Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation . |
| 2 | Death sentences had been judicially imposed or carried out in 1990 in 90 countries ; the death penalty was retained by every country in the Middle East , with Iran showing the region 's highest number of death sentences ( estimated at more than 700 ) , while in China the report recorded 750 executions , the highest number since 1983 . |
| 3 | This has to be seen to be appreciated , engines can be viewed from several angles , compared with one another , or taken in in one awe-inspiring vista . |
| 4 | Arguments over the validity of the notice and justification of the motives of the partners serving it are better left to an appropriate tribunal ( judge , arbitrator or mediator ) than carried on in acrimonious correspondence . |
| 5 | I shall suggest that caught up in those practices are in fact two different answers to this central question , each with its own implications for support work and criteria for evaluation , with the result that support teachers often feel themselves pulled in two directions at once . |
| 6 | Although set up in 1974 in response to outcries about huge increases in domestic rates , it never came near to recommending their abolition or even their substantial replacement with another tax . |
| 7 | These developments are , quite naturally , producing fears in government circles that alliances are no more than cartels designed to restrain competition , albeit dressed up in new and more attractive clothes . |
| 8 | The attitudes are realised and represented in institutionalised and ritualised forms in which respect and contempt are tested and meted out in particular societies |
| 9 | These were low-paid , largely female , occupations mainly unmechanized and carried on in small workshops . |
| 10 | The sentence and punishment is decided and carried out in private . |
| 11 | Glad of it anyhow , ’ he added as if caught out in some discourtesy . |
| 12 | Sarella felt her cheeks begin to burn , as if caught out in some way . |
| 13 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |
| 14 | and written down in steady copperplate . |
| 15 | This low-level theory , if spelt out in more detail , amounts to the claim that if wheat is grown in the normal way , converted into bread in the normal way and eaten by humans in a normal way , then those humans will be nourished . |
| 16 | Father ran a butcher 's shop in which Fagg also worked until called up in nineteen thirty-nine . |
| 17 | It can leave the Tower if driven out in this way , but it must stay close to the outside walls . |
| 18 | In one period , all were placed together as if spelled out in full as ‘ MAC ’ . |
| 19 | In one period , all were placed together as if spelled out in full as ‘ MAC ’ . |
| 20 | Cos that 's where my father was born and brought up in that old house . |
| 21 | ‘ They are born and brought up in this country and subject to peer group pressure from the dominant culture in the 16–24 age group . ’ |
| 22 | This raises questions regarding the extent to which the standardised scores provide a useful basis of comparison for children born and brought up in this country . |
| 23 | I was born and brought up in this town and I thought and hoped my future was here . |
| 24 | Bouchard 's studies of identical twins separated at birth and brought up in different countries , classes and cultures , showed that they still shared similarities in actions and habits despite separation . |
| 25 | , Nicholas ( c. 1355–1424 ) , royal servant and bishop , was born in Menthorpe , East Riding of Yorkshire , and brought up in nearby Bubwith . |
| 26 | Although such behaviour corresponds closely to the descriptions of other feral children , it is impossible to know whether these children might have developed similar patterns of behaviour even if brought up in greater contact with people , and it has been suggested that feral children might have been abandoned by their parents because of their behaviour problems . |
| 27 | Camping in tents and cooped up in those magnificent mobile ovens , the crews were understandably as short on fuse as they were long on indestructibility and tantrums were as common as stones through the windscreen , the motley band continued their unsung way across the tropic of Cancer while those celebrated and sponsored Paris-Dakar counterparts roared along to the west . |
| 28 | Some were built by lairds for their own estates , or by burghs for the benefit of their citizens , to provide fresh meat during winter when , before the introduction of turnips as winter fodder , cattle had to be slaughtered and salted down in wooden tubs . |
| 29 | A further ‘ flaw ’ in the Bond conditions , but written in in good faith for the security of the Club in its early days , was the option of the Bondholders to receive either 3% interest , or free playing membership if holding a block of 4 x £25 bonds . |
| 30 | For his coronation he did not just go to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in the old way , but dressed up in Frankish costume for the occasion . |