Example sentences of "in the [noun prp] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that vanished with the invention of the printing press a few years later , but many of the books in the Corviniana were made in Italy at that time . |
| 2 | Sixty per cent of electricity in Lithuania is generated by two RBMK-1500 reactors ; 40 per cent in the Ukraine is produced by nuclear power stations ; and 50 per cent in Kiev is still supplied by the part of Chernobyl that remains in operation . |
| 3 | By 1924 , when these industries had re-established themselves , one-fifth of all factory workers in the Ukraine were concentrated in the Kharkov and Ekaterina gubernii . |
| 4 | In the wave of revulsion that followed , priests in the Temple were coerced into abolishing the official sacrifices to Rome and to the Emperor — an overt challenge which rendered open war inevitable . |
| 5 | Three of the rarest lichens in the Brecklands are suffering from factors such as acid rain , nitrate pollution and conifer invasion , and specimens have been transferred to other sites , where they are thriving . |
| 6 | A coastguard helicopter from Sumburgh in the Shetlands was sent to the platform and other helicopters alerted . |
| 7 | While grain mountains grew in the West , millions of people in the Sudan were dying of starvation . |
| 8 | Despite his age and his narrow election as Chancellor he soon established himself firmly in Bonn , dominating his new Cabinet , whilst his political opponents were weak : the non-coalition parties in the Bundestag were divided among themselves and neither the Communists nor the various conservative groups proved willing to combine with the SPD , whose socialist programme alienated many . |
| 9 | The windows in the NIR are known to be predominantly controlled by water absorption bands , but oxygen and carbon dioxide also have some influence . |
| 10 | The next fifty years were the classic age of piracy when men like Teach ( Blackbeard ) plundered in all directions and buried their fortunes on treasure islands , but after their main base in the Bahamas was brought under control by the British government in 1718 the Atlantic was made reasonably safe from this . |
| 11 | ( See , for example , Katznelson 's ( 1982 ) suggestions why city politics in the USA are organized around racial groups rather than occupational classes , and Smith 's ( 1988 ) discussion of the differences between American and British cities in the degree of local political mobilization . ) |
| 12 | Production facilities in the USA are grouped under United Distillers Production Inc .. |
| 13 | In fact , one in three new ventures in the USA is started by people under thirty — the majority of whom are graduates in their early twenties . |
| 14 | Frank Pearce has argued that organised crime in the USA is dominated by big business ; and William Chambliss , in a detailed study of crime in Seattle , Washington , has demonstrated the numerous interconnections between organised crime and the ruling groups in society . |
| 15 | The current state of regulation in the USA is discussed by Perpich ( 1989 ) who highlights the roles of the EPA , the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) , the US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) and the National Institute of Health ( NIH ) as well as the Biotechnology Science Coordinating Committee ( BSCC ) which was established in 1985 to formulate policies and coordinate the interests of the existing monitoring bodies in terms of public health and environmental implications . |
| 16 | The current status of the method in the USA was surveyed by Dougherty and Stephenson ( 1984 ) in firms in the Fortune 500 ( most commercially successful of the year ) class . |
| 17 | The current status of the method in the USA was surveyed by Dougherty and Stephenson ( 1984 ) in firms in the Fortune 500 ( most commercially successful of the year ) class . |
| 18 | The third phase of the emergence of headhunting in the USA was marked by the formation of the Big Four headhunting firms , the search industry 's equivalents of the Seven Sisters of the oil world and the Big Eight of the accountancy profession : they are Heidrick and Struggles , Spencer Stuart , Russell Reynolds and Korn/Ferry . |
| 19 | Most Soviet espionage in the USA was directed from Canada and Mexico . |
| 20 | Changes in the VHAI were used as an end point in this study . |
| 21 | As an illustration , the computer market in the EC is characterised by the presence of many , very large companies , but it is still highly competitive . |
| 22 | The problem of the Government demonstrating a commitment to the continuing process in the EC is highlighted by the so-called opt-out clause . |
| 23 | The net cost of the inclusion of East Germany in the EC was estimated by the Commission at about £345,000,000 ( approximately 242,000,000 European currency units ) each year until 1993 . |
| 24 | The noise in the Amsterdam was settling to a pleasant background roar . |
| 25 | Yet the overwhelming opinion is that a significant proportion of lung cancer deaths in the UK are caused by radon , and that people who are likely to have long exposure to high radon levels are at extreme risk . |
| 26 | All changes in the UK are influenced by international factors , but domestic factors are far from irrelevant ; for some changes domestic factors have a relatively great influence and international factors a relatively smaller role , while others are arranged on a scale of increasing influence of international factors . |
| 27 | We estimate 600,000 people in the UK are affected by dementia . |
| 28 | Over 100 million pieces of equipment in the UK are governed by the new regulations , from kettles and hairdriers to fax machines and power drills — in fact anything with which employees or the public may come into contact . |
| 29 | In other words , party leaders in the UK are selected from experienced national politicians whose competence and party loyalty have been regularly tried and tested , who have been subject to a careful process of peer review and have come to the fore not as a result of their electoral appeal , but because they have won the confidence of the people with whom they would have to work in government . |
| 30 | A rough-hewn psychological explanation would hold that , because many second generation Caribbeans and Africans in the UK are raised in single-parent families , in almost every case the parent being the mother , the children pass into an emotional void at the ages of 13 or 14 and seek out father figures in the shape of sports coaches with whom they form compensatory attachments . |