Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The phosphate reserves on Nauru , the island 's only natural resource and source of income , are expected to run out in five or ten years .
2 The inevitable forces of change are beginning to sweep through in American junior tennis .
3 ‘ But supplies are beginning to get through in better order than before .
4 She coughed loudly and said loudly , ‘ And I 'm gettin' frozen up in all these draughts . ’
5 That 's what we 'll be attempting to find out in twenty minutes ' time .
6 I 'm going to get out in three .
7 I 'm going to wrap up in one of the linens .
8 Remaining NHS hospitals will be urged to opt out in 1994 .
9 ‘ It 's hardly fair I should be required to go on in this way .
10 The highly promising Keith Andrew from Lancashire would be qualified to take over in 1954 , and it was not a surprise when Northants decided to terminate Fiddling 's engagement before the season was out .
11 Until now , summarised results data on the National Certificate was not available until well after the end of session to which it related — because of the backlog of outstanding results which had been allowed to build up in some centres .
12 Often , as the night drew on , a number of people were seen to lie down in odd places , both in Partisan Street and on the Embankment .
13 On 16th December 1991 , the building societies and bank bosses were called in by the Government for an emergency briefing and were told to come back in two days with solutions .
14 We are being trained to stand back in humble awe from the work of nature , and not to interpose our alien human values .
15 It would be premature , and indeed impertinent , if we were to attempt to lay down in any detail the lines of a perfect " School " of English .
16 ‘ I do n't understand why they pose for the tourists , ’ she said , marvelling at how the huge hoods were wired to flare out in soft folds around each tightly wrapped skull .
17 We can understand this more clearly if we imagine that the tables have been turned , and that we are trying to get by in basic dolphin-language .
18 The business of claiming from a company is becoming wrapped up in more and more paperwork and bureaucracy .
19 So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time .
20 ‘ It 's going to run out in fifteen minutes . ’
21 A new head teacher has made much difference in the last two years and the school is beginning to pick up in many ways .
22 Now the sport the Americans call their summer game … baseball is beginning to take off in this country … the city of Gloucester has just launched its own team … the Meteors …
23 It is also a procedure that is beginning to catch on in other areas of a solicitor 's work .
24 There 's no one standing there so it 's getting caught up in that traffic jam at the bridge I would have thought they 're all queuing to get on the bridge in the morning .
25 He has a great many euphorbias : E. characias with its giant yellow bottle-brush heads and brown bracts is allowed to lounge about in large clumps in corners ; E. palustris , a smaller yellow one , came originally from the Chelsea Physic Garden .
26 He confesses this is why he 's started leaping out in uncharacteristic new directions which discomfit the regulars , playing with bright colours and polka dots when the world expects sludge and subtle stripes ad nauseam .
27 ‘ Insulting , then , ’ she agreed quietly , determined not to lose her temper , although if he was going to carry on in that vein the chances of her keeping it for very long were absolutely nil .
28 Does he not also accept that much of his programme was going to come about in any event , that he has deliberately delayed the urban programme announcement , that six of our valleys are still not designated areas under the Act and that a proper revitalisation of the valleys would require massive and genuinely new investment spread over at least eight years , not advertising hype spread over three ?
29 Auxiliary nurse , Eddie Gilfoyle , who is accused of murdering his wife , Paula , 32 , also said he was allowed to help out in surgical operations at the hospital where he worked .
30 As for Mike Lawrence , it may have been his last test flight , but he was determined to go out in flamboyant style
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