Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STM hinges on quantum theory , which suggests that electrons are given off in clouds from solids and will tunnel through a vacuum to other nearby conductors . |
| 2 | The items between the top of the partition and the gap formed by the moving of the instance are shuffled down in order to remove the gap . |
| 3 | No accounts have ever been published — probably none were kept — but figures of around twenty billion lei are bandied about in Bucharest . |
| 4 | When the sane members of your family are tucked up in bed and arcade games are too much for your shattered nerves a game of Patience will help you relax . |
| 5 | As previous research into juvenile delinquency has found , spare time activities are carried out in groups . |
| 6 | The landlord should be responsible for ensuring that the works are carried out in accordance with the building documents and if there are any variations , it must either have them corrected or obtain the tenant 's consent to their remaining . |
| 7 | As stated above , investment decisions are carried out in accordance with the broad policy set out in the trust deed , but the limits of the investment policy are in turn delineated by the following conditions ( LAUTRO ) : |
| 8 | Such operations are carried out in Treasury bills , of one or more specified ( usually short ) maturities . |
| 9 | Thus you discover what tasks are to be performed and how they are carried out in order to create a picture of what the person will actually do in the job . |
| 10 | Observations and experiments are carried out in order to test or shed light on some theory , and only those observations considered relevant to that task should be recorded . |
| 11 | The final area of regulation is through Recognised Investment Exchanges ( RIEs ) and Recognised Clearing Houses ( RCHs ) , through which securities transactions are carried out in order to be able to monitor investor protection more effectively . |
| 12 | Humiliating medical and literacy tests are carried out in recruitment centres . |
| 13 | These last projects are carried out in collaboration with the BGS Hydrogeology Group . |
| 14 | Many research projects are carried out in collaboration with other universities and companies ( both local and international ) . |
| 15 | When learners are caught up in communication , concerned with making meaning , they have neither the time nor indeed the inclination to monitor their performance , which in consequence reveals what they have acquired without , as it were , the artificial additives of learning . |
| 16 | Let us remember today the suffering and pain that are caused by war and be mindful of all those throughout the world today who are caught up in areas of conflict . |
| 17 | Children who are caught up in crime are getting a lot of media attention lately . |
| 18 | TWO LAWSUITS resulting from Christie 's $39.6m sale last May of Impressionists from the collection of Hal Wallis , the Hollywood movie producer , are reported on in Art and Auction , the monthly magazine . |
| 19 | At night , when air-conditioners are turned off in Phoenix , the water level drops as much as ten feet . |
| 20 | In a design of this kind , where the flowers and leaves are built up in layers , you should try to look at the outline that will be visible ( in this case , the outer leaves ) , and make sure that they are lying at pleasing angles . |
| 21 | They are built up in tiers of well-rotted manure , grass clipping and annual weeds from the garden ; thin layers of pigeon droppings are then used as a compost activator . |
| 22 | Where steps are built out in front of a retaining wall , much more work is involved , because the weight will not be spread at an angle along the underside of the steps , but will be concentrated on the earth directly below the steps . |
| 23 | Afghanis are hunted down in Algeria , Jordan and Tunisia . |
| 24 | These voltages are connected up in series along the length of the fish so that , in a strongly electric fish such as an electric eel , the whole battery generates as much as lamp at 650 volts . |
| 25 | The cashier 's bills ( Fig. 6.14(a) ) are made out in duplicate . |
| 26 | You 're flown down in helicopter to Leeds . |
| 27 | Faeces are used by young children as a ‘ gift ’ , and sometimes their stools are wrapped up in parcels which they give to a significant person . |
| 28 | British Rail , currently embroiled in the turmoil of privatisation , declined to be interviewed , but groups like Transport 2000 fear that when the railways are sold off in April next year , even more freight will be pushed onto the roads . |
| 29 | Their frayed bodies lie rotting in drifts on the surface of the streams and are washed up in piles on the sandbanks . |
| 30 | Many social and political implications are spelt out in Lewis and Townsend ( 1989 ) . |