Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For over 13 years these good people have advised me or acted in my name and your service . |
| 2 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 3 | The main purpose of the conference was to provide a forum for social , community and health workers to explore social , ethical and legal issues emerging from the practice of genital mutilation , which although prohibited in Britain , affects girls resident here whose families take them abroad to be circumcised . |
| 4 | He has a tremendous respect for Fowler , adding : ‘ If he applied himself and packed in his job as a taxman he could be the best in the world . |
| 5 | a programme of reconstruction which if applied in practice would create an educational edifice not unworthy of the British people … |
| 6 | And I recall also some years ago , Mr Rayne , who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginald Mauvis , remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station . |
| 7 | I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility , something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’ |
| 8 | This provided an example of a well-understood formalism which if interrogated in a particle-like way gave particle behaviour and if interrogated in a wave-like way gave wave behaviour . |
| 9 | A substantial number of miscible blends have now been discovered using this principle and it is possible to identify certain groups or repeat units , which when incorporated in polymer chains tend to enter into these intermolecular interactions and enhance the miscibility . |
| 10 | " There needs to be some factor which when seen in its true light makes the reason for the murder obvious , but which is more easily seen in a false light . " |
| 11 | which when chilled in the fridge ( not freezer ) acts as a cold compress for baby 's gums and helps to reduce any discomfort he 's feeling . |
| 12 | ‘ If it is real , it justifies the comments Diana 's friends made to me and reported in my book . |
| 13 | He noticed that he was almost out of them and fumbled in his jacket pocket for some change to feed into the cigarette machine . |
| 14 | Corbett saw them and straightened in his saddle . |
| 15 | Nevertheless any such other business will be likely to interfere with the partner 's ability to devote his full time and attention to the firm : such matters should be discussed between all partners and special arrangements agreed as necessary in relation to individual partners to be either incorporated in the partnership agreement itself or contained in a separate memorandum to which all partners are signatories . |
| 16 | It was quite a new idea over here , you did n't do your washing at home but brought it out to these machines , and the courteous manager greeted you and put in the soap powder for you , and had the clothes all ready for you when you came back , but was n't alas , as it turned out , much of a hand at doing the accounts . |
| 17 | After writing down the initial equation , we need to rearrange things to get R by itself and defined in terms of what we know — D and T . |
| 18 | The SL 's U-shaped tube is folded upon itself and enclosed in what looks like a glass jam jar . |
| 19 | It shook itself and cracked in the air . |
| 20 | We accept responsibility for ensuring that all component parts of the inclusive holiday which you book with us are supplied to you as described in this brochure and to a reasonable standard . |
| 21 | Thirdly , a later section grandly describes itself as engaged in the ‘ [ r ] epeal of statutory powers of arrest without warrant or order ’ . |
| 22 | Oh the one that sung in English and German and Spanish and French and Italian ? |
| 23 | Cut the pastry into 1cm/½in wide strips , gently twist each one and cut in half lengthways . |
| 24 | It soon became clear that the occupation , while formally an allied one as represented in the Far Eastern Commission ( FEC ) and the Allied Council for Japan ( ACJ ) , was effectively controlled by the United States . |
| 25 | I think this is mainly due to the fact that , Rosa Guy , the author of the novel is black herself and raised in a black community in Harlem . |
| 26 | She might well say that she would have a different sense of herself as well had she grown up counting herself as made in God 's image . |
| 27 | Proof of debt forms must be sent out by the official receiver or trustee to every creditor who is known to him or identified in the statement of affairs ( r 6.97 ) . |
| 28 | The second and third points were taken up by him and expressed in different ways in his pronouncements on political and economic issues . |
| 29 | When the Bohemians realised the mistake they had made in electing Ferdinand , they deposed him and elected in his place the Palatine Elector , Frederick V , a weak if romantic figure . |
| 30 | He was at this time an exponent of the benefits of Anglo-French peace and in the Philobiblon , attributed to him and written in 1344–5 , one chapter was entitled ‘ the Complaint of Books against Wars ’ . |