Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1971 this offender had been given a ten-year sentence for attempting to rape a 69-year-old woman . |
| 2 | She was as much their victim as the naked flesh she had seen in that bleak vision had been victim to the flail . |
| 3 | But I know of several people who having been in full-time Christian work have been prepared to get a secular job for a time , until the new church was able to support them . |
| 4 | One of the most important recent developments in European social psychology has been the emergence of the concept of ‘ social representations ’ . |
| 5 | Grants to help offset the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by volunteers in geological conservation work have been announced by English Nature — the English branch of the now disbanded Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 6 | Some of the trees in this ancient woodland have been here for more than 300 years . |
| 7 | That way , at least , he might have discouraged the impression that the Government 's abiding concern in this sorrowful matter has been to defend the actions of the state at their most indefensible . |
| 8 | Now that the little spot of reality I 'd made in this mean city has been so lightly abandoned by those I 'd thought it would be safe with — but you wo n't catch me compromising with the lackeys . |
| 9 | One of the few creditable responses of the outside world in this dismal war has been the provision of food and medical help . |
| 10 | What I have been concerned about in this short section has been to compare some simple forms of growth equations deriving from quite different traditions . |
| 11 | The first , that AZT may be ineffective in postponing the development of overt AIDS , would be more persuasive if the length of the follow-up reported in this preliminary study had been greater . |
| 12 | His coming to live in this particular house had been preceded by a change in his life which he was finding a little difficult to accept . |
| 13 | And since they could not bear the truth , these singers , who might in some other place have been wise , were squeezed under the terrible weight of the warren 's secret until they gulped out fine folly about dignity and acquiescence , and anything else that could make believe that the rabbit loved the shining wire . |
| 14 | And although this is conjecture , I feel it should be mentioned , if only because the primal mother-child relationship so highly emphasised in post-Freudian psychoanalytic literature has been largely ignored by those who have written about anorexia nervosa . |
| 15 | ( His British predecessor in such technical study had been Thomas Hardy ; but that is another , and difficult , topic . ) |
| 16 | From Table I ( p. 15 ) it can be seen that while the amount of broad-leaved high forest has increased by some five per cent. , the increase in coniferous high forest has been 18 per cent . |
| 17 | Because public investment in major new equipment has been concentrated in France in the public hospitals , and because specialists in these hospitals are full time , it is the public hospitals that provide the setting for major medical care in France . |
| 18 | In the second project , a successful technique of collector emplacement by thrust boring in medium-grained unconsolidated sand has been developed . |
| 19 | In general this owl has been considered to be a woodland species preying on woodland rodents and birds ( Southern , 1954 ) . |
| 20 | Opened in 1846 this section had been early superseded and closed and in the time of Mr Mester 's childhood comprised only an overgrown formation . |
| 21 | In 1563 one Hoppringle had been set upon and murdered in his house by a joint force of Armstrongs and Elliots , which gave rise to a long Border feud . |
| 22 | The result has been a theory to explain what would in any earlier age have been inexplicable : the birth of the universe . |
| 23 | The other important sub-sect to figure prominently in recent biblical scholarship has been familiar for a long time , but under a different name . |
| 24 | The usual approach to discussion on the role of armaments in modern Marxist literature has been to allocate a third department of production specifically for such production . |
| 25 | Research which has suggested that there has been an increase in voluntary early retirement has been based on the responses of financially secure early retirees ( see , for example , Heidbreder 1972 ; McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ) . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , the stimuli and tasks used in dichotic listening research have been almost as varied as the number of investigations undertaken with little or no attempt at proper validation . |