Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | would 've struggled in that job . |
| 2 | Women who study the subject because they believe it to be solely about intuitive response may feel caught in this paradox . |
| 3 | Such knowledge was not only desirable in itself , but would liberate and transform the life of the individual , and through him [ sic ] , the life of the society , since such individuals would or should be the appropriate leaders or rulers , a notion which would become democratized in modern ideologies of liberal education to include ‘ leaders ’ in any walk of life ( especially the working-class ) and indeed the ordinary , democratic citizen . |
| 4 | Bush roses are the types that you 'll see massed in public parks . |
| 5 | And it was er er too big again for them to b become tied in one place for for a whole six months . |
| 6 | Power which under Edward IV had been distributed through a network of royal servants would now gradually become concentrated in one man . |
| 7 | Power which under Edward IV had been distributed through a network of royal servants would now gradually become concentrated in one man . |
| 8 | Since sudden death can occur in this group of patients , the duration of the ventricular arrhythmia must become prolonged in some cases and can evolve into ventricular fibrillation . |
| 9 | For we have already seen that there is no reason why , along with the mature elements of the superego which serve the interests of adjustment to reality , immature , primitive elements should not also become externalized in those aspects of the state which represent it as nurturing , protecting and providing some measure of wish fulfilment for the most regressive desires . |
| 10 | The Collector wondered whether the garrison , too , would become covered in green mould . |
| 11 | The Bishop of Bath and Wells , the Rt Revd George Carey , blessed Holy Trinity Trendlewood as ‘ an exciting initiative which I very much hope we will see repeated in other places . ’ |
| 12 | As he gave out his text , his voice rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes , ’ and when he came to the two last words , which he pronounced loud , deep , and distinct , it seemed to me , who was then young , as if the sounds had echoed from the bottom of the human heart , and as if that prayer might have floated in solemn silence through the universe . |
| 13 | If t re is one country that should never have gambled in this game , i is Britain . |
| 14 | My right hon. Friend will have heard in recent Question Times much about medicine in London . |
| 15 | This is a compilation of mbaqanga music , very typical of the township jive you would have heard in any shebeen since the 1960s : lively , rollicking music with fluid , chattering guitars . |
| 16 | He may well have heard in some reach of his mind an as yet uncreated harmony , as a composer hears the music that he is about to translate into sound . |
| 17 | How far must he have flown in each hour ? |
| 18 | Opposite him , he noticed that Janet Roscoe had delved once more into the deep handbag , this time producing a very slim volume , whose title it was impossible for him not to see , and which he could have guessed in any case : CHAUCER , Tale of the Wyf of Bathe . |
| 19 | A humourous man with a face which might have developed in later age into the kind described as craggy , he threw jokes at many questions , answered others with disarming bluntness . |
| 20 | The southumbrian kingdoms could have developed in any number of directions , three of which in particular seem to stand out : a southern England could have emerged , the domination of which was shared between the Mercians and the South Saxons ( this was the prospect in the reign of Wulfhere if the trends of that time had been maintained ) ; or even a south-eastern England dominated by the South Saxons ( this was perhaps a prospect in late 670s ) ; or a southern England dominated from the reign of Caedwalla by the West Saxons ( the prospect in the mid-680s ) . |
| 21 | It is not immediately obvious why moral campaigns should have developed in post-war Britain . |
| 22 | However , many of those organisations have been contracting with TECs and will therefore have developed in this area . |
| 23 | ‘ Ordinarily I would have commented in some detail about our business , but can not do so at this time as we are in a closed period prior to the announcement of our 1992 results on 24 March ’ . |
| 24 | What was the reason for the growth between eighteen hundred and eighteen fifty because they had n't had sort of mass industrialization industrialization which had caused population growth in other countries so was there any particular reason why there 's should have trebled in that time ? |
| 25 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 26 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 27 | Tit for Tat won in this climate , and Tit for Two Tats would have won in this climate if it had been submitted . |
| 28 | Triadic harmony , which may have originated in oral practice ( improvised parallel singing ) , was for good reasons highly developed in notated music but remains fundamental to most recorded music . |
| 29 | Perhaps such beliefs might have originated in theological theorizing of a technical nature . |
| 30 | The findings included caesium 134 which , as it only has a half life of two years , indicates that it must have originated in recent tests . |