Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitherto regarded as a moderate in his policies towards the West , the president 's rhetoric is becoming less conciliatory with the approach of presidential elections in June . |
| 2 | The sun is often treated as an animate in English : to refer to its warm breath is to extend the metaphor . |
| 3 | Dill can usefully be grown as an ornamental in flower beds or vegetable potagers , for it is a pretty plant at every stage . |
| 4 | So did one from Balfour , written from a sickbed in Carlton Gardens . |
| 5 | The product is used as an intermediate in pharmaceuticals , photographic film processes , hair dyes and other personal care products . |
| 6 | For some while , the trip has had uncomfortable similarities to the Soviet leader 's visit to China last May , when the presence of the man who incarnates reform in the Communist world served as a combustible in the ‘ Peking Spring ’ that was to be forcibly suppressed a fortnight later . |
| 7 | An aneurysm is a swelling or dilatation caused by a weakening in the wall of a blood-vessel . |
| 8 | The conference has three broad aims : 1 ) to examine the status of the concept of the market in social scientific analysis and to question the way in which the concept is often taken as a given in social history , |