Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emergence of specialized administrative organizations as part of the apparatus of government in the modern nation-state has been accompanied by the development of democratic ideology which stresses the importance of separating legislative , executive and judicial functions to prevent the concentration of power and therefore its abuse . |
| 2 | In the past year the first phase of the analysis of bus passenger casualties highlighted in the 1991 Plan has been undertaken . |
| 3 | Repression by the Sri Lankan security forces in the eastern province has been savage and widespread . |
| 4 | They offered some credence to the contemporaneous growth in anti-semitism : limited and localized though this was , Jewish migrants were criticized and condemned in very similar terms to those later invoked against post-Second World War black immigrants , and which in the nineteenth century had been raised against the Irish . |
| 5 | One of the major achievements of the journeymen in the nineteenth century had been to succeed in having both kinds of work paid at the same rate . |
| 6 | The queen of the northern waters in the ninth century had been the Viking longship , well represented by the famous Gokstad ship discovered in Norway . |
| 7 | Police in the Irish Republic have been alerted but the RUC has not given up hope of finding the chestnut thoroughbred which romped to victory in the all-Ireland derby two years ago and up to 100 other races . |
| 8 | In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards . |
| 9 | Although electrical excitability in the nervous system had been demonstrated before the beginning of the nineteenth century , it was not until the late nineteenth century that it was shown that the brain was spontaneously electrically active Jeannerod 1985 ) , and it was only in the 1930s , after the invention of the valve amplifier , that it was possible to make meaningful records of this activity . |
| 10 | The growth of baseball ‘ rowdyism ’ in the late-nineteenth century has been an inverse function of diminishing female attendance at the game ( Guttmann , 1986:114–15 ) . |
| 11 | At the same time a change in the industrial mix had been in progress with traditional energy intensive industries in decline and service-based , high technology industries on the increase . |
| 12 | The particular need for nursing staff in the mental handicap held was the subject of a DHSS Committee of Inquiry . |
| 13 | However , the Court found that , as was stated in the recitals to the regulation , the definition of value and the interpretative notes set out in the 1590 Convention had been embodied into the legislation of the Member States in different ways , and also certain optional provisions of the interpretative notes were being applied differently in different Member States . |
| 14 | Many opportunities in the Soviet Union have been missed , Gattnar argues , because western companies have not had the contacts , local knowledge and language skills his outfit will provide . |
| 15 | The dissident movement in the Soviet Union has been under heavy attack over the past few years . |
| 16 | Minoan wall frescoes showing youths leaping over bulls in the Cretan manner have been discovered in the Nile Delta . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most celebrated ‘ deserter by doubt ’ lost to Christianity in the twentieth century has been Bertrand Russell . |
| 18 | The growth of government in the twentieth century has been dramatic . |
| 19 | Broadly speaking , the growth of retirement in the twentieth century has been viewed in two very different ways . |
| 20 | Piero Fornasetti , a Milanese whose contribution to the decorative arts in the Twentieth Century has been described as visionary , trained as a painter and sculptor . |
| 21 | This , of course , is an exception to the generalisation that the growth of local government services in the twentieth century has been concentrated in the social services . |
| 22 | It 's a big subject but I 'm in a sense referring to it only in this context because it 's precisely in these areas that British art in the twentieth century has been very important . |
| 23 | By 1979 , just under 30 per cent of the land in the reformed sector had been restored to its former owners ( Castillo and Lehmann 1982 ) . |
| 24 | Activity in giant cells in the pontine brainstem have been shown to precede eye movements in REM sleep in animals ( or paradoxical sleep , as it is called in rodents and cats ) while there is no evidence that cortical activity can influence these cells ' discharges . |
| 25 | A similar proposal to reduce forces in the Asia-Pacific region had been mooted by Soviet officials in November . |
| 26 | Hausa is spoken throughout the state , but in the sixties English had been used , often disastrously , as a medium in schools . |
| 27 | Underlining the relationship between investment in health , education and infrastructure and sound economic policies , the report noted that growth in the developing world had been highest where good education had been combined with undistorted economic policies . |
| 28 | By late October 1990 200 of the 8,000 state-owned enterprises in the former GDR had been privatized by the Treuhandanstalt , to which the privatization process had been entrusted [ see pp. 37536 ; 37660 ] . |
| 29 | This means that most of the recent increase in the proportion of non-manual employment in the employed population has been due to the expansion of service industries and not due to a rise in the number of government employees . |
| 30 | Evidence for similar water action in the Peruvian desert has been described by Bosworth ( 1922 ) . |