Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the town of Newton Stewart , not too far from Annan , a solicitor , Giles Davies , lost £1.8 million from his clients ' accounts because he became embroiled in a similar deal .
2 Berger also recalled last year 's Mexico Grand Prix , in which he and Nigel Mansell became embroiled in a tremendous battle during the closing stages of the race .
3 Although designed as a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the party 's foundation , the conference immediately became embroiled in a bitter struggle over the election of the ALP president , a largely ceremonial position .
4 Here he was a barrow boy who became embroiled in a pitched battle with children in Wilcox Road market , South Lambeth .
5 In the years that followed , press speculation dried up , scientific interest evaporated , and the whole affair became regarded as a laboured , pointless hoax .
6 Most had nothing at all to say about it and those that did comment relied to a large extent on a discourse and terminology borrowed from the ‘ agenda setting nexus ’ of mainstream criticism .
7 From the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , the educated élite became exposed to a heady concoction of western romantic , Idealist , and socialist ideas .
8 The chi square test was used to look for differences between tokens of the two word classes in two linguistic environments ; but decisions concerning the environments and the type of differences to be examined depended on a great deal of phonological , sociolinguistic and historical linguistic information .
9 It is typical of Richard that he accepted the task with alacrity and succeeded with such brilliance that almost overnight he became recognized as a famous warrior .
10 Severed human limbs , heads and trunks lay scattered over a wide area ; other human remains , accompanied by tattered shreds of uniform , hung grotesquely from the remaining tree branches .
11 A pile of boxes lay scattered like a demolished chimney .
12 This raises the possibility that OS/2 — and , with it , IBM 's partnership with Microsoft — will get caught in a vicious circle , much like DOS got caught in a virtuous one .
13 ‘ It was in Kabul that I got caught in a safe house , ’ another term he 'll always think of differently , ‘ by the secret police and I was put in prison .
14 Zambia became caught in a vicious circle because the mining industry is also heavily dependent on increasingly expensive imports , so that over time , output , investment and productivity fell .
15 As thousands of troops and vehicles , many loaded with looted goods , struggled north on the main road to Basra , they became caught in a congested and disorganized column many kilometres in length , and were subjected to hours of ruthless attack from the air with cluster bombs and , possibly , incendiary weapons .
16 Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish .
17 Their cheery , knees-up-Muvver-Brown , cock-er-nee grin gradually became eroded by a grim awareness of reality as the Thatcher years dragged on .
18 ‘ ACCESS HATCH ’ , she read embossed into a transparent panel , and , in smaller letters underneath , ‘ IN EMERGENCY , ENTER CODE 398 . ’
19 An expansion led by companies will prove more sustainable : in the past year business investment in new machinery has jumped by a healthy 16% .
20 The persons liable to pay the tax are the trustees of the settlement and when the interest that is terminated has subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include it .
21 Not surprisingly these measures have been controversial , and a central-local battle has developed with a strong party political character .
22 The preface to any argument for giving history an important position in the school curriculum of the 1990s must be an examination of the way in which history has developed into a multi-skilled discipline which has immense relevance to the general and vocational education of students .
23 Labour history too has developed into a recognizable historical research area and women 's history is following suit .
24 Thanks to the constant assistance of the Soviet Union and the selfless labour of the Korean people in the restoration of their country on a democratic basis , the Northern part of our Republic has developed into a powerful military , political , economic and cultural base for the democratic development of the whole country , and has considerably raised the level of material and cultural life of the people of our young Republic .
25 Through the display hangar , NAM has become not just a local attraction and amenity , but has developed into a regional , if not national , venue .
26 Scientific debate about this has developed into a veritable battle of faith .
27 ‘ About art and commercialism , ’ said Brian , ‘ what you should say is this : that advertising has developed into a valuable art-form and the big international companies are the art patrons of today , but instead of just keeping one artist the industry employs thousands of talented people . ’
28 It initially developed to provide trade financing for the entrepot centre , but since the multinationals started to arrive in the 1970s it has developed into a sophisticated financial centre .
29 After forty-eight hours the egg has developed into a free-swimming and feeding larva .
30 Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate .
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