Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these can be expressed as a distance-decay function and indeed costs of migration may largely be a matter of distance as in the case of outmigration from island economies such as are found in the Caribbean or Oceania ; others are political and virtually insurmountable , such as national frontiers . |
| 2 | In high fertility societies such as are found in the Africa region , the modification of these goals would be a first step in efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality . |
| 3 | The person responsible for the running of the 160-year-old bank , Sergeant-at-Arms Jack Russ , had resigned on March 12 after being criticized in the Ethics Committee 's report for the manner in which he had administered the bank . |
| 4 | Pig horror : New Zealand farmer Kenneth Johnson bled to death after being gored in the groin by one of his pigs while feeding them in a paddock on his small farm at Halkett in the South Island province of Canterbury . |
| 5 | THE motorway murder victim Marie Wilks used her Red Cross training to staunch the flow of blood from her jugular vein after being stabbed in the neck , a court was told yesterday . |
| 6 | Mr Jowett needed two hours of delicate micro-surgery after being stabbed in the groin and chest when he tackled a masked intruder at his home on Nov 27 . |
| 7 | He needed micro-surgery after being stabbed in the groin and chest when he tackled a masked intruder . |
| 8 | A hospital worker is critically ill after being stabbed in the neck by a patient . |
| 9 | A 27-YEAR-OLD hospital worker was ‘ stable ’ in intensive care today after being stabbed in the neck . |
| 10 | Brent McCafferty , 26 , was said to be poorly in hospital last night after being stabbed in the arm in an incident outside his home in Colchester Terrace , Sunderland . |
| 11 | The rats eventually managed to press the lever very quickly after being placed in the box , in order to receive their reward . |
| 12 | Yet after being annihilated in the first Test , England showed they could still fight . |
| 13 | The minority government formed by the Social Democratic Labour Party ( SAP ) in October 1988 [ see pp. 36357-58 ] resigned on Feb. 15 after being defeated in the Riksdag ( parliament ) on a package of stringent austerity measures . |
| 14 | Mr Barrett , father of two , of High Mickley , Northumberland , had to crawl for help after being hit in the leg and stomach injured . |
| 15 | And Julian O'Neill , Widnes ' Australian utility back , is in doubt for their trip to Bradford with a septic finger after being hit in the hand by a dart . |
| 16 | Francois Roland , 71 , was in hospital last night after being hit in the arm . |
| 17 | FACING TROUBLE : Arsenal 's Ian Wright is treated at Highbury after being hit in the face by a coin thrown from the crowd |
| 18 | Virgil Miller in his office ; meeting Louise at the sect van ; the ranting , golden-robed Prophet at the Crusade ; the nightmare chase in the bowels of the Washington Centre ; the confrontation with Angel One after the Jim Miller interview ; Louise 's rescue ; Pam 's hand impaled to the table ; Harry Sherman 's bandaged form and the fight with the bogus nurse in the hospital room ; his capture of the Bethlehem House Control and the gunfight in the basement corridor ; the escape from the fire through the underground tunnel ; and lastly the fight with Angel One in the clearing … the fight … he could n't recall anything after being hit in the chest … |
| 19 | Bob Holt , a constable with the Gloucestershire force has had four hours of surgery to rebuild his mouth after being hit in the face with a hammer . |
| 20 | He was said to be ‘ critical ’ yesterday after being hit in the head and body . |
| 21 | After being baptised in the hands of Henry Spalding , Joseph spent much of his first seven years at the Lapwai Mission , where Eliza Spalding 's growing band of helpers gave academic and religious instruction . |
| 22 | Peter was admitted as a day case for a gastroscopy after being seen in the Outpatients Department . |
| 23 | Nijaz and Sead Hukanovic had feared they might never see each other again after being parted in the savage purge of Bosnians callously dubbed ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ by the Serbs . |
| 24 | AZUMAH NELSON of Ghana retained his WBC super-feather title in Lake Tahoe but Calvin Grove went the distance after being floored in the first round . |
| 25 | Everton boss Howard Kendall bought Rideout after being beaten in the chase for £1 million hitman Dublin by Alex Ferguson . |
| 26 | Professor Wybran , 49 , the director of the Co-ordination Committee of Jewish Organisations in Belgium ( CCOJB ) , died early yesterday after being shot in the head on Tuesday night outside the Brussels University Hospital , where he headed the Immunology Department . |
| 27 | A 19-year-old man died after being shot in the head in a north London street as his girlfriend and two-year-old daughter looked on , police said yesterday . |
| 28 | FLAMBOYANT Tory MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn was recovering yesterday after being shot in the eye as neighbours potted clay pigeons . |
| 29 | After being shot in the chest and back and attacked with machetes , Peter Pegnado , 31 , jumped into his car . |
| 30 | A 22-year-old man is today recovering in hospital after being shot in the leg in Belfast . |