Example sentences of "[noun pl] has [be] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 2 | One important application for Markov models has been in automatic speech recognition ( ASR ) in which a speech signal is modelled as a probabilistic function of a ( hidden ) Markov chain . |
| 3 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , governments have come to accept the extravagant version as a taboo , and , like many such myths , its influence over the years has been in inverse proportion to its constitutional validity . |
| 5 | The development of study skills was implicitly or explicitly part of every proposal made for inclusion in the ESSE/L Project , and as we have seen , the major thrust of recent inservice developments has been in this area . |