Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [pron] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a uniform constable , my boundaries were very clearly demarcated and my peers in the city centre division set out the parameters of my social reality . |
| 2 | A crash in a Formula 3000 race at Brands Hatch left him seriously injured and his career in jeopardy . |
| 3 | She put down the receiver and stood for a moment with her hand resting on it , her head bowed and her thoughts in turmoil . |
| 4 | Applications for new membership have already been received and our profile in the Bristol area has been increased . |
| 5 | Reports on the clinical use of endobiliary biopsy forceps are limited and their place in the investigation of biliary strictures remains to be established . |
| 6 | But during the two years between the time when the book was first mooted and its publication in 1982 , the company had transformed itself and the book did not reflect the grander style of living which Laura was now espousing . |
| 7 | This may be useful when test compounds are being developed and their production in large amounts is difficult and expensive . |
| 8 | His bruised hand was greatly admired and his escapade in Mucky Beck accepted as a terrific adventure . |
| 9 | Consequently , the life and vigour of the Church in that place will be attenuated and its efforts in mission enfeebled . |
| 10 | An orogastric tube ( Anderson Inc , New York ) was swallowed and its position in the dependent part of the stomach checked by the water recovery test . |
| 11 | Lonnie is carefully spoken and her reputation in her husband 's business affairs is one for shrewdness tempered by a relaxed , understanding nature . |
| 12 | Appleyard and Lintell 's research in San Francisco showed how residents ' privacy diminished in heavily trafficked streets , their network of acquaintances shrank , their sense of personal territory was restricted and their interest in the street was curtailed by its streams of traffic . |
| 13 | Matins has almost wholly disappeared and its substitute in Anglican worship is often some kind of family service , common also in the Free Churches , and generally of the ‘ hymn-sandwich ’ variety . |
| 14 | ON JULY 14 this year , Dai Qing , one of China 's most prominent journalists , was arrested and her flat in Beijing ransacked . |
| 15 | Each task should be identified and its position in the overall project established . |
| 16 | These students had opted to take the stylistics course as part of the Language " track " of their degree ; all were well motivated and their work in the first and second years had revealed that all had demonstrable ability for language study . |
| 17 | Before the next match , the selectors debated long and hard over the England captaincy , the problem being that Emburey 's form had declined and his place in the team could hardly be justified ; their solution was to drop him and appoint Chris Cowdrey in his place , whose enthusiastic style of leadership had taken an ordinary Kent side to the top of the table . |
| 18 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |