Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skeleton , that of a woman in her twenties , appears to have been hidden in woodland near Chewton Mendip , Somerset , for years . |
| 2 | The man picked up a small portmanteau that had been hidden in shadow by the rail , and with one last sweeping look across the quay , climbed on to the gangplank . |
| 3 | In Brown v Rentokil Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 4 , the EAT ruled that an employee who had been dismissed in accordance with sickness absence rules when she was away from work because of pregnancy-related illness , was not discriminated against . |
| 4 | LeWitt 's use of geometrical structures dates to 1963 but this vital aspect of his work has rarely been examined in depth in Britain . |
| 5 | All too frequently , as well , cemeteries have been examined in isolation from other components of the plan . |
| 6 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 7 | The commitment to sterling has already been examined in relation to the political economy of Britain 's international role , the vested interests of the City of London and the nature of the system of government . |
| 8 | Since Labov first developed his quantitative methods , a very wide range of different speaker variables has been examined in relation to patterns of variation , and indeed these methods can be used wherever a speaker characteristic is capable of being expressed numerically . |
| 9 | Marx 's work on class has been examined in detail for the following reasons . |
| 10 | The North American Cordillera , which has a tectonic history of bewildering complexity , has not been examined in detail in this chapter but various aspects of its evolution are considered by Dickinson ( 1976 ) , Eaton ( 1987 ) and Smith and Eaton ( 1978 ) . |
| 11 | The texts , which are generally agreed to have forged elements in them , have been examined in detail by several scholars , and there are only two preliminary remarks which need to be made . |
| 12 | The statistical correlation studies have been many and varied and they have been examined in detail by both Blaug and Bowman and there is no need to repeat the discussion here . |
| 13 | The development of one south London suburb has been examined in detail by Professor H. J. Dyos in his classic work , Victorian Suburb : A Study of the Growth of Camberwell ( 1961 ) . |
| 14 | Studies defining the immediate 5' flanking sequences of class II MHC genes and their associated DNA-binding proteins ( 5-10 ) , as well as transgenic mouse models containing DNA constructs covering the promoter proximal sequences have been examined in detail by other groups ( 5,11-13 , ) . |
| 15 | By the time bloodshed had been stopped in Dushanbe on Feb. 15 , by the 5,000 Interior Ministry troops in the city assisted by " citizens ' self-defence groups " , official casualty figures spoke of 22 people killed and 565 people injured . |
| 16 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
| 17 | BLACK MUSLIMS FROM the Nation of Islam are gathered in force outside the Hackney Empire . |
| 18 | Many voices are heard in favour of more women running for office , and Emily 's List , a group that funds only Democratic women running for office , has seen its membership grow by more than 300 per cent since the Hill-Thomas hearings . |
| 19 | The table below gives an indication of possible early encashment values per £1,000 of single premium invested and are calculated in accordance with the rules prescribed by the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) . |
| 20 | For the past few years he has been joined in aspects of his research and conservation work by Dr Jane O'Sullivan , an agricultural scientist with an interest in the relationship between humanity and the natural world . |
| 21 | Purchasers should be aware that the recent House of Lords ' decision in Litster v Forth Dry Dock Engineering Company Ltd [ 1989 ] IRLR 161 has radically altered the position of purchasers for liability where persons are dismissed in connection with a business transfer . |
| 22 | Since the effects of the damage are largely restricted to language , the disruption can not affect the whole brain , so in that sense we are justified in thinking of the brain as consisting of functionally independent modules . |
| 23 | These violations of laws of purity and holiness are justified in terms of more fundamental principles , concern for the inner ethical motivations of the person , rather than their external bodily state , and respect for all persons , regardless of gender or ethnicity . |
| 24 | The rewards for those who do conform , and the penalties on those who do not , are justified in terms of a cultural tradition which places the group first and the individual second . |
| 25 | Non-basic beliefs are justified in terms of the basic and the basic are justified in some other way ; the asymmetry lies in the fact that justification is all one way , from non-basic to basic . |
| 26 | There is no word-class corresponding to RP/ ? / , so that , for example , the two lexical items in the phrase good food are assigned in Belfast to the same rather than to different classes as in RP /g?d fu:d/ . |
| 27 | Again , taking South Hams as an example , applicants are placed in queues for one of five housing sub-districts and also in one of five groups according to family size , marital status and number of children . |
| 28 | Anyone who has visited a number of medieval castles will know how admirable their sites often are : how they command distant views , or river crossings , or are placed in situations of great natural strength . |
| 29 | Moreover , the fact that the embassy had already been delayed in Dover for a fortnight had cost him 14,000 crowns even before these further disasters . |
| 30 | Yes , I 'm afraid Mike Kirkham has been delayed in Prague for today , so Nigel Spackman , who 's a member of our Committee and is a deferred pensioner is taking his place and Les Taylor is the Secretary of our Maxwell Pension Action Group . |