Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the interpretation of democracy argued for in this book is correct , or at least is found persuasive by its readers , then it should be clear that its principal practical implication is that democracy is still " unfinished business " on the agenda of modern politics . |
| 2 | Of the other offences adverted to in this chapter , the crime of threatening to kill is extended to threats to cause serious personal harm ( cl. 65 ) ; administering a substance without consent ( cl. 73 ) and assault to resist arrest ( cl. 77 ) are redrafted . |
| 3 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 4 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 5 | Her working-class male counterpart is not usually ridiculed or disapproved of in this way , as someone whose language is inappropriate . |
| 6 | Here , the railway developed its headquarters when there was little money to spare and the buildings inherited in 1960 have been adapted and added to in piecemeal fashion . |
| 7 | We came across in broad daylight . |
| 8 | But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization . |
| 9 | In three cases of clear-cut discrepancy between the social class classification arrived at in this way and the wife 's previous occupation , education or general life-style , social class was upgraded or downgraded to take account of the contradiction . |
| 10 | The tales of Mountain Biker Attacks Rambler are certainly a far cry from the friendliness we met with in this area . |
| 11 | For those who wish the work to emerge with its character heavily emboldened without in any way resorting to selfregarding artifice , then there is no denying the enormous impact of both the LSO/Tilson Tomas ( Sony ) and VPO/Abbado ( DG ) versions . |
| 12 | ‘ But none of the hospitals we went to in this country did a single thing to help us . |
| 13 | Plowman J stated at p596 : The arrangement in my view must be looked at as a whole , and looked at in this way , I find it impossible to say that the Respondent did not provide the trustee with an income … in the sense in which the word " provided " is used in [ what is now TA 1988 , s663 ] ; that is to say , as importing an element of bounty . |
| 14 | Virtually none of the people looked at in this demonstration have gone into an informal care setting where they are relying to a large degree on informal caring . |
| 15 | These matters confirm me in the view already expressed that the disturbance complained of in this case is not actionable . |
| 16 | The United States and the United Kingdom voted against in each case . |
| 17 | I also take some comfort from the fact that I have enormous pleasure in remembering all those who I dealt with in this capacity returned to the Pathfinder Force before the end and wished sincerely to finish their Pathfinder tour . |
| 18 | Employee detail records are updated and enquired upon in real time via a single Visual Display Unit in the Personnel Office . |
| 19 | Yeah , erm , I mean , I think , what you 've , what you 've actually done is identified quite a lot more areas than they , they had four , which which they did in in some detail , and they got the stories classified , erm , what you 've actually thought of , is is far more areas , which I think 's good , erm , and maybe other areas to consider as well . |
| 20 | Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built . |
| 21 | Because it 's going to raise your government P A , P R because there is absolutely nobody left in in local authority housing who 's able to pay it because they 'll all be on housing benefit . |