Example sentences of "in [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the recent past , and as was to be the case with much greater frequency after the start of the Five-Year Plans , planners in Moscow drew up neat and rather abstract formulations that did not match up closely with local realities and timings . |
| 2 | His legs were covered in rabbit-fur bound about with strips of weasel and stoat . |
| 3 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 4 | Annette Winterbottom and Balbir Shukle with pupils Lewis McLoughlin and Jennifer Webb look on after Newport Primary School in Middlesbrough rolled out the banner yesterday . |
| 5 | Just as they loved colour , they loved oratory , even when they could not understand it : in 1901 delegates at the Free Church Council meeting in Cardiff stood up to welcome five former French priests . |
| 6 | Charles Augustus Busby of the Busby and Wilds partnership that had already provided a number of distinguished buildings in Brighton laid out a plan on the west side for a new , almost self-contained , estate with its own church and markets , to be called Brunswick Square . |
| 7 | The Jones collaboration in part grew out of such a quest , though there were aspects of their work that had been anticipated in India long before , unrecorded and so unknown to them . |
| 8 | What is clear is that it evolved out of the neolithic Cretan religion and that the religion of the classical Greeks at least in part grew out of it . |
| 9 | Pacem in Terris summed up Pope John 's magisterium , and gave the age-old term a new meaning . |
| 10 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 11 | Soon after moving in Minton drew up a will in which he left the house to Ricky . |
| 12 | Technicians at the Royal Mail Research and Development centre in Swindon walked out when a colleague was sacked for refusing to use a machine that his union had banned . |
| 13 | Peter Donaldson of Red Lion Bookshop in Colchester spelled out the indirect effects of the Dillons discounting campaign quite graphically : ‘ One person came into the shop and was uncertain about buying Michael Palin 's Pole to Pole because she thought she would be able to buy it cheaper in Dillons . |
| 14 | The government appointed by Djohar in March held out hopes of national reconciliation . |
| 15 | After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time . |
| 16 | To obtain this private statute it is necessary for the local authority to promote a Bill in Parliament laid down by Parliament . |
| 17 | The key political battles in Parliament centred around issues on which there were distinctive Whig and Tory positions , such as the question of the security of the Church , the nature of England 's role in the European wars , and diverging attitudes towards the Glorious Revolution itself . |
| 18 | Three key posts were now occupied by men identified as followers of Solchaga : José Borrell Fontelles , a new appointee , headed a new Ministry of Public Works and Transport ( also called the " infrastructure " ministry ) ; Pedro Solbes Mira , also new to the government , became Agriculture minister ; José Claudio Aranzadi Martínez retained the Industry portfolio and in addition took over the Commerce and Tourism portfolios . |
| 19 | All these small invertebrates — flying insects trapped in webs by spiders , larvae concealed in bark picked out by woodpeckers , molluscs hidden in mud gathered by wading birds , termites licked up by anteaters — all are harvested with little more than the effort expended by those animals that sip nectar and munch pollen , or gather fruit and chew leaves . |
| 20 | All five senses are used in activities carried out with the purpose of maintaining a safe environment and , therefore , impairment or loss of any one can result in problems . |
| 21 | The arrival of Christianity in Birka sparked off one of the sternest tussles between Christianity and paganism anywhere in this period . |
| 22 | I am pleased to say that after decades of decline , the United Kingdom 's share of world trade in manufactures flattened out in the mid-1980s , increased in 1989 and 1990 , and looks most likely to have increased again in 1991 . |
| 23 | There 's an ecumenical consensus nowadays surely that it is by faith and baptism that one is made a Christian or becomes a Christian and we 've also inherited , many of us , another rite , with its origins in the New Testament , valuable in the making of a christian and the three strands in confirmation set out in the report before us would certainly be owned by all of us . |
| 24 | A punter at Pontefract races collected £24,843 for a 10p investment while another customer at a Tote betting shop in Paddington picked up £12,421 for a 5p outlay . |
| 25 | However , as we shall see , the proportions between the university and the public sectors have in practice worked out rather differently . |
| 26 | Which in practice turned out to mean Carol and Bill , these friends of Kelly 's . |
| 27 | It is to observe the way in which things have in practice turned out , an outcome not unconnected with the logic of those disciplines in supplying means to fulfil ends , rather than inquiring into ends themselves . |
| 28 | Her family and former schoolfriends in Crosby set up the Vicki Bayliss Neuroblastoma Research Fund in her memory and tomorrow her mother , Judy , will join the 850 runners who have applied to take part in the 11th Crosby 10 . |
| 29 | By the end of the year he was predicting , in research carried out for the Scottish National Party , that unemployment would have a worse impact in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK , reflecting the poorer social conditions prevalent there . |
| 30 | For a change the weather was fine , and when shortly after midnight the company second in command went round to visit the soldiers in the trenches , he found morale high . |