Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Russia seemed to be drawing in her horns on the eastern edge of her dominions . |
| 2 | Whale ( 1977 , p. 80 ) has justified unregulated commercial control of the press by arguing that ‘ a newspaper controlled by a commercial group writes inhibitedly about a handful of concerns at most ; a paper owned by the state , the effective alternative , would be guarded in its outlook on whole areas of the national life ’ . |
| 3 | Biological response modifiers such as cytokines and growth factors released in peritumoral tissues , perhaps by the neoplastic cells themselves , may well be implicated in their activation . |
| 4 | It is only justice that the laws should be altered in their favour . |
| 5 | One may think that as the ethical equality of human beings comes to be recognized in our society , the masculine nature of their religion will become an ever more pressing question for Christians . |
| 6 | Be honest about any prejudices that might be implanted in your mind . |
| 7 | In contrast , overweight people seem to get much less strong and effective stop signals from the body , and this is largely because of the other factor , the major clue , which our eating-behaviour expert would be using in his ‘ guess who 's overweight ’ game . |
| 8 | Hammam is on the board for Wimbledon ( director me thinks ) and he himself was ‘ brought to court ’ ( FA ) because he had sprayed some bad words in the away teams wardrobe before/after/during a game against Everton ( ? ) — do n't remember the details — but a high official in a club doing this should be sacked in my book : even worse i think he did get away with it — a small fee or something but nothing serious . |
| 9 | Leapor 's conflicting responses to this prospect can be traced in her poetry . |
| 10 | It has a rich and colourful history , which can still be traced in its fortifications , towers and old city gates . |
| 11 | Indeed , Bethurum Loomis argued that Wulfstan 's disillusion with Æthelred , and perhaps with Cnut too , can be traced in his work , stressing that he modified his views on royal sanctity , seems not to have wished to rely on the king 's ability to keep public order , and eventually stated that bishops should direct all affairs , both lay and ecclesiastical . |
| 12 | In this respect , we believe it is vital that comprehensive and enforceable planning conditions are legally attached to planning permission , should you be so minded to recommend that permission be given in your report to the Minister of State for Wales . |
| 13 | He came closer still , and she backed away only to be halted in her tracks by the wooden fence behind her . |
| 14 | It shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . |
| 15 | A decision shall be binding in its entirety upon those to whom it is addressed . ’ |
| 16 | When they are engaged in this ‘ bonding ’ act , that helps to cement their friendships , their necks twist towards one another and this causes vertical folds or furrows to be formed in their flesh . |
| 17 | For instance , he says potential students and immigrants should be examined in their own country at their expense by British doctors employed by the Foreign Office . |
| 18 | But he never did : the vision which can be intimated in his poetry could not be embodied upon the stage . |
| 19 | Mannheim 's comments on Scheler 's position seem to be justified in their irony : |
| 20 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 21 | When Philip is preaching in Samaria and the residents believe his ‘ message about the good news of the Kingdom of God and about Jesus Christ ’ , their immediate response is to be baptised in his name ( Acts 8:12 ) . |
| 22 | Agencies will be listed in your local Thomson Directory or the Yellow Pages . |
| 23 | Thank you for your recent letter concerning public rights of way to be listed in your programme for cutting each year . |
| 24 | Any material received of this kind will be listed in our final papers , and the most interesting will be reprinted as papers accompanying the final report . |
| 25 | Consumers may be poisoned in their beds by improperly tested medical drugs , they may be killed over their dinner tables by unhygienically prepared food , they may be blown up to God knows where by the neighbourhood chemical complex exploding , and they may become fatally diseased in their living rooms by industrial pollution . |
| 26 | There might be farming in her grandfather 's blood , but the army was there more strongly still . |
| 27 | £1 , 50p , 20p , 10p , 5p coins should be stacked in their respective denominations ; 2p , 1p or ½p coins should also be stacked into piles for easy checking and counting , then bundled into the appropriate cash bags supplied by the bank . |
| 28 | Various complications arise , notably the fact that eurobond activities are typically only one business entered into by a conglomerate , the results of which may be hidden in its balance sheet ( though , given the importance of joint demand for fixed income business in general , total profits on the balance sheet may reflect the underlying profitability of eurobonds ) . |
| 29 | In some cases , however , the elusive book which you need may in fact be hidden in your own library . |
| 30 | Bebe 's kids are the nightmare invention of the late comedian Robin Harris , who 're about to be immortalised in their own network cartoon series . |