Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the interpretation of democracy argued for in this book is correct , or at least is found persuasive by its readers , then it should be clear that its principal practical implication is that democracy is still " unfinished business " on the agenda of modern politics . |
| 2 | Of the other offences adverted to in this chapter , the crime of threatening to kill is extended to threats to cause serious personal harm ( cl. 65 ) ; administering a substance without consent ( cl. 73 ) and assault to resist arrest ( cl. 77 ) are redrafted . |
| 3 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 4 | Her working-class male counterpart is not usually ridiculed or disapproved of in this way , as someone whose language is inappropriate . |
| 5 | But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization . |
| 6 | In three cases of clear-cut discrepancy between the social class classification arrived at in this way and the wife 's previous occupation , education or general life-style , social class was upgraded or downgraded to take account of the contradiction . |
| 7 | The tales of Mountain Biker Attacks Rambler are certainly a far cry from the friendliness we met with in this area . |
| 8 | For those who wish the work to emerge with its character heavily emboldened without in any way resorting to selfregarding artifice , then there is no denying the enormous impact of both the LSO/Tilson Tomas ( Sony ) and VPO/Abbado ( DG ) versions . |
| 9 | But Walter Machin was just what we went for in those days : we were all daft about him could n't think o' anything else , from morn to night . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But none of the hospitals we went to in this country did a single thing to help us . |
| 11 | Plowman J stated at p596 : The arrangement in my view must be looked at as a whole , and looked at in this way , I find it impossible to say that the Respondent did not provide the trustee with an income … in the sense in which the word " provided " is used in [ what is now TA 1988 , s663 ] ; that is to say , as importing an element of bounty . |
| 12 | Virtually none of the people looked at in this demonstration have gone into an informal care setting where they are relying to a large degree on informal caring . |
| 13 | So , looked at in some lights , theory becomes literature . |
| 14 | These matters confirm me in the view already expressed that the disturbance complained of in this case is not actionable . |
| 15 | The United States and the United Kingdom voted against in each case . |
| 16 | I also take some comfort from the fact that I have enormous pleasure in remembering all those who I dealt with in this capacity returned to the Pathfinder Force before the end and wished sincerely to finish their Pathfinder tour . |
| 17 | There were all sorts that we dealt with in those days . |
| 18 | Yeah , erm , I mean , I think , what you 've , what you 've actually done is identified quite a lot more areas than they , they had four , which which they did in in some detail , and they got the stories classified , erm , what you 've actually thought of , is is far more areas , which I think 's good , erm , and maybe other areas to consider as well . |
| 19 | Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built . |
| 20 | You , you had to in those days you had to sort of er use your common sense because if you had a big healthy baby it 's a long while to go right through ten o'clock at night till six o'clock the next morning . |