Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A production assistant hot-footed it round to Camera 3 's position and came through with : ‘ Jeez , boss , three 's crook — he 's fell over in the heat . ’
2 Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East .
3 This bloke is propped up in the corner of the cab , and blood all over the place .
4 But an enormous backlog of untaxed cases of wine is building up in the producers ' warehouses .
5 The undeniable fact is that chlorine is building up in the atmosphere much faster than it can be coped with .
6 There is always a danger of war when you have a face to face confrontation that is building up in the Gulf at the moment .
7 Kylie 's tucked up in the back seat , her mum 's alongside , and she 's ready to complete the last day 's shooting on the £10 million film The Delinquents .
8 And do you know what , one of them is wading around in the middle of the loch , up to his waist in the water . ’
9 The second CD is given over in the main to what I think of as Mark Goodier bands ( not a breath of criticism implicit in that , by the way ) .
10 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 .
11 I believe tobacco-smoke is the most effectual , but to one not a smoker it would require to be a case of hiring another to the office of smoking away the midges — a work many would gladly undertake , for tobacco is looked on in the Highlands as a very great good , almost as essential as the whiskey .
12 Or else , because one is lifted up in the air , to be unsettled and therefore restless , anxious , tense and doubtful .
13 The agency is thrashing about in the grip of an angry Congress that is bent on uncovering mismanagement and conflicts-of-interest at the agency .
14 ( 2 ) At least one of the merging enterprises is carried on in the United Kingdom or by or under the control of a company incorporated in the United Kingdom .
15 The teaching is carried on in the form of folklore and tribal legends .
16 In consumer electronics , toys , apparel , automobile parts and sports goods , a major part of global production is carried out in the assembly plants of TNCs .
17 A thorough empirical evaluation of the research 's hypothesis is carried out in the context of total consumer expenditure and its various components .
18 The tree is caught up in the constellations .
19 Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains .
20 We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area .
21 In the seemingly endless , and to male ears repetitive , chatter that goes on among women … a massive and encyclopaedic confidence is built up in the gossipers … gossip serves exactly the same grooming functions for the women as poker for the men …
22 While your child is splashing about in the sunshine , be very careful to protect her skin from the sun 's rays , which can still burn her even in the water .
23 THE drive to save energy is picking up in the United States — and helping to boost demand for a Courtaulds product .
24 After he 's been ridden , he is turned out in the field , because he wo n't eat unless he 's turned out and I do try desperately hard to get four feeds a day into him .
25 Now … " he rooted through the papers on the floor , " now , here 's your marriage certificate , it 's made out in the name of Paddy Montgomery … "
26 Otherwise ACT is written off in the profit and loss account .
27 No it 's not the soap in that box is lying down in the coal hole .
28 Compositional autonomy is closed off in the sphere of avant-garde negation , while commodity musical production takes on an increasingly standardized character , coupling formula and fetishized effect in both ‘ serious ’ and ‘ popular ’ markets .
29 DOOR-to-door brooms and buckets seller Betterware is cleaning up in the recession .
30 RONALD Fraser 's In Search of a Past was published in 1984 , and Ralph Glasser 's Growing up in the Gorbals in 1986 .
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