Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adj] [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The above levels of Idemnite are those quoted in the Auvergne ; precise figures can vary between Regions . |
| 2 | The condition that we now recognise as AIDS was first reported in the USA in 1981 . |
| 3 | When AIDS was first identified in the USA , all those affected seemed to be gay or bisexual men . |
| 4 | Spitsbergen was first mentioned in the old Icelandic annals of the year 1194 , and was said to lie ‘ four days sailing from Langanes , at the northern end of the sea ’ They called it Svalbard , the ‘ cold coast ’ . |
| 5 | The mill is first mentioned in the first part of the 17th century and is thought to have been built around 1620 , although clearly much of the present building is of a later date . |
| 6 | The ceiling was first introduced in the 1989 Budget , at the then figure of £60,000 , which as the Chancellor explained would be linked annually to the retail prices index . |
| 7 | Environmental auditing was first developed in the US in response to the increasing pressure of legislation and fear of expensive litigation . |
| 8 | In the event , the sterling balances were much less of a problem from London 's point of view than was commonly anticipated when the scale of their wartime accumulation was first discussed in the mid-1940s . |
| 9 | Programme budgeting was first recommended in the US by the Hoover Commission in 1949 ( Report to Congress on Budget and Accounting ) . |
| 10 | On 22 November the question was first raised in the Commons and John Nott , then Minister of Defence , replied : ‘ It would be wholly against our policy to supply equipment such as Rolls-Royce engines direct to Argentina . |
| 11 | The values of respect , trust , dignity , equality , honesty , compassion , sensitivity , openness and sincerity are all reflected in the courtesies the Profitboss extends to people , whether they be customers , colleagues , acquaintances or members of his team . |
| 12 | Patients of this sort were first discovered in the late 1940s by Dr Theron G. Randolph , one of the founders of clinical ecology in America , and they have been reported by many other doctors since . |
| 13 | Vehicles for repair were first placed in the initial examination bay , this activity occupying three rows in the top paint shop . |
| 14 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
| 15 | The site is first mentioned in the Domesday Survey as a corn mill but , by the end of the 17th century , it was operated as both a corn and fulling mill . |
| 16 | This point was next considered in the case of Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd ( 1963 ) 2 All ER 575 . |
| 17 | This article was first published in the VORRSA Newsletter and is re-printed here by kind permission of the Editor . |
| 18 | In several cases , important types of behaviour were first investigated in the Lorenz equations although these behaviours have since been recognised as typical of many systems . |
| 19 | In the SAVE and SOLVD prevention trials development of symptomatic heart failure , progression of heart failure , rate of admission with heart failure , and incidence of recurrent myocardial infarction were all reduced in the treatment group . |
| 20 | His name is first found in the watermark of a postage stamp for Barbados as early as 1840 . |
| 21 | Use of this schedule was first described in the Camberwell High Contact study ( Brewin et al. , 1988 ) when a variety of other instruments were employed including the PSE . |
| 22 | We have seen how the issue of race was first raised in the 1982 Metropolitan Police statistics which recorded the race of both victim and assailant in London . |
| 23 | The Noble Savage , the Polynesian Beauty , the Paradise Isle were all conceived in the world 's largest ocean . |
| 24 | The steamy clouds of his breath were first caught in the light from above , then pulled slowly away in a draught from the same source . |
| 25 | The centre of the modern Unani hakims is still around Ballimaran , the Street of the Cat Killers , where the doctors moved when the area was first built in the late 1640s . |
| 26 | The collection was first housed in the Černín Palace at Hradčany , and later in the Clam-Martinic and Sternberg Palaces . |
| 27 | Corrugated shutters supposed to cover the unsightly skips in their cubby hole probably have n't been pulled down since the block was first occupied in the 1960s . |
| 28 | Such technical control was first developed in the mechanised , mass-production industries in the United States during the 1890s and early years of the present century , as epitomised in the steel mills . |
| 29 | The octamer sequence was first recognized in the histone H2B gene and in the heavy and kappa light chain immunoglobulin genes and later identified as a regulatory sequence motif for many other cellular and viral genes ( reviewed in [ 1 ] ) . |
| 30 | It was also intended that a wide range of groups and individuals would take advantage of both types of course ; trade unionists , school governors , people intending to be councillors , voluntary organisations , and people intending to apply for higher education or vocational retraining were all mentioned in the final planning paper in 1978 , whereas the other long-term colleges concerned with education for social action were either , like Ruskin , largely trade union-oriented or , like the Cooperative College , intended for cooperators . |