Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have thought the labour market conditions are also a vital ingredient if profitability is to be passed on or shared out in higher wages . |
| 2 | In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ . |
| 3 | In spite of what one reads and hears , we can take that as being a pretty definitive er word on , on the fact that we 're not being conned or ripped off in any way at all . |
| 4 | Certainly many interiors that have been gutted or scooped out in this way would now be considered worthy of retention — notably many of Nash 's interiors around Regent 's Park . |
| 5 | This easement does not by any means apply to all developers and is in any case temporary : setting off the charge against the claims in this way will not be possible when the fund has been distributed and the money has been spent or locked up in some investment . |
| 6 | I like to sprinkle them over miniature salads and , mixed with fromage frais , either stuffed into small peaches or rolled up in smoked salmon with a tarragon aspic . |
| 7 | The men fell back , or fell down in some cases , and Benny leapt off the edge of the dock just ahead of a swarm of angrily buzzing bullets . |
| 8 | Although pupils with little or no sight will , with training , be able to cope with a variety of environmental situations and even obstacles such as odd chairs , waste-paper baskets or sharp-cornered pieces of furniture scattered or left about in unexpected places , these are an unnecessary and possibly harmful source of trouble for those with visual problems . |
| 9 | The powers of the region were never as far-reaching ( or set out in such detail ) as was the case in the English counties prior to the 1980 Act . |
| 10 | Having photographed these averagely attractive , effectively anonymous members nestled amongst feathers , emerging from a bunch of Iris buds , tucked up with a wad of £10 notes , or wrapped up in black fishnet material , the stage is ostensibly set for the viewer to compare these peculiar juxtapositions with those more commonly seen in the media where the female body is used instead . |
| 11 | This Board held that in the particular circumstances — the contracts having been neither framed nor carried out in British India — the profits derived from the contracts did not there accrue or arise . |
| 12 | Even this , however , was neither central to his thinking nor set out in any detail . |
| 13 | And second , it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets . |
| 14 | ‘ Let the Council clear it up , ’ he said , and doubled up in silent mirth at the thought of flouting authority . |
| 15 | As for the Lost Boys , they were cast from a politically correct mix of ethnic groups and blimp shapes , and zipped around in funky MTV gear and Mohican hair-dos , spouting street jargon . |
| 16 | payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter . |
| 17 | These blinds not only offer a practical window treatment for kitchens and bathrooms , but can also look attractive in a sitting-room or bedroom when combined with curtains and made up in co-ordinated or matching fabric . |
| 18 | At 8.30 am sharp they " escaped " from the main gate of the Zoo and made off in different directions , all with the purpose of raising as much money as possible for WWF . |
| 19 | They had both animals ready and saddled up in half an hour , which was as well , because five minutes later , on the stroke of half past seven , Lord Deverill himself arrived , accompanied by four couples of hounds . |
| 20 | The boys , both pumped up by their achievement , ran and jumped all along the road to the Land Rover that we found round the next bend , and rode back in euphoric good spirits . |
| 21 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 22 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 23 | We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time . |
| 24 | Suddenly the issue was resolved with terrible finality for them both , as the inner floors gave way and crashed down in flaming ruin . |
| 25 | ‘ If you try to tell someone one night he went to bed in one county and woke up in another and he was no longer a Yorkshireman , he gets more than a bit upset . ’ |
| 26 | I had hardly time to see that a car had been driven up to a shop window and was now rapidly reversing out of it when two young men wearing stocking-masks and bundled up in thick clothing , making them unidentifiable , came rushing into the street , each swinging a bag of loot . |
| 27 | The first book , A Plea for the Faithful Restoration of our Ancient Churches , was based on a lecture that he had given and came out in 1850 . |
| 28 | It sounds fantastically timeless , like you just jumped into the Tardis and came out in another place and era entirely . |
| 29 | In the good , old-fashioned days text was sent off to be typeset and came back in long strips called galleys . |
| 30 | The rules began by clarifying the ‘ special advisory committees ’ for juveniles and spelt out in some detail the procedures for registering them at the exchanges . |