Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | ‘ In a way , Jeff is putting himself in the position of being a cultural martyr , ’ says Ned Rifkin , exhibition curator for Washington DC 's Hirshhorn Museum , part of the prestigious Smithsonian Institution . |
| 3 | ‘ They have suffered so many times in recent years and some think disappointment is staring them in the face again . |
| 4 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 5 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 6 | ‘ Captain Hook 's drowned hisself in the river , ’ he babbled . |
| 7 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
| 8 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 9 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 10 | Previous verbosely titled flops had been Oh Dad , Poor Dad , Mamma 's Hung You in the Closet and I 'm Feelin' So Sad ( which also had Barbara Harris in it ) and Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness ? |
| 11 | ‘ Magnus is among the top assets in the XEU portfolio and my job is to keep it in the premier league , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 13 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
| 14 | Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them . |
| 15 | At which , after an ovation , half the audience did depart to hear Michael Heseltine , whose idea of a fringe meeting is to hold it in the Grand Theatre , which is very grand , built 1906 , seats 1,200 , and where Alvin Stardust will head the bill in this year 's pantomime . |
| 16 | ‘ The truth is staring you in the face , but you 're too blind to see it . |
| 17 | Yeah i well he 's just distressed cos I think Gill 's phoning him in the morning and she said she 'd give him a lift to the hospital . |
| 18 | In the extracts from cases and other materials which follow , where the term ‘ sovereignty ’ is used , the judges or writers are using it in the sense of supremacy . |
| 19 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |
| 20 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 21 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 22 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ People are stopping me in the street to ask about it . ’ |
| 24 | We wait until trouble comes , until trouble is staring us in the face , before we really feel the need of God , and pray . |
| 25 | It is a cry of triumph , greeting God 's showing himself in the midst of his people . |
| 26 | The most common method of disposal is in landfill sites , the second most popular method is dumping it in the ocean , and the rest is incinerated , often in ships at sea . |
| 27 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 28 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
| 29 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 30 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |