Example sentences of "[vb pp] in " in BNC.

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1 At adult level , for instance , a collection of objects identified as lorry , car , car and bicycle , might be sorted in many different ways .
2 These lists are sorted in numerical order and delimited by square brackets .
3 When all the data is entered on to the computer , it can then be sorted in numerous ways which would be too time-consuming using manual methods .
4 The records need to be sorted in order of a particular ( key ) field before storing the data on to the file .
5 No no the first mail run we had was just merely from to Rousay to collect the Rousay mails and dump them at the Rousay pier and they were sorted in Rousay for Egilsay and Wyre besides that .
6 Thus the list of books mentioned in the example above , could be keyed in and sorted in RAM but if the microcomputer was switched off , the information would disappear as the RAM would be cleared .
7 In peacetime the town must have been a sleepy and slow-moving place , but at the start of 1945 it fairly hummed with activity , being surrounded in all directions by RAF and American Air Force stations .
8 Gourmet shops and galleries , furniture and fashion , antiques and 1066 collectables , books on the Battle of Hastings and , of course , the Sussex trug , will make for a shopping experience surrounded in history .
9 This desolation is known as the Chaos Wastes or the Northern Wastes , and is surrounded in turn by only slightly less corrupted lands of distorted trees and broken rocks called the Troll Country .
10 They are surrounded by " ifs " and " buts " — and they will be so surrounded in the social worker 's experience of them .
11 Since then the future of Holly Park has been surrounded in controversy .
12 She was surrounded in bloody boxes .
13 A FLOOD of new weekly television listings magazines will hit the market when what the Home Secretary calls the ‘ dotty ’ restriction on advance use of programme schedules is lifted in the next parliamentary session .
14 That the restrictions are at last to be lifted in part reflects universal acknowledgement that terror of the communications revolution has been a prime contributor to the technological backwardness of the country .
15 They were finally lifted in a second House of Lords ruling in October last year .
16 After the last exchange controls were lifted in July 1989 , Swedes rushed to invest abroad .
17 A pressure had lifted in the night .
18 Her delicate hands lifted in horror .
19 It is necessary to rely on the accounts published since the embargo on absolute secrecy was lifted in 1977 , and there seems little advantage in repeating here what has been told so well already ; and , after all , this book has quite a different purpose .
20 The mist had lifted in the night and Marler was making good time .
21 Jed 's heart lifted in his ribs .
22 A murmur lifted in her throat like the sound of the wind blowing .
23 A low range of hills lifted in the north , yellow , rumpled , threadbare , as if someone had been carrying a lionskin and had grown tired of it and had thrown it down .
24 All that is required now is for each tip to be lifted in turn from the worktop , and the strong tape folded over to form a complete pocket at each corner .
25 They were lifted in 1954 , but re-imposed in 1955 with the new aim of reducing demand for consumer durables , by setting minimum deposits and maximum repayment periods for certain goods , and stayed in force almost continuously , though with frequent modifications .
26 The outer scales lifted in the process of penetration are not always smoothed down again completely when you change hair colour or texture , and this causes porosity .
27 It is certainly true that a State of Emergency was in effect for most of the period of hostilities , being lifted in January 1987 .
28 The photograph shows the first lifeboat boat to be lifted in the new hoist , the Watson class Joseph Soar ( Civil Service No. 34 ) , as part of the proving trials by the contractors , Laings .
29 Certainly the grave demeanour which made such an impression upon others — the " sad eyes " and the " deep , sad voice " — was lifted in the company of friends to reveal a playful and often funny man .
30 The plan worked magnificently and the West Berliners , determined to remain in the Western camp , received 2 500 000 tons of food , fuel and other supplies from the 277 000 flights by the Americans and British , before the blockade was lifted in May 1949 .
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