Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martigues will soon be all but swallowed up in the new harbour constructions planned to stretch west from Marseille . |
| 2 | In the same year , the Hoppers ' Bel Air mansion was all but burnt down in a fire and virtually the whole of Dennis 's collection of poems and paintings were destroyed . |
| 3 | Some years ago Western Samoans were found never to develop type I diabetes in their own environment but to do so when brought up in New Zealand . |
| 4 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But this can not be the only explanation , because pigeons can home normally even when taken out in enclosed vans in continuously rotating cages , or even under anaesthetic , both of which treatments should render learning the outward journey impossible . |
| 7 | These emphases , particularly as brought out in the typical case histories in a host of texts , revealed , we may suggest , the fear of masturbation as actually fixed in the minds of middle-class parents , disturbed by their sons ' unwillingness to live by the respectable sexual ideology , and attend to their duties and to future marriage . |
| 8 | They will add a sumptuous air to your curtains , particularly when made up in soft , supple fabrics which drape beautifully . |