Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] in [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the arm spines are cleaned in bleach the smaller ones are seen to be thin and only slightly rugose with the area of attachment reinforced while the larger spine has an almost smooth shaft with a multipointed head . |
| 2 | When the trees are coated in ice the bird is unable to break through for the life-sustaining food which it so desperately needs . |
| 3 | Once a female is grabbed in amplexus the male is likely to have to defend her from other males , and fights lasting hours or days and involving several males have been witnessed in numerous species . |
| 4 | In order to avoid the boxes being opened in transit the label should state that sufficient food and water has been provided for the journey . |
| 5 | The patient was moved on to a life-support machine and another set of X-rays was ordered in case the first ones had not revealed internal injuries caused by the car accident . |
| 6 | By a respondent 's notice dated 28 February 1992 the father contended that in the event of the appeal being allowed in part the order should be varied so that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing the costs incurred by the father in the family proceedings court and that sum to be calculated by a costs draftsman by reference to the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings ( Remuneration ) Regulations 1991 or alternatively , to an order that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing in relating to the proceedings below calculated in the same way but excluding all or part of the costs incurred on 27 and 28 January 1992 . |
| 7 | as if in answer to this prayer one further Pathfinders production was launched in 1961- the most ambitious to date , Pathfinders to Venus . |