Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen delighted in his preaching and made him Dean of Westminster . |
| 2 | Feminists ca n't blame it all on men — since time began , men have delighted in our wobbly bits , thank heaven . |
| 3 | Milan Station , designed in what one critic called ‘ a megalomaniac delirium ’ , remains a monument to the ambitious and grandiose aspirations of Italian Fascism . |
| 4 | He is more likely to enjoy going to a restaurant that has good traditional furnishings that are well designed in their own terms . |
| 5 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |
| 6 | and you could be there at Cheltenham on Thursday for the big day … we ’ ve two club badges to be won in our special Gold Cup Competition |
| 7 | It would be quite something to see Flakey Dove and the Price family in here tomorrow … quite something to see you here on Thursday for the Gold Cup … here ’ s your chance … we 've two tickets to be won in our special competition … |
| 8 | Statistically the chances of elderly people being attacked in their own homes are very low . |
| 9 | The report suggests that the police regard true rape as occurring where one or preferably two of the following criteria are met : ( 1 ) complainer is attacked in her own home by intruder(s) ; ( 2 ) ‘ respectable ’ complainer attacked by strangers ; ( 3 ) complainer is severely beaten up ; ( 4 ) complainer is attacked by assailants wanted by or known to the police for crimes of violence ( especially against women ) ; ( 5 ) assailant uses weapon ; ( 6 ) assailant apprehended at scene of crime . |
| 10 | Thus it was possible for a Frenchman to hide from a crime committed in his own country by adopting another nationality . |
| 11 | At other times Fagin would tell them all about robberies he had committed in his younger days , telling the stories so well and putting in so many funny details that Oliver could not stop laughing , even though he knew it was wrong . |
| 12 | ‘ They must be free to drive their companies forward , but exercise that freedom within a framework of effective accountability , ’ the Committee stressed in its final report . |
| 13 | The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions . |
| 14 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 15 | Twice winner of the Paris event , seventh last year in London and then sprinting away in the final 200 metres to win the Berlin marathon ahead of Plaatjes , Brace has collected more money than he could have ever earned in his chosen profession of teaching . |
| 16 | An interpretation of scripture is presupposed in which all verses must comport with one another . |
| 17 | Transfixed by what they saw in America , airlines elsewhere expanded to get ready for the increased competition expected in their own skies . |
| 18 | In all but the largest projects , the functions are performed by having most of the staff members located in their functional departments reporting to their functional managers . |
| 19 | First there are the buildings which are usually , though not exclusively , domestic in character , located in their own spacious plots of land or yards , often in association with a range of agricultural features . |
| 20 | It revolves around a selected sample of detailed case-studies that are located in their sectoral context drawing on statistical and large scale survey data . |
| 21 | Although , as has been argued already , the significance of the 1934 Congress is to be located in its general guiding principles rather than in specific theories , it is nonetheless worthwhile examining briefly the substance of the 1934 debate not only because it sets out the agenda for a detailed discussion of socialist realism , but also because Nizan 's second novel , Le Cheval de Troie , was produced , for the most part in the Soviet Union during 1934 in the shadow of the Congress itself . |
| 22 | Since it gives only a single output there will be no distinction between the zero in its output due to an edge being properly located in its receptive field and a zero due to the absence of an edge altogether . |
| 23 | The focus of this research has reflected growing awareness that preoccupation with a handful of leading figures may create a distorted picture ; that Chernyshevsky , Plekhanov and Lenin may not be typical in terms of social background , personality or motivation ; that both their own ideological development and that of the rank and file must be more firmly located in its social context ; that the schemes and blueprints drawn up by leaders — and the criticisms hurled by their rivals — may be a poor guide to how the revolutionary parties actually functioned . |
| 24 | Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues ( 1979 ) makes a virtue out of the condition of ‘ accelerated shatter ’ he had located in his earlier novels by attempting to link the diverse aspects of his text within a verbal flow , a ‘ stream of language ’ introduced by a twelve-page unpunctuated single sentence . |
| 25 | This example of practical remembrance is paralleled in our other welfare facilities — at Sussexdown and Richard Peack House and the Eagle Lodges — and perhaps most importantly as we reach out through our Honorary Welfare Officers and out members to find and to help individuals in need . |
| 26 | Brewers found to have diluted their products were to be incarcerated in their own vats . |
| 27 | He is seen here after rescue and medical treatment , with a broken nose and bullet wound in his right hand . |
| 28 | According to Captain Trentham 's report , he was picked up with a single bullet wound in his right hand while lying in the mud only a few yards in front of his own trench . |
| 29 | He had been surprised at the speed of Grant 's reaction and had received a painful , though superficial flesh wound in his left thigh from the knife thrust . |
| 30 | In other words , carp baits have ceased to be merely baits : they are being catapulted in their thousands into every water in the UK to feed up carp that may never be caught . |