Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Fast on its heels came MacPublisher and Ready-Set-Go but somehow neither caught on in the same way .
2 The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge .
3 He said he just carried on in the same direction .
4 ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’
5 It is bad enough having the sufferer saying one thing but really meaning another without the counsellor getting caught up in the same macabre " game " .
6 So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine .
7 New tasks for perception can only be carried out in the same way ‘ under the guidance of tactile appropriation ’ ( ibid : 242 ) .
8 Some business decisions can be carried out in the same way .
9 Also , enforcement is carried out in the same way by the weights and measures authorities , sections 27–33 .
10 Perhaps random spot checks could be carried out in the same way as breathalyser tests .
11 The drive against corporations was carried out in the same spirit ; the only reason why the Whigs and Nonconformists had grown so influential in corporation politics was because the Corporation Act of 1661 had not been properly enforced .
12 I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other .
13 A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred .
14 They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable .
15 Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect .
16 Larger units of measurements in the metric system , are built up in the same way as the number system , based again on tens and tenths .
17 A cartridge pleat heading is made up in the same way as pinch pleats ( page 22 ) , but the bases of the small tubes ( pleats ) are not pinched up but left rounded by filling with a soft stuffing such as wadding .
18 Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes .
19 And secondly , and very much wrapped up in the same point with this , they 're also coy about the sort of people they 're looking for .
20 Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools .
21 Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail .
22 ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet .
23 The journey is a long one , but it is hurried over in a few words .
24 The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it .
25 The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain .
26 The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days .
27 From a conservationist viewpoint , Hong Kong 's problem can be summed up in a few words : too many people .
28 The problem is that although the typeface may have the same name — indeed it may even come from the same original — it may not have been coded up in the same way .
29 ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . )
30 The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in .
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