Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is believed that the sequence of events that led to core damage involved equipment malfunctions , design-related problems , and human errors , all of which contributed in varying degrees to the accident ( US NUREG-0600 , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | Rhys was a close personal friend of Corliss Lamont , that great champion of free speech in America who contributed in large measure to the ultimate defeat of Senator McCarthy 's witch-hunting . |
| 3 | If these three individuals are innocent of the charge that they contributed in any way to the Holocaust , then that innocence should be revealed in a trial . |
| 4 | Our thanks are also extended to the Police and Stewards on duty and to everyone who contributed in any way to the success of the evening . |
| 5 | Each contributed in different ways to the Watkinson counter-reformation that began soon after he took over as Minister of Defence in October 1959 . |
| 6 | All the evidence seems to indicate that he had become a half-hearted Anglican — perhaps that was a safer way , after all , of establishing yourself as a respectable tradesman than anything which smacked in any way of revolt or radicalism ? |
| 7 | Worthy and Markle cite basketball , finding that whites excelled in free throws from a static position and blacks at field goals on the move . |
| 8 | A sealed wooden crate , twelve feet by six , with WERNER FRACHT , ERHARDSTRASSE , MUNCHEN stencilled in black paint across its facing side . |
| 9 | He turned his face to the breeze and drew in great lungfuls of the fresh salt air , then looked back at Meg . |
| 10 | Dimly his voice reached her as she drew in deep breaths of air . |
| 11 | They crossed the field at a leisurely walk , and as Lucy drew in deep breaths of the clear , crisp air she felt thankful for her jacket 's protection against the sharpness of the southerly breeze which whipped colour into her cheeks . |
| 12 | Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government . |
| 13 | He drew in another breath of air , and it shuddered in his chest . |
| 14 | First of all THANK YOU to everyone who helped in any way with the sale . |
| 15 | The Society would like to thank all who helped in any way with the Stand and in particular Mr and Mrs J. Lawley for being custodians of Material on site . |
| 16 | The idea was Rupert Sheldrake 's hypothesis of formative causation , which he described in New Sciente of Life in 1981 and outlined in New Scientist in 18 June of that year ( vol 90 , p 766 ) . |
| 17 | Therefore , there have been no definite cases of PBC associated PHT described in published works without evident portal hypertension . |
| 18 | In August he was again complaining of tiredness ; there was no doubt that like most other Englishmen he was experiencing what he described in another context as a general weariness of war and desire for peace . |
| 19 | He took him to all the different workshops de Chavigny maintained in different parts of Paris : he let him watch these highly skilled men at work , the specialists in metalwork , the specialists in inlay work and enamels , the gem-cutters , the gem-setters , the team of men who made the mechanisms for clocks and watches . |
| 20 | On September 1 , 1992 , Dubcek 's chauffeur-driven limousine crashed in heavy rain on a motorway some 60 miles southeast of Prague . |
| 21 | At least 20 people were reported killed on Nov. 18 , when a Soviet military transport aircraft crashed in bad weather at the Amderna air field on the polar Karskoe Sea . |
| 22 | July 30 : DHC–2 Beaver floatplane N67151 crashed in bad weather near Dillingham , south west of Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 23 | October 29 : Antonov An–2 of the Yeviakh air transportation organisation/Azerbaijani civil aviation administration hit a rock and crashed in thick fog near Khanabad village , Nagorno-Karabakh , killing three on board . |
| 24 | Three other people were killed and three seriously injured yesterday when two cars crashed in driving rain near Waverton , Cumbria . |
| 25 | Whereas there had been virtually zero real growth in NHS funding during the 1980s , in 1990–1 and 1991–2 NHS spending rose in real terms by 2.8% and 4.1% respectively . |
| 26 | Average personal income rose in real terms by as much as 5 per cent per annum in the early 1960s , and continued to grow by an average of more than 1 per cent per year in the 1970s , resuming a level of 2–3 per cent per year in 1983–88 . |
| 27 | Duty teams maintained a neat lawn surrounding the base but , beyond the perimeter , a lush pink jungle rose in fantastic profusion towards the flat glare of a pale , artificial ‘ sun ’ whose energy was provided by the same mysterious means as powered the Bridge and the Lift . |
| 28 | Some parts of the country showed more significant growth than others : on the east coast , the number of sailings not only rose in absolute terms between the 1460s and the early sixteenth century , but the proportion of those by English ships approximately doubled , although there were some exports which were largely carried in foreign vessels . |
| 29 | Inflation , which fell in the second half of 1989 , rose in some countries in the first half of 1990 , was anticipated to increase further in 1990 due in part to oil price increases . |
| 30 | Clouds rose in thin columns up the mountain sides , grey upon grey , and started smudging out the valley . |