Example sentences of "[vb pp] and in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 All the animals here , including some birds , may be approached and in some cases will allow themselves to be petted and stroked .
2 The century had been one of tremendous change and older views , like the emphasis on individualism , were being modified and in some cases challenged by the closing decades of the century .
3 This meant that criminal laws were clarified and in some countries codified , as both Beccaria and Bentham advocated , but leaving a greater degree of flexibility and judicial discretion than either would have found congenial .
4 But by that time stadia had been booked and in most cases new arrangements could not be made .
5 Opponents of the Government have criticised the policy because it makes unions responsible for disruption which they have not organised and in some cases may oppose .
6 It also provides some examples of breaches and discusses the possible manners in which such breaches should be addressed and in some cases reported .
7 There are now signs that this failure to work out a coherent relationship between the two logics of approach will have to be addressed and in some cases this task has already been started .
8 As a result , membership slumped and in many parts of the country the Party ceased to exist as a mass organization .
9 As railway systems all over the world have contracted , so the great stations have been threatened and in many places destroyed .
10 Despite General de Gaulle 's go-ahead to build twin units of the new design at Fessenheim in 1968 , they were never built and in 1970 PWRs under the Westinghouse licence were ordered .
11 You notice immediately that it is different from other parts of the country , because the roads are very narrow and windy and the hedges well built and in most cases so tall they are impossible to see over .
12 The draftsman should , nevertheless , be aware of some of the practical problems that arise in connection with the choice of tenancy to be granted and in appropriate cases should draw them to the attention of his client .
13 Jespersen , for instance , is of the opinion that although " to had at first its ordinary prepositional meaning of direction … the meaning of the preposition has been weakened and in some cases totally extinguished " ( 1927 : 10 ) .
14 Creditors would no longer have the absolute right of imprisoning their debtors upon a judgement over £20 ‘ which they have for so many years possessed and in some cases abused ’ .
15 The patient may make a decision which is limited in scope , and there may also be the situation where no decision is made and in those circumstances the principle of necessity will apply as set out in the speech of Lord Goff of Chieveley in In re F. ( Mental Patient : Sterilisation ) [ 1990 ] 2 A.C. 1 , 75 .
16 It occurs on a much larger scale than generally realised and in most cases the function is unclear . ’
17 A further charge was that practical and theoretical instruction , even on diseases of the horse , was limited and in some cases erroneous .
18 This is especially clear in the later stages of the market , when the relatively simple relations of speculative production have been joined and in many areas replaced by planned marketing operations in which certain types of work are positively promoted , of course with the corollary that other types are left at best to make their own way .
19 It was believed that a major international interdisciplinary research effort was needed and in such areas physical geographers should surely be poised to participate .
20 One problem for publishers is the ease with which much software can be copied and in some cases they are reluctant to send out a whole package .
21 Eventually , the lining would become abnormally thickened and in some women it became cancerous .
22 By supplying expert systems , the dealer has enabled the advice giving service to be performed and in some respects it is similar to the position where a supplier sub-contracts all or part of the work .
23 ‘ This spring collection is the most radical I 've ever shown and in many ways it marks a new beginning for me .
24 The time had now come for Eric to go up into the Apennines on behalf of the Commission to pay and honour all those Italians , for the most part peasants , who had helped and in many cases saved the lives of escaping prisoners-of-war .
25 These are the largest movements so far noted and in some years fewer than 100 birds have been involved .
26 Major has been embarrassed by unauthorised revelations : about his engagingly eccentric brother , Terry , who still bears the family 's original surname , Major-Ball ; and his sister Pat , now retired and in straitened circumstances , who was once taken to court for failing to pay the rates .
27 Several of L'Orient 's editions of that autumn had also disappeared and in later issues , articles about the new Phalange party — the headlines still intact but the accompanying text missing — had been crudely cut from the pages .
28 Local campaigns to resist unsatisfactory new boundaries were run and in some cases were very successful .
29 District and constituency offices were similarly involved and in many areas the national example was followed , with the agents of both parties working under a mayor or lord lieutenant .
30 I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often .
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