Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [verb] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coal , however , between 1779 and 1784 absorbed around 40 per cent of total carrying capacity , the 1.5 million tons carried on coasting vessels in 1779 having trebled by 1814 . |
| 2 | We 're also buzzed by two cops in a police car who spot our New Jersey number plate and think we 've come down to score crack in Washington Heights . |
| 3 | With this in mind , representatives from the six major accountancy bodies have come together to form Women in Accountancy . |
| 4 | SCOTVEC National Certificate Modules were introduced in 1984 and were designed to replace the prevailing system of ONCs ( Ordinary National Certificates ) and ONDs ( Ordinary National Diplomas ) which were based on subjects grouped together to give courses in a particular area . |
| 5 | Germany was constitutionally permitted only to send troops in defence of NATO territory , although following the December 1990 all-German election Chancellor Helmut Kohl had conceded that this rule would have to be changed . |
| 6 | Indeed , just before his interview with Meese , he had dropped in to see McFarlane in his office precisely , McFarlane thought , to agonize over the fact that the diversion was a matter of record : ‘ I put it in a memo to the Admiral . ’ |
| 7 | In trade and agriculture , thirdly , Britain is committed always to pursue policies in concert with other EC members , and has pooled sovereignty in these areas completely . |
| 8 | For so many years himself a master-manufacturer at New Lanark , he might fairly be supposed still to see virtue in those among whom he had been numbered . |
| 9 | In recent years we have seen the most thorough pursuit ever carried out to find partners in responsibility for the ailments to which we are subject . |
| 10 | Similar experiments were carried out to investigate discrimination in the housing market . |
| 11 | Work will be carried out relaying pavings in Library Square from Monday 23 March for a period of approximately four weeks . |
| 12 | When the Movement was caught out placing children in unsympathetic surroundings , remedial action was prompt . |
| 13 | SDR16,600,000 were to be disbursed immediately to cover shortfalls in revenue , with the balance to be disbursed over the next 18 months in a standby credit . |
| 14 | People from intelligentsia families have come increasingly to replace workers in the upper echelons of the party and the civil service because of their disproportionate share of educational opportunities and qualifications in a meritocratic system . |
| 15 | Psychology sets out to fill the gaps left by these approaches , and in particular , to be ‘ a science which explains , vis-à-vis physics , why it is that the mind is by nature constrained initially to mislead reason in its dealings with reality ’ ( Canguilhem 1980 : 41 ) . |
| 16 | Four children , including a 16year-old babysitter , were trapped upstairs watching television in a back bedroom . |
| 17 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 18 | Against the advice of BR 's senior managers , he has decided not to sell BR in a single lump . |
| 19 | Beuno did n't suggest that Elizabeth would be expecting him back , but ate his omelette as casually and thoughtlessly as the squirrel who had moved off to eat nuts in a different hazel tree . |
| 20 | Mellet recognized no evidence of digestion in his carnivore assemblages , but results presented here show digestion in mammalian predators to be very great . |
| 21 | The last proposal for change had come from France on the grounds of weather being better later in the season but it was decided then to leave fixtures in their present slots from January-March . |
| 22 | Peacock 's new Juno was given early sailing trials in late November , in England , before being shipped to Key West to join the 50ft circuit . |
| 23 | Such units can either be used as measures , relative to some fixed point of interest ( including , crucially , the deictic centre ) , or they can be used calendrically to locate events in " absolute " time relative to some absolute origo , or at least to some part of each natural cycle designated as the beginning of that cycle ( Fillmore , 1975 ) . |
| 24 | Secure them to carpet with gripper tape or use the sticky weave that is sold especially to keep rugs in place . |
| 25 | If people are treated as though they are ‘ Theory X ’ people , because of management assumptions , ‘ Theory X ’ behaviour will in fact be induced thus confirming management in its beliefs and practices ( eg. ‘ clocking on ’ , time-keeping systems , close supervision and management controls etc ) , ie : ‘ Theory X explains the consequences of a particular managerial strategy ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ He said it had hardly ever been used intentionally to murder people in Europe , though it 's being used all the time out East for helping relatives on to the next world . |
| 27 | Er , well you have to carry a twelve stone man over a hundred yards , you see , in a certain time , and that is one of the strength tests , erm er these are these are tests that are drawn up to get people in in the initial stages , and then they go on from there . |
| 28 | One of the tales was that Crabb had agreed to join the Russian Navy where he became Lieutenant Korablov , and a very poor-quality photograph was even produced supposedly showing Crabb in Russian naval uniform . |
| 29 | ‘ Molasse ’ and ‘ flysch ’ were terms used frequently to describe sedimentation in different sedimentary regimes , deriving from sedimentological models based on a static , pre-Continental Drift , picture of the planet , and a system of vertical tectonics forming the ‘ geosynclinal ’ concept ( Dott ) . |
| 30 | This is the trigger question which has been used recently to encourage students in the Department of Industrial Technology to contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of the management , delivery and content of their course . |