Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are surrounded by " ifs " and " buts " — and they will be so surrounded in the social worker 's experience of them . |
| 2 | The photograph shows the first lifeboat boat to be lifted in the new hoist , the Watson class Joseph Soar ( Civil Service No. 34 ) , as part of the proving trials by the contractors , Laings . |
| 3 | She was half-turned from him , letting her eyes follow the beams and wishing she could drift through the open doors as easily as the nets lifted in the seasonless breeze . |
| 4 | A truth of modern warfare , which was first disclosed in the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904–5 ) , had been underscored though leaders on neither side fully comprehended it as yet ; defensive weaponry was more than a match for charging infantry . |
| 5 | They should identify themselves to a responsible official before entering , except in very rare cases where information which ought to be disclosed in the public interest could not otherwise be obtained . |
| 6 | Lord Denning explained that ‘ There are some things which may be required to be disclosed in the public interest , in which event no confidence can be prayed in aid to keep them secret . ’ |
| 7 | To my mind it is clear from the terms of the third paragraph of the Crown Prosecution Service 's letter that it is accepted that the order restricts them , in any prosecution which they decide to initiate , to utilising material already obtained or other material obtained independently of that disclosed in the High Court civil proceedings . |
| 8 | It was designed in the Grecian style by Edward Taylor , a York architect who used red brick for the body of the building and stone for the dressings . |
| 9 | Overseas , the Kuwait operation has been successful in managing the contracts won in the early part of last year . |
| 10 | He had won in the maiden class , for those who have yet to win a prize , in 1975 , but he had not been successful since moving into the growers ' section . |
| 11 | The motion-picture industry survived and prospered because this battle was substantially won in the vast majority of communities and especially in the major cities . |
| 12 | Prospects for British exports in the private sector remain good and there are still worthwhile contracts to be won in the public sector financed by the World Bank and other external fund agencies . |
| 13 | A MAJOR victory has been won in the long-running battle to protect the rights of approximately 13 million members of company pension schemes . |
| 14 | ( Rule of Life No. 83 : Approached in the right way , anyone will tell you anything and it will usually be true . ) |
| 15 | ( Rule of Life No. 83 : Approached in the right way , anyone will tell you anything and it will usually be true . ) |
| 16 | Prayer must be approached in the right spirit of humility . |
| 17 | The problem of jurisdiction will be approached in the following way . |
| 18 | The conference debated the identification of the various groups of Koreans to be approached in the eventual formation of a provisional government . |
| 19 | But the C P R E's evidence does n't offer you anything to go on , save that the figures have been approached in the wrong way , cos they did n't start bottom up from the environment . |
| 20 | This is primitive material , and should be approached in the pragmatic manner of the primitives who are more concerned with the total situation than with the rational or logical aspect of it . |
| 21 | Instead he insisted that the truth of God is to be found in it when it is approached in the proper way — by one who is searching in awareness of his own need . |
| 22 | A. Quite frankly , when I was approached in the Chinese market , I looked around and wondered where the cameras were . |
| 23 | In the latter case , it will meanwhile have the effect of turning literary study into something much closer to the sociology that Marxists have colonized in the modern academy . |
| 24 | Other humans who visited the site , however , were promptly attacked in the time-honoured fashion . |
| 25 | Mr Zeman was sharply attacked in the official news media in the days following the publication of his views , which he followed up with an article in the most important samizdat newspaper , Lidove Noviny . |
| 26 | The communiqué was criticized by the Iranian ambassador to Kuwait , Hoseyn Sadeqi , and was attacked in the Iranian press and radio broadcasts . |
| 27 | Both Campeanu and Ratiu were prevented from addressing rallies ; on May 5 Campeanu was violently attacked in the eastern town of Braila and on May 11 Ratiu was prevented from addressing a rally in Oradea , near the Hungarian border . |
| 28 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 29 | To find enough opponents of the left who were not too far committed in the other direction proved more difficult than we had imagined . |
| 30 | And then , following Ralph Nader 's ( 1965 ) exposure of the car industry 's products as being ‘ Unsafe At Any Speed ’ , the President 's Task Force Report on crime ( 1967 ) , and Watergate 's revelation of massive corporate funds being paid illegally to curry political favours and de-stabilize South American democratic governments , there was a renew-ed interest in crimes committed in the good name of major corporations . |