Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 2 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 3 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 4 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 5 | All this implies , as has been pointed out in the collected evidence presented to the 1987 Select Committee inquiry into the implementation of the 1981 Education Act ( cf vol 2 of the evidence ) , and to many others since then involved in attempts at educational reform : |
| 6 | It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them . |
| 7 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 8 | I hang my coat up and start to shout and tell those who are hanging around in the corridor to get outside until the bell goes . |
| 9 | Swingbeat New Editioners Bell Biv Devoe are hanging out in the lounge telling stories of how the helicopter in their latest video toppled off a windy roof . |
| 10 | In retrospect , she said , the Budget could have been a great deal worse for disabled people considering what issues had been bandied about in the media recently . |
| 11 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 12 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 14 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 15 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 16 | But these problems have apparently been ironed out in the current batch of models . |
| 17 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
| 18 | The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals . |
| 19 | The plaintiffs , that is the Lebanon , Croatia and Hungary , will be anxious to see those parts of Sotheby 's evidence which had been blacked out in the documents made available to them , and then only shown to the court . |
| 20 | ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again . |
| 21 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 22 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 23 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 24 | Hatton had been walking along in the dark and someone had waited for him among the willows and the brambles , the stone ready for use . |
| 25 | These materials are highly complicated and important fluids which play a great part in the direction of the ways in which our bodies and minds function ; they are known as hormones , and are carried around in the bloodstream exercising effect on each other and on a variety of bodily processes . |
| 26 | This system is streets ahead of the slap-happy way tests are carried out in the UK , where the whole system of hip dysplasia testing is open to abuse . |
| 27 | All the processes other than the actual embroidery are carried out in the numerous ‘ embroidery factories ’ , most of which are located in Funchal . |
| 28 | Economic models are particularly useful since millions of daily transactions are carried out in the real world and so some means must be found of expressing the essential characteristics of the problem at hand . |
| 29 | When the multiplications are carried out in the order indicated , the upper Hessenberg form is maintained throughout , If , however , we begin by multiplying the central three matrices , the upper Hessenberg form is lost , with a accompanying loss of simplicity . |
| 30 | On one hand , the multinationals with their headquarters in the UK increasingly organize their worldwide production to gain the benefit of cheap labour in the Third World to carry out those parts of the manufacturing process that are labour-intensive , while the parts that are capital-intensive or rely on skilled techniques such as design are carried out in the UK . |