Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presently consuming or consumed in the previous 12 months . |
| 2 | Volunteers are naturally eager to know how well the event has done so it 's best that the cash is totalled before they leave then either banked straight away or placed in the safe keeping of the headteacher or the deputy until the bank opens on the following day . |
| 3 | This theme , the ties between city and colony , and the ways they were reinforced , weakened or broken in the great war , is important to Thucydides , and it is not accidental that it occurs thus early . |
| 4 | Some Romanians claim ( not unreasonably though without evidence ) that Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were diabolists who had arranged for certain black magical and other superstitious figures to be carved in the decorations of the Casa Republicii or hidden in the overall design and visible only to other satanic initiates of the occult . |
| 5 | Radio Lebanon reported on Aug. 24 that a number of civilians were killed or wounded in the subsequent SLA barrage , during which , according to some sources , regular Lebanese soldiers ( deployed in the south since July — see p. 38360 ) clashed with SLA fighters . |
| 6 | He had seen the writing on the wall : after the oil crisis of 1973 there was n't going to be enough money to keep all the universities enthusiastically created or expanded in the booming sixties in the style to which they had become accustomed . |
| 7 | Other circles were within sight , the most notable being the famed Druid temple known as Callanish ; and my imagination , I must own , was discovering Druid circles or single Druid stones wherever grey rocks were seen rising above or bedded in the dark moor . |
| 8 | They had to be ‘ processed ’ or interpreted in the political sphere through the cut and thrust of political debate and conflict . |
| 9 | Similar tragedies can occur even in rather unusual settings and caused by a different train of events , for example the North Sea Piper Alpha episode 1988 , where staff died either on the blazing oil installation or drowned in the surrounding sea of fire . |
| 10 | The stock is , to the extent that it has not already been used or sold in the ordinary and normal course of trading in good condition and working order and capable of being used or sold in the ordinary and normal course of trading . |
| 11 | The stock is , to the extent that it has not already been used or sold in the ordinary and normal course of trading in good condition and working order and capable of being used or sold in the ordinary and normal course of trading . |
| 12 | The Post Office is legally liable in certain circumstances and within certain limits , for most things that are lost or damaged in the inland post . |
| 13 | The Post Office is legally liable , in certain circumstances and within certain limits , for most things that are lost or damaged in the inland post . |
| 14 | Of course , the fortunes were not spent or invested in the Caribbean . |
| 15 | The existence of permanent minorities , whose aspirations , wishes and even principles are systematically ignored or overridden in the collective decision-making processes , can easily make a majoritarian democracy unworkable . |
| 16 | At least it started off as a quick explanation , but almost without noticing , she was soon telling Antony everything she had felt or feared in the past week . |
| 17 | The line may be included in a BBC BASIC program or entered in the direct mode . |
| 18 | There may be real practical advantages in having a central source of expertise ; such a source is more likely to send documents in a form , and with accompanying material , required by the state of destination or specified in the applicable bilateral or multilateral convention . |
| 19 | Unlike the varied operations and sequences of the unique ‘ one-off ’ products of jobbing production , the products of batch production are dealt with systematically in lots , or batches , only moving on to the next operation , when each lot has been machined or processed in the current operation . |
| 20 | Projected figures suggest that over 1,500 wildlife sites would be damaged or destroyed in the national roads programme . |
| 21 | Privatizations announced or implemented in the following four months included those of banks , newspapers , a shipping company and a brewery [ see also p. 38209 ] . |
| 22 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ thinkers , on the other hand , tend to perceive child care matters in personal rather than political terms and are more inclined to the views expressed or implied in the following comments by respondents from this group : ‘ you could never have done anything with this poor mother ’ , and : |
| 23 | One of the main functions of the large intestine is to salvage energy from dietary carbonhydrate which has neither been digested nor absorbed in the small intestine . |
| 24 | The present moated Hall was rebuilt during the 16th century and altered in the early 19th century but the house preserves the plan of the 16th century building . |
| 25 | This is a separate document which must be signed and witnessed in the correct legal manner . |
| 26 | Everything I have seen and heard in the ensuing months reinforces my belief that drift-netting is a manifestation of an attitude which , unchecked , will in due course murder the only planet on which we can make our home . ’ |
| 27 | He gestured abruptly to the side of a vast building at one end of the square , lit by flaring torches which guttered and spat in the light snowfall . |
| 28 | The duchy had been elevated to the status of a principality and placed in the Black Prince 's hands in 1362 . |
| 29 | There is a slot for each room and the names of the occupants , dates of arrival and departure and terms are typed on a card or slip and placed in the appropriate room number slot . |
| 30 | PERT and CPM are valuable when planning a project as they help the planner to ensure that all jobs have been considered and placed in the right logical sequence . |