Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 2 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 3 | It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them . |
| 4 | In retrospect , she said , the Budget could have been a great deal worse for disabled people considering what issues had been bandied about in the media recently . |
| 5 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 6 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
| 7 | The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals . |
| 8 | The plaintiffs , that is the Lebanon , Croatia and Hungary , will be anxious to see those parts of Sotheby 's evidence which had been blacked out in the documents made available to them , and then only shown to the court . |
| 9 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 10 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 11 | ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again . |
| 12 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 13 | These materials are highly complicated and important fluids which play a great part in the direction of the ways in which our bodies and minds function ; they are known as hormones , and are carried around in the bloodstream exercising effect on each other and on a variety of bodily processes . |
| 14 | When the multiplications are carried out in the order indicated , the upper Hessenberg form is maintained throughout , If , however , we begin by multiplying the central three matrices , the upper Hessenberg form is lost , with a accompanying loss of simplicity . |
| 15 | This system is streets ahead of the slap-happy way tests are carried out in the UK , where the whole system of hip dysplasia testing is open to abuse . |
| 16 | On one hand , the multinationals with their headquarters in the UK increasingly organize their worldwide production to gain the benefit of cheap labour in the Third World to carry out those parts of the manufacturing process that are labour-intensive , while the parts that are capital-intensive or rely on skilled techniques such as design are carried out in the UK . |
| 17 | For many Christian people who are caught up in the whirlpool of grief , the most difficult part may well be their realization that they are in fact feeling very distressed . |
| 18 | Plans cater for both an immediate accident and the long-term care of individuals who survive or are caught up in the disaster — including the rescuers . |
| 19 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 20 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 21 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
| 22 | There were little spots of cement all along the top , where the railings had been torn out in the war . |
| 23 | Uniplex founder , Peter Osbourn , and finance director Dave Jennings have been squeezed out in the re-shuffle , and Patrick Regester , previously head of Uniplex 's international operations division has been appointed managing director , reporting to Amos . |
| 24 | The purples are echoed in the colour wash on the wall and the oranges are picked up in the flowers . |
| 25 | Each month 's results are picked over in the business 's board meeting , with a head-office manager present in a non-executive role . |
| 26 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
| 27 | As Dillon LJ pointed out in R & B Custom Brokers : … there are some transactions which are clearly integral parts of the businesses concerned , and these should be held to have been carried out in the course of those businesses ; this would cover , apart from much else , the instance of a one-off adventure in the nature of trade , where the transaction itself would constitute a trade or business . |
| 28 | How is it possible that what will prove to be an act of technological genocide has been carried out in the name of international law ? |
| 29 | Recent surveys have been carried out in the United States by Hardesty ( 1978 ) and in the UK by Malley and Moys ( 1982 ) . |
| 30 | Much of the detailed analysis of the role of pressure groups in the policy-making process has been carried out in the United States . |