Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations .
2 His face had been hidden in the darkness , yet she thought she would recognise him if they met again .
3 ‘ We did not accept his resignation because we felt he had already been dismissed in the summer , ’ Lawrie Hargrave said .
4 The violent repercussions of the second decree have been examined in the case-study of Roslavl' in the Smolensk guberniia .
5 Yesterday , Crawford Beveridge , SE chief executive , said the issues raised in the documents had been examined in the audit .
6 Paragraph ( a ) has already been examined in the context of the mental element in the offence , and will not be considered further .
7 The effect of passage through the primate gut has been examined in the tamarins in Amazonian Peru , where it was found that germination success rates were about 70% .
8 The rooms of the museum are furnished in the style of the period , with important collections of authentic period furniture , silver , china and art .
9 These expressions have been italicized in the diagram above .
10 The ruling , the first occasion on which a constitutional amendment had been overturned in the court , marked a defeat for Ershad .
11 The aircraft had previously been flown in the USA as N190DH until a crash at Sellersburg , Indiana , on September 22 , 1987 , following which it was imported into the UK in 1989 and has only recently completed rebuild in the capable hands of Cliff Lovell , giving us a second airworthy DH.90 alongside Wessex Aviation & Transport 's G–AEDT .
12 The interest rates are calculated in the way required by the Consumer Credit Act and do not take into account any tax relief that could be gained for a home improvements loan .
13 Once the population levels are calculated in the model , the population is converted in to households using marital status and rates .
14 Since its formation these founding companies have been joined in the Quality Scotland Foundation by other like-minded organisations , all keen to promote a quality-conscious attitude not only in their own businesses but throughout Scottish life .
15 Yet the prevailing treatment of women workers defines them as a particular and different sub-group of the general category ‘ workers ’ ( this parallels the role they are assigned in the study of deviance ) .
16 Women 's role and position in the social stratification system husband and wife working in a paid job or career ? vicarious role they are assigned in the sociology of stratification .
17 For this reason an additional agent has been hypothesised in the pathogenesis of CLO .
18 The points are placed in the ice with a firm swing of the foot .
19 During the evening the females are placed in the aquarium , after which some brine shrimp and sifted Daphnia are added .
20 Advertisements are placed in the press , and potential purchasers are invited to telephone or fill in a coupon for further details .
21 The metal telephone cases are placed in the Man Holes with an electric light shining on them .
22 The quality and accessibility of materials have to be high if this approach is to succeed and no organisational barriers are placed in the way of learning .
23 Jim Hopkins is responsible for the final inspection of all goods before they are placed in the warehouse .
24 Tranchettes — These are issues of small blocks of existing stocks which are placed in the Bank 's own portfolio of gilts for direct sale into the secondary market ( see Fig. 9.2 ) .
25 Again , you are placed in the situation of having to work quite hard to impose a personality or style on the guitar , which , if you think about it , is how things perhaps should be .
26 Instead , new versions of the text of entries are placed in the database .
27 Tables showing the current level of intervention stocks in the United Kingdom and the EC are placed in the Library of the House each month .
28 Rather like English fairies , kuei will shy away from weapons made of iron or steel , and will not trouble a house where these are placed in the doorway .
29 Other panels also show some similarities with those of mosaic C. In the two rectangular panels with large rhomboids , single ivy leaves are placed in the angles .
30 When the fish are placed in the breeding tank courtship will normally start within minutes , the male displaying to the female and driving her into the floating mops .
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