Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Performing King Lear in the round meant making eye-contact with members of the audience , some of whom may have really been embroiled in mayhem the actors were merely playing at . |
| 2 | RESIDENTS of St Osyth are living in fear the opening of the new Wivenhoe flood barrier will have disastrous consequences for their homes . |
| 3 | I 've spoken to several of the barmen , explaining our dilemma , and elicited a promise that if a couple answering to the description of Svend and your sister put in an appearance and are conversing in English the man shall be discreetly asked if he is Svend Eriksen and , if so , requested to get in touch with me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When the trees are coated in ice the bird is unable to break through for the life-sustaining food which it so desperately needs . |
| 6 | Over the range of moisture contents likely to be reached in air the lateral dimensions of wood can thus change between five and ten per cent , that is up to an inch on a ten-inch-wide plank . |
| 7 | There should be borne in mind the pressures exerted upon , or anticipated by , religious houses to use their resources to please the king even between elections . |
| 8 | The aim of this chapter will be to describe in detail the currently available techniques for air-drying and spreading of oocytes and spermatocytes in man and the mouse . |
| 9 | If the accident results in the person insured being sued and the Insurance Company thinks the claim should be resisted in Court the Company pays the legal costs . |
| 10 | At a dinner for Liberal candidates on March 1st , Lloyd George announced that the Liberal Party had prepared a series of public-works projects , which could be put in hand the moment a Liberal Government came to power , and which would reduce unemployment to ‘ normal proportions ’ in a year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We were watching in case the Tans would try to infiltrate the lakes at night . |
| 14 | It joined the various Curtiss Robins , de Havilland Moths , Fairchilds , Bellancas , Fokker Super Universals and Lockheed Electras , which all were engaged in opening-up the countryside . |
| 15 | What upsets and angers my hon. Friends is that the Department of Energy is praying in aid the proposed European Community directive on working time as a justification for that change . |
| 16 | However , a major difficulty in ensuring the effectiveness of any support scheme is to reach in time the small proportion of the population least able to cope with their crisis . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The object of this study is to consider in detail the sources of capital investment that facilitated such a rapid rate of industrialisation , and the consequences of these patterns of investment in the different branches and sectors of the economy . |
| 19 | The official 's duty is to have in mind the best and most effective and efficient means of carrying out the council 's decision . |
| 20 | A third approach is to pray in aid the so-called slippery slope . |
| 21 | The remit which I set myself is to examine in outline the ways in which the political parties have both responded to and helped to shape the pertinent social collectivities in Britain over the post-war years , and how the activities of political forces have been constrained by , and have served to maintain or transform , the economic class relations of British capitalism . |
| 22 | Its purpose is to examine in detail the various experimental procedures that have been said to demonstrate acquired distinctiveness and to determine which generate reliable effects that are not to be explained away in other terms . |
| 23 | Our principal approach is to examine in detail the records of scores of banks operating in the period . |
| 24 | The area around the farm had been described in detail the evening before , during the orders for the attack . |
| 25 | If it was to continue in existence the ILP had to reach some agreement , to find some acceptable compromise between " Unity " and " independence " . |
| 26 | He was nursing in silence the options left to him , and so far they did not appear to him totally unpromising . |
| 27 | Hardy was describing in fiction the real and very harsh position that unmarried mothers from the poorer sections of society found themselves in . |
| 28 | But my strategy was to keep in mind the long-term situation … . |
| 29 | These seating arrangements thus provided a visual reflection and reinforcement of the social divisions within the parish ; when Richard Gough set out at the end of the seventeenth century to write the history of his parish of Myddle in Shropshire , he decided that the most natural way to organize his account was to consider in turn the occupants of each pew in Myddle church . |
| 30 | On the day that Don Peters was on his feet at the EPC meeting , fighting for the survival of the British Vehicle Division and the jobs of the fifty thousand people it employed , Fred Clasper was setting in motion the third and final stage of his scheme to sabotage any possible chance of the company 's recovery . |