Example sentences of "[vb past] in [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a boy of fifteen he had impressed his father , the Emperor Jehangir , with the taste he demonstrated in redesigning the Imperial apartments in Kabul . |
| 2 | While the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum , he helped in creating the new displays for the Museum 's collection of classical antiquities that had just come out of wartime storage . |
| 3 | The only injury Crawford sustained in making the second series was when he stubbed his finger while inside a wardrobe that tumbled down a flight of stairs in an episode about Frank attending an RAF reunion . |
| 4 | The shape of the garden had to be changed in order to allow the widening of the access road and long delays occurred in defining the new boundaries . |
| 5 | They still believed in influencing the Labour Party . |
| 6 | Whereas many otherwise ‘ progressive ’ disciples of Rousseau believed in controlling the entire environment of the child and programming its mind with carefully selected sense impressions , Wordsworth and Dorothy believed in complete freedom : ‘ Till a child is four years old he needs no other companions than the flowers , the grass , the cattle , the sheep that scamper away from him , when he makes a vain unexpecting chase after them , the pebbles upon the road etc . |
| 7 | One of the brigade 's proudest possessions is a letter from King George V , thanking them for the part they played in saving the Royal Train during the disastrous fire in the Works in 1933 , when £30,000 worth of damage was caused . |
| 8 | Save The Children are to be congratulated for the part they played in securing the nineteen eighty nine United Nations convention on the rights of the child . |
| 9 | The method used was partly theoretical but mainly empirical , and consisted in applying the non-linear regression option of a statistics package , BMDP . |
| 10 | Chief Inspector Buchanan walked in wearing the same grey suit followed by the wooden-faced Sergeant Warden . |
| 11 | ‘ The moments we shared in making the nude paintings were best of all , and put a smile on my face . |
| 12 | He led in amalgamating the Royal Clyde with the Royal Northern . |
| 13 | In Britain , the ‘ Darwinians ’ led by Huxley succeeded in dominating the scientific community of the late 1860s and 1870s , although opposition grew in later decades . |
| 14 | He succeeded in producing the first development plan for Athens since it was liberated from the Turks , but in 1984 he was forced to resign over his proposal for establishing a green belt by bulldozing illegal slums in the suburbs . |
| 15 | He succeeded in reversing the downward trend of the railway 's fortunes , countering the advance of electric trams by introducing electric traction on suburban railway lines such as Liverpool to Southport , one of the earliest main-line electrification schemes in the country , completed in 1904 . |
| 16 | On April 2 hundreds of protesters in Tripoli succeeded in entering the Venezuelan embassy and burned down part of it ( the Venezuelan permanent representative at the UN , Diego Arria , having been president of the Security Council for the month of March ) . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the methods employed by the utilitarian would always he justified if they succeeded in procuring the desired end . |
| 18 | When the British state began its policies of social interventionism from 1945 , it succeeded in fragmenting the local power base of unionism by centralizing the sources of welfare and making them at least in part available across the sectarian divide . |
| 19 | This was shortly after Indonesia 's independence , when chaos racked the nation and Celebes was terrorized by the " Darul Islam " rebels , an Islamic fundamentalist group who succeeded in capturing the entire medical team and holding them hostage for eighteen months . |
| 20 | It was by actively promoting such reforms that the Labour Party in West Ham succeeded in capturing the female vote when it was first exercised . |
| 21 | Sphinx Tours claims that it has lost revenue as a result of the campaign mounted by the Malta Ornithological Society , which succeeded in persuading the Egyptian government to place restrictions on the shooting of small birds . |
| 22 | In 1991 Mr Waugh succeeded in persuading the Scottish Office to relax funding controls so that the project could be speeded up . |
| 23 | A GAL acting on the day in court on a duty basis ( with the child 's solicitor ) succeeded in persuading the local authority to withdraw their application , with the court 's agreement . |
| 24 | By this daring stroke he succeeded in abolishing the ultraviolet catastrophe . |
| 25 | The Byzantines struggled to reassert their authority and succeeded in subduing the eastern half of Simeon 's former realm , but the western half passed to the control of a Macedonian empire under Samuilo ( Samuel ) ( 976–1014 ) . |
| 26 | One other man , a Henry W. Harris , a railway official , went to his rescue , and succeeded in reaching the drowning swimmer , but got into difficulties himself and could not bring the other to the shore . |
| 27 | He succeeded in isolating the essential germ-killing element , and created sulfanilamide , the first modern drug to work directly upon the cause of infection . |
| 28 | In Liverpool purity became a hot political issue , when purists succeeded in overturning the lax Tory council sympathetic to publicans and brewers . |
| 29 | It was a clever wheeze , great fun to work , and it probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat . |
| 30 | Lately Ohly excavated further and also removed Thorwaldsen 's restorations ; and succeeded in arranging the surviving remains in what must be very close indeed to the original scheme : a revelation . |