Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the decision for closure had in any case already been made by the predecessor AHA . |
| 2 | There is a self-willed flight forward here , a certain careerist mentality , a belief in the objectives of the company , a sense of purpose and an appetite for work encoded in this trajectory which mirrors the relentless flight forward of the son a generation later . |
| 3 | She said problems for parents came in all shapes and sizes , adding that perhaps too many of them emanated from ‘ that flickering box in the corner of the living room ’ . |
| 4 | In the twelfth century , when the issue of coin had in many areas ceased to be a royal prerogative , this sort of charge was known as seigniorage — a valuable perquisite of controlling a mint . |
| 5 | The member of parliament saw in this ambition an opportunity to strengthen his own interest in the burgh by detaching the schoolmaster 's brother-in-law , the bailie , from the opposition party in the council , for the bailie was at that moment firmly attached to that faction by a promise from Dempster 's rival that he would procure a kirk for the bailie 's son . |
| 6 | Lorence R Fizia of Bathgate sent in this shot of a cruiser at Fort Lauderdale in December 1991 — this has to be form a Boeing 307 Stratoliner ! |
| 7 | Williamson 's got five million years of more or less continuous deposit , which he can date pretty accurately erm and he 's got twenty one species of mollusc fossilised in that material . |
| 8 | For us two the war meant , as for so many others , a break in physical contact : but if , as Simone Weil said , ‘ every separation is a link ’ , such a break is not a breaking off , but a period in which , at least in my case , that ties of friendship continued in another form . |
| 9 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |
| 10 | Although there are differences between them , each addresses in its own way the range of concerns sketched in this Introduction . |
| 11 | The mysterious irony of salvation lay in this paradox : Jesus , the only one who kept the law in its entirety , paid the penalty of lawbreakers , by being exposed upon that accursed cross and subject to the judgment of God . |
| 12 | After all , the laws of war existed in some form long before the idea of the modern multilateral treaty had been invented . |
| 13 | Above that were two windows which opened every hour and a procession of Apostles appeared in each window . |
| 14 | The map of Wessex included in each volume was prepared from a drawing supplied by Hardy . |
| 15 | The relations of meaning foregrounded in this way are in general relationships of similarity or of contrast ; they are reinforced , here and there , by alliteration and assonance . |
| 16 | Although the requirement of intervention in the nasal oxygen group was halved , the most extreme example of hypoxia occurred in this group and led to the only termination of the procedure . |
| 17 | I had to come to grips with how my understanding of the sovereignty of God applied in that situation . |
| 18 | Most strikingly , fully 57 per cent of module failures occurred in term 3 , even though only 38 per cent of assessments occurred in that term . |
| 19 | There are a hell of a lot of myths perpetrated in this industry . |
| 20 | A lot of people did in those days . |
| 21 | The following is a selection from Allegories of Reading of propositions implicated in this oscillation between the poles of paraphrase and free-standing theory : Each of these propositions is demonstrably embedded in the same ambiguous modality as de Man 's presentation of Proust . |
| 22 | A prime reason for this neglect has been the impact of the theories of Piaget mediated in this country through Goldman in the 1960s . |
| 23 | Perhaps their part is best summarised by remarking that if the brain is damaged at this region not only sexual capacity may be reduced but libido ( sexual urge ) may be reduced or may even be completely lost ; in the opposite direction , artificial stimulation by means of electrodes implanted in these parts of the brain can reproduce the sensations of orgasm and its phenomena — ejaculation etc . |
| 24 | A modicum of semi-professional training defines the role as putting into practice a set of ideals inculcated in that training . |
| 25 | Originating in Renaissance times , this pattern of training persisted in this country almost to the present day . |
| 26 | That the crass inversion of reality caricatured in these aspects of the popular image of Hitler was in large measure a product of the deliberate distortions of Nazi propaganda has been made abundantly clear in the preceding chapters . |
| 27 | Under the commencement theory of jurisdiction propounded in those cases the reviewing court would not reassess whether the elements within the bracket constituting the statutory conditions were met or not . |
| 28 | Michael Foot once launched an attack in " Tribune " on what he termed " the foulest piece of journalism perpetrated in this country in many a long year , " indicating a particular article in " The Evening Standard " . |
| 29 | Although mean follow up was only 49.9 months , there was no evidence to suggest that removal of stones resulted in any improvement in prognosis . |
| 30 | Fourteen per cent of the sample of deaths occurred in such homes ; this compares with a much lower proportion , 5 per cent in 1969 ( Cartwright et al . , |