Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to chapter 9 , this means interpreting into the interlanguage , a practice which would be considered rather dubious in spoken language interpreting . |
| 2 | The largest category , about a third , was libraries of educational institutions , ranging from Oxford and Cambridge colleges down to ‘ amalgamated ’ teacher-training colleges whose ‘ old-fashioned ’ libraries were deemed mostly redundant in the face of new teaching theories . |
| 3 | They have now won only one in 10 games after leading the division with games in hand in February . |
| 4 | Would Beccaria 's programme have looked much different in practice ? |
| 5 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 6 | Both stockings were laddered , her hair had started to come down , and her new floral suit , which had looked so smart in London , was sticking to her . |
| 7 | ( It is , by the way , exactly the implicit reference to an extraction set that distinguishes English superlatives from forms considered broadly equivalent in some other languages , for instance those designated by the same term " superlative " in Latin . ) |
| 8 | This particular defence was optional in the EC Product Liability Directive but has been adopted in the United Kingdom ; it seems sensible because standards of safety change over time and what might seem perfectly acceptable now might be considered grossly unsafe in a few years time . |
| 9 | His rangy , graceless figure , over six feet high , still looked as incongruous in a formal suit as it always had . |
| 10 | It was considered particularly helpful in soothing and calming the nervous and hysterical . |
| 11 | This problem was solved in a manner which would be considered quite unconventional in other parts of India . |
| 12 | As most of the original windows were located quite high in the side elevations of the chapel , they could become low-level windows lighting the new upper storey , and space enough remained in the formerly imperforate lower-level panels of the side walls to introduce new ‘ tripartite ’ windows sited vertically below the original openings in order to light the rooms of the lower storey . |
| 13 | These compromises , resulting in records which were considered musically acceptable in those days , mean ethical decisions when we come to play them back today ; should we even try to restore the original ‘ fidelity ’ ? |
| 14 | Whether or not the 19705 may be considered relatively uninhibited in its sexual atmosphere , there is no doubt that the earlier years of the twentieth century were a good deal more inhibited . |
| 15 | the Dutch workplace is truly multilingual ; the workforce at Gebr , Meijer , for example , is already considered virtually bilingual in Dutch and German ( 70% understand German ; 20% speak it ) whilst 20% of all verbal communication on the shop floor is a mixture of languages where English forms approximately 20% of all dialogue — apparently because computer software is American . |
| 16 | At best the programme was rated no more than moderately effective , being considered completely ineffective in respect of home-school links . |
| 17 | NEW WBC champion Lennox Lewis may still be considered essentially Canadian in some boxing circles . |
| 18 | Not that anybody would have looked too good in that gloom . |
| 19 | He was possibly one of the most brilliant boys ever at Halton , whom I have always claimed , if Whittle had not invented his jet engine , he certainly would have come very close in his time . |
| 20 | But just what is considered too hairy in one society may be perfectly OK in another . |
| 21 | As Hurd discovered to his discomfort in early February , Anglo-American ideas over future Middle East security arrangements are considered too timid in Rome , where the preferred Italo-Spanish option is a Mediterranean version of the CSCE ( Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ) . |
| 22 | But while England was coming to be seen as a reasonably important power after having looked very weak in the middle of the sixteenth century , a more conspicuous change was the emergence of the Netherlands . |
| 23 | The bowling is itself a worry , having looked very ordinary in Jamaica . |
| 24 | Two-thirds of our men concede that they think men get the better deal in Britain today , with 56% of them agreeing that the balance of power is still tipped too much in favour of men . |
| 25 | For example , they are the most likely to say that the balance of power is now tipped too much in favour of women and that women with young children should n't work . |
| 26 | Because while from the safety of our historical vantage point we may doubt whether this kind of incident was anything more than an isolated occurrence , and while the details leave room to quibble about the gravity of the wounding cases , to commentators at the turn of the century here was a sure sign that something dangerously new was afoot , which had come all-too-terribly alive in the person of the ‘ Hooligan ’ . |
| 27 | The evidence suggests that they have ‘ clamoured for more staff and for improved premises , ’ but the family health services authority has not had the resources to support this , nor were suitable vacant sites in which premises could be developed easily available in inner London . |
| 28 | But I have always felt rather uncomfortable in her presence . |
| 29 | Such an assumption is perhaps made most explicit in the Beckford Report when it comments on the apparent failure of the area officer in the case to recognize the apparently obvious indications that he was dealing with a ‘ high risk ’ child abuse case when chairing the initial case conference : Clearly it is of concern if health and welfare professionals are unfamiliar with the relevant research and it is one of the aims of this chapter to contribute to that understanding . |
| 30 | The extent to which UK quoted publishing companies have outperformed the stock market as a whole in the period between 28th June 1991 and 30th September 1992 is made strikingly evident in Table 4 . |