Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
| 2 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 3 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 4 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 5 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 6 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
| 7 | And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know . |
| 8 | I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved . |
| 9 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
| 10 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
| 11 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 12 | It was an unfortunate evening for me : I was knocked out in the second round , the only time I was knocked out , either at Eton or at Oxford . |
| 13 | When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair |
| 14 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |
| 15 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
| 16 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |
| 17 | It is , however , important to stress the limits within which such a relaxation is permissible and which are set out in the speech of my noble and learned friend . |
| 18 | The references to Hansard which are set out in the speech of my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , put it beyond doubt that that could not have been the intention of Parliament in enacting the section . |
| 19 | Particularly important is the mandatory offer requirements under Rule 9 of the Code and the rules on persons acting in concert which are set out in the notes to Rule 9 . |
| 20 | But the science programmes which are set out in the national curriculum can be of realistic value to the parent as well as to the primary teacher . |
| 21 | The cellulose chains which are laid down in the cell-wall are long and they have their length more or less parallel to the length of the cell or fibre , that is to say in the direction of the applied stress . |
| 22 | It is not possible to establish , even in the broadest terms , educational needs for the present , or the immediate future , without taking into account the fundamental economic and social changes which are summed up in the phrase , ‘ a post-industrial society ’ . |
| 23 | These purposes are those most readily associated with the objectives of the positive state which emerged towards the end of the nineteenth century and which are summed up in the idea of government as institution which promotes progressive evolutionary change . |
| 24 | New guidelines followed in 1984 , but these have apparently proved to be less than satisfactory for reasons which are spelled out in the House of Commons Energy Committee Report . |
| 25 | And if we look at the implications er West Yorkshire which were touched on in the beginning of this part of the debate . |
| 26 | And we 'd be talking about the kinds of things which were brought out in the structural report I think there . |
| 27 | Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail . |
| 28 | The reforms of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , which were carried through in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment , included a secularisation of education and the recognition of the rights of the Slav subjects of the Empire to instruct in their own language . |
| 29 | Opponents of the idea that the management of education and training can benefit from the lessons of business and industry found it ironic that the messages which were put out in the two documents criticized weaknesses in the world of employers rather than of educators . |
| 30 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |