Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six candidates are embroiled in a Commons clash over who will succeed Bernard Wetherill . |
| 2 | The fact that Margaret had been illegitimate , a war baby conceived between an Italian prisoner of war and an English landgirl , had no bearing on her name , although probably quite a lot to do with Margaret 's lack of maternalism , since she 'd been reared in a children 's home . |
| 3 | She tells me that Jamie has been caught in a drugs bust at the Cross Keys pub . |
| 4 | He had been caught in a women 's magazine praising Mrs Thatcher . |
| 5 | The relevant fact is that , if two solutions are mixed in a petri dish or other container , and allowed to stand , the mixture is at first a uniform brown , but this homogeneous state is not stable . |
| 6 | The insertion sites from P.wickerhamii , ascomycetous fungi and Marchantia coxI introns are summarized in a coxI protein alignment ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 7 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 8 | In all cases cuttings must be prepared with a razor blade or very sharp knife , and are rooted in a cuttings compost or a home-made mixture of equal parts peat and sharp sand . |
| 9 | The four Synodontis could have been accommodated in a 36″ tank , accompanied by a few Congo Tetras rather than the Tinfoils . |
| 10 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |
| 11 | This should be included in a salaries and wages budget of 20% of turnover . |
| 12 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
| 13 | Set out below is the form of a lock-out clause which could be used in a heads of agreement . |
| 14 | It 's believed the cuts will be introduced in a months time . |
| 15 | Section 0610 provides comprehensive listings of the contents , conditions and definitions which might be found in a heads of agreement letter . |
| 16 | One version , described by Forrester ( 1971 , p. 20 ) as ‘ a complete diagram of the world model , interrelating the five variables — population , natural resources , capital investment , capital investment in agriculture fraction , and pollution ’ can be represented in a systems diagram with 43 separate elements and various links ( Figure 6.7 ) . |
| 17 | We have a right to be represented in a women 's magazine that 's fighting for equal representation . |
| 18 | A ten-year-old could be detained in a police cell for up to 36 hours but it is more common for children to be released into the care of social workers overnight . |
| 19 | Public law proceedings must be commenced in a magistrates ' court unless there are already public law proceedings pending in a county court or the High Court or the application is made by a local authority following a s37 direction to investigate made in family proceedings in either court ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) . |
| 20 | Maria Elena Aparicio was sentenced to seven years and is believed to be held in a women 's prison in Havana . |
| 21 | A classified Landsat TM image ( Chapter 5 ) can be used to derive boundaries of spatial classes such as cropland , woodland and water , and remote sensing provide a means of keeping the data concerning land-surface cover that are stored in a GIS up to date . |
| 22 | From there he 'd been taken in a police van to Whitely by two police officers . |
| 23 | One front-page exclusive in the Daily Mirror reported that child porn photos involving two top television stars were uncovered in a police raid on a photographic studio . |
| 24 | They were seized in a police raid on his home . |
| 25 | On the day that British Athletic Federation officials were deliberating the fate of disgraced European indoor 60 metres champion Jason Livingston , sent home from the Barcelona Games when traces of Methandianone were found in a drugs sample , British team captain Christie hit out after a London awards ceremony . |
| 26 | Alejandro Guzman , known as Tito , and Ademar Lima Lobo , who were allegedly two of the country 's most wanted drug traffickers , were arrested in a police and army drug raid , along with 54 others , on Dec. 9 in the eastern department of Beni . |
| 27 | There is little sign of comital residences in civitates , nor any evidence of a comital archive being kept in a civitas ( as they still had occasionally been in seventh-century Gaul ) . |
| 28 | FIVE UDA blackmailers jailed last week after they were snared in a police sting were the organisation 's top extortionists . |
| 29 | Gregory , who has been teaching English to Thais for two years , is being held in a women 's prison . |
| 30 | Though the apolitical villain was fairly quickly apprehended , Churchill 's portrait has just been discovered in a police raid on a suspected handler . |