Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb mod] [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | These upland areas may have been in the form of downland , with good quality grassland , or rough upland pastures , such as the commons and wastes of the higher mountainous regions . |
| 2 | Weak though its labour organisation may have been in the 1880s , it had a longer tradition of trade unionism among seamen than any other part of the country . |
| 3 | However amenable to overseas influence Boiotia may have been in the prehistoric period ( p. 83 ) , classical , fourth-century and hellenistic Boiotia was in many respects deeply conservative and introverted . |
| 4 | ‘ Unless the Government acts to free students from this sort of red fascism , then all the words of the Education Reform Act will have been in vain . ’ |
| 5 | Pursuing this laissez-faire policy may have been in the national interest , but it did n't seem to be in John 's or that of the other hostages . |
| 6 | If instead we had measured A's spin in the x direction and found it to be " up " then , of course , by a similar argument B would have been in a state with unc definitely " down " . |
| 7 | Zoo staff said rare animals could have been killed in the attack and warned that the gang members would have been in danger if any of the animals had managed to escape . |
| 8 | CLEAR SIGNS that a doping ring may have been in operation emerged yesterday when the Jockey Club admitted that Surrey police are investigating the ‘ nobbling ’ of a horse at Yarmouth last August . |
| 9 | I could not help feeling that if we could have had him from the moment of the return of Civil Government Burma would have been in a happier and more disciplined condition , ready to see the real task which the nation would have to face as soon as its political future was decided . |
| 10 | To commemorate South Africa 's readmission to Test cricket , Coopers and Lybrand Ratings have published a list of what their world rankings would have been in March 1970 when South Africa played their last Test match . |
| 11 | Without papal assistance , crown finances would have been in even more desperate straits than in fact they were . |
| 12 | The approach of the Court was that taking into account the three aggravating circumstances , the responsibility of the offender , the age of the girl and the degree of planning , the proper starting point would have been in the region of eight years : against that were the plea of guilty , the offender 's remorse and the effect on the offender of the double appearance . |
| 13 | A COUPLE of Hail Marys might have been in order as the first-night audience left Dario Fo 's Vatican farce , The Pope and the Witch , which opened at the Comedy Theatre , London , on Monday . |
| 14 | Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010 . |