Example sentences of "[verb] in a [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wall lighting may result in a face being in unhelpful shadow because seen against the background of a lighted wall . |
| 2 | First , responsibilities for care for the chronically handicapped in a community were to be given to those elected by the local population ; thus the electorate would , in theory , have greater control over the way local services are provided . |
| 3 | It means that similar — perhaps even dissimilar — species of plants and trees , growing in a group are in constant communication with each other . |
| 4 | The packet of Durex , bought in a chemist 's at Ipswich to meet an eventuality that Rosie had never allowed to materialize , lived permanently in his wallet ; he put them in a brown envelope in case a chance sighting made his intentions too crudely obvious . |
| 5 | So what I 'm gon na ask you to do in a minute is to line up in threes . |
| 6 | Similarly , for juvenile offenders , the ‘ care order ’ under which they may be detained in an institution is for an unspecified period ; again , release is determined by rehabilitative , treatment criteria . |
| 7 | Everything he desired in a woman was in her . |
| 8 | The usual method of investing in a company is by taking shares in it . |
| 9 | As Dr Digby has pointed out : " That a freeborn Englishman had the right to be relieved in his own home and should not be imprisoned in a workhouse was to be a recurrent theme in East Anglian popular protest . " |
| 10 | A prostitute found murdered in a canal was on her way to meet a customer when she disappeared . |