Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practical terms this means The Fix can be placed in a horizontal crack with a large proportion of the stem sticking out and fallen on in the knowledge that the device has been specifically designed to give an increased safety margin . |
| 2 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | She looked up at us very dolefully , and explained that she had ‘ fallen down in the 'igh Street ’ , and broken a bone in her foot . |
| 4 | But a gate was broken down in the frustration and many spectators , mostly from Cardiff , got in without paying . |
| 5 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 6 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 7 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 8 | Raw muck and slurry can burn young plants and even slow down plant growth whilst it is being broken down in the soil . |
| 9 | First , the esters procaine and centrophenoxine are immediately broken down in the body to release their DEAE and DMAE , which are the active portions of the molecules . |
| 10 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 11 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |
| 12 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 13 | tha that 's because the iron is er being broken down in the body . |
| 14 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 15 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 16 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 17 | Although the RAF had standard instrument panels from 1936 onwards it was a long time before the merits of this tidy arrangement really caught on in the USA . |
| 18 | Fast on its heels came MacPublisher and Ready-Set-Go but somehow neither caught on in the same way . |
| 19 | It 's a funny thing the way podoeroticism has never really caught on in the West , what with sex being so popular and all . |
| 20 | Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business . |
| 21 | The Great Western pioneered the idea but it never caught on in the rest of the country . |
| 22 | The draft constitution , to be voted on in the April referendum , would reduce the legislature to a single , bicameral body ; specify the supremacy of federal law over that of constituent republics ; and retain the President as " head of state and the highest executive in Russia " . |
| 23 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
| 24 | Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs . |
| 25 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 26 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 27 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
| 28 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 29 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |
| 30 | The teaching is carried on in the form of folklore and tribal legends . |