Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Marx 's work on class has been examined in detail for the following reasons . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | BLACK MUSLIMS FROM the Nation of Islam are gathered in force outside the Hackney Empire . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When transfer payments are given in addition to a disturbance allowance , these are usually taxed . |
| 10 | In some instances the incidence of particular errors ( error rates ) are given in addition to a success rate . |
| 11 | Anthropologists , in turn , have attempted to argue that , for example , the transition from brideservice , in which labour is performed by the prospective groom , to bridewealth , where objects are given in exchange for the bride , marks a significant difference in the development of a phenomenon whereby objects may stand for human labour , with the implication that this is the first stage towards the conditions of property and alienation as we know them today ( Strathern 1985 ) . |
| 12 | These reasons are given in detail in the discussion of man-machine function allocation ( p. 35 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Dublin has long been paralysed in relation to the Unionists , by an implicit veto of John Hume . |
| 14 | It is the responsibility of the custody officer to ensure that detainees are treated in accordance with the Act and the Codes of Practice ( s.39(1) ) . |
| 15 | BUCKING the usual trend to paint Spitfires after completion of their flight-test programme , Historic Flying at Audley End , Essex , are refinishing in detail at the earliest opportunity . |
| 16 | Measurement of internal friction such as those referred to above have been made for numerous polymers , and relaxation spectra for commonly used materials are listed in detail in the book by McCrum , read & Williams ( 1967 ) and in Ferry 's book . |
| 17 | Its aim , with the likely support of West Germany and the Commission President , Mr Jacques Delors , will be to ensure that institutions of democratic accountability are developed in parallel with the supra-national instruments of economic and monetary policy-making like the proposed central bank . |
| 18 | Again , the optic lobes are developed in proportion to the size of the eyes and the antennal lobes related to the development of the antennae and the senses mediated by them . |
| 19 | Theoretical work on the dynamic properties of systems of error correction equations has been undertaken in parallel with the modelling work detailed above . |
| 20 | The important point to note is that under such vicarious arrangements the vendor remains responsible directly to the customer and will still be sued by the customer for non-performance or for breach of the contract if the work has not been undertaken in accordance with the terms of the contract . |
| 21 | Plans by a consortium of British nature bodies to buy the heart of the Cairngorm range in Scotland have been placed in doubt by the government 's failure to meet a promise to cover the running costs . |
| 22 | The fact that the first components in the structure are syllabuses for four individual subjects which have been placed in position before the other components ( subjects and cross-curricular themes ) have even been sketched out , confirms that the approach is ad hoc . |
| 23 | Style Jewellery of Byker Bridge , Newcastle , has been placed in receivership with the loss of 14 jobs . |
| 24 | Hekmatyar 's and Masud 's forces entered Kabul on April 25 , the latter having been placed in charge of a six-member Kabul City Security Commission , created by the IJC in Peshawar . |
| 25 | Soon other signs of unwillingness to fight appeared : the Earl of Norfolk , the king 's half-brother , who had been placed in charge of the defence of East Anglia , defected to the queen , and Henry of Lancaster , Earl Thomas 's brother and heir , who had been ordered to raise troops in the midlands , also went over to Isabella . |
| 26 | Would a rescuer be denied an action on the ground of ex turpi causa , e.g. if one burglar was injured attempting to assist another who had been placed in danger by the dangerous condition of the house they were breaking into ? |
| 27 | As the example of housing palpably shows , conflict arises in the most acute form where these resources are in short supply and where all social groups are competing in pursuit of the same objective . |
| 28 | When expectations are revised in accordance with the specific hypothesis , behaviour is said to be adaptive . |
| 29 | But certainly here , for the clearest moment in Eliot 's later plays the savage and the Christian are joined in reproach of the oversophisticated city ; , though it is essential , too , to remember that that city also contains Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly whom Eliot once described as possibly ‘ a god in the machine ’ . |
| 30 | The majority of labour-only subcontract gangs are limited in size to a maximum of six persons . |