Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , employment prospects have been excellent and geographers have been placed successfully in a wide range of employment in research , industry , commerce , government , and the professions , either entering directly or by using their first degrees as a foundation for further qualifications . |
| 2 | The greatest human impact has been in Uruguay , where 600–2000 franciscanas have been drowning annually in a gill-net fishery for sharks in recent years . |
| 3 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 4 | It is greatly helped by a pragmatic government who , as it showed over the Rainbow Warrior affair , is quite prepared openly to back its security services even when they have been caught red-handed in a straightforward act of overt terrorism . |
| 5 | THOUSANDS of couples who hate each other are trapped together in a living hell because of the slump . |
| 6 | Sensitivity at the outset far outweighs a full routine of complicated strokes if they are carried out in a mechanical and impersonal manner . |
| 7 | Current powers do not allow for searches that are based on a policeman 's hunch that someone may be carrying an illicit article , or for blanket searches that are carried out in a particular area or among particular groups . |
| 8 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 9 | The two are caught up in a desperate race to save their women — knowing that the rescue of one means the destruction of the other . |
| 10 | Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female , where the divine can be feminine , yet women are profoundly mistrusted . |
| 11 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 12 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 13 | The situation at the moment in the field of research in homoeopathy is that much encouraging and interesting work demonstrating effects of homoeopathic potencies has been carried out in a wide variety of laboratory and clinical models . |
| 14 | The Minister also said that the medical examination had been carried out in a sympathetic and professional manner . |
| 15 | Sometimes the act has been carried out in a hostile fashion that causes maximum distress to the staff . |
| 16 | Apparently this question had never been addressed before in a systematic way . |
| 17 | Last month the European Socialist group , the largest in the European Parliament , threatened to sack the entire commission because the charter had been watered down in a vain attempt to secure Mrs Thatcher 's backing for it at the Strasbourg summit . |
| 18 | Now , thanks to a unique cooperation between the author , a publican and the RNLI , the lives and time of those early lifeboat crews are commemorated pictorially in a permanent display within a pub , a pub now renamed ‘ A Town 's Pride ’ after that book , which will support the work of the lifeboat service with raffles and other fundraising activities . |
| 19 | The way in which these circuits are built up in a structured way out of interacting modules and submodules corresponds well to the use of nested parallel constructs in occam . |
| 20 | There is also some evidence that couples are living together in a stable relationship without being married , having a child , and then getting married later . |
| 21 | Many of the players , as we have seen , had been wandering already in a nether world of two-dimensional heroes , villains , adventurers and fall-guys . |
| 22 | But remember that they 're tucked up in a nice warm greenhouse and it can be pretty chilly outside . |
| 23 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 24 | The stark facts are spelt out in a recent copy of the Independent . |
| 25 | The one person whom Kate had always seen as constant and good had been shown up in a dark light . |
| 26 | She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . |
| 27 | By this teachers are bound together in a whole school , managed by a head and others who can create moments to hear and see all aspects of the school . |
| 28 | ‘ It really was n't so very difficult , though your precious Shannon seems to believe her sordid little secrets are locked away in a safe somewhere . ’ |
| 29 | The horse , who had steadily been moving along in a quiet way , gave a strange little leap and she realised she had inadvertently dug her heels into his side . |
| 30 | GOVERNMENT claims to have wide support for its education revolution are challenged today in a Daily Post survey . |