Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [noun pl] to " in BNC.

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1 Applying purely literary , cinematic , aesthetic or philosophical criteria to such work does not mean that it can not be located in terms to which value judgements may be attached .
2 Members of the Palestinian business community voted in elections to the Chamber of Commerce in the West Bank city of Hebron on June 18 .
3 The stage number is added in parentheses to the name or formula .
4 The black kids have been paraded in handcuffs to the press . ’
5 People on low incomes are entitled to rebates of up to 80 per cent , and further help is included in payments to those in receipt of income support .
6 It is imperative that provision for suitable hospital discharge procedures is an integral part of contracts negotiated by district health authorities and GP budget holders , and is also included in requirements to be made of self-governing hospitals .
7 These lessons were contained in revisions to the constitution and in the explanatory legislation that codified its clauses .
8 When digits are presented in pairs to left and right ears , there is an almost universal tendency ( Broadbent , 1954 ) for subjects to report all of the items presented to one ear before reporting those items presented to the other ear .
9 Approximately 5 105 plaques of a human fetal brain ZAP II cDNA library ( Stratagene ; Catalog Nr.936206 ) were transferred in duplicates to Plaquescreen Filters ( DuPont ) and then screened with a randomly primed mixture of 5 106 cpm of radiolabelled POU domain DNA fragments of the oct-2 cDNA ( pos. 586–1077 ) and the oct-6 cDNA ( pos. 706–1232 ; generously provided by Dr. Hans Schöler , Heidelberg ) according to standard procedures described in detail in chapter 6.3 in [ 16 ] .
10 Weiner stated that guilt is strongly related in adults to internal and controllable attributions for negative events .
11 Peter Parker does his best for Ackerley , praises his work — minor , but with an odd verve — and tries to bring out the more endearing sides to his nature revealed in letters to friends .
12 Yet somehow the message has still to get through to British Rail that the communication of travel information is no longer a luxury , to be fed in titbits to grateful passengers .
13 These messages , it is widely believed , can give information about the future , the remote past or things taking place in distant parts of the world ; at a more down-to-earth level , psychologists and especially psychoanalysts think that analysis of dreams can reveal details of a person 's mental state , and have concocted numerous systems relating objects or events seen in dreams to aspects of the human psyche .
14 This insecurity , along with a felt need for some stable focus of emotional security , can be seen in responses to the sentence-completion test item ‘ more than anything else he/she worries about … ’
15 In the Jura the Tithonian can be seen in places to be a coral reef limestone , but usually the corals have been obliterated by dolomitisation and dedolomitisation as is commonly the fate of reefs .
16 The Government 's desire to assist charities is seen in concessions to individuals , such as Gift Aid , payroll giving and covenants , but the Chairman remarked that it makes no sense if the Institution has to hand the money back , and more through Value Added Tax .
17 Service of an originating process out of England and Wales is permissible without the leave of the court provided that each claim made is either : ( 1 ) a claim which , by virtue of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 , the court has power to hear and determine , made in proceedings to which the following conditions apply : ( a ) no proceedings between the parties concerning the same cause of action are pending in the courts of any other part of the United Kingdom or of any other Convention territory , and ( b ) either : ( i ) the defendant is domiciled in any part of the United Kingdom or in any other Convention territory , or the proceedings begun by the originating process are proceedings to which art 16 of Sched 1 or of Sched 4 to the 1982 Act refer , or ( ii ) the defendant is a party to an agreement conferring jurisdiction to which art 17 of the said Sched 1 or Sched 4 applies .
18 Therefore , as I have frequently said in letters to Opposition Members and to my hon. Friends , we regard the support of students as the proper duty of the education system , rather than of the social security system , although there are exceptions that we support under the social security system .
19 The defeat of Solarz and of Chester G. Atkins , a Democrat representing Massachusetts , brought the total of incumbents in the House who had been defeated in primaries to 19 , the highest number since 1945 .
20 During this winter approximately two hundred other patients requiring amputations had been carried or hauled in sledges to other hospitals in central Bosnia .
21 They were built in Scotland and transported in sections to Egypt where they were assembled in Cook 's own shipyard at Boulac .
22 After notification from Greenpeace , German officials had revealed to their Hungarian counterparts that waste from a chemical factory in Halle had entered Hungary under false documents and been transported in barrels to different areas of the country .
23 The old committees where clergymen of various denominations talked in polysyllables to each other 's waistcoats were given a sudden strength as they touched the aspirations of the peoples .
24 What an awful confusion of overwhelming feeling for someone well advanced in years to be coping with .
25 Opera was rejected in the 60s because modernism found its dependence on human emotions embarrassing and messy , and because it seemed politically inept — a medium housed in monuments to the establishment and inadequate for the expression of political ideologies .
26 The river dolphins that live in muddy water are probably the most skilled echolocators , but some open-sea dolphins have been shown in tests to be pretty good too .
27 Saddam 's latest concessions marked a significant improvement over those offered in letters to Rafsanjani dated July 31 and Aug. 3 , in which he reportedly " stepp[ed] back " from Iraqi claims over the Shatt al-Arab waterway and proposed Iraqi troop withdrawals within two months .
28 Gazzer was twenty-two years old and had been compared in looks to a pit bull , entirely to the dog 's advantage .
29 The child watched her now stand up in her stockinged feet on what had once been a fine Persian rug but was now worn in parts to its back , and unpin her hat .
30 The topic of metaphor is too broad to receive a detailed treatment here ; let us simply say that a metaphor induces the hearer ( or reader ) to view a thing , state of affairs , or whatever , as being like something else , by applying to the former linguistic expressions which are more normally employed in references to the latter .
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