Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 2 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 3 | It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them . |
| 4 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 5 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
| 6 | The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals . |
| 7 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 8 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 9 | ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again . |
| 10 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 11 | These materials are highly complicated and important fluids which play a great part in the direction of the ways in which our bodies and minds function ; they are known as hormones , and are carried around in the bloodstream exercising effect on each other and on a variety of bodily processes . |
| 12 | When the multiplications are carried out in the order indicated , the upper Hessenberg form is maintained throughout , If , however , we begin by multiplying the central three matrices , the upper Hessenberg form is lost , with a accompanying loss of simplicity . |
| 13 | For many Christian people who are caught up in the whirlpool of grief , the most difficult part may well be their realization that they are in fact feeling very distressed . |
| 14 | Plans cater for both an immediate accident and the long-term care of individuals who survive or are caught up in the disaster — including the rescuers . |
| 15 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 16 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
| 17 | There were little spots of cement all along the top , where the railings had been torn out in the war . |
| 18 | Uniplex founder , Peter Osbourn , and finance director Dave Jennings have been squeezed out in the re-shuffle , and Patrick Regester , previously head of Uniplex 's international operations division has been appointed managing director , reporting to Amos . |
| 19 | Each month 's results are picked over in the business 's board meeting , with a head-office manager present in a non-executive role . |
| 20 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
| 21 | As Dillon LJ pointed out in R & B Custom Brokers : … there are some transactions which are clearly integral parts of the businesses concerned , and these should be held to have been carried out in the course of those businesses ; this would cover , apart from much else , the instance of a one-off adventure in the nature of trade , where the transaction itself would constitute a trade or business . |
| 22 | How is it possible that what will prove to be an act of technological genocide has been carried out in the name of international law ? |
| 23 | Throughout the 20th century biomedical and biological research on animals has been carried out in the University of Oxford . |
| 24 | And I think it 's worth s er reading out that the Civic Society have asked er Betty in Arundel to write to us in order to express their appreciation of the work that 's been carried out in the church free car park . |
| 25 | Addressing a special session of the Cortes ( parliament ) on Feb. 1 , Alfonso Guerra , who at no time condoned his brother 's alleged activities , acknowledged that Juan had used the government office but said that this was because he was helping him as deputy secretary of the PSOE , and he denied that private activities had been carried out in the office in his presence or with his knowledge . |
| 26 | Language tests had been carried out in the breach rather than the observance . |
| 27 | The West German Finance Minister , Mr Theo Waigel , ruled out a common German currency until economic reforms had been carried out in the East . |
| 28 | Little mineral exploration has been carried out in the area which is poorly exposed except in coastal sections . |
| 29 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching . |