Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] in an " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked to put their minds and bodies at rest , no one ever visualized themselves in the middle of Piccadilly waiting supermarket , or crushed in an underground train . |
| 2 | It is revealing that , in a very similar way , to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred : ( 48 ) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading ( to be ) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers ; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction ; an example would be like ( or want ) which makes it possible for us to set ( 49 ) beside ( 8 ) : ( 49 ) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However , with most preceding verb phrases , such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation : ( 50 ) ( a ) the children have kept the fish-tank clean : how have the children kept the fish-tank ? ( b ) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean |
| 3 | Because mulberry trees are usually found in the centre of a lawn , not hidden away in the kitchen garden or grown in an orchard , they often provide a focus for children 's play . |
| 4 | Teachers ' houses and school buildings were set on fire or bombed in an attempt to intimidate ANDES members ; in the right-wing press , ANDES was accused of fomenting subversion and Communism : |
| 5 | Or hung in an amber cavern of weeds |
| 6 | Taking the rather obvious theme of the mother and child , for example , this is used over and over again by artists , though each time it must be expressed or interpreted in an individual way . |
| 7 | In the softer areas it worked like a hot knife through butter and large areas could be removed , shaped or modelled in an astonishingly short time , in comparison with traditional mallet and gouges . |
| 8 | You should think of time as a resource and , like any resource , it can be squandered or utilised in an effective and efficient manner . |
| 9 | When grown in the absence of FCS , many of the cells died asynchronously over several days , with morphological features that are characteristic of apoptosis : when viewed by time-lapse video recording , the cells showed active surface blebbing and then shrank and often fragmented ( not shown ) , and when stained with propidium iodide or viewed in an electron microscope , the nuclei of the dead cells were condensed and often fragmented ( Fig. 2c , f ) . |
| 10 | The dough should be covered with a cloth after each session to prevent a crust forming , or stored in an airtight container . |
| 11 | Among the eight examples drawn from the gallery 's stock are ‘ Life Death/Knows Does n't Know ’ , the great wheel of contradiction formerly owned by Charles Saatchi , and ‘ Seven Virtues Seven Vices ’ , in which corresponding pairs such as Hope and Envy or Lust and Faith are illuminated or dimmed in an apparently random sequence . |
| 12 | However in such an institution , the elements of anti-structure are often suppressed , denied , or concealed in an attempt to maintain the idealogical purity of the group . |
| 13 | They should be either burnt or laid out flat to dry , or kept in an airtight tin . |
| 14 | If he has rendered a service or engaged in an activity such as the manufacture of goods , the profit will have arisen or derived from the place where the service was rendered or the profit making activity carried on . |
| 15 | The Coventry , Ardent , and Antelope were all sunk ; many Welsh Guardsmen , waiting to land , were killed or maimed in an air assault on the Sir Galahad at Bluff Cove . |
| 16 | As it turns out , however , both fared better than expected in an election which produced something positive for almost everyone . |
| 17 | Although set in an overtly political atmosphere , its purpose is unashamedly entertainment . |
| 18 | This argument was having a little success around the table , when the President of the Society , W. M. Smart , squirmed in the Chair , and exclaimed in an anguished voice : ‘ Then will somebody propose that this paper be rejected irrespective of its contents ? ’ |
| 19 | He does a lot of celebrity after-dinner speaking like Franky Worthington Frank seems to appear in every charity penalty shootout or random presentation at Elland Road before a game , usually in the company of a page three girl and clad in an appalling 70s suit and to massive cheers from the Kop : - ) . |
| 20 | He was handcuffed to another prisoner and placed in an army , armoured personnel carrier . |
| 21 | The aim is for the parents to fill them in as accurately as possible , so they should be simple to fill in and placed in an easily accessible place in the home . |
| 22 | Larger peels can be sandwiched between two glass plates and placed in an episcope for projection . |
| 23 | Isotropic bile samples were immediately transferred into small sterile brown glass tubes , flushed with nitrogen , sealed , and placed in an incubator at 37°C without shaking throughout the study period . |
| 24 | It is accepted that such activities are not merely a matter of skill , but questions are asked about how far the ‘ knowledge ’ in such fields is capable of being explicated and taught in an explicit rather than tacit , intuitive or mimetic manner , or how far one can develop standard or consensual criteria for judging performance . |
| 25 | The practising teacher or school librarian does not have time to go leisurely through pages of details which are poorly printed on A4 which are folded and tucked in an envelope with a disk . |
| 26 | Biopsy specimens were washed in saline , and homogenised in an ice cold buffer ( 25 mM TRIS HCl , pH 7.5 , 1 mM EDTA , 1 mM dithiothreitol ) using a Teflon glass homogeniser ( 10 strokes ) . |
| 27 | 26 ) , which shows Oceanus — another figure whose head is slightly turned , to his right , and depicted in an almost sullen manner . |
| 28 | Over 1200 biochemistry and haematology specimens were examined and reported in an eight day period in the laboratory of the Gilbert Bain Hospital , Lerwick . |
| 29 | Chemically , chalk is largely calcium carbonate , he argues , and so should yield carbon dioxide if immersed in an acid . |
| 30 | He escaped to France , but was captured after attempting another murder and confined in an asylum . |