Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A compromise was forged on the divisive issue of East Timor , the Portuguese colony forcibly annexed by Indonesia in 1976 . |
| 2 | The materials used , for example , merit attention rarely given to paintings in the West whose science is intended to create an illusion . |
| 3 | Retailing employment has been a traditional refuge for those workers most exposed to redundancy in other sectors , and as such higher consumer prices ‘ provides a form of social security for the retired and unemployed ’ ( Hills 1983 p.65 ) . |
| 4 | ( The chords shown in Example 83 are limited only to those with the root on C , and are mostly given with notes in close formation . |
| 5 | Phonological features were eventually assigned to variants in order to construct these subscales , but the first step was to quantify the data in order to compare the patterns which emerged in different data batches . |
| 6 | The data reveal that most of the questions and tasks successfully undertaken by pupils in the lowest third of the target pupils involve basic processes of counting and calculation carried out on paper , mentally , and with a calculator ; direct readings from tables of data ; recognition and drawing of familiar shapes ; and some visualization tasks . |
| 7 | As between themselves the authority of individual partners to bind the firm can be properly circumscribed by agreement in effective variation of the basic principle set out in this section . |
| 8 | Egyptian jewellery adorned the statue of Victory long since looted from Tarentum in southern Italy and displayed in the Curia Julia , named after the Julii , Octavian 's family . |
| 9 | Everett was duly interviewed for suitability in a hall in Shepherd 's Bush on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 10 | During this syndicalist period the ‘ official ’ movement was wholly committed to participation in the programme of modernization in which it participated with regional capital and the associated regional élite ( see Ben well CDP , 1978 ) . |
| 11 | I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south . |
| 12 | The reason Morgan sees for the passage of society from one stage to another — and this is what is most stressed by Engels in his restatement of Morgan 's theory in The Origin — is a social break due too the fact that the various subsystems stop working in gear , and come into conflict with each other . |
| 13 | The word ‘ only ’ is important , for the protection is thereby confined to cases in which the defendant commits no other , incidental tort to procure the breach of contract . |
| 14 | Other important casting centres have since come to light in Nigeria and some hundreds of castings have been analysed . |
| 15 | From this base he mounted a successful practice executing public works and speculative building on the grandest scale , only halted by bankruptcy in the financial crash of 1793 . |
| 16 | Further Cabinet changes followed the resignation in mid-September of Minister of State for Finance , Economy and the Budget Said Ali Kemal , hitherto regarded as second in the government only to Djohar . |
| 17 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 18 | In a 1975 introduction to his first novel , Jill , Larkin has revealed what his college life in war-time Oxford was like , and how he first met Amis there — an account somewhat amended by Amis in his contribution to Larkin at Sixty ( 1982 ) ; and collections of essays with titles like My Oxford ( 1977 ) and My Cambridge ( 1977 ) have assembled reminiscences of how mind and character were once forged round and about the tender age of twenty . |
| 19 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 20 | As the conditions changed to the more temperate climate we know today , so the proportion of reptiles had decreased — but there was no overall trend of the kind that would be implied if the mammals had only come into existence in the later geological periods . |
| 21 | Due to the circumstances of the original build , there are some strange anomalies in the plan , but the courtyard remains a key part of the design , much enjoyed by visitors in the summer , sitting under a fine specimen walnut tree . |
| 22 | The large , mature garden is always very much enjoyed by guests in summer . |
| 23 | When an influential purity deputation petitioned the Home Office , Herbert Samuel , then Under-Secretary of State , expressed himself personally committed to legislation in the interests of national honour , but he refused to pledge the government to introduce proposals in the house , or even to support them publicly . |
| 24 | Each canister of Actomite reliably reduces the threat of House Dust Mites in an average sized room and is especially recommended for use in bedrooms . |
| 25 | The measure was condemned by some economists as crude and ill-conceived , particularly since it threatened to wipe out the personal savings of many ordinary people : Soviet citizens were generally disinclined to place their money in accounts with the state savings bank , either because of mistrust , or because the low interest rate provided little incentive , or because it was necessary to carry a large amount of cash in case of chancing upon a scarce commodity which had suddenly come into stock in a state shop . |
| 26 | Either will do , but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets . |
| 27 | Bel-Shamharoth was especially attracted to dabblers in magic who , by being as it were beachcombers on the shores of the unnatural , were already half-enmeshed in his nets . |
| 28 | The man who is validly baptised or rightly instituted into office in the Church is assured that he has the Holy Spirit . |
| 29 | Discourse discharges energy through the transformation of the external world , while ‘ figures ’ are perceptual memories through which psychic energy is straightaway discharged by investment in them . |
| 30 | It was a world beyond my wildest dreams ; one I had only seen on celluloid in the cinema at Fontanellato . |