Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be pointed out in this connection that , as the court has consistently held , the mere fact that the competent authority is empowered to grant exemptions or dispensations can not justify a national measure which is contrary to the E.E.C . |
| 2 | I had no idea you 'd turn out to be mixed up in all this , ’ she blurted out , ‘ I do n't know what to do . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 4 | Again , because of the nature of the allegations and counter-allegations , it seems probable that the hearing would be lengthy and bitter , and in view of their ages it seems to me impossible that the children would not know all about the hearing and the issues raised by it and be caught up in that bitterness . |
| 5 | Mrs Davis seems to be caught up in this in this situation . |
| 6 | The state is to be rolled back in some areas and rolled forward in others … |
| 7 | Long-term training in depth may be carried out in many different ways , depending on the character and means of the aspirant . |
| 8 | The test , which at present can only be carried out in half a dozen laboratories around the world , seeks to identify an abnormal antibody in the blood of likely sufferers . |
| 9 | An environmental survey and a study of inter-generational differences on family farms will be carried out in those areas . |
| 10 | Tom King , then Local Government Minister , announced that no further geological investigations would be carried out in any of the selected areas . |
| 11 | The cases can be carried out in any order and entirely selectively ( there is no ongoing storyline ) . |
| 12 | Indeed , for those interested in observational methods , it is hard to see how a longitudinal study of any magnitude could be carried out in any other way . |
| 13 | The communication of findings can be carried out in any manner which meets the performance criteria . |
| 14 | Next year two-thirds of all motorway maintenance work will be carried out in this way . |
| 15 | Married women were more likely than single mothers to be let down in this way , and such women were particularly likely to develop depression . |
| 16 | They can be written about in such a way that someone else is able to empathize with them . |
| 17 | By the use of one-way valves , air pressure can be built up in each chamber in turn by moving the piston back and forth . |
| 18 | Political power can be built up in this way , with the result that many Latin American leaders owe their position to a network of clientelist relationships . |
| 19 | Look , I 'm going to be snarled up in another meeting in a few minutes . |
| 20 | Eliza was under no illusions that this meant they would be spending more time together : ‘ John , of course , will not remain there long , ’ she told her mother , ‘ but be wandering off in some direction … ’ . |
| 21 | Seeming contradictions can be explained in situations where conservation policies may be drawn up in some areas ( perhaps financed by foreign aid , and attached to prestigious foreign fellowships and enhanced salaries for senior officials ) — but in a neighbouring area a carte-blanche logging contract is offered to a transnational company . |
| 22 | Group leaders can easily be bought off in some way , and once co-opted can usually deliver a quiescent membership in support of the status quo . |
| 23 | ‘ So you think I 'd prefer to be walled up in that mausoleum — that grave of a house . ’ |
| 24 | They try and tighten it up even more , almost in a subconscious way to control a disaster , and we know that things like chaos and disaster they ca n't be controlled , they ca n't be wrapped up in that way . |
| 25 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 26 | for all we know he might be locked up in that house against his will — ‘ |
| 27 | No more than 10 per cent of total investment to be tied up in any one company . |
| 28 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 29 | In principle , any discipline can be called on in this way , as an intellectual resource which has the power of showing hidden ways of perceiving the object in question . |
| 30 | It may be that those aspects of a curriculum , such as skills which are readily expressible in behavioural terms could usefully be laid down in some detail while other aspects , such as problem solving would be more loosely specified or , perhaps , not specified at all . |