Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the " 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 | A FLOOD of new weekly television listings magazines will hit the market when what the Home Secretary calls the ‘ dotty ’ restriction on advance use of programme schedules is lifted in the next parliamentary session . |
| 3 | A pressure had lifted in the night . |
| 4 | The mist had lifted in the night and Marler was making good time . |
| 5 | A low range of hills lifted in the north , yellow , rumpled , threadbare , as if someone had been carrying a lionskin and had grown tired of it and had thrown it down . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Its reputation was lifted in the sixteenth century , when Marguerite de Navarre came here and ( perhaps ) wrote some of her Heptameron , as a respite from the rigours of the cure , before the atrocious weather — in the prologue she quickly complains of the rainfall in Cauterets — drove her down to Sarrance . |
| 10 | The sail filled and the boat lifted in the water as the wind took it . |
| 11 | The railway tracks were lifted in the 1960s , and the bridge fell into disuse . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Keep it in a cool , dark place until early Spring , when it should be replanted in the tank . |
| 14 | In spring , new shoots appear , when it can be replanted in the aquarium . |
| 15 | If the adult plants are looking weary , then these can be removed , the severed stems picked over , the healthiest pieces bunched together with a strip of lead or piece of wire , and then replanted in the vacant baskets . |
| 16 | Many flowers are under threat of extinction because their bulbs are being uprooted from the wild to be replanted in the gardens of countries like ours . |
| 17 | Unhappily there is a new breed of librarian who takes a different view , epitomised in the motto I have quoted ‘ If in Doubt , Chuck it Out ’ . |
| 18 | Such technical control was first developed in the mechanised , mass-production industries in the United States during the 1890s and early years of the present century , as epitomised in the steel mills . |
| 19 | The art of the gold box is traditionally held to be epitomised in the Paris tabatières , but the strength of this collection also lies in those boxes which were produced in peripheral workshops , especially in Germany and Russia . |
| 20 | The explicit status distinctions within it ( epitomised in the ranks of peerages and titles ) are central to upper-class culture and form part of its claim to special superior qualities . |
| 21 | Homes remained often uncomfortable of course , and the pub was still a major centre of social life , but the late nineteenth century also saw the growth of a greater emphasis on home , and of new leisure opportunities for both adults which in London particularly is best epitomised in the music hall . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is epitomised in the use of three different alphabets — Latin , Cyrillic and glagolitic — in early Croatian literature . |
| 24 | This awareness , and the increased emphasis on the development of this asset is epitomised in the term human resource management . |
| 25 | Businessmen fretted that no good could come of such defiance ; students delighted in the courage of their mainland counterparts . |
| 26 | Others delighted in the innovation . |
| 27 | He , all of them , delighted in the sounds the words made … |
| 28 | These phrases are often embellished in the text with modifiers and slight variations ( often , usually , also , mainly ) which give some extra information to readers of the dictionary . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |