Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [vb pp] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that she was put away until they closed the asylums , since when she 's lived in that place . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a wicked shame that the poor old thing has got to leave the cottage she 's lived in most of her life , ’ continued Mrs. Grant . |
| 3 | She 's dressed in this furry pink thing , and she 's got these little white shoes on . |
| 4 | But it 's not a simple process , the ewes can reject the lambs , so she 's held in this restraint while the lamb is introduced , giving it a chance to suckle and allowing the mother to get used to it . |
| 5 | She is supported in this by her husband . |
| 6 | A woman should never flirt with a man other than her husband , but this does not mean that she is oppressed in any way . |
| 7 | It 's appeared in several films about the mafia and carried a whole host of corsed actors . |
| 8 | ‘ Look at this , Sal ’ , he would say , ‘ this one ca n't sink , even if it 's broken in half ! ’ |
| 9 | Since crime , however it is defined in any particular society , always involves some degree of restraint on individual self-interest , our natural tendency is always towards deviation : we will , it seems , always choose the deviant alternative when it suits us and when we think we can get away with it . |
| 10 | By northern analysis of poly(A) + F9 EC RNA , the DP-1 transcript was estimated as 2.8 kilobases ( kb ) ( data not shown ) ; it is expressed in many different cell types and in a wide range of tissues during murine embryogenesis ( J.F.P. , P. Tassios and N.B.L.T , manuscript in preparation ) . |
| 11 | It is prepared in such a manner that the questions are asked in exactly the same way of every respondent . |
| 12 | Thus it is said in several cases that the plaintiff must have ‘ a right of property in the thing and a right of possession ’ and that unless both these rights concur the action will not lie . |
| 13 | It is said in some circles that Morrison is alive and well and living in Des Moines , so perhaps we will one day have to sit through Doors II : the Incognito Years . |
| 14 | It is said in some quarters she is being vindictive about these matters . |
| 15 | It is conceded in this study ( Hegarty et al . , |
| 16 | But it is governed in some detail by statutory requirements , and so is undeniably a system of statutory regulation . |
| 17 | It is entirely land-locked , which means that it is bordered in all directions by other countries — Zambia , Zimbabwe , Namibia and South Africa . |
| 18 | If it is seen in this way the burden for change rests with black staff and not with the white staff and institutions which perpetuate discrimination and racism . |
| 19 | ‘ It is eaten in many other parts of Spain now because it is so good . ’ |
| 20 | The interior certainly does look light , though it is assisted in this respect by the Cathedral eastern Gothic rose . |
| 21 | The first state , called " potential meaning " , corresponds to the permanent meaning-capacity which a word or morpheme possesses before it is utilized in any particular situation . |
| 22 | It is turned in this action towards the meagre amount of light , light which has a density and texture not often seen in real life , created by filling the air with smoke and piercing it with tungsten light . |
| 23 | ‘ The contract between mortgagor and mortgagee , as it is understood in this court , makes the mortgage a security , not only for principal and interest , and such ordinary charges and expenses as are usually provided for by the instrument creating the security , but also for the costs properly incident to a suit for foreclosure or redemption . |
| 24 | Since perfect competition does not exist in practice — at best it is approximated in some markets — the stringent conditions for efficient resource allocation by the market are not met . |
| 25 | It is argued in this book that in many areas of the world where environmental fragility is an outstanding characteristic , there is a failure to adapt to a variety of new and related pressures , particularly population pressure and increased state intervention which is often extractive in nature , and also that such technically state-sponsored innovations that there are , tend to be inappropriate or inaccessible . |
| 26 | It is argued in this study that although the courts did matter , they often failed to operate in the ways intended by British policy-makers . |
| 27 | It is integrated in that the activities of each region are seen as part of a global process , i.e. the experiences and insights of each region are fed into , and compared with , those of other regions . |
| 28 | And for evenings , the little black dress ( only permissible if it is split in some extremely unexpected places ) . |
| 29 | Secondly , as a matter of fact , it is accepted in many areas of the higher education curriculum that the basic conceptual understanding can not be fully accomplished at the undergraduate stage , in which case the ‘ frontiers of knowledge ’ can be shown only to students who follow on to a postgraduate programme . |
| 30 | It is explored in more detail on pp.36- 7 . |