Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth Markham , who works for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research , funded by the New Zealand government , analysed flavonoids , photo-protective pigments which are synthesised in plants when they are exposed to harmful UV-B radiation , the wavelength most affected by the depletion of stratospheric ozone . |
| 2 | Mr Brandreth has been campaigning for the Army 's new pay and personnel centre to be located in Chester and he led two delegations from the city to see Mr Hanley 's predecessor , Archie Hamilton . |
| 3 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union also contains about 11000 farm workers in its agricultural section , but the majority of these are located in Scotland and it is the NUAAW which is generally regarded as the industrial union for farm workers in England and Wales . |
| 4 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
| 5 | Delaney took hold of Lawton 's shoulder and squeezed in time as he counted down . |
| 6 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 7 | Sussman and McNeilage ( 1975a ) argued that whereas receptive aspects of language are lateralised to the left hemisphere , production of language is not so clearly lateralised in stutterers as it is in normals . |
| 8 | As you know the magazine is edited in Leeds but it has always been a rule that there should be no Yorkshire influence . |
| 9 | The meat does not become tough as it would in conventional steaming , as it is not being immersed in water and it is gentle pressureless steam . |
| 10 | The problem is one which can not ultimately be resolved in pedagogy but it needs to be recognized , not in negative terms as a licence either for imposing fixed ideas or for random expediency , but as a positive incentive for continuing enquiry , which will be sensitive to the circumstances of different learning/teaching situations . |
| 11 | It is because of the universality of the threat to freedom contained in homophobia that it becomes highly important that we try to avoid both the language which dissociates us from sexual acts by others in which we do not want to participate , and the attitudes which that language represents . |
| 12 | Wayne seemed frozen in mid-action as she quickly threw back the top sheet of the bed and climbed in ; but then he recovered , and started an awkward fight to get his shoes off without actually untying their laces . |
| 13 | Lacuna appeared distracted , her face frozen in surprise as she gazed unseeingly at the ceaseless struggle . |
| 14 | My brother-in-law was educated in Paris but he is an idealist whose unorthodox views are not shared by myself or many of our countrymen , cut in Tran Van Hieu hastily . |
| 15 | One day she fell and broke her hip : it was repaired in hospital but she remained in some pain and was even more precarious on her feet . |
| 16 | The possibility of attacking Korea as part of this process was considered in May but it was decided that the Kyushu operation should be sufficient . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman heard me say on numerous occasions when the Environmental Protection Bill was being considered in Committee that it was under strength . |
| 18 | These will be taking place throughout the city and should be booked in advance as they will be very popular . |
| 19 | Yousefi , 37 , was caught in London as he tried to cash a cheque at a bank . |
| 20 | I 've found that when the water is heavily coloured after a rain storm this is often the case and fish will be caught in bursts as they pass up and down the swim . |
| 21 | Chris Morris told me that the other group had got caught in Basra because they had lost touch with reality briefly and got careless . ’ |
| 22 | My index finger was sleeved in frost and I dared not bend it for fear of splitting the skin . |
| 23 | Brazil , marking tightly and tackling hard , looked as well organised in defence as they had done against Italy in Bologna two months earlier . |
| 24 | The blueprints we draw up about the environment we inhabit and our place in it are sketched in outline when we are very young and least able to see the whole picture . |
| 25 | The position will be otherwise when the Department of the Registers of Scotland moves to Meadowbank House later in the year and solicitors are advised to ensure that requests for extracts and other information are correctly addressed in order that we can provide the most efficient service . |
| 26 | They finished , and his red lips curled in satisfaction as he watched the student assemble papers and books and leave . |
| 27 | If you can not pay them immediately , then you must tell them so when they are instructed in order that they can decline to accept the instructions if they wish . |
| 28 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 29 | The inference which might be drawn from this analysis was that Eliot himself had conceived a homosexual passion for just such a young man and , when the article was reprinted four years after Eliot 's death , it was suggested to be Jean Verdenal , the Frenchman whom Eliot had met in Paris when he was a student there and to whom , after his death in the First World War , he dedicated Prufrock and Other Observations . |
| 30 | John thought him ‘ a most remarkable boy , and certainly the most talented artist I 've yet met in S.A. If he can design costumes or not is another question . |