Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Austen Chamberlain , despite his limitations , was an ally of a staunchness rarely seen in politics . |
| 2 | The woods most used in construction were elm and ash , both very hard and durable . |
| 3 | A slightly different picture emerges if we sift out the figures relating to personal injury negligence actions alone — the category most discussed in relation to the efficacy of settlements . |
| 4 | Yet each in his own way sincerely struggled to impose order on a country where Lowlander and Highlander rarely met in friendship , and could rarely communicate in the same tongue ; where there was the continual threat of another English excuse for invasion , often abetted by self-seeking elements within the kingdom itself ; and where arrogant noblemen prolonged family feuds disruptive not merely to the families conceded but to the governance of the kingdom itself . |
| 5 | Tennis talent badly served in province |
| 6 | The neutrons thereby produced in turn produced 14 C by interaction with 14 N. This simulated natural cosmogenic production , albeit in large bursts , and roughly doubled the atmospheric 14 C content as measured in about 1965 . |
| 7 | Part of the supportive service for export participation is export knowledge and a well established export department properly educated in export and marketing procedures . |
| 8 | Though separated from his Guard , Napoleon apparently remained in company with Soult , Bertrand and Drouot who , together with a few officers and an escort , were seen at Quatre Bras at 1 a.m. on 19 June . |
| 9 | The charges related to extra inducements made to players over and above their club wages , an area of football so steeped in secrecy and subterfuge , that the problem is unlikely to go away . |
| 10 | ‘ OK ’ said God , ‘ granted ’ , and St. David suddenly materialised in front of our wounded warrior . |
| 11 | The major parties all voted in favour ; those voting against included the Flemish Volksunie , the extreme right-wing Flemish Vlaams Blok and both the Flemish and Walloon Greens ; the Van Rossem list abstained . |
| 12 | Lettie , a smart and tweedy battleaxe suddenly glimpsed in flannelette nightie and a hairnet , is a figure of fun who would be utterly loathsome if she really existed . |
| 13 | Legislation by statute greatly increased in importance during the Tudor period . |
| 14 | Steps already taken in response to IMF recommendations included the regulation of banks ' capital-to-assets ratio ( January 1991 ) , the freeing of foreign exchange rates ( Feb. 27 ) , electricity and petrol price rises , and a sales tax levied at highest rates on luxury goods ( May 4 ) . |
| 15 | The chief functions of the short time-limit under Ord. 53 are to prevent public programmes from being unduly held up by litigation challenging the legality of such programmes ; and to prevent steps already taken in execution of challenged decisions having to be reversed long after the decision was acted upon . |
| 16 | Many of the shapes that had been developed in the Early Minoan nevertheless continued in use , especially the one-handled cup and the jar with a short spout on its shoulder , bridged by the rim . |
| 17 | Not of a mind already steeped in convention and tradition . |
| 18 | The classical spirit in which he was trained never lost its hold upon him ; the spirit of the pagan authors he revered in their original languages coexisted in his mind with an Anglicanism more committed in substance than fervent in style ; and as the new novel of the 1950s revived the techniques of eighteenth-century fiction , so did Lewis 's critical prose revive the world of hard-hitting supper-party debates that Boswell records . |
| 19 | Entering on the French side still wrapped in cloud , you have a good chance of exiting on the Spanish side , as we did on the morning in question , in flawless sunshine and restorative heat . |
| 20 | With my mouth still submerged in water , I resemble a surly alligator . |
| 21 | Despite his good intentions , and despite the more rational management principles and institutions introduced by Speranskii , the actual administration of Siberia , the manner of its economic exploitation , the low levels of popular enlightenment , the permanently suppurating sore of the exile system , the treatment of the native population — which still ranged from the paternalistic to the spasmodically genocidal — and the survival of traditional ‘ imperialist ’ attitudes in St Petersburg , meant that in practice the old core-periphery , metropolis-frontier relationships still remained in force , and Siberia continued to be treated and governed in a manner which reflected its original quasi-colonial status . |
| 22 | Is n't the clue to a murder usually found in part of the victim 's past , or his dealings with people ? |
| 23 | The large cell bodies of the motor neurons could be found , and , as explained in Chapter 7 , the ‘ same ’ cell repeatedly identified in animal after animal ( Figure 9.2 ) . |
| 24 | Baldwin and Irwin both believed in accommodation and not in confrontation . |
| 25 | This tripartite intervention left a legacy of resentment in Japan , a bitterness at being unable to retain concessions fairly won in war except with the sanction of other powers . |
| 26 | John Bayley now moved in arrest of judgment . |
| 27 | Common examples of such businesses include petrol stations , public houses , fast-food restaurants and shops within shops often found in department stores . |
| 28 | An EC-EFTA meeting on Dec. 19 made progress in discussions on the European Economic Area or EEA ( the term now adopted in preference to " European Economic Space " or EES — see pp. 37134 ; 37535 ) , and it was anticipated that these EC-EFTA talks would now reach a conclusion by mid-1992 such that an EEA agreement could go through the various ratification processes and take effect on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 29 | He nodded , his mouth sharply sculpted in disapproval . |
| 30 | The word " appropriate " in this criterion statement is one of the vague words frequently utilized in criterion statements . |