Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 2 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 3 | Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The plating is carried on in eight vats , one each for silver , nickel and black nickel , two for brass plating , and three for copper plating . |
| 8 | These were low-paid , largely female , occupations mainly unmechanized and carried on in small workshops . |
| 9 | There are many businesses that can be carried on in rural and residential areas without causing unacceptable disturbance … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Education in art and design is carried on in many different institutions ranging from polytechnics and colleges of higher education through specialist colleges of art to colleges of further education and technical colleges . |
| 12 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 13 | Fig. 88 abjures pattern , making its effect entirely by the balance of light figures and dark ground ; while Euphronios in fig. 89 makes his patterns too in red-figure : two ways of integrating the picture still further with the pot , both carried on in later generations . |
| 14 | Of course , the debate is not carried on in these terms . |
| 15 | Logging is still carried on in some areas . |
| 16 | It was also carried on in some few villages : fulling mills operated at East Hendred , near Wantage , Brimpton and Colthorp , as well as one at Bagnor owned by no less than Jack of Newbury himself . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I think we owe it to people like or at least to give them another crack at the whip to see if they 've come on in that interim period cos it 's a good six months since we interviewed |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It may well be the same story that has come down in two different strands of tradition . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Broadway 's Fulton theatre was given her name in 1955 to celebrate her 50th year on the stage but was torn down in 1982 to make way for a hotel . |
| 25 | Then they were sat down in neat rows , boys on one side and girls on the other . |
| 26 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 27 | The disappointment Haslam inevitably felt at being let down in this way led to a second turning point in his career and one of those ‘ negative accidents ’ that ultimately proved to have a positive outcome . |
| 28 | Married women were more likely than single mothers to be let down in this way , and such women were particularly likely to develop depression . |
| 29 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 30 | It was a triumph of planning in so short a time for so complicated a matter , most of it carried through in most places within a year or two years of the passing of the act . |