Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] in the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the C P R E's evidence does n't offer you anything to go on , save that the figures have been approached in the wrong way , cos they did n't start bottom up from the environment . |
| 2 | They had , however , been fixed in the wrong position , officials said , and it was this that caused one of the pipes to rupture through metal fatigue . |
| 3 | Like the reader who finds that the chapters of his detective novel have been printed in the wrong order , we may only now be beginning to understand why from the point of view of ego- and superego-development the crime which should be at the beginning ( that of Oedipus ) comes at the end , and why what comes at the beginning ( the oral period ) leads unintelligibly into what should otherwise have been the conclusion of the story ( anal stage , latency ) ! |
| 4 | At a later stage one might , for some reason , want to prevent the other side using reports disclosed to them voluntarily as part of their case , and if they have been put in the wrong part of the list of documents the right to do so will have been lost . |
| 5 | The eleventh hole of the new course has been put in the wrong place and the club says it 's too expensive to move . |
| 6 | Where proceedings have , according to the criteria set out in this chapter , been commenced in the wrong court , the new s 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ( which has effect from 1 October 1991 ) provides for two ways in which the misallocation can be reflected in costs orders . |