Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient . |
| 2 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 3 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 4 | So the delicate gilded furniture and the rococo mirrors had gone from his office ; and in their place were desks and chairs that renaissance princes might have sat on in perfect safety , even if they had weighed three hundredweight . |
| 5 | The plating is carried on in eight vats , one each for silver , nickel and black nickel , two for brass plating , and three for copper plating . |
| 6 | These were low-paid , largely female , occupations mainly unmechanized and carried on in small workshops . |
| 7 | Arguments over the validity of the notice and justification of the motives of the partners serving it are better left to an appropriate tribunal ( judge , arbitrator or mediator ) than carried on in acrimonious correspondence . |
| 8 | Fig. 88 abjures pattern , making its effect entirely by the balance of light figures and dark ground ; while Euphronios in fig. 89 makes his patterns too in red-figure : two ways of integrating the picture still further with the pot , both carried on in later generations . |
| 9 | Of course , the debate is not carried on in these terms . |
| 10 | Logging is still carried on in some areas . |
| 11 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 12 | Young enthusiasts drove across the border to join the freedom fighters who had appealed to the world to help , but the world in general looked on in anguished impotence as the rebels were extinguished . |
| 13 | What 's happened is that policy makers 've shifted the emphasis instead of protecting tariffs they 're protected using long long tariff barriers right which are a lot more invisible to er , to G A T T do n't come under erm G A T T regulations , what those tariffs do nevertheless , tariffs have , have come down in manufactured goods right , erm , since the second world war when G A T T was er , was established . |
| 14 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 15 | Then they were sat down in neat rows , boys on one side and girls on the other . |
| 16 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 17 | The disappointment Haslam inevitably felt at being let down in this way led to a second turning point in his career and one of those ‘ negative accidents ’ that ultimately proved to have a positive outcome . |
| 18 | Married women were more likely than single mothers to be let down in this way , and such women were particularly likely to develop depression . |
| 19 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 20 | It was a triumph of planning in so short a time for so complicated a matter , most of it carried through in most places within a year or two years of the passing of the act . |
| 21 | As a result , a whole range of measures including stricter disciplinary codes , work reorganisation and redundancies have been carried through in large numbers of firms ( Hyman and Elger , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | They will certainly have the fullest support of my Department and the Government in that and I hope that they will have the fullest support of Opposition Members , too , although that has not come through in this debate . |
| 23 | ( Shreds of these hoards can now be picked over in provincial brocante shops , brave remnants of another , more confident age . ) |
| 24 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 25 | Fully one-third of the marketable federal debt is rolled over in any year ; half is rolled over every two years . |
| 26 | The Liverpool manager was seething with rage after his defender David Burrows was carried off in this Coca-Cola Cup tie with a severe knee injury that will keep him out for at least three months . |
| 27 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 28 | Were you mixed up in that party ? ’ |
| 29 | I 'm a farmer — and if I do happen to be mixed up in other people ’ s extraordinary affairs , it 's no fault of mine . |
| 30 | ‘ All Bonanza has to do now is stay out of sight until a good tale is dreamed up to account for two of his boys getting mixed up in this thing last night , and a few unimpeachable witnesses to make the tale stick , and we all go back where we started . ’ |