Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September a woman was killed when her vehicle was hit by a train on a level-crossing near Reading and in 1990 , 23 people died and 25 critically injured in 69 level crossing accidents , compared with 14 dead and 33 injured in 60 accidents the previous year . |
| 2 | In 1357 the clerical author of the short De miserabili statu regni Francie , reflecting upon the disaster of Poitiers , praised the courage of the king , John II , who had fought bravely up to the very moment of his capture , but condemned in strong terms the failure and lack of heart of the nobility , the ‘ duces belli ’ who had failed in their obligation to the French state . |
| 3 | Immigrants to the UK fulfilled in many ways the same functions as white working-class people . |
| 4 | As recently as 1987 , he sacked his adviser , Mr. Richard Heller , for writing an article that stated in precise terms the Labour party 's policy of today . |
| 5 | He showed in two cases the flower with the insect which pollinated it , following Darwin 's lead in his Fertilisation of Orchids ( 1862 ) . |
| 6 | He regained in two heart-beats the hardness he 'd lost . |
| 7 | The Radcliffe Report ( 1959 ) emphasised in stronger terms the problems associated with financial change and maintained that it is impossible to define money , because there is no clear criterion with which to determine those assets that are part of the money supply . |
| 8 | Foster agreed in some circumstances the mental health of the child might be fine . |
| 9 | When Forester first introduced him as captain of the frigate Lydia , in The Happy Return , he announced in plain terms the contradiction in his nature : |
| 10 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 11 | We also saw in both tests the law change allowing a quick throw-in from touch . |
| 12 | What is required is that the patient knew in broad terms the nature and effect of the procedure to which consent ( or refusal ) was given . |
| 13 | As is well known , Marx outlined in general terms the course of the total social reproduction , proceeding from a whole series of premises to simplifying the situation … |
| 14 | He said in 90 Minutes the other week that his dream is to play for a big Italian club . |
| 15 | But with the oak painted Wedgewood green , a vividly coloured Turkish carpet and armchairs upholstered in primary colours the atmosphere is anything but crusty . |
| 16 | There were nineteenth century memoirs and occasionally they were quite revealing but it 's Lloyd George 's memoirs of the Great War , the First World War that set in many ways the modern pattern for old battles to be re-fought . |
| 17 | Under the commencement theory of jurisdiction propounded in those cases the reviewing court would not reassess whether the elements within the bracket constituting the statutory conditions were met or not . |