Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | ‘ They have suffered so many times in recent years and some think disappointment is staring them in the face again . |
| 3 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 4 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 5 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 6 | Previous verbosely titled flops had been Oh Dad , Poor Dad , Mamma 's Hung You in the Closet and I 'm Feelin' So Sad ( which also had Barbara Harris in it ) and Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness ? |
| 7 | ‘ Magnus is among the top assets in the XEU portfolio and my job is to keep it in the premier league , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 9 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
| 10 | Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them . |
| 11 | At which , after an ovation , half the audience did depart to hear Michael Heseltine , whose idea of a fringe meeting is to hold it in the Grand Theatre , which is very grand , built 1906 , seats 1,200 , and where Alvin Stardust will head the bill in this year 's pantomime . |
| 12 | ‘ The truth is staring you in the face , but you 're too blind to see it . |
| 13 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 14 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 15 | Araminta was appraising her in a considering way . |
| 16 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 17 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 18 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 19 | We wait until trouble comes , until trouble is staring us in the face , before we really feel the need of God , and pray . |
| 20 | The most common method of disposal is in landfill sites , the second most popular method is dumping it in the ocean , and the rest is incinerated , often in ships at sea . |
| 21 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 22 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 23 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 24 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 25 | It is a well known fact that sheep in their ruthless determination for world domination are disguising themselves in an effort to infiltrate positions of power . |
| 26 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 27 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 28 | The answer was staring me in the face . |
| 29 | One useful trick is to put yourself in the position of their bank manager and ask what conditions you would impose before lending them any more money . |
| 30 | Your mum 's , your mum 's getting one in a minute |