Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [be] [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Their grant has been frozen in real terms at much below the level at which they could expect to survive on it ; they have been denied entitlement to income support , housing benefits and rebates ; there are no jobs with which they can supplement their incomes during vacations ; and those who find themselves desperately hard up discover , when they turn to the hardship fund , that it has already been exhausted .
2 Further evidence suggesting a positive link has been demonstrated in other cross-sectional studies ( New et al , 1963 ; Ahuja et al , 1969 ; Santen et al , 1972 ; Albrink , 1974 ; Lamda et al , 1974 ; Reckless et al , 1978 ; Seviour et al , 1985 ) .
3 7.2.1 At present , general practitioners are free to refer to the hospital and consultant of their choice , although in practice this freedom has been restricted in recent years , partly because of health authorities ' reluctance to accept cross-boundary patients .
4 To some extent this latter advantage has been eroded in recent years by the tendency to go for late bookings , at least by the ‘ experienced ’ holiday-maker .
5 According to Channel 4 TV 's Dispatches , contamination has been found in private groundwater supplies used by food and drink manufacturers .
6 Early television cameras were large and the image of poor quality , but much progress has been made in recent years .
7 Nevertheless , much progress has been made in recent years .
8 Despite this apparent lack of official enthusiasm , progress has been made in other areas .
9 By such methods , considerable progress has been made in certain respects by women 's , environmental and minority groups .
10 We should , perhaps , not be surprised that such modest progress has been made in improving prison conditions since John Howard 's time .
11 Considerable progress has been made in improving air quality in the United States during the past few decades but greater improvement is still needed ( figure 8.13 ) .
12 However , very little progress has been made in leading children towards conventionally accepted explanations .
13 Another change has been noted in longer-term recreation , i.e. tourism , which in some rural areas , notably National Parks , is the mainstay of the rural economy ( TRRU , 1981 ) .
14 Such responsibility has been taken in other areas where a major rundown of significant employers has taken place .
15 Surely hotels should be held to contract when payment has been made in full by clients ?
16 A dissociation between these two scripts has been observed in Japanese aphasics ( Sasanuma , 1975 ) and in a patient with alexia and agraphia .
17 ‘ On a lighter note , the Battle of the Bands in Fairport , Rhode Island , during which heavy metal groups Deathtongue and the Mothers of Violence played simultaneous sets in the same auditorium for thirty-eight straight hours has been resolved in single combat between the rival lead singers .
18 Beryl has been recorded in micaceous pegmatites of the Moine schists in north-west Scotland ( Berridge , 1969 ) .
19 Table 15.3 indicates that the growing share of UK public expenditure in National Income has been paralleled in other countries .
20 Resistance has been shown in various forms in the worlds of information technology and communications ( although reluctance to learn to work the video does not necessarily stop people buying one ) .
21 The Bognor Regis case has been followed in other common law jurisdictions .
22 The standard of care laid down in this case has been doubted in subsequent cases .
23 Such poor quality teaching has been described in similar terms in a range of reports by the HMI on different age sectors within the education service — on primary and middle schools , for instance — and continues to be a consistent feature of their ongoing commentary on the quality of the present teaching force .
24 Now th the the the way in which the budget has been prepared in previous years , has been maintain existing services .
25 'You are sure there is no marker … no signs that the grave has been tended in recent months ? ’
26 This straight bob has been kept in maximum condition with the Bain de Terre Spa Therapy range
27 Similar reasoning has been applied in other cases ( see eg Mendelssohn v Normand Ltd [ 1970 ] 1 QB 177 ; Jaques v Lloyd D George and Ptnrs [ 1968 ] 1 WLR 625 ) .
28 A similar result has been reported in young wheat plants exposed to CO 2 partial pressures between 120 and 500μbar .
29 Much thinking has been given in recent years to the use of instruments as well as voices in worship .
30 Intravenous amiodarone has been implicated in acute hepatic disease on four previous occasions , but it is suggested that polysorbate 80 , an organic surfactant added to the intravenous infusion , is a more likely cause of this complication .
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