Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , however , the politician 's ability , if well connected in London , to secure pardon for gentlemen implicated in Jacobite plotting , but who were not obvious leaders which proved a valuable management tool . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | THOUSANDS of Namibians stood in long queues , stretching nearly a mile in some cases , as they waited to vote on the first day of Namibia 's five-day pre-independence election yesterday . |
| 4 | In particular the calculus of operations became in English preserve [ 96 ] . |
| 5 | The lists of possessions bequeathed in aristocratic wills — horses , hunting-dogs and hawks , swords and daggers , belts and baldrics , body-armour , spurs , cloaks and furs , bracelets and rings , drinking-cups and silver dishes — allow a glimpse of this world we have lost . |
| 6 | The relative lack of council housing has made this system more important : in 1948 34 per cent of farmworkers lived in tied housing , but by 1976 this figure had increased to 53 per cent . |
| 7 | He descended the nearest flight of steps to where bushes of peonies grew in untidy profusion , their blossoms well past their prime yet still magnificent . |
| 8 | A torrent of words came in ready reply . |
| 9 | Different sorts of supporters reacted in different ways . |
| 10 | The Bavarian Prime Minister 's recommendation appeared on the publicity pamphlet below excerpts from a similarly glowing review by the ultra-Right wing newspaper Deutsche Nationale Zeitung , which tries to boost its fringe circulation by challenging what it calls the ‘ Auschwitz lie ’ that millions of Jews died in Nazi extermination camps . |
| 11 | Although there are differences between them , each addresses in its own way the range of concerns sketched in this Introduction . |
| 12 | His Superintendent asked for a priest to go to the island of Molokai where a colony of lepers lived in appalling conditions . |
| 13 | Above that were two windows which opened every hour and a procession of Apostles appeared in each window . |
| 14 | More recent studies have demonstrated that increases in the cholesterol/phospholipid ratio of platelets resulted in increased liberation of arachidonate ( Wörner & Patscheke , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | The best way to test the inequality experimentally has turned out to be to measure the correlation in the polarisation of pairs of photons emitted in certain electron transitions in atoms of calcium and mercury . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There are a hell of a lot of myths perpetrated in this industry . |
| 18 | At that time about 90 per cent of households lived in privately-rented accommodation ; the figure has since dropped to 8 per cent . |
| 19 | In 1800 , 90% of Americans lived in rural communities ; but with the growth of industry , especially in the second half of the century , towns and cities began to spread , and by 1920 over 50% of the population lived in them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | of 16-year-olds participated in full-time education or youth training schemes , compared to 46 per cent . |
| 23 | A tiny minority of landowners lived in enormous wealth and comfort , exacting feudal dues and enforced labour from farmers who had in effect become their tied peasants : these landowners still engaged in the grain trade as their families had done for generations , and as if they could think of nothing else to do . |
| 24 | A modicum of semi-professional training defines the role as putting into practice a set of ideals inculcated in that training . |
| 25 | On April 8 some 15,000-30,000 attended the Leipzig demonstration , when a minute 's silence was observed for Rohwedder ; the number of protestors dwindled in subsequent weeks , although a rally organized by IG Metall on April 17 at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin attracted some 30,000 people . |
| 26 | When divided into two — stable residence consisting of council and owner occupied housing , and unstable consisting of private rented , lodging , and hostel accommodation and no fixed abode — 76 per cent of women lived in stable accommodation compared with 63 per cent of men . |
| 27 | Some variation was found in the proportion of cells transfected in different animals which probably reflects differences in the amounts of DNA delivered . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The tribunal , convened after the House of Representatives had in early October voted unanimously to revoke the amnesty [ see p. 39145 ] , ruled that the government had no authority to order trials of those involved in the military crackdown . |
| 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 . , |