Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the grave demeanour which made such an impression upon others — the " sad eyes " and the " deep , sad voice " — was lifted in the company of friends to reveal a playful and often funny man . |
| 2 | The outer scales lifted in the process of penetration are not always smoothed down again completely when you change hair colour or texture , and this causes porosity . |
| 3 | It is epitomised in the use of three different alphabets — Latin , Cyrillic and glagolitic — in early Croatian literature . |
| 4 | The way of life sharedealers aspired to was epitomised in the lifestyle of a Sultan whom a few Tudorbury staff once had the privilege of meeting . |
| 5 | Businessmen fretted that no good could come of such defiance ; students delighted in the courage of their mainland counterparts . |
| 6 | For example , information about clients disclosed in the course of your work must remain confidential . |
| 7 | Thus in Seager v Copydex Ltd [ 1967 ] 1 WLR 923 details of an unpatented invention disclosed in the course of negotiations relating to a similar patented invention were held to have been disclosed under an obligation of confidence . |
| 8 | Comprehensive income includes the net surplus as disclosed in the statement of financial performance , revaluation gains or losses , the currency translation difference on the net investment in independent foreign operations , and other changes in reserves . |
| 9 | Paragraph 33 of the order prohibited the use of the material so disclosed in the prosecution of either defendant . |
| 10 | Then , under pressure , Macmillan offered to brief the leader of the opposition , Hugh Gaitskell , and a group of Privy Councillors on a confidential basis , provided nothing was disclosed in the House of Commons . |
| 11 | Designed in the style of a Ligurian fishing village , this is an attractive modern complex set in gardens about 900 yards from the sea . |
| 12 | The paraplegic Brother Rhetoricus was strapped into the saddle of a powered chair designed in the image of a crouching subhuman . |
| 13 | Stamped iron depositum plates , tin-dipped and designed in the form of a concave oval cartouche encircled by a garland of flowers , first appeared at the end of the seventeenth century ; so did grip-plates , which were similarly oval with a repoussé design of winged cherubs ' heads . |
| 14 | The survey , which is being designed in the light of parallel work currently being undertaken by other ESRC-funded research projects on the public understanding of science , will measure a combination of background , psychological and social factors in relation to people 's expressed levels of interest in , attitudes towards , and informedness about the world of science . |
| 15 | Southern Memories won in the style of a well handicapped horse as he cruised to a three-length win from Special One at Windsor last week . |
| 16 | Son of Sharp Shot won in the manner of a well handicapped horse when heavily backed at Bath last time . |
| 17 | The contract to build propellers for the new Hercules transport aircraft was won in the face of stiff competition from the Americans . |
| 18 | But in the supernatural universe the Great Battle was won in the twinkling of an eye . |
| 19 | The problems of social research are themselves difficult enough and ought to be approached in the spirit of treating them as sociological and methodological problems rather than philosophical problems . |
| 20 | Even the most eloquent Orthodox theologians insisted that the ineffable God , a mystery which transcended all human words and concepts , must be approached in the darkness of silence . |
| 21 | According to Dr Ladislav Daniel , newly appointed director of the Prague National Gallery , several galleries and museums have already been approached in the event of that happening . |
| 22 | Current drugs education materials targeted at 13-17 year olds are based on two premises : i ) that substance abuse needs to be approached in the context of the general use of legal drugs in society and ii ) that young people should be encouraged to make rational decisions about their use of drugs on the basis of criteria related to personal health , self-identity and relationships with others . |
| 23 | For the world , he will play the Hermit of Croisset ; for his friends in Paris , he will play the Idiot of the Salons ; for George Sand he will play the Reverend Father Cruchard , a fashionable Jesuit who enjoys hearing the confessions of society women ; for his intimate circle he will play Saint Polycarpe , that obscure Bishop of Smyrna , martyred in the nick of time at the age of ninety-five , who pre-echoed Flaubert by stopping up his ears and crying out , ‘ Oh Lord ! |
| 24 | And they warned that the RUC would face a ‘ 1986 situation ’ , when police homes were attacked in the aftermath of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement , if the present situation continued . |
| 25 | The conclusion might have been that Ealhfrith abdicated in a voluntary acceptance of the religious life were it not for Bede 's silence on the matter and his statement that Oswiu was attacked in the course of his reign by the Mercians , his nephew , Oethelwald , and by his own son , Ealhfrith ( HE III , 14 ) . |
| 26 | After the battering the Abadan refinery received in 1980 , Iran 's other refineries were attacked in the course of Iraq 's periodic operations against ‘ economic targets ’ , in an effort to create shortages within the country and accentuate the need for fuel rationing . |
| 27 | Zeinab had no great love of Copts but she was n't having anyone attacked in the entrance of her building and pitched into the youths with such fury that they ran off . |
| 28 | Josephine Chandler , 47 , who was attacked in the summer of 1990 on the banks of the River Swale near Scorton , not far from Richmond , North Yorkshire , suffered terrible injuries . |
| 29 | Just 72 hours ago Alan was attacked in the bedroom of his flat above the Wedgeknock Inn in Warwick . |
| 30 | The atrocious cruelties committed in the name of ‘ god ’ and religion which have blackened religious history , are all too well known , at least in the west . |