Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adj] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growing numbers of schools , colleges , community groups and other training providers are becoming involved in European projects . |
| 2 | In general old people who are becoming vulnerable in some way , are left to carry on coping with the assistance of family , friends , or neighbours , and most receive minimal help from outside welfare agencies . |
| 3 | The first pictures encountered by the youngest readers ( and the youngest readers will be very young : ‘ Ideally , a small pile of good books awaits the new baby 's arrival ’ according to Dorothy Butler , 1980 , p.27 ) will be simple , clear pictures of objects to be seen in the reader 's immediate world , objects that are becoming familiar in real life . |
| 4 | Increasingly , literary texts are becoming available in computerised form . |
| 5 | According to the BMJ article , the drug had been considered appropriate in some hospitals for occasional use on children . |
| 6 | One obvious such method is the timing of the passage of marked fluid from one point to another , and many flow-visualization experiments have been made quantitative in this way . |
| 7 | Although the caste system has been made illegal in modern India , it still exercises an influence , particularly in rural areas . |
| 8 | Since 1980 , ABWOR has been made available in Mental Health Review Tribunals ( from 1982 ) ; prison disciplinary proceedings before a board of visitors where legal representation has been granted ( from 1984 ) ; and in respect of applications for warrants of further detention ( or extensions ) under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( from 1986 ) . |
| 9 | The implicit monarchical themes may also have their own republican counterparts , which could have been made explicit in further contexts . |
| 10 | If a shipowner exercised due diligence to see that the vessel had been made seaworthy in all respects , the Harter Act exempted the shipowner from the consequences of errors in navigation and management . |
| 11 | Cos you do you 've not been anywhere unless you 've been made bankrupt in this place round here . |
| 12 | As he said at the time : ‘ I 've never been seen naked in any bed , never . |
| 13 | It rejoices in an enhanced belief in Manichaean and mythological archetypes of good and evil which are made manifest in exaggerated games of ‘ cops ’ and ‘ robbers ’ . |
| 14 | And now I 'll do the other half of my reef knot , right , and tuck the ends in immediately , they do n't like seeing ends because they 're considered dangerous in first aid so do n't forget to do it , do the knot , tuck it in all in one movement and then it 's done , okay , how does that feel ? |
| 15 | The long arm of the law is reaching a bit too close for comfort if you 're taken short in sunny Singapore . |
| 16 | Or if you have three works which are performed live in PRS-licensed premises at least twelve times over the course of two years , you can also become a member of the society . |
| 17 | Now , with accountants trying to find whether pension money was used to help Oxford out of their financial difficulties , he 's coming to terms with the possibility he 's been supporting United in more ways than one … |
| 18 | Another line of argument emphasizes how women are rendered invisible in these statistics . |
| 19 | I had just asked butterfly ecologist Marney Hall whether , since butterflies are getting scarce in this country , a garden like this would really work . |
| 20 | Other name and course order lists are found useful in general library administration such as processing external readership applications for Polytechnic students . |
| 21 | The authors claim that single dose treatment has not yet been proved adequate in this context . |
| 22 | Courses for which evaluation has not yet been completed are marked provisional in this prospectus . |
| 23 | TWO LIVES by William Trevor Penguin , £5.99 THE TWO lives are laid bare in two novellas . |
| 24 | If some of those who proposed it are proved right in several years ' time , I hope that I will admit as much , but I have grave doubts nevertheless , and they are shared by a large number of heavyweight people in the Scottish universities . |
| 25 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 26 | In China would be considered rhematic in both formulations ( unless stress is used to signal a difference in its thematic/rhematic status ) . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal decided that no child could be considered competent in that situation . |
| 28 | If we move from the material world of technology and physical experience to the metaphysical world of moral ideas and the imagination we find that there is enormous discrepancy about what may be considered abnormal in different circumstances , but attitudes to the abnormal are always ambivalent . |
| 29 | And there was absolutely no reason why a single cancer cell should ever be let loose in any part of our body . |
| 30 | Now is the time for God 's banner to be lifted high in that country . |