Example sentences of "[vb pp] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maarouf Saad , the leftist mayor of Sidon , was fatally wounded in a fishermen 's demonstration and in further fighting the Lebanese national army — largely commanded , of course , by Christians — came into conflict with Muslim gunmen and the more radical of the PLO 's Palestinian guerrilla groups . |
| 2 | The insertion sites from P.wickerhamii , ascomycetous fungi and Marchantia coxI introns are summarized in a coxI protein alignment ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 3 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
| 4 | The relevant fact is that , if two solutions are mixed in a petri dish or other container , and allowed to stand , the mixture is at first a uniform brown , but this homogeneous state is not stable . |
| 5 | This should be included in a salaries and wages budget of 20% of turnover . |
| 6 | His work in the Sahara was recently included in a Sports Council exhibition that nearly never happened due to a last-minute decision by sponsors Kodak to pull out half of their backing money , which was needed for other photographic projects . |
| 7 | He had been caught in a women 's magazine praising Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | She tells me that Jamie has been caught in a drugs bust at the Cross Keys pub . |
| 9 | But shortly afterwards he saw his injured girlfriend slumped in a police car nearby . |
| 10 | Polly thrust it back into her bag , embarrassed at being caught doing things more properly done in a ladies ' cloakroom , and furious at her own embarrassment . |
| 11 | One front-page exclusive in the Daily Mirror reported that child porn photos involving two top television stars were uncovered in a police raid on a photographic studio . |
| 12 | A MAN injured in a police shoot-out was last night in hospital with chest wounds while police pieced together the tangled events of a night of violence that also left one man dead and three policemen injured . |
| 13 | In this context , if there exist differences in the unit cost and therefore the competitiveness of nations which are not connected in a customs or monetary union , then attempts to eliminate such differences ( reflected in associated balance of payments positions ) can potentially be made via trade restrictions or movements in relative exchange rates , although the effectiveness of the latter policy is by no means certain . |
| 14 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 15 | In all cases cuttings must be prepared with a razor blade or very sharp knife , and are rooted in a cuttings compost or a home-made mixture of equal parts peat and sharp sand . |
| 16 | The four Synodontis could have been accommodated in a 36″ tank , accompanied by a few Congo Tetras rather than the Tinfoils . |
| 17 | It is housed in a 48″ aquarium along with some Keyhole Cichlids ( Aquidens marooni ) , some Rineloricaria lanceloata and an assortment of Corydoras . |
| 18 | It is housed in a 36″ bare aquarium with Discus and Corydoras caudimaculatus and concolor . |
| 19 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
| 20 | He is housed in a 42″ aquarium along with some Leporinus fasciatus and Corydoras reticulatus , latus and sodalis , it pays no attention to any of its tank mates . |
| 21 | The newly born boy was wrapped in a ladies jump suit . |
| 22 | Set out below is the form of a lock-out clause which could be used in a heads of agreement . |
| 23 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 24 | The company is based in a mews off the Cromwell Road in London , impeccably furnished with black leather , dark wood and framed posters from Puttnam 's films . |
| 25 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |
| 26 | Unless the workers employed in a producers ' co-operative are the final custodians of its affairs , the bonus — or better , the bounty — remains a payment made as an act of grace ; and the co-operative is not properly so-called . |
| 27 | At twelve or one , they would be sleeping idyllically , locked in a lovers ' embrace . |
| 28 | He was in top form , witty and debonair , and the party continued until the next day when Modigliani , still in a happy mood , became so rowdy that he had to be thrown out and locked in a police cell all night . |
| 29 | Six candidates are embroiled in a Commons clash over who will succeed Bernard Wetherill . |
| 30 | The fact that Margaret had been illegitimate , a war baby conceived between an Italian prisoner of war and an English landgirl , had no bearing on her name , although probably quite a lot to do with Margaret 's lack of maternalism , since she 'd been reared in a children 's home . |