Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , thirty-six ( or about two-thirds ) of the families that were resident in Willingham in 1575 had either moved or died out in the male line during the course of a century and a half . |
| 2 | What is interesting to note about both the theory of public choice and Chicago School economic analysis of law is that their analyses , although wrapped up in the analytical apparatus of modern economics , reach more or less identical conclusions to Hayek . |
| 3 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |
| 4 | The data can then be analysed or altered and placed back in the database . |
| 5 | In practical terms this means The Fix can be placed in a horizontal crack with a large proportion of the stem sticking out and fallen on in the knowledge that the device has been specifically designed to give an increased safety margin . |
| 6 | If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow . |
| 7 | Caught up in the concern to balance the power of the Commons is an attempt to recapture elements of the eighteenth-century constitution in a way that waters down the democratic side of the state machine ; caught up in the concern to secure a more independent House of Commons is an attempt to revive the pre-democratic nineteenth-century liberal constitution ; and caught up in the concern to limit parliamentary sovereignty is an attempt to limit democracy itself . |
| 8 | The report concluded that substantial financial support should be given to research promoted and co-ordinated by the Home Office and carried out in the Universities and by other agencies . |
| 9 | Furthermore , there is a general permission for any development in connection with coal industry activities ( as defined in section 63 of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 ) and carried out in the immediate vicinity of a pithead . |
| 10 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 11 | If caught out in the open , the echidna simply digs rapidly downwards until , again , nothing is visible but its spiky upper surface . |
| 12 | If made up in the form of a roll : 1040mm for the length and twice the diameter combined , and 900mm for the greater dimension . |
| 13 | These were quickly taken up and written about in the British context ( e.g. Thomas et al. , |
| 14 | We ca n't afford to get cut off and pinned down in the hold . ’ |
| 15 | Clayton was adopted by his aunt and uncle and brought up in the working class brewery town of Tadcaster , North Yorkshire . |
| 16 | Born and brought up in the area , unlike other members of the group who had lived locally for Periods of one to seven years . |
| 17 | Members of the Korean minority have started to question the exclusivity of a Japan which has denied citizenship and certain basic human rights even to those born and brought up in the country . |
| 18 | The people were not necessarily born and brought up in the same neighbourhood ; many are upwardly mobile ( unlike the inner-city people ) . |
| 19 | Like Karim , Hanif Kureishi was born of a Pakistani father and an English mother and brought up in the London borough of Bromley . |
| 20 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 21 | ‘ After all , I was born and brought up in the north of Scotland . |
| 22 | The inquest heard how Mr Ryder was born and brought up in the Huyton area of Liverpool . |
| 23 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |
| 24 | It was true , the old ramblers were both ugly and kitted out in the very best of outdoor clothing . |
| 25 | Winner of his previous six races , and fitted out in the Arkle colours of Anne Duchess of Westminster , he broke his elbow in a fall at the seventh fence and was destroyed . |
| 26 | Daine had been caught and convicted back in the real world . |
| 27 | When Sweetheart fixed her hair and make-up a certain way and dressed up in the clothes she made on her treadle sewing machine , she looked for all the world like Jane Russell come to life from the big screen . |
| 28 | Icelandic Poppies ( P. nudicaule ) are perennials best treated as biennials sown in July and planted out in the autumn for flowering from early Spring . |
| 29 | All acts done within the actual authority of a partner will be binding on the firm whether carried out in the usual course of business or otherwise . |
| 30 | In the light of these partial versions of reality , I suggest there is a need to look beyond the surface presentation , whether handed out in the form of a press release or in the crime statistics which senior officers consistently use as an indication of social mayhem . |