Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] in [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 2 | There is no doubt too that parents have become more aware that immunisation can carry a risk of adverse reaction and this has been most publicised in relation to the whooping cough vaccine . |
| 3 | A joint venture between English Nature and London Zoo 's Invertebrate Conservation team has resulted in Britain 's most endangered bush cricket , the wart-biter ( Decticus verrucivorus ) being successfully reared in captivity for the first time . |
| 4 | There are changes — the numbers were exceptionally high , as the hon. Gentleman graphically indicated just now — but still no one could claim that Northern Ireland was badly placed in respect of our proposals . |
| 5 | Again both sides of industry are closely involved in their preparation , and in addition the Commission believes that trade unions should be " properly consulted in preparation of standardisation measures , and in the management of these Directives " . |
| 6 | But if space and time are merely " forms of our intuition " , then the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity presents no difficulty , for in that case any two things can be numerically distinguished in virtue of their spatial position alone . |
| 7 | No doubt there will be some complicated arguments about the concept of recklessness in the civil courts since this concept , commonplace in the criminal courts , is rarely paraded in front of the civil judge . |
| 8 | The dynastic struggle was eventually resolved in favour of the Habsburgs , but not before the death of Zápolya in 1540 . |
| 9 | The largely vertical tears , ranging from 20 to 60 cm in length , were successfully repaired in time for the opening of the exhibition . |
| 10 | Francis Pym 's dismissal from the office of Foreign Secretary was widely reported in advance during the 1983 general election ; the dismissals of Patrick Jenkin at Environment and Peter Rees at the Treasury in September 1985 were extensively trailed over the summer ; the same was true of Mr Biffen 's dismissal in June 1987 . |
| 11 | Iceland : the Althing , which began to discuss the agreement on Aug. 17 , eventually voted in favour of ratification — requiring only a simple majority — on Jan. 12 , 1993 . |
| 12 | We were much pressed in argument with submissions that , although fraudulent conduct has become a serious social evil , there are other evils just as grave , or even graver , which have not attracted any special powers ; that if the reason for giving exceptional powers to the Serious Fraud Office is that many frauds involve complicated transactions which are difficult to unravel , then the same could be said of the long and complex trials ( for instance , arising from charges of affray , or of the importation and supply of prohibited drugs ) to which no such powers have been applied ; and that , moreover , the powers of the Office are made available even where the transactions in question are not complicated , since the Act applies to ‘ serious or complex fraud ’ — not ‘ serious and complex fraud . ’ |
| 13 | Sparsely furnished in keeping with the austere , scholarly traditions of the Annamese mandarinate , it was dominated by the family 's ancestral altar , which consisted of three tables of different heights lacquered in red and gold . |
| 14 | This procolipase propeptide has an amino acid sequence that seems to be highly conserved in nature with the sequence val-Pro-Asp-Pro-Arg ( VPDPR ) in pig , ox , rat , and horse and ala-Pro-Gly-Pro-Arg ( APGPR ) in man and chicken . |
| 15 | The N terminal pentapeptide of pancreatic procolipase is highly conserved in nature with only three forms found to occur in the higher vertebrates , VPDPR , VPGPR , and the APGPR form found in humans and chickens . |
| 16 | We 've all fallen in love with our cover picture this month , and hope you will too — it 's got such a happy , festive feel . |
| 17 | He therefore lives The Natural , something apparently forgotten in favour of an alienating fiction . |
| 18 | credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ OK ’ said God , ‘ granted ’ , and St. David suddenly materialised in front of our wounded warrior . |
| 20 | There are ten attractive bedrooms , thoughtfully decorated in keeping with the rest of the house . |
| 21 | After a lifetime of being emotionally devoured by him , she was suddenly discarded in favour of the detestable Damian Flint . |
| 22 | Smoking at work is only permitted in accordance with the Council 's policy . |
| 23 | Smoking at work is only permitted in accordance with the Council 's policy . |
| 24 | In the UK this practice is only permitted in relation to a Recommended offer . |
| 25 | In Picasso 's subsequent move towards a more abstract kind of painting , the work of Braque may once again have been a stimulus , and Picasso 's remark to Braque , quoted by Michel Georges-Michel , ‘ I have tried your methods and I feel one can do excellent things with them ’ was perhaps made in connection with the new kind of painting Braque had invented in his still lifes of the first half of 1910 . |
| 26 | The details of this illness remain obscure , but in 1693 Newton became sufficiently disturbed in mind for rumours of his insanity to gain widespread acceptance . |
| 27 | As the discussion of the previous chapter would suggest , their objectives do not arise ready made in response to some supposed ‘ needs ’ of the accumulation process ; they emerge out of the complex interplay within the state of organized political interests . |
| 28 | As a general point banks in many countries were highly regulated in relation to deposits and lending conducted in their own domestic currency . |
| 29 | King penguins are the second largest of all the penguin tribe , only exceeded in size by the emperor penguin which breeds on the sea ice of the cold Antarctic continent . |
| 30 | The Bognor Regis case , and Mr. Weir 's criticism of it , was also considered by the Faulks Committee : Report of the Committee on Defamation ( 1975 ) ( Cmnd. 5909 ) who in their report took the view that the Bognor Regis case was ‘ rightly decided in accordance with the present law : ’ see p. 90 , para. 334 . |