Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence , elderly persons entering residential accommodation tend to be more physically and mentally dependent than in the past , and the type of support needed is similar to that given in a nursing home , rather than a guest house or private hotel . |
| 2 | Utilising existing artwork — such as that given in a project — simply involves tracing the copper track layout onto a film , using the methods described last month . |
| 3 | It completely overcomes the problem of matching your tension to that given in a pattern . |
| 4 | This year 's donations were the largest given in a single year . |
| 5 | The domestic world which draws the suburban housewife away from the temptations of an illicit romance in Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) is quite as cosy as that depicted in an earlier collaboration between Lean and Noël Coward , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) . |
| 6 | There he was , all right — a tiny figure , in perfect colour , standing in front of a group of Watchmen whose faces were each frozen in a terrified rictus . |
| 7 | Beneath the skyline of modern Berlin , half hidden in a grassy wasteland , all that 's left of the bunker where Adolf Hitler committed suicide . |
| 8 | Equally they can both be very interesting kept in a small aquarium . |
| 9 | Single specimens , even if very brightly coloured , tend to disappear in the shadows , whereas they will be more conspicuous planted in a block especially if supported by masses of healthy green foliage : ferns for a splash of colour . |
| 10 | She had even had some published in a horrible feminist magazine . |
| 11 | Soon the Wheelbarrow is trundling down the road towards the explosion site , and it is established that an IED positioned in a hole by the fence-post and fired through a wire appears to have only parti ally exploded . |
| 12 | He 'd seen that done in a film and had always wondered how it might feel . |
| 13 | The parliament , the Rathaus , the University ( interestingly in the new and not the old city ) , the Burgtheater , each built in a different historicist style symbolizing each building 's aims and principles , were conceived on a scale of monumentality rarely seen elsewhere in modern Europe . |
| 14 | The London and South-Western carried in a whole season one million baskets of strawberries from ten stations in Hampshire : Swanwick , Botley , Romsey , Eastleigh , Wickham , Fareham , Bursledon , Netley , Sholing , and Bitterne . |
| 15 | Vegetables do , ’ He guffawed , then gave a grotesque imitation of a witless paraplegic slumped in a wheelchair . |
| 16 | ‘ Naturally , ’ Sabine agreed in a hollow tone , her mind whirling . |
| 17 | Being the second born in a poor family with thirteen brothers and sisters , you had to be tough to survive . |
| 18 | The generally accepted dates for these campaigns are 817/1414 and 818/1415 ; and it is likewise generally accepted that the second resulted in a much more decisive Ottoman success than the first . |
| 19 | Unlike Grinley , Green did not own his own hearse and mourning coaches and was probably more at home performing in-parish funerals similar to that shown in a contemporary engraving by William Hogarth on a funeral ticket issued between 1730 and 1750 by Humphrey Drew , the King Street , Westminster , undertaker . |
| 20 | Pupils ' knowledge was studied by asking them to mark appropriately a diagram of a rectangle and its diagonal drawn in a dotted outline . |
| 21 | There were four further uprisings between 792 and 804 , but these occurred in a Saxony that was already well under control and were readily crushed . |
| 22 | I cigarettes ( only three gone in a week ; I was winning ) from my one half-respectable navy blue blazer into my fur-lined leather bomber jacket . |
| 23 | It did not affect the sediments of the carbonate mud wedge because these remained in a submarine environment . |
| 24 | From behind the Iron Curtain , a Hungarian firm called Budapest Radio Engineering has produced a 3-inch ( 7.2 cm ) microfloppy encased in a traditional cardboard cover . |
| 25 | Stepping back , Curtis waited till the racking coughing fit ended in a sudden gush of bright red blood , which spilled down over the dying killer 's slack lower jaw . |
| 26 | ‘ I shall know what to do because I 'm going to be a bridesmaid next year , ’ Tory confided in a diminishing whisper . ’ |
| 27 | No fewer than eight towers dominated the façade , six of them capped by shallow-hipped roofs , two of them flat , open , and balustraded , bearing flag-poles , and all arranged in a numbing symmetry . |
| 28 | They are all painted in a new livery which consists of claret bodysides with a 20mm black line at the waist , banded by two 5mm wide red vermilion lines , with a grey roof , ends , underframe and bogies . |
| 29 | All joined in a final ‘ Hooray ’ . |
| 30 | The pivotal role of Bonnard in the art of the twentieth century , the role of nature and observation in his work , and the use of traditional themes such as landscape , the nude , the self-portrait , the view from the window and the still life , are all examined in an exhibition at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Dusseldorf ( to 12 April ) . |