Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 2 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 3 | The raffle or lottery is a form of random sample — in its simplest form the identical little numbered tickets are shaken up in a hat and drawn out one by one by someone with their eyes closed . |
| 4 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 5 | Positivists , of all varieties , have consequently been caught up in an endless quest for a universal , objective but non-legal concept of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 6 | Debates followed in parliament with the Unionists in full cry , for the Liberals seemed to have been caught out in a case of open corruption . |
| 7 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |
| 8 | Sensitivity at the outset far outweighs a full routine of complicated strokes if they are carried out in a mechanical and impersonal manner . |
| 9 | Current powers do not allow for searches that are based on a policeman 's hunch that someone may be carrying an illicit article , or for blanket searches that are carried out in a particular area or among particular groups . |
| 10 | Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female , where the divine can be feminine , yet women are profoundly mistrusted . |
| 11 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 12 | The two are caught up in a desperate race to save their women — knowing that the rescue of one means the destruction of the other . |
| 13 | Sometimes vulnerable old people are caught up in a more general crisis such as a major road or rail accident , or other disaster . |
| 14 | If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit . |
| 15 | It 's a fearful world where even the goodies have a strangeness about them , as they too are caught up in a world of little people , strange animals and flying objects . |
| 16 | Workers are caught up in a form of ‘ prisoners ’ dilemma' . |
| 17 | She and the photographer she works with are caught up in an investigation that shakes her out of her complacency — and into the shadowy world of covert operations against the dictatorship . |
| 18 | The horses are walking round in a ring then . |
| 19 | ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind . |
| 20 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 21 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |
| 22 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 23 | Sometimes the act has been carried out in a hostile fashion that causes maximum distress to the staff . |
| 24 | The situation at the moment in the field of research in homoeopathy is that much encouraging and interesting work demonstrating effects of homoeopathic potencies has been carried out in a wide variety of laboratory and clinical models . |
| 25 | It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin . |
| 26 | Conversations with pupils about ‘ handicap ’ have already been carried out in a pilot study . |
| 27 | We are also able to certificate any module where the training and assessment has been carried out in a language other than English . |
| 28 | SCOTVEC can certificate any module where training and assessment has been carried out in a language other than English ; an endorsement appears on the Learning Outcomes Statement accompanying the Record of Education and Training indicating the language used . |
| 29 | The Minister also said that the medical examination had been carried out in a sympathetic and professional manner . |
| 30 | The only consolation was that a series of valuable recces had been carried out in an area they had not previously visited . |