Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the anticlerical spirit was turned against the archbishop and the traditional , worldly , married clergy of Milan , not against the church as such , and won in time a measure of support from the reformed papacy . |
| 2 | 1 Homework in language teaching should be : an additional practice on what has been done in class a test of what has been previously learnt an opportunity for written work 2 Before setting homework , consider : the free time the students have to do it in their level of attainment , their general level of ability , their purpose in learning the language . |
| 3 | This courageous book , written in Russia a year after the accident and now published in English , is a thorough and passionate condemnation of the Soviet way of doing things . |
| 4 | In the fifth century B.C. Xanthus of Lydia had written in Greek a book on Lydian history and customs which was probably inspired by Herodotus . |
| 5 | Following fierce protests over the treatment of Scotland , it was announced on March 22 that retrospective ex gratia payments would also be available on a broadly comparable basis in respect of the community charge levied in Scotland a year earlier , i.e. from April 1 , 1989 [ see pp. 35341-42 ] . |
| 6 | The Supreme Council had adopted in March a resolution condemning the Communist Parties of the Soviet Union and Latvia for " crimes against humanity " . |
| 7 | If the WGMS were adopted in Britain a party that followed this example could well reap a bumper harvest of list votes . |
| 8 | It is tempting to believe that in this story Poe may have had in mind a case of premature burial , in which the principal figure was the mother of his patron , John L. O'Sullivan . |
| 9 | He may have had in mind a letter he and Congress had received just weeks before , containing excerpts from Queer City and Live Sex Acts , two publications of The Portable Lower East Side , an NEA-sponsored semiannual literary journal in New York City . |
| 10 | After joining in 1930 the Oriental Ceramic Society , founded in London a decade earlier , David had begun a career of scholarship with papers read to that body , distinguishing himself by identifying the imperial ru ware made between ad 1107 and 1127 . |
| 11 | In 1842 , for example , the government had provided twelve bursaries for the education in France of the sons of sheikhs or emirs of the Lebanon ; and a Jesuit seminary had been founded in Beirut a year later . |
| 12 | They were deeply in love , and the strength of their feelings for one another , together with the great natural beauty of the ‘ green and woody ’ landscape which surrounded them , induced in Coleridge a depth of contentment he would rarely find again . |
| 13 | Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report . |
| 14 | EC Transport Ministers on June 20-21 , 1991 , approved in principle a draft directive which required rail companies to prepare separate financial accounts for their track operations and their passenger-carrying services , as a preliminary measure to introducing competition by other services [ see below for further competition measures ] . |
| 15 | When it is used in competition a score nearly always follows . |
| 16 | ‘ What about going to a movie ? ’ he added , asking if she 'd seen a French film which had opened in London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 17 | The hidden costs of hamburgers are paid by people with skin cancer — because the trays hamburgers are packed in emit a gas that depletes the ozone layer . |
| 18 | Born in Limerick a year and a half ago as The Cranberry Saw Us ( shudder ) the three boys decided that they wanted a girl to call their own . |
| 19 | The Elector Counts and Burgomeisters recognised in Magnus a leader they were all prepared to follow , and soon the citizen army was swollen by provincial troops and the troops of the Elector Counts themselves . |
| 20 | The Elector Counts and Burgomeisters recognised in Magnus a leader they were all prepared to follow , and soon the citizen army was swollen by provincial troops and the troops of the Elector Counts . |
| 21 | In the preface to his great History of Europe , H. A. L. Fisher wrote : " Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot , a rhythm , a predetermined pattern . |
| 22 | The hair now was white , but the baggy suits had n't altered in style a jot and she had changed remarkably little except that , as Meredith was distressed to see , the old lady now had a walking stick which accompanied her everywhere . |
| 23 | The publication of his work generally provoked in Eliot a sense of release — he had evacuated something , to use one of his favourite expressions , and was left with an agreeable sensation of vacancy — and after the appearance of " Little Gidding " in the autumn , he did not expect to do any serious intellectual work during the winter . |
| 24 | Thus developed in Lebanon a pattern of events which was to recreate itself in increasingly savage form over the coming years . |
| 25 | As C. D. Burns remarked in 1924 : " We have … developed in England a compromise by means of which the educational system is in great part a State system and the standard of education is largely set by the universities free from state control . " |
| 26 | Where a company is registered in Scotland a summons may be served on it by leaving it at , or by sending it by post to , its principal place of business in England or Wales addressed to the manager or head officer and by further posting a copy to the registered office ( s 725(2) and ( 3 ) Companies Act 1985 ) . |
| 27 | Kislev was already defended by the few remaining Kislevites and a large Dwarf army which had marched northwards once the fall of Praag became known in Karaz a Karak . |
| 28 | The decision set in motion a chain reaction that was to become an international phenomenon — hundreds of shops , all a mirror image of her original concept no matter where in the world they are located . |
| 29 | Having stated the objectives and set in motion a chain of actions the most important management function is to check the result , a comparison between performance required and actually achieved . |
| 30 | Nicholas Ridley , after surveying the ashes , set in motion a revamp of the palaces ' operations . |