Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 Alternatively , employees who might have sued the transferor employer ( i.e. the government department ) directly on the Directive , because , say , they had been dismissed by the department in the course of a contracting out , are not time-barred , if they act before the 1993 Bill is enacted .
2 Seineldin , leader of an unsuccessful military coup against the previous government of President Raúl Alfonsín in December 1988 [ see p. 36394 ] , had been dismissed from the Army in October 1989 [ see p. 36972 ) .
3 I am fascinated by the difference in the markings on ( some ) of these aircraft .
4 Onerous responsibilities are heaped upon the man in the White House , but many obstacles are placed in his way as he attempts to meet those responsibilities .
5 While the men are invigorated by the fight in the world outside , strengthened by coming face to face with the enemy , we women sit at home and darn . ’
6 The skeleton , whose hands are placed over the groin in one of the traditional attitudes of repose , is slightly proud of the shell ; hence the gable lid , resulting in a close-fitting coffin .
7 Statutory instruments made under particular sections of statutes are listed under the section in front of the Index of Government Orders , and in the Index to the Statutes in Force .
8 Members can give no more than ten days notice of a question and the questions are listed in the order in which they are tabled .
9 To compensate a bit for the loss , Greatest Hits from that long and illustrious lineage — ‘ Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ’ and its copains — have been gathered for the nonce in a smaller space elsewhere in the museum .
10 Actually Pembo 's yellow card for that tackle has been withdrawn by the ref in question — the first time such a thing has happened .
11 Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) .
12 All night he had laboured in prayer and watching , then rising and sitting in his chair , as it were made new for the occasion , which had been placed before the chimney in his parlour , and in the midst of his chaplains , servants and officers who were praying for him , he expired as if sleeping , and without a groan yielded up his spirit most purely to his Creator . "
13 It will also be recollected that so many qualifications have been placed upon the decision in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) that the concept of foreseeability is now applied in a very broad and liberal manner and there is unlikely to be much practical difference between an inquiry whether a consequence is foreseeable or natural .
14 All the children called in have been treated by the man in the past two months .
15 The Cathedrals of Paris , Laon , Reims , Amiens , Chartres have all been likened to the Parthenon in Athens in that they , collectively and individually , present the greatest contribution to the architecture of their time — Gothic — and became prototypes for churches all over Europe .
16 Iran found that recent improvements in the price of oil had been negated by the fall in the value of the dollar .
17 Scant attention has been given to the way in which man 's attitude to death feeds back into his life and so exerts an influence upon society .
18 While Baldwin 's succession to Bonar Law in 1923 has been almost overdiscussed , practically no attention has been given to the way in which he slipped in for the third time in 1935 .
19 Detailed consideration has been given to the way in which these different types of unit should be certificated .
20 He also broke an undertaking which had been given to the court in his name .
21 Despite all this , very little attention has been given to the issue in Great Britain as compared with other countries .
22 Whilst the information revolution has resulted in a great deal of attention being paid to the technology of information processing , unfortunately less attention has been given to the environment in which this processing takes place .
23 The Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ had himself been taught at the school in the eighteen-nineties — my father had been one of his contemporaries .
24 There , a little way along , a dragon had been painted on the wall in green .
25 With the exception of Evaluation , the categories listed above are arranged in the sequence in which they would occur in a typical oral narrative .
26 Inevitably , I am elaborating after the event in intellectual terms .
27 That the Bill shall be laid upon the Table of the House by one of the Clerks in the Private Bill Office on the next meeting of the House after the day on which the Bill has been presented and , when so laid , shall be read the first and second time ( and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read ) and , having been amended by the Committee in the last Session , shall be ordered to lie upon the Table .
28 Some bony fish , such as catfish , have similar electric organs which are situated along the body in the canals which form part of their lateral line system .
29 The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax .
30 We may also have been exposed to the virus in the past through blood transfusion or donor inseminations .
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