Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the way that the two animals stand in relation to one another while grooming is going on , it is these vertical lines that are placed slap in front of their ‘ nearside ’ eyes . |
| 2 | The logic of early education is that if mentally handicapped children are given stimulation in their formative years , almost from the moment of birth , difficult behavioural problems can be avoided , and considerable academic advancements can be made . |
| 3 | In fact the wording of the Act makes it clear that it is only as mothers that women are given priority in the public sector . |
| 4 | The children are given practice in tensing and relaxing major muscle groups of their body , starting with the stomach muscles . |
| 5 | WWF-Malaysia is opposed to the tropical timber boycott advocated by most environmental groups , and it has echoed the Malaysian government 's complaints that European environmental groups are using misinformation in their campaigns [ see EDs 57 , 58 ] . |
| 6 | Amongst other things , the food you eat , the clothes you wear and the way you are using heat in your home are very important . |
| 7 | For example , the well-established tradition of ‘ community studies ’ , which involves a researcher or a team of researchers using a wide variety of methods to study a whole community , has been producing work in both Britain and the USA almost continuously since the 1920s . |
| 8 | Its objectives are to promote education in skiing at schools or recognised youth organisations as part of the general framework or programme of educational physical activities . |
| 9 | Of a bewildered dervish , are taught distrust in prayer . |
| 10 | To allow pupils to progress at a pace suited to their own particular aptitudes , they are taught French in sets based on their ability in the subject . |
| 11 | The lighting and keeping of the hearth fire have always been given significance in human culture ; the Greeks named their goddess of the hearth Hestia , later to be replaced by the Roman Vesta , whose handmaidens were the famous Vestal Virgins . |
| 12 | It has been an open secret for several months that Hill Samuel was willing to entertain reasonable offers and several possible buyers have apparently shown an interest , but Brewin Dolphin is understood to have been given exclusivity in the negotiations earlier this month . |
| 13 | Several Bosnian families have already been given shelter in this country until the fighting at home is over . |
| 14 | These general principles have been given expression in the further development of a vocational policy required by Article 128 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 15 | In order , moreover , to minimize departmental opposition — which had been instrumental in neutralizing the impact of PAR and the CPRS — departments have been given discretion in determining the pace and nature of managerial change . |
| 16 | This has aroused hopes that the Chinese dissident physicist , Mr Fang Lizhi , who has been given sanctuary in the US Embassy in Beijing , might be released under a Chinese guarantee that he will not be arrested . |
| 17 | The physicians and the nurses had been given instruction in the principles of psychiatric evaluation and there were regular meetings with a psychiatrist and psychiatric social worker during the trial . |
| 18 | In the first trial of members of the extreme left Red Army Faction who had been given refuge in the former East Germany [ see p. 37828 ] , Susanne Albrecht was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment by a Stuttgart court on June 3 . |
| 19 | Demand management had been given priority in preference to profitable or productive work . |
| 20 | Like the polished wood that covered surfaces that would have been painted metal in any other car … |
| 21 | The folios and quartos laboured on so industriously by forgotten clerics and divines , the erudite editions of minor classical writers , have long been gathering dust in countless book shops . |
| 22 | Hominids have been using fire in Africa for some 1–1.5 million years , but whether the early firing was the work of species of Australopithecus or Homo is not clear . |
| 23 | Over 100 000 receiver systems , worth nearly £400 , are gathering dust in stockrooms . |
| 24 | Meanwhile goods collected by the Worcester Kurdish Refugee Association are gathering dust in a warehouse . |
| 25 | Thus he must have been singing falsetto in this role . |
| 26 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet on the question of whether to allow members of the armed forces and police to belong to a political party . |
| 27 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet about the method of electing a President , and for over a week members of the opposition Democratic Party of Tadjikistan had been on hunger strike in support of popular elections . |
| 28 | It 's 1984 , and falling prices are wreaking havoc in the oil business . |
| 29 | Mr Stone seems fond of the bizarre dynastic arrangements he studies , tending to deplore the rise of the Arab families who are transforming politics in Honduras ( and , for that matter , in Ecuador and Argentina and Brazil ) . |
| 30 | ‘ You are becoming soft-headed in your old age , Bragg . |