Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Away in the distance , tucked between a fold in the surrounding hills , was home . |
| 2 | This does not imply that Rassendyll is developed as a character in the round . |
| 3 | Certainly small business , through its close connections with the ruling LDP party , has lobbied for a shift in the established policies of support and protection for big business . |
| 4 | Policeman Christopher Larkin was honoured as a hero in the Hungerford Massacre , and last year , he was back in the news again . |
| 5 | Cattle theft was recognized as a problem in the early years of British rule . |
| 6 | In 1891 came the publication of African Aphorisms , or Saws from Swahililand , an annotated collection of some 600 proverbs ; the work ( reissued in 1924 ) provided an outlet for his immense erudition , and became recognized as a classic in the domain of Swahili studies . |
| 7 | It is more difficult to talk about the construction of ‘ physical science ’ than it is to talk about the construction of physics , because physical science is not recognized as a discipline in the way that physics is . |
| 8 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 9 | John Plaw 's design in 1800 for a cottage or small farmhouse , ‘ Intended for a Gentleman in the New Forest … as an object to be seen from his Mansion ’ ( Fig. 25 ) , has a much less extensive landscape than that of Blaise Castle in mind , but it is typical of many at about the turn of the century . |
| 10 | This suggests that he was already intended for a career in the Church . |
| 11 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 12 | A GIRL of eight paralysed as a baby in a car crash won a possible £7 million damages in the High Court yesterday . |
| 13 | The curtains swished open , gathering in swags at each side of a small stage , arranged as a grotto in a hushed , expectant woodland , with cardboard rocks . |
| 14 | It is hardly encouraging that Terrace himself , whose book Nim ( 1980 ) is regarded as a classic in the field , after an exhaustive analysis of filmic evidence concluded that only a very small proportion of Nim 's gestures , in both training and free living , could reasonably be thought to have been initiated by the animal ; the vast majority were repetitions of what humans had just signed or , to a lesser extent , merely random . |
| 15 | This gave Roman women much greater individual liberty than women in other societies , even though they were still not legally regarded as a person in the way that men were . |
| 16 | One is that the investigator needs to know the rules , conventions , and context governing the action — the meaning of the action regarded as a move in a socially defined ‘ game ’ . |
| 17 | Regarded as a step in the process of transitional to civilian rule , which would culminate in presidential elections scheduled for 1992 , the local elections recorded only a low voter turnout , particularly in the south of the country . |
| 18 | The Public Health Act of 1875 which may be regarded as a landmark in the advancement of local administration , gave to these Boards a code of powers in relation to public health and other matters , and established urban and rural sanitary authorities . |
| 19 | There is a point here of immense importance for the understanding of Leonard which he shares with Layton ( who preferred to be regarded as a poet-prophet in the Hebrew tradition ) . |
| 20 | With synthetic thread , polyester for example , and rather long stitches at 4 to the inch or 6mm each , Tyvek sheet can be treated as a fabric in the sewing machine . |
| 21 | Provided certain conditions are met , the purchase can be treated as a capital transaction so that no part of the purchase price is treated as a distribution in the selling shareholder 's hands and the company does not have to account for ACT . |
| 22 | Children are being blamed for a fire in a derelict house in Murrayfield Road , Cowgate , Newcastle . |
| 23 | Fourteen years ago , when I was being interviewed for a job in the BBC Natural History Unit . |
| 24 | During these years before the war , each summer , the village would be invaded by Londoners , who had come for a holiday in the country . |
| 25 | Ray Fell , chairman of the Leeds United Supporters ' Club said : ‘ It has come as a kick in the stomach . ’ |
| 26 | By the end of that evening , after she had sat through a dinner in the large school refectory , listened to Madame Chardin 's opening speech of the term and lain in the dark listening to her new roommates , Katherine did indeed begin to feel if not at home , then at least marginally more comfortable . |
| 27 | Mahmoud , for instance , had been educated as a lawyer in the French tradition . |
| 28 | Frankie 's palms were already sticky with perspiration when he crossed the road , ran down West Brook Place and squeezed through a gap in the high brick wall at its lower end . |
| 29 | They had stood about his bed , caught for a moment in a frieze of grief , all of them welded by tragedy into an awareness of their common flesh , their common loss . |
| 30 | No application forms received after this date will be considered for a place in the Schools . |