Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb past] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Expeditions to the bottom of the peat-filled loch in 1976 resulted in many photographs of what appeared to be a herd of giant sea-creatures with paddle-like fins , long necks and calf-like heads . |
| 3 | In this quotation , however , both the words ‘ collusion ’ and ‘ tacit ’ are being interpreted in a different sense to that adopted in this paper . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Future annual statistical reports will adopt the same format and will incorporate information similar to that contained in this Update . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The following list , close to that used in this book , summarises the most prominent symptoms : |
| 8 | 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 . |