1981 ) . |
| 14 | ( Shreds of these hoards can now be picked over in provincial brocante shops , brave remnants of another , more confident age . ) |
| 15 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 16 | I 'm a farmer — and if I do happen to be mixed up in other people ’ s extraordinary affairs , it 's no fault of mine . |
| 17 | It was so hot that Perdita would have liked to have worn shorts or a dress , but her mosquito bites had come up in huge red bumps and were oozing and itching like mad , so she settled for her pale pink jeans and a dark blue shirt . |
| 18 | From being despised , feeling inferior , wanting to be invisible , one is lifted up in full view on a cross of one 's own devising . |
| 19 | It had a cast of virtual unknowns and failed to score highly in the ratings , with average viewing figures of only five million — although it had picked up in recent weeks with about seven million . |
| 20 | The effects of new policies would only be felt when the next analysis was made when , presumably , such effects would be picked up in observable data . |
| 21 | The productivity theme was picked up in main sessions on Coatings ( Australia , Europe and North America ) , Fibres and Films and Chemicals . |
| 22 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 23 | Some — like that of Ryno the medic , exhausted and saddened after a struggle to save the life of a fellow constable — show how very young most men are when they are caught up in armed conflicts . |
| 24 | There were no secret gatherings , partly because there were hardly any students , and because the peasants and artisans , although very anti-Fascist , had no desire to be caught up in political activities . |
| 25 | The seed corn left to accompany the dead could sprout again — as a boy , he had heard reports of successful experiments on damp rags in the dark — the coins for the ferryman , fallen among the collapsed lips and tongueless jawbones of the discovered dead , could be buffed and brightened until the curls in the hair of Demeter , caught up in rich ropes under a garland of corn floating with ribbons , gleamed glossily again , and the Cupid on Riba 's emblematic ship , facing out to sea with his drawn bow over the whorl of the prow , stood out in silver against the duller ground . |
| 26 | 3 A corporate tie-up between privileged interests and state may be threatened by the emergence onto the political agenda of new groups and new " citizen " concerns that fall outside of the incorporation that bears on groups caught up in economic issues and the division of labour . |
| 27 | Local governments are thus not just caught up in recent political conflicts as some innocent or neutral part of the political machine , but are themselves crucial in interpreting and promoting social change . |
| 28 | In 1917 they were ‘ caught up in great events over which they had no control . ’ |
| 29 | They can feel their petty lives caught up in great events . |
| 30 | Indeed , the whole book inevitably paints a gloomy picture over the future for ex-Yugoslavia , particularly for minority populations caught up in nationalist disputes . |