Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed throughout Kathmandu in April was lifted in all areas except the Lalitpur district on May 10 . |
| 3 | Martial law , in force since the Feb. 23 military coup [ see p. 38003-04 ] , was lifted in most areas of the country on May 3 , although the interim government retained it in 21 sensitive border provinces and districts . |
| 4 | In May martial law was lifted in most areas of the country and a ban on political activity was also lifted . |
| 5 | Past values and beliefs are transmitted to new members through formal induction programmes and informal working practices epitomised in such phrases as : ‘ We do things this way in this office ’ . |
| 6 | The concepts of ‘ good and evil ’ are associated with human life , they have not been predetermined in any sense whatsoever . |
| 7 | The effect is that matters disclosed in this way may not later be the subject of warranty claims . |
| 8 | The third principle is that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be used or disclosed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or purposes ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be used or disclosed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or purposes ’ |
| 10 | Maybe William Charles 's premises were designed in that style ? |
| 11 | The famous Surrealist Dali sofa based on Mae West 's lips is included in the section on the Thirties , though it 's no more a reflection of furniture designed in that era than Leigh Bowery is of Eighties fashion . |
| 12 | Every village school in Eritrea is designed in this way so as to prevent detection from the air by the MIGs and Antanov bombers of the Ethiopian air force . |
| 13 | But while it seems at first quite normal that this should happen at an inquest involving the opera 's central character one soon notices that the process is in fact highly artificial , like the narrations which open several of Britten 's later operas , designed in this instance to have the dramatis personae stand up and be recognised but in a context which fits the story . |
| 14 | A series of studies has been designed in this research project to determine how accurately babies can perform the ‘ geometric ’ calculation involved . |
| 15 | The next step is awaited in this matter . |
| 16 | People liked what they saw in Reagan and the campaign was won in that debate . |
| 17 | This has been especially evident in Peru and Chile , where goals have been fought for and won in this way . |
| 18 | Tit for Tat won in this climate , and Tit for Two Tats would have won in this climate if it had been submitted . |
| 19 | Tit for Tat won in this climate , and Tit for Two Tats would have won in this climate if it had been submitted . |
| 20 | But basically th every time the contract comes up for renewal , what will happen for a company to attempt to win the contract it 's got to cut the hours of its employees and its also got to try and c cut the costs erm by cutting pay and that 's the way that 's the way contracts are won in this situation and as long as that keeps happening then the situation 's going to get steadily worse . |
| 21 | The topic is approached in this way because scant academic attention has been paid to insider dealing in the corporate context ; furthermore , it is within this context that the Chinese Wall mechanism operates ; and finally , new rules have recently been promulgated by the SIB covering the misuse of inside information in the financial conglomerate context . |
| 22 | I do n't know how many t other people were approached in this collection , I do n't know . |
| 23 | I was approached in this room about erm , twelve months ago , by Francis and Tricia erm , to ask if I would make a programme out for their group . |
| 24 | I knew that Niki had not been happy at Ferrari , that he found the pressure of the Italian press and of Italians in general something abhorrent , that he did n't like being attacked in that country 's three sporting dailies as a failure , and that he found the byzantine intricacies of Ferrari 's Maranello a bit hard to take . |
| 25 | Is it in order that a new Member of Parliament who has not yet made his maiden speech should be attacked in this way by the hon. Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) ? |
| 26 | There is in my judgment no objection to the decisions attacked in this case on the ground that they were or may have been taken by junior ministers rather than by the Secretary of State . |
| 27 | The court held that no offence was committed in that case , since the person at whom the conduct was directed was an undercover policeman who was unlikely to be provoked to violence , and no offence would be committed under the Act either , for the same reasons . |
| 28 | Opponents of the bill had argued that it amounted to " retroactive justice " by declaring illegal acts committed in another country and allowing the prosecution of people for offences committed before they became British citizens or residents . |
| 29 | Football merely provides the opportunity because a match is taking place but if they we if the football matches were n't taking place those criminal acts would be committed in another context . |
| 30 | Murder is committed in those situations where D caused death by an act or omission which he knew had death as the probable or highly probable result . |