Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are surrounded by " ifs " and " buts " — and they will be so surrounded in the social worker 's experience of them . |
| 2 | The railway tracks were lifted in the 1960s , and the bridge fell into disuse . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was half-turned from him , letting her eyes follow the beams and wishing she could drift through the open doors as easily as the nets lifted in the seasonless breeze . |
| 5 | Its reputation was lifted in the sixteenth century , when Marguerite de Navarre came here and ( perhaps ) wrote some of her Heptameron , as a respite from the rigours of the cure , before the atrocious weather — in the prologue she quickly complains of the rainfall in Cauterets — drove her down to Sarrance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If the adult plants are looking weary , then these can be removed , the severed stems picked over , the healthiest pieces bunched together with a strip of lead or piece of wire , and then replanted in the vacant baskets . |
| 8 | There were other cases where the name of the rape survivor was not disclosed in the first press report but a few weeks later , the name would suddenly appear in front of several million readers . |
| 9 | Whilst it may be in the interests of the court and a ‘ fair result ’ for as much as possible to be disclosed in the early stages so that the matters really in dispute can be identified and the strength of the evidence assessed , it will often be in the interests of the parties to conceal what they know . |
| 10 | A truth of modern warfare , which was first disclosed in the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904–5 ) , had been underscored though leaders on neither side fully comprehended it as yet ; defensive weaponry was more than a match for charging infantry . |
| 11 | They should identify themselves to a responsible official before entering , except in very rare cases where information which ought to be disclosed in the public interest could not otherwise be obtained . |
| 12 | Lord Denning explained that ‘ There are some things which may be required to be disclosed in the public interest , in which event no confidence can be prayed in aid to keep them secret . ’ |
| 13 | To my mind it is clear from the terms of the third paragraph of the Crown Prosecution Service 's letter that it is accepted that the order restricts them , in any prosecution which they decide to initiate , to utilising material already obtained or other material obtained independently of that disclosed in the High Court civil proceedings . |
| 14 | With the Professional version however , the basic cardigan could easily be designed in the STANDARD shaping section , leaving only the front edges to be manually adjusted within the ORIGINAL shaping section . |
| 15 | — Designed in the 1840s by Sir Charles Barry ( architect of the Houses of Parliament ) the Terrace , with its distinctive Italianate garden , provides a spectacular view over the lake and Capability Brown 's undulating landscape . |
| 16 | The first of these was the intense interest in , and massive support for , subject-based curriculum change particularly in Mathematics and Science which originated in the late nineteen-fifties in the United States , largely as a result of a realisation of the enormous gaps which were opening between what university research workers were examining and what schools taught , between the demands of a computer based technology and the realities of a curriculum designed in the nineteenth century to serve a nation of shopkeepers . |
| 17 | This time , our pattern will be displayed with all that was originally designed in the second colour , transcribed to black on the screen . |
| 18 | He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users . |
| 19 | The new form of administrative control is , for Foucault , represented by the panopticon , a device designed in the late eighteenth century by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham . |
| 20 | According to the Roman writer Pausanias , the temple of Apollo Epicurius was designed in the fifth century BC by Ictinus , one of the architects of the Parthenon . |
| 21 | Or take the black cab , designed in the 1950s . |
| 22 | It was designed in the Grecian style by Edward Taylor , a York architect who used red brick for the body of the building and stone for the dressings . |
| 23 | What seem to be four candlesticks — designed in the same sugary style — stand guard around it and a fifth , a little distance from the main confectionary , is crowned with a gilded figure . |
| 24 | Professor Derek Ellwood , director of the pathogenic microbe research laboratory at the Centre for Applied Microbiology Research , Porton Down , Wiltshire , says that ‘ from the point of view of safety , a biotechnology factory should not be designed in the same ways as one making antibiotics ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Modern ’ type-faces , first designed in the 18th century by men like Bodoni and Baskerville , emphasised the contrast between the thick and thin parts of a letter . |
| 26 | He retired to the striking hill-top house ( in Monkton Deverill , Wiltshire ) he had designed in the 1930s , its style reminiscent of seventeenth-century France . |
| 27 | Overseas , the Kuwait operation has been successful in managing the contracts won in the early part of last year . |
| 28 | Sex equality slipped far down the political agenda and women had to fight hard to retain the rights they had won in the 1960s and 1970s on abortion , welfare benefits , maternity and employment rights . |
| 29 | The three breeders with the highest total scores after the final show will receive national prizes to the value of £500 , £300 and £200 , in addition to any prize money won in the regional contests . |
| 30 | And finally , social citizenship rights , on a range from ‘ the right to a modicum of economic wealth and security ’ to ‘ the right to share to the full in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized being according to the standards prevailing in society ’ were won in the twentieth century , especially in the post-war period when the welfare state was extended so that all were guaranteed education , health care and a ‘ safety net ’ of financial provision through what was then ‘ national assistance ’ . |