Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [be] [vb pp] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each LEA has a supply of teachers who are sent in to schools to cover for absences of regular teaching staff . |
| 2 | Bob Bennett , Grenadier Guards , was one of those frustrated warriors who were called in to a large marquee . |
| 3 | Who were brought in at a very level . |
| 4 | Also blamed are other Arabs — Lebanese , Sudanese , Yemenis and Jordanians — who were brought in by the Iraqis to help police Kuwait . |
| 5 | Some , but only some , members of the resistance distinguish between the Palestinians who were brought in by the Iraqis to do a bit of their dirty work , and Kuwait 's large and long-established Palestinian population . |
| 6 | There are the tensions too between the younger men : Li Peng and the ultra-left in the Beijing party apparatus are ranged against Jiang Zemin and the other provincial leaders who were brought in by Deng Xiaoping after June 1989 to try to limit the damage . |
| 7 | The expansion of the police administrative staff guaranteed a faster route to the top for those who were drafted in as clerks . |
| 8 | The artist was one of the so called Bevin boys , who were drafted in to work as miners during the last war . |
| 9 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 10 | Commiserations to all readers who were taken in by our April fool . |
| 11 | The wounded who were carried in from the attack on the Rebecca lay in the shade under the trees while their hurts were being dressed . |
| 12 | On Sept. 28 a new national army , the Angolan Armed Forces ( FAA ) , was established under the joint command of Gen. Antonio dos Santos França Ndalu and Gen. Arlindo Chenda Pena Ben-Ben who were sworn in as the Chiefs of General Staff on the same day . |
| 13 | This Progressive influence lingered on as a minor theme in the cinema of the 1920s and was an obvious outlet for the continental directors who were drawn in by the glamour and potential of Hollywood . |
| 14 | At a ceremony attended by the appeal 's President , film and theatre star Anthony Hopkins , who was flown in by helicopter courtesy of British Gas ( Wales ) , an inscribed half-ton riven slate gatepost was put in place in the beautiful Nant Ffrancon pass , creating both a symbolic and practical ‘ gateway ’ to National Trust lands in Snowdonia . |
| 15 | North lent a good deal of encouragement to Thomas Dowling , ‘ the priest for the contras ’ , who was called in by Calero to say Mass in the camps in Honduras ; but Dowling found the contras drifting , rather than committed . |
| 16 | There is a story about an old man who was called in by a factory to fix their ancient boiler , which had ground to a halt . |
| 17 | Djohar , 72 , who was sworn in for a six-year term on March 20 , was a former President of the Supreme Court and had served as interim President since the assassination of President Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman in November 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] . |
| 18 | She was replaced by Ruth Feldgrill-Zankel , 48 , also of the ÖVP , who was sworn in on March 5 . |
| 19 | Initial results put the vote at 99.5 per cent for Niyazov , who was sworn in on June 26 and assumed leadership of the Cabinet of Ministers . |
| 20 | A presidential election on April 14 , 1985 , was won by Alan García Pérez of the centre-left American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana — APRA ) , who was sworn in as President on July 28 , 1985 [ see pp. 33836-37 ] . |
| 21 | Queen Elizabeth II was replaced as head of state by the former Governor General , Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau , who was sworn in as President on Dec. 5 . |
| 22 | Gulliver , the former Argyll Group chief who was brought in to raise revenue , made little impact during his 16 months with the club . |
| 23 | This was given , then I said ‘ You were the gentleman who was brought in from the ‘ Cock ’ are you not ? ’ |
| 24 | New general manager John Maddock , who was brought in by Swales and made the sacking of Reid virtually his first act , has also been the target of supporters ' anger . |
| 25 | Speakers were David Snow of BP Bitor ( the company which imports and markets the fuel from Venezuela ) , Peter Taylor from the Oil Pollution Research Unit at Fort Popton , Dr Clive Morgan , also from Fort Popton but who was drafted in at the last minute to play the part of National Power Plc , and finally Gordon James of Narberth Friends of the Earth . |
| 26 | This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ . |