Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these can be expressed as a distance-decay function and indeed costs of migration may largely be a matter of distance as in the case of outmigration from island economies such as are found in the Caribbean or Oceania ; others are political and virtually insurmountable , such as national frontiers . |
| 2 | Nijaz and Sead Hukanovic had feared they might never see each other again after being parted in the savage purge of Bosnians callously dubbed ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ by the Serbs . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , two men were recovering in hospital in Belfast after being shot in the loyalist Shankill Road area during the night . |
| 4 | Pears was whisked off still wearing his goalkeeper 's jersey and limping heavily after being hurt in the final minutes . |
| 5 | It was also revealed that a baby died after being delivered in the birthing pool at the Churchill John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford , although the hospital has ruled out any connection between the death and the method of birth . |
| 6 | However , there is no point investing for the long term at the risk of being caned in the short term . |
| 7 | Donald McIntyre , then resident in Kilmeny , was apprehended by the police without a warrant on suspicion of being connected in the mysterious disappearance of a man . |
| 8 | ‘ What foolish rabbit-warrens our well-to-do houses are obliged to be , ’ William Morris complained in 1884 ; ‘ instead of being planned in the rational ancient way … a big hall , to wit , with a few chambers tacked on to it for sleeping or sulking in . ’ |
| 9 | Under the current housing rules , she has no chance of being rehoused in the near future in a low-rise block in one of the decent areas of Birkenhead , or of gaining a house with a garden . |
| 10 | The tables show that an animal was at greatest risk of being stolen in the Low Country , but until around 1895 a person was more likely to steal an animal in the Intermediate area . |
| 11 | A dramatic experience of a submarine under attack in the North Atlantic and the terrible effects of being torpedoed in the freezing ocean — adrift on a raft ! |
| 12 | In fact , the chances of getting national publicity are quite low , though the likelihood of being mentioned in the local newspapers is higher . |
| 13 | But ‘ container grown ’ means planted , established , growing away and capable of being planted in the open ground without root disturbance and without check . |
| 14 | At about the same time , control theory emerged , utilising similar basic assumptions to those of classical criminology , despite being located in the positivist tradition . |
| 15 | Activists also like being thrown in the deep end they quite like the challenge of being thrown in and sink or swim and learn from the experience , rather than actually talking about too much and then a little bit of action later . |
| 16 | The great British films all tap into a problem , the gap between what is felt and what can be expressed , that is universal but gains a particular inflection from being seen in the British context . |
| 17 | It seems likely that there is something about the state we are in while asleep that prevents memories from being stored in the normal way . |
| 18 | As he did so , he found a jar of water and a flat loaf of bread still warm from being baked in the hot ashes . |
| 19 | He would not , of course , be alone in being exposed in the General Prologue and enhancing the adverse view of himself by his own Prologue — consider , for instance , the Pardoner — but he would be alone in then telling a tale which clinches the destruction of any claim to a good character he might have ; a tale without any redeeming features , which the tales of even the worst of the corrupt clerics , the Friar and the Pardoner , have . |
| 20 | It consists of a short phrase in the slow introduction to the opening movement , which in the Septet is given out in the major before being echoed in the minor , but which appears both times in the minor in the transcription . |
| 21 | ANDREW Mycock at the controls on the blending platform where the correct proportion of each ingredient is pumped into a tank which accurately measures the volume and weight of liquid before being mixed in the blending tank . |
| 22 | To be based in the northern town of Karasjok , the new assembly would be a consultative body only , and concern itself with issues of direct importance to the community , such as fishing and land rights and the preservation of cultural traditions . |
| 23 | The fifth wave , the one which it is hypothesized is starting now , seems likely to be based in the non-industrial parts of the south and east of England , especially the M4 corridor and around Cambridge . |
| 24 | This means that prices and wages may be assumed to be fixed in the short-run . |
| 25 | The founder of Edinburgh 's school for the deaf originally believed in ‘ total oralism ’ yet later used the ‘ combined system ’ — a teaching of both speech and signs , which was also to be taught in the ensuing schools for deaf around Europe . |
| 26 | Before the year was out four thousand prospectors had converged on the scene , to be joined in the following year by another hundred thousand , about five times the total white population of the state before gold was discovered there . |
| 27 | Together with the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia Vietnam was now to be joined in the Indochinese Union although the country itself was divided into three parts . |
| 28 | Some such process , with of course many variations , is frequently to be observed in the tabulated successive counts of STVs in Irish constituency elections . |
| 29 | Despite extensive research , the causes of sick building syndrome have not yet been clearly established and so are unlikely to be eradicated in the near future , according to a new report from the Health & Safety Executive . |
| 30 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |