Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these can be expressed as a distance-decay function and indeed costs of migration may largely be a matter of distance as in the case of outmigration from island economies such as are found in the Caribbean or Oceania ; others are political and virtually insurmountable , such as national frontiers . |
| 2 | Yet after being annihilated in the first Test , England showed they could still fight . |
| 3 | Nijaz and Sead Hukanovic had feared they might never see each other again after being parted in the savage purge of Bosnians callously dubbed ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ by the Serbs . |
| 4 | AZUMAH NELSON of Ghana retained his WBC super-feather title in Lake Tahoe but Calvin Grove went the distance after being floored in the first round . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , two men were recovering in hospital in Belfast after being shot in the loyalist Shankill Road area during the night . |
| 6 | Striker Ferdinand , one of the midweek heroes in the win at Coventry , was taken to hospital after being replaced in the second half . |
| 7 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 8 | The highly-rated defender , who has brought League scouts flocking to the Huish , looks certain to miss the game after being booked in the second round replay triumph at Hereford . |
| 9 | On a day when several players missed training with niggling end of season injuries , Taylor 's only other major concern is Gascoigne , who underwent an operation to repair his cracked cheekbone three weeks ago after being hurt in the 2–2 draw against Holland . |
| 10 | Pears was whisked off still wearing his goalkeeper 's jersey and limping heavily after being hurt in the final minutes . |
| 11 | It was also revealed that a baby died after being delivered in the birthing pool at the Churchill John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford , although the hospital has ruled out any connection between the death and the method of birth . |
| 12 | No station was allowed to take a prize in the same class for more than two successive years , but if a station which had done so was deemed worthy of being placed in the same class in a third year , it received a special first-class certificate but no money . |
| 13 | However , there is no point investing for the long term at the risk of being caned in the short term . |
| 14 | Economic information is not normally capable of being tested in the same way , but is still fairly reliable as the economy is so closely associated with material evidence . |
| 15 | Donald McIntyre , then resident in Kilmeny , was apprehended by the police without a warrant on suspicion of being connected in the mysterious disappearance of a man . |
| 16 | ‘ What foolish rabbit-warrens our well-to-do houses are obliged to be , ’ William Morris complained in 1884 ; ‘ instead of being planned in the rational ancient way … a big hall , to wit , with a few chambers tacked on to it for sleeping or sulking in . ’ |
| 17 | Under the current housing rules , she has no chance of being rehoused in the near future in a low-rise block in one of the decent areas of Birkenhead , or of gaining a house with a garden . |
| 18 | The tables show that an animal was at greatest risk of being stolen in the Low Country , but until around 1895 a person was more likely to steal an animal in the Intermediate area . |
| 19 | A dramatic experience of a submarine under attack in the North Atlantic and the terrible effects of being torpedoed in the freezing ocean — adrift on a raft ! |
| 20 | In fact , the chances of getting national publicity are quite low , though the likelihood of being mentioned in the local newspapers is higher . |
| 21 | But ‘ container grown ’ means planted , established , growing away and capable of being planted in the open ground without root disturbance and without check . |
| 22 | At about the same time , control theory emerged , utilising similar basic assumptions to those of classical criminology , despite being located in the positivist tradition . |
| 23 | The tradition of St Melangell was never forgotten and the little room at the east end , despite being rebuilt in the 18th century , has always been known as Cell-y-bedd ( the room of the grave ) . |
| 24 | Activists also like being thrown in the deep end they quite like the challenge of being thrown in and sink or swim and learn from the experience , rather than actually talking about too much and then a little bit of action later . |
| 25 | The great British films all tap into a problem , the gap between what is felt and what can be expressed , that is universal but gains a particular inflection from being seen in the British context . |
| 26 | Epilepsy may be understood today but it is a long way from being accepted in the same way as diabetes , let alone short sight . |
| 27 | CAME 'S BEAUTY stems from being built in the palest of pale Portland stone , arguably the finest building stone in Britain , quarried over the down a few miles towards the sea . |
| 28 | It seems likely that there is something about the state we are in while asleep that prevents memories from being stored in the normal way . |
| 29 | A shield of arms ( to cite one simple example ) comprising a black cross nth scalloped edges on a yellow ( gold ) background progressed from being described in the thirteenth century as jaune o crois noire engrelee to today 's blazon or a cross engrailed sable . |
| 30 | As he did so , he found a jar of water and a flat loaf of bread still warm from being baked in the hot ashes . |