Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the most exacting university degrees , such as those in the biological and physical sciences demand a level of work load from the conscientious student which is greater than that expected in most occupations . |
| 2 | But the ethos of the system and the reality of democratic centralism lend to its political machinations a different flavour and bias from that found in any system plausibly termed pluralistic . |
| 3 | Interestingly , in a large-scale study of search behaviour just completed ( Hey , 1992/3 ) we found a conclusion remarkably similar to that found in this study : subjects were responding in the wrong direction ( but significantly ) to changes in the riskiness parameter σ . |
| 4 | The following list , close to that used in this book , summarises the most prominent symptoms : |
| 5 | This applied in all regions except two , but still reflected higher rates of loss in the North than the South . |
| 6 | This occurred in those cases of sex murder where the supposed infidelity of the woman was the excuse the man used to justify killing his former wife or lover . |
| 7 | Of the 21 attacks attributed to Iran from January to May 1986 , over half occurred in this area and many involved helicopters . |
| 8 | Certainly this happened in some Partnerships . |
| 9 | A year later further serious violence occurred during the weekend of 10–12 April 1981 in the Brixton area of south London ; this resulted in many injuries and widespread damage , and it attracted enormous media attention . |
| 10 | This resulted in each solution being subjected to a series of powerful sharp shocks — a process which he termed succussion . |
| 11 | This resulted in several disasters . |
| 12 | This resulted in some success in lowering dolphin mortality , but it is still at least twice as high as during daylight hours . |
| 13 | When children were engaged in sustained collaborative activity in pairs or groups , this had in most cases been initiated by themselves , albeit with the teacher 's blessing . |
| 14 | In this quotation , however , both the words ‘ collusion ’ and ‘ tacit ’ are being interpreted in a different sense to that adopted in this paper . |
| 15 | thought that , … in preference to the suggestion that there might be more frequent recommendations for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative , it might be possible to introduce a system similar to that adopted in some parts of the United States under which a distinction was made between murder in the first and second degree , the death penalty being reserved for cases of the former kind . |
| 16 | That came in this morning |
| 17 | That seemed in some way cruel , a form of burying . |
| 18 | The men , aged 21 and 25 , were each injured in both legs in what appears to have been another loyalist paramilitary attack . |
| 19 | We all lived in this sty , just off Wimbledon Hill . |
| 20 | Run ! ’ the officer ordered , and we all rushed in that direction . |
| 21 | The powerhouses of film production in the previous decade nearly all wilted in this atmosphere . |
| 22 | It is impossible to say how many participated in this operation simply because they were following orders , as obedient soldiers , and how many because they shared Franco 's belief that their role was that of the " saviours " of Spain . |
| 23 | The shyness , the hesitancy , the gratitude , all spoke in that face which drew the eye and held it . |
| 24 | Yet the reader of medieval literature and letters must be constantly amazed at the degree to which folk with any leisure at all travelled in former times . |
| 25 | Chapter 10 explained that although the four macroeconomic objectives listed earlier are each related in some manner to the level of demand , the relationship is by no means uniform or in the same direction . |
| 26 | Future annual statistical reports will adopt the same format and will incorporate information similar to that contained in this Update . |
| 27 | Among his other texts his Outlines of Geology ( 1886 ) and his Structural and Field Geology for Students ( 1905 ) both appeared in several editions . |