Example sentences of "[vb pp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were finally lifted in a second House of Lords ruling in October last year . |
| 2 | One corner of his mouth lifted in a self-mocking grin . |
| 3 | The small man 's shoulders lifted in a slight shrug . |
| 4 | His shoulders lifted in a vague shrug . |
| 5 | Suddenly , Apanage tweaked a sequence of cords and chains , and the net lifted in a momentary puff of silk before floating down to consume the apparition . |
| 6 | Jack 's mouth lifted in a wry smile . |
| 7 | His mouth lifted in a wry smile . |
| 8 | His mouth lifted in a token smile . |
| 9 | His shoulders lifted in a resigned shrug . |
| 10 | In addition , ED 65 proposes that comprehensive income and the change in financial wealth for the period should be disclosed in a new statement known as the Statement of Changes in Financial Wealth ( SCFW ) . |
| 11 | All this is disclosed in a special ‘ dance ’ , the discovery and translation of which is one of the great achievements of modern ethology . |
| 12 | In Earle v Medhurst [ 1985 ] CLY 2650 the plaintiff 's claim to privilege for medical reports he had disclosed in a previous action against a different defendant claiming damages for similar injuries was not upheld . |
| 13 | When designed in a holistic way by the disabled person , the package of assistance which enables them to do so is no more expensive than the service-based alternative . |
| 14 | Once the approximate solution has been found then it is no longer a problem situation but a design situation : how can the solution be designed in a better way ? |
| 15 | The Rectory is designed in a simple medieval Gothic Revival style . |
| 16 | Burn designed in a wide range of styles , from the chaste Grecian at Camperdown House , Dundee in 1821 , to the Scottish Baronial style he used at Fonthill in 1856 . |
| 17 | It is disputed whether these onion domes were a development indigenous to the area or whether the idea came from further east , but the former seems more likely on the weight of evidence ; they were being built by the mid-twelfth century here and were designed in a great variety of shapes and in large numbers . . |
| 18 | Designed in a substantial , out-of- doors style the dial can be dressed up with diamonds at your request . |
| 19 | Looks as if it was designed in a multi-million pound research and development department ? |
| 20 | They knew that if you made schools and universities permanent structures , tooled beautifully in stone and designed in a timeless way to permit the flowering of reflective thought and ancient customs , that society would become attached to them and would n't want to let them go when the cutbacks came . |
| 21 | By then hundreds of customer-nominated staff , lucky enough to have won in a quarterly draw , will have been presented with Ovations cheques which can be exchanged for a wide range of goods in a special catalogue . |
| 22 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 23 | The Grand National … and you could be there at Aintree … we 've two tickets to be won in a special competition |
| 24 | The teaching of learned gesture could be approached in a systematic , comparative way , at least with monolingual groups , where differences between learned gesture in the students ' own culture and in the target culture are often a subject of considerable interest . |
| 25 | They should , however , be informed by principles and insights drawn from linguistics — for example , the idea that language in all its diversity can be approached in a non-prescriptive , non-judgmental way and that it is possible to treat systematically and objectively an aspect of human life which is often the focus of emotive and prejudiced reactions . |
| 26 | Public protection committee chairman Jim Campbell said this was an obviously sensitive area , which the council had approached in a sensitive manner . |
| 27 | The mortar joint is attacked in a similar manner , remembering to always point the chisel inward , never out . |
| 28 | It 's not just making sure that the notes harmonise , it 's making sure that they 're attacked in a similar manner . |
| 29 | Andreeva 's letter was in turn attacked in a lengthy editorial in Pravda on 5 April 1988 , three weeks later and after Gorbachev had reportedly been able to secure the agreement of the Politburo to a considered rebuttal . |
| 30 | Nevertheless she felt uneasy and was almost glad to hear that a second girl had been attacked in a different part of Liverpool . |