Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between them is given in syntactic terms : " Equative prolongation … is usually articulated by overt repetition or apposition … |
| 2 | He was writing in the Origin for readers most of whom were steeped in Victorian optimism , religion and the romantic movement . |
| 3 | In all , only 24 incumbent legislators lost their seats , although an unprecedented number of incum±bents — many of whom were implicated in various congressional scandals — had chosen to retire or else had been defeated in the primary elections . |
| 4 | Erm Of the total of goods that are sold in industrialized countries , such as , that have been manufactured , only three percent of them are made in developing countries . |
| 5 | Now , with Government aid , most of them are employed in new light industries . |
| 6 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 7 | None of the others had escaped unscathed either , each of them being lashed in varying degrees with myriad points of searing pain . |
| 8 | Since all of them were built in traditional style , it was difficult to tell which were old and which new . |
| 9 | Since a great proportion of them were engaged in growing corn and other basic needs of life , there must already have been a considerable proportion of the European population who needed to be fed by the labour of others . |
| 10 | Approximately 600 policemen , mostly Tamils , were apparently abducted and according to unconfirmed reports over 100 of them were massacred in Amparai district on June 12 . |
| 11 | Some of them were dressed in Ottoman regalia or Arab dress or even French cavalry uniform , serious-looking young men who — in the later pictures — were carrying Lee-Enfield service rifles . |
| 12 | There were very large claims from members of the Territorial Army for loss of earnings and most of them were met in full . |
| 13 | Japanese has two suffixes , -wa and -ga , the functions of which are explained in different ways by different linguists but which are said to mark , among other things , topic and non-topic respectively . |
| 14 | The most virulent of these were smallpox and measles , epidemics of which are noted in Russian colonial records from the 1630s onwards . |
| 15 | The former , which has the remains at least one mosaic , produced tesserae of lias and Painswick stone , both of which are found in local quarries . |
| 16 | Hector 's dolphin is one of the four species of the genus Cephalorhynchus , all of which are found in different areas of the Southern Hemisphere at temperate latitudes . |
| 17 | There was an immediate impact on costs , half of which are measured in overseas currencies , whereas there was relatively little effect on revenue , much of which is booked in advance . |
| 18 | An estimated $US600 m. annual damage occurs in India due to flooding and siltation , much of which is caused in Himalayan watersheds in Nepal ( Gribbin 1982 , Thompson and Warburton 1982 ) . |
| 19 | But they admit that far more important will be a proposed new law on market supervision and investor protection , the first draft of which is expected in late spring . |
| 20 | The report also details severe pollution of water resources and the still greater problem of radioactive wastes , much of which was dumped in ordinary waste tips during the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 21 | Indeed , the judge had directed the jury 's attention to the final minutes of the film , which depicted a couple making love in explicit anatomical detail , some of which was photographed in close shot . |
| 22 | Like the more recent phenomenological sociologists , Freud saw that there were competing views of reality , some of which were socially maintained and continually reinforced by social processes , others of which were maintained in small groups , families or by one individual alone . |
| 23 | These often required jokes , tricks and special ploys , all of which were performed in dumb show , something at which the great mimes Grock and Charlie Chaplin were expert . |
| 24 | Lefty Gardner 's P-38 Lightning White Lightnin and a 1929 Ford Trimotor , both of which were included in pre-auction publicity were withdrawn from the sale . |
| 25 | We feel we do a great deal of work in this area but the majority of it is incorporated in thematic work or incidental . |
| 26 | The Cathedral at Angers is a good example of the massive , domical building of Anjou , though parts of it were rebuilt in Gothic times . |
| 27 | Well he did n't reveal any of this new material and none of it was revealed in open court . |
| 28 | A so called ‘ rationalisation ’ of the market is now leading to the price charged in Britain rising at over twice the rate of inflation towards what is charged in other countries . |
| 29 | In 3 we have discussed theories of the pragmatic interpretation of language : how people create meaning and make sense of what is said in specific circumstances . |
| 30 | How does the analysis of society into related Practices affect our conception of what is included in economic practice ? |