Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Office accommodation , with the possible exception of the Foreign Secretary 's residence , would be almost the same as that laid down in the competition . |
| 2 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
| 3 | It was enacted that the vill should not be required to pay the cost of service beyond the county boundary , that the equipment required of troops should not go beyond that laid down in the Statute of Winchester , and that service overseas should not be required as an obligation of tenure . |
| 4 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 5 | This came about in an equally haphazard fashion . |
| 6 | But this came out in a stumbling , heavy voice ; he still could hardly believe it all . |
| 7 | Most of the true species are single-flowers , and seldom bloom beyond the one initial burst — this showed out in the early English crosses . |
| 8 | Quite a few wound up in the private labs in Switzerland . |
| 9 | In their haste to dispose of the money some of it was burned and some ended up in a sewer . |
| 10 | The development of an elite theory which dared to call itself such came about in the late nineteenth century as a reaction particularly against the radical egalitarian democratic ideals of Karl Marx and the Western European socialist movements . |
| 11 | But more than 100 holed up in the police headquarters in Srinagar . |
| 12 | A MURDER trial was adjourned last night after one of the accused broke down in the witness box as she said her fellow defendant had suggested using shovels to bury a woman alive . |
| 13 | If they were watching for her , they would n't expect her to travel on the night boat from Liverpool , with a rough sea battering at the B & I ship , while the drunks and the seasick threw up in the smelly lounges . |
| 14 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 15 | We three travelled up in the lift of the Hotel Vancouver together and perhaps just to make conversation I mentioned my trip to the Haida reservation and my feelings about the neglect of our Indians . |
| 16 | All wiped out in the War and he was brought up in an orphanage . |
| 17 | Yeah , well th that all petered out in the end , did n't it ? |
| 18 | Friday evening was spent mastering rhythm-changes on the piano and weaving cheerfully around the furniture in an Edinburgh tenement , and on Saturday and Sunday we all camped out in a School Dance Studio for movement sessions . |
| 19 | Fred and then they all came round in the evening , and then on S Sunday , went to church and were invited out for lunch , and I went to see my mummy and daddy . |
| 20 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 21 | That morning , just after Sullivan had received a cable form Washington telling him to inform the new government that the United States would continue diplomatic relations with Iran , machine guns mounted on the surrounding buildings all opened up in a pre-arranged barrage . |
| 22 | After the incident , Piggott said : ‘ It nearly blew us away and we all finished up in the roof . |
| 23 | All duded out in a double-breasted suit with my shoes all shined . |
| 24 | All yelped out in a voice that would wake the dead or summon up the devil from the deepest ring of hell . |
| 25 | There could be millions of them — hundreds of millions — thousands of millions of stars all swallowed up in the one hole . ’ |
| 26 | They 've found the undertaker 's clothes all tied up in a neat bundle in a shed on the moor . ’ |
| 27 | It all worked out in the end and everything went as planned . |
| 28 | No vote was taken and Sir John refused to say whether any clubs opposed the deal but he added : ‘ It all went through in a very few minutes . ’ |
| 29 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers ; SunSoft president Ed Zander , a man with a tailor to kill for and the wardrobe to prove it , was quick to notice that McNealy was wearing a shirt with his initials on the cuff for the first time in his life — McNealy shot back that the ‘ SM ’ stood for ‘ Stop Microsoft . ’ |
| 30 | Sun Microsystems Inc CEO Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers . |