Example sentences of "[vb pp] in an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asking for reporting restrictions to be lifted in an effort to trace witnesses , his solicitor Ged Hale said : ‘ He is a Pied Piper sort of figure who attracts lots of children . |
| 2 | The single-storey building is designed in an oval with a church in the centre , rather like a traditional African village where the chief 's house would be in the middle . |
| 3 | Tamed instincts may protect the individual from vulnerability to external aggression or from emotional abandonment by one to whom he or she is fully committed in an act of love ; but in the process they also render life experiences flat and stand in the way of necessary instinctual release . |
| 4 | As it turns out , however , both fared better than expected in an election which produced something positive for almost everyone . |
| 5 | Normal features expected in an OS are present including task scheduling , interrupt handling and resource management . |
| 6 | In some cases the management services are provided by a recognised housing association ; in other cases this is not so and the purchaser may be misled by the amount of help that could be expected in an emergency . |
| 7 | Early in the fifteenth century , the problem of what constituted a nation arose as a practical issue at the Council of Constance , and , as might be expected in an assembly which contained many distinguished academics , the issue was debated in theoretical terms , although the original cause of the debate was essentially political . |
| 8 | ‘ As might be expected in an investigation involving international terrorism , the murder of 270 innocent people and a possible government cover-up , ’ he told the court , ‘ most of the individuals we contacted or who contacted us , demanded complete anonymity . |
| 9 | It would be expected in an undertaking of this weight , that it would be endorsed by boards of directors and governors . |
| 10 | Their initial closure decision was made on three grounds , according to the minutes : the expected financial savings of about £3,000 ; consideration of the good condition and underused capacity of the school building at Green Haven , as opposed to the poor condition of the older building at Village ( whose toilet facilities were located in an out-building at the school ) ; and the Director 's feeling that the ‘ educational situation ’ would be better at Green Haven . |
| 11 | Whilst individuals in the company privately admit to knowing little about ‘ race and racism ’ , a major research contract which did not go out to open tender is safely located in an institution which can only with a degree of implausibility don the cloak of academic neutrality . |
| 12 | An important element that emerges is that discussions and explanations of physical abuse and neglect may be seen most productively as a problem relating to parenting , which in turn needs to be located in an understanding of social class and the gendered divisions of child care , while sexual abuse , to a much greater extent , needs to be understood in relation to male power and masculine socialization . |
| 13 | the accommodation was located in an area where younger households lived . |
| 14 | If your business is located in an area where coal or steel works have been closed , you could be eligible for the substantial benefits of a European Coal and Steel Community Job Creation Loan . |
| 15 | To help facilitate the distribution of mail and delivery of messages an alphabetical guest list is maintained , usually on a revolving stand located in an area easily accessible to all staff of the reception area . |
| 16 | Esler Dening commented that he had always suspected that the Americans had not appreciated the full significance of what they had taken on in Korea ; it appeared that they were unwilling to accept the consequences of being located in an area of Soviet predominance and it would be regrettable in its implications elsewhere if the United States retreated . |
| 17 | Such firms were likely to have particular characteristics : they were probably relatively labour-intensive , so labour was an important part of their costs ; or they might be located in an area where labour costs were rising particularly fast , or where labour availability was a problem . |
| 18 | Each of the organisations with which we had contact was a major or even the dominant local employer , and each was located in an area of high unemployment . |
| 19 | Such an observation is important because it can be assumed , as has already been discussed , that there are only certain sites which can be occupied in an area and therefore the settlement pattern should be predictable . |
| 20 | For instance , the West , Roy and Nichols study looked at the cases of men who had already been incarcerated in an institution for mentally ill offenders — they were not a random sample of even those few rapists who are convicted . |
| 21 | An immigrant from the Dominican Republic , Lucrecia Pérez Martos , was shot dead in Madrid on Nov. 13 and one man was wounded in an attack by hooded gunmen which was attributed to the extreme right . |
| 22 | One Palestinian guerrilla and one Swedish member of the nine-nation UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) were killed , and five UN soldiers were wounded in an incident involving the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) on Sept. 13 . |
| 23 | Leading loyalist , Gerry Drumgoole — wounded in an INLA murder bid in the Shankill area yesterday afternoon — was today said to be ‘ stable ’ in hospital . |
| 24 | THE WIFE of a man wounded in an INLA murder bid in Belfast six days ago says he is ‘ absolutely devastated ’ to be targeted by terrorists for a second time . |
| 25 | Soon after taking office Reagan won much popular sympathy when he was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt . |
| 26 | This was a typically fashionable thing to do at this the height of the ‘ Picturesque Movement ’ , when romantic thoughts could be conjured in an instant by the sight of a castle , but the reality was of course a different matter . |
| 27 | The winner was Fisons plc , the compost company , which had claimed in an advertisement that " buying British peat-based compost in no way endangers our remaining wetlands of conservation value " . |
| 28 | Sheikh Na'im Qasim , a Hezbollah deputy secretary-general , claimed in an interview on Aug. 26 that Hezbollah was holding two Israeli prisoners of war . |
| 29 | Charles Taylor , the NPFL leader , had claimed in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation on Sept. 3 that the force , then about to invade , was United States-supplied . |
| 30 | Lettuce trapped in an algae scraper will feed vegetarian fish . |