Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I point it out because it is hidden away in a lot of business about freedom of information and other issues about which he is so keen . |
| 2 | MARTINA Navratilova is courted tonight in A Celebration of 100 Women at Wimbledon . |
| 3 | By the end this quartet depart the stage in a halting dance of death and Trevitt is rolled up in a carpet , leaving Bristow alone without partner or diary . |
| 4 | There he 's caught up in a gas attack , and when he returns to Swindon he suffers recurring asthma . |
| 5 | Although composition through improvisation is the major thrust of this department 's practice , this is carried through in a manner that allows children to become skilled in the basic techniques of certain musical instruments . |
| 6 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
| 7 | When the reaction is carried out in a dish , complex moving patterns of coloured bands spontaneously arise , including concentric rings and spirals . |
| 8 | It is like in a story such as the ballet Giselle when Alberic goes to her tomb and is caught up in a vision of her . |
| 9 | She 's grown up in an atmosphere of decadence and disgustingness where her mother 's with her uncle and her uncle 's this lech , and people are being beheaded and crucified and tortured and murdered all around her . ’ |
| 10 | Bruno is turned out in a set of white-sequined boxing trunks with blue stripes and a matching set of Masters of the Universe shoulder pads , his incredibly muscled midriff exposed between . |
| 11 | Compare Auntie 's " Him and his women " ( a fine , natural contour ) with her That is the sort of weak politeness ' just afterwards , where the thought is dwelt on in a manner quite foreign to real life ; or the inane canonic whining of the Nieces ( not perhaps Britten 's most successful creations ) with Balstrode 's " D' you think we should stop our storm for such as you ? " |
| 12 | As so often , ‘ decadent ’ is used here in a way evasive of what it gestures towards . |
| 13 | Boundary setting is used frequently in a variety of situations : the age at which " primary " becomes " secondary " education ; the minimum height for entry into the police force ; the marks to be obtained for a particular grade level in an examination and so on . |
| 14 | Knowledge about the particular problems exercising his colleagues has a practical importance if , as sometimes happens , an officer is called out in an emergency to a pollution in another man 's patch . |
| 15 | However , he can not be doing his job properly in his supervisory and regulatory role if , at the same time , he is bogged down in a morass of consumer complaints . |
| 16 | The complexities of the arrangements made for pilgrimages is borne out in a number of ways . |
| 17 | Snow White 's stepmother plots infanticide , Cinderella becomes a slave to her sisters , Rapunzel is locked away in a tower and denied her adolescence . |
| 18 | Thus redness , rather than merely looking red , is basic but its being there is bound up in a way which is manifest from the start with how it looks to us . |
| 19 | The tendency for L to find its own maximum value leads to interesting developments if the initial density distribution is set up in a way that makes it initially larger than this maximum . |
| 20 | First , the number is set up in a shift register and when the system is ready , it is clocked repeatedly . |
| 21 | An idea-handling system which is set up in an organization where the climate is bad tends to make that climate still worse . |
| 22 | The new approach is set out in a Statement of Practice , SP 6/92 , Accident Insurance Policies , and is more consistent with the aims of the legislation . |
| 23 | This logic is set out in a manner that illustrates in an exemplary way the structuralist intention to map out all the possibilities of literature as distinct from its actual manifestations . |
| 24 | This is set out in an affidavit sworn by Mr. Roger Anthony Barnes , who is an assistant director of the Bank of England and the head of the Banking Supervision Division , in which capacity he is the senior official in the division responsible for the supervision of institutions authorised under the Act ; it was he who authorised and signed the section 39 notice , after discussion with the officers of the Bank of England immediately responsible for conducting the supervision of the defendants . |
| 25 | This reluctance is summed up in a phenomenon which is referred to as ‘ the wall ’ viz the limitation of regular ATM usage to 33% or so of account holders . |
| 26 | The kill is pulled apart in a way most people would find unedifying , despite assurances . |
| 27 | The kill is pulled apart in a way most people would find unedifying , despite assurances . |
| 28 | A list of prescribed modern languages is laid down in an Order : Danish , Dutch , French , German , Greek ( Modern ) , Italian , Portuguese and Spanish . |
| 29 | The body is laid out in a coffin resting on a bed of bran or sawdust . |
| 30 | I saw Charlie — he 's holed up in a cess-pit hoping that the stench will cover his scent . |