Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [vb pp] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It has little relevance in other countries , though a few ( e.g. Denmark and Norway ) have recorded a formal objection , and it appears to have been used in one case for communication from a U.S. attorney to a French huissier . |
| 32 | I can still remember the intense excitement of ‘ listening in ’ to pre-war Nationals on Friday afternoons that , many years later , seem always to have been bathed in bright spring sunshine . |
| 33 | They seemed annoyed to have been woken in this manner , and Stephen demanded to know what the problem was . |
| 34 | Of course , technological developments are not unambiguous and it is crucial that the Archive does not run too quickly with new developments which subsequently prove to have been misguided in some respects . |
| 35 | Some 200 people in possession of pamphlets calling for a multiparty political system were reported to have been arrested in recent weeks around the country ; the human rights organization Amnesty International said that many people working in companies with facsimile transmission machines capable of receiving opposition literature printed abroad were among those detained . |
| 36 | At least 1,600 people were reported on May 11 to have been arrested in northern Uganda following a military crackdown in areas north of Gulu in which scores of dissidents were said to have been killed . |
| 37 | The injunction to make a small cross on the table from five breadcrumbs as a sign of devotion links him with a custom known to have been practised in monastic life , linking the daily bread of physical survival with the bread of life broken at the Passion . |
| 38 | The Sale of Goods Act 1979 , only the second such Act to have been passed in this country , replaced the original Sale of Goods Act 1893 . |
| 39 | The British Library is now gradually coming face to face also with another side of the electronic revolution : the question of how to acquire , preserve and make available unpublished research materials which happen to have been produced in electronic form . |
| 40 | Dorigo had a great game , I thought , but all too often seemed to have been left in sole command of the entire left side of the pitch — every time he went forward alone , large gaps appeared behind him , and the gaps were frequently filled by the ball and Sunderland players . |
| 41 | Not all muftis , of course , were successful when at odds with the Kadi : the aforementioned Molla Nasuh , while muderris/mufti of Aleppo , appears to have been held in some contempt by the kadi of Aleppo , Molla Shams al-Din Ahmad b . |
| 42 | As many as 10,000 political prisoners were said to have been confined in one corner of the island . |
| 43 | Rape is only held to have been committed in English law where the sexual intercourse is ‘ unlawful ’ , and it is generally assumed that the function of that term is to remove non-consensual intercourse between a man and his wife from the ambit of rape . |
| 44 | Unfortunately , their record appears to have been wrapped in thick cloth while being records ; it is muffled as anything . |
| 45 | Thus two of the individual contributions which tile children were asked to make or able to make were put in this way : |