Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His experience will be highlighted tonight in a probe into cash machines by ITV 's This Week programme . |
| 2 | It can be amended even in a way not covered under the Bill 's title if the amendment is connected with the Bill 's purpose . |
| 3 | The structure of the economy and society can be broken down in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes . |
| 4 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 5 | Maxol 's Homewarm 600 heat generator , with a maximum output of 6kW , can be hidden away in a kitchen cupboard . |
| 6 | The economic growth figures have already been marginally trimmed in the last month and may be revised further in a review that will be carried out just before before the publication of the World Economic Outlook on April 23 . |
| 7 | This can also be treated biologically in a greenhouse by deliberately introducing a predator mite , Phytoseiulus persimilis , which feeds on red spider mite . |
| 8 | The distinction between natural science and the sciences concerned with human action must be developed further in a way which Freud himself failed to do . |
| 9 | Several genera ( plural of genus ) may be grouped together in a family , several families together in a superfamily , and the superfamilies themselves are clustered into classes , two or more of which combine to make the phylum . |
| 10 | ‘ The probate thing will be sorted out in a month or so , ’ said Helen in strangled tones . |
| 11 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 12 | Every step is a chance to meet people , to give them the idea , the experience that can change their living and thinking ; to be caught up in an effort to bring a fundamental change to Rhodesia — and that means , of course , matching one 's own life to it . |
| 13 | It would be dreadful to be caught out in a lie ; dreadful at any time , but worse now , when he was being so friendly . |
| 14 | Matilda happened to be curled up in an arm-chair in the corner , totally absorbed in a book . |
| 15 | A computer-based personnel system allows factors such as qualification , job location , home location , mobility and promotability to be included simply in a list of criteria on which the retrieval of records should be made . |
| 16 | Nothing if not bold , Welles opens with a funeral procession in which the bodies of Othello and Desdemona are borne away by a line of figures dramatically silhouetted against a pale sky , while Iago is led away in chains to be hoist aloft in a metal cage . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most suitable types are those which can be carried easily in a pocket , and are entirely disposable . |
| 18 | New technology has produced phones so light that they can be carried unobtrusively in a shirt pocket . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that reform of the common agricultural policy must be carried out in a way which ensures that there is no discrimination against farmers in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | All these operations should be carried out in a fume cupboard as the vapours are harmful , and surgical gloves should be used to protect the hands from the dye . |
| 21 | All operations involving HF should be carried out in a fume cupboard , and the operator protected with gloves and goggles . |
| 22 | A spokeswoman said an investigation would be carried out in a bid to establish what had happened . |
| 23 | This process of identification and analysis may be carried out in a number of ways , for instance : * by Using intuition based upon an interpretation of existing knowledge of the market ; * by Using any of the wide array of market research techniques , based on internal sources of information about the market , and field research . |
| 24 | The process can be carried out in a micro-wave oven . |
| 25 | A questionnaire survey of the beneficiaries who can be traced will be carried out in an attempt to answer some of these questions . |
| 26 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 27 | Article 16 allows extension to arbitrations and ‘ other matters within the jurisdiction of special courts ’ ; it is not at all clear how this latter phrase is to be picked up in a declaration , as different states ( of origin and of destination ) may establish specialist courts for a variety of purposes , including adjudication on matters plainly civil or commercial in nature . |
| 28 | With a little practice , the creeping grey speck of jelly which is an amoeba can be picked out in a drop of pond water . |
| 29 | The first three instruments here are obviously not intended for the serious player but for the beginner , or to be strummed once in a while as a second or third instrument . |
| 30 | Make-up had run and faded , shoulder straps were drooping , the music was slow and sleepy , so that the dancers seemed to be twined together in a kind of trance . |