Example sentences of "[is] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE of County Durham 's longest-serving police officers is to retire in a few days . |
| 2 | The money is to go in a penalty box kept by Grandmother ; the proceeds will go to a charity . |
| 3 | The baby is recovering in a Worksop hospital , which has been flooded with gifts for him . |
| 4 | It is calculated in a similar way to ordinary pinch pleats in that the total measurement of unpleated fabric , i.e. , scallops and spaces , must equal the pole length . |
| 5 | The yield to put is calculated in a similar manner as the yield to call . |
| 6 | The portfolio beta is calculated in a similar fashion : . |
| 7 | The systematic or market or non-diversifiable risk of the portfolio is calculated in a similar way to that of an individual security ( see Eq.5.16 ) ) : variance due to the market ( 5.21 ) The unsystematic or non-market or diversifiable risk is calculated as follows : non-market variance . |
| 8 | Remote from motorways and dual carriageways and the usual routes of tourists , the valley is hidden in a deep fold of the hills and has remained a sanctuary of rural peace unspoilt and unscathed by modern developments . |
| 9 | Occasionally , the real eye is hidden in a mass of spots , sometimes white , and sometimes black . |
| 10 | In contrast , an allegory is a story where the message is hidden in a type of code ; where the characters and/or events really represent other characters and events ; a story where every detail has a meaning . |
| 11 | Besides , the information is hidden in a computer . ’ |
| 12 | The computing power is hidden in a simple , compact box . |
| 13 | However , expectations of three-cornered comparisons are dashed because the work is arranged in a straightforwardly linear and chronological fashion , and the same issues are not necessarily addressed in each of the three separate discussions on the three rooms . |
| 14 | The system is arranged in a rack-mounted chassis with universal backplane . |
| 15 | The Library 's historical archive is arranged in a reasonable historical order , and is contained in acid-free boxes , but it is at the moment unindexed , and the store room which contains it is totally unsuitable for archive consultation . |
| 16 | Help text is arranged in a series of levels from brief prompts displayed on the current page to , in some cases , subsequent levels containing several screens of information , guidance and explanation . |
| 17 | All money bet on a certain race is placed in a pool , of which the winning tickets get a portion . |
| 18 | An unconditioned reflex is one which appears without previous experience ; for example , if food is placed in a dog 's mouth , it salivates . |
| 19 | It should be noted that single rooms are generally inferior , and that when an extra bed ( often folding style ) is placed in a twin bedded room it is often cramped . |
| 20 | If a rat is placed in a marked box and given an injection of apomorphine , it sits still for half an hour with its hair erect and shivering . |
| 21 | In Homoeopathy and many other types of alternative medicine the patient 's illness is placed in a much larger context . |
| 22 | But if the metal is placed in a big magnetic field ( the Earth 's field may do ) , then electric currents in it will produce well-defined surface-perturbing mechanical movements . |
| 23 | After a while a kitten is placed in a small , secure cage and left on the far side of a room , while the phobic is gently reassured that it can not get near . |
| 24 | There is further protective distancing if the exploration of emotions is placed in a historical , fantasy , or SF framework . |
| 25 | Presented with this paradoxical technique the family is placed in a double-bind situation . |
| 26 | The I of these poems is placed in a deliberately false and weak position . |
| 27 | After assessment by the child care officer or reception centre , the child is placed in a suitable substitute home . |
| 28 | In particular , an organization that is given a task that is controversial and unpopular in many quarters , such as an organization charged to promote racial and sexual equality or one providing help to a stigmatized group such as vagrant alcoholics , may find that it is given an unclear mandate and is placed in a position in which it finds it hard to acquire ‘ legitimacy ’ for its activities . |
| 29 | A small sample of DNA in solution is placed in a single tube . |
| 30 | This simple mixture is placed in a heater and the temperature quickly raised to just below the boiling point of water . |