Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding in this sense means being able to perceive structure amongst a set of observations that were at first sight perplexing and confusing . |
| 2 | A further 7 per cent ( 31 ) of ulcers occurred above the gaiter area ; trauma may be responsible for some of these , particularly those on the anterior aspect , but the aetiological pattern of ulcers occurring in this region have been found to be so varied that positive aetiological indicators can not be identified from the ulcer site alone . |
| 3 | In general , the results that we have reported in this chapter have been favourable to the rational expectations hypothesis , suggesting at the very least that the usefulness of that hypothesis in one area of macroeconomics can not be dismissed lightly . |
| 4 | Many artefacts decorated in this way have been found in royal tombs on the mainland . |
| 5 | Included in this overview have been the campaigns against the Thorsen film and James Kirkup 's poem in Gay News , where blasphemy was the central explicit issue ; Mrs Whitehouse 's criticism of television , in particular the BBC 's supposed bias toward ‘ South Bank ’ theology , and Till Death Us Do Part 's irreverence towards Christianity ; the perceived lack of support for the NVALA from Church leaders . |
| 6 | Although the details contained in this brochure have been published in good faith , Somerset Tourism can not accept any liability for inaccuracies or omissions or for any loss or damage in any way connected with or arising out of the publication of this information . |
| 7 | The principle of the experiments considered in this section has been mentioned in Section 22.4 . |
| 8 | The issues considered in this chapter have been , to a certain extent , theoretical . |
| 9 | The access times considered in this chapter have been simply the time taken to position the device access mechanism to read or write a selected record . |
| 10 | What happens in this situation has been well documented : |
| 11 | The number of bitter , angry , women-hating recently divorced men I have met in this way has been a real eye-opener to me . |
| 12 | All that we have written in this section has been in a light vein , but there is a very serious side to it . |
| 13 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 14 | It was now known that the body of the Professor who specialised in nuclear physics had been claimed by the Iraqi Embassy in Rome . |
| 15 | Some sixty per cent of the amendments that we 've adopted in this field have been incorporated in the finished legislation and that means in reality that much of the content of these laws has come from Nigel 's pen , the pens of the other trade unionists inside and outside the G M B that he 's plugged in to that system extremely worthwhile . |
| 16 | Rigoberta Menchu has lived in exile in Mexico for the past 11 years , yet the only weapons she has used in that time have been words . |
| 17 | It is not clear whether either of the two villages used in this study had been exposed to the experimental Concentrated Reinforcement Programme or not . |
| 18 | An educational pack explaining the background to many of the issues raised in BLUE PLANET has been prepared by educationalists , environmentalists and others in association with Du Pont and its subsidiary Conoco . |
| 19 | The consultation skills employed in this session had been : |
| 20 | His approach is a clear indication that the apparent rigours of Faccenda are now being mitigated by judges because the definition of trade secrets given in that case has been found to be too narrow to be workable . |
| 21 | Although its development from infancy to early adulthood has been much examined , the part it plays in later life has been largely neglected . |
| 22 | Students selected on the basis of success in some form of study which has placed similar demands on them to the ones which they will experience in higher education have been shown to respond as least as well as , it not better than , the traditionally qualified entrants . |
| 23 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |
| 24 | Dana claimed that he expanded his diary into the narrative Two Years Before the Mast ( the significant subtitle is ‘ An authentic narrative of a sailor 's Life at Sea ’ ) in order to represent the seaman 's view ignored in other sea-stories , but as a young undergraduate , sent to sea for his health , he presented a life of hardship and monotony from an educated point of view and seems in any case to have been more concerned with exact recording of weather , cargoes and seaman 's techniques than with personal behaviour and attitudes . |
| 25 | All the suppliers of building services represented in this brochure have been selected from amongst those recommended by established local opinion as being reliable and reasonable . |
| 26 | Caching of food , on the other hand , does occur , and records of 70 or 80 prey individuals being stored in one place have been described for different predator species ( Quick , 1951 ; Parovshchikov , 1963 ; Chesemore , 1975 ; MacDonald , 1976 ) . |
| 27 | Software selection and use in this school has been guided by the policy stated above and it was not until such policy decisions were taken that appropriate software could be chosen . |
| 28 | A rigorous analysis of the mechanisms involved in electromagnetic damping has been undertaken by Hughes and Lawrenson ( 1975 ) , who demonstrated that the single-step response is third-order when the electrical circuit is taken into account . |
| 29 | The material that follows in this chapter made be skipped by the reader , if desired , without interfering with the book 's continuity . |
| 30 | What has happened in that sector has been no less dramatic . |