Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amino-acid residues that are completely conserved are shown in bold type . |
| 2 | Even events which we would never passivize in English because they involve only one participant and therefore can not ‘ logically ’ be passivized are expressed in passive structures in these languages if they are unpleasant , for example ‘ I was died on by my father ’ in Japanese . |
| 3 | ( In this chapter , we shall adopt the convention that all numbers that change when they are smoothed are shown in bold print . ) |
| 4 | The range of topics covered and the nature of the professional development activities undertaken are detailed in 2.2.2 . |
| 5 | Some of the herbs listed are found in most countries — often taken by mankind as they migrated all over the world , showing that man considered them as important . |
| 6 | The modern movement for the legislative recognition of ‘ human rights ’ is in fact a movement for the increased control of legislatures by the judiciary , because the human rights that are claimed are couched in such broad terms , and involve so much balancing of one consideration with another , that they inevitably call for much judicial ‘ interpretation . ’ |
| 7 | When we are satisfied that this stage of the transaction has been completed in good faith , you will receive the rest of the items through the post . ’ |
| 8 | Population decline has been halted in many areas since the mid-1960s to its present level of 346,000 , with employment in manufacturing trebling in this period and total employment growing by one-half ( Shucksmith and Lloyd 1982 ) . |
| 9 | Instead of generalising findings from one patient to others by treating them all as representing instances of a single syndrome , the approach is to treat them all as people in whom a language-processing system which , before their neurological damage , was the same for all of them , has been impaired in some specific way . |
| 10 | On its own it has been explained in various special ways , but considered in the general setting of Mediterranean stratigraphy , some more general explanation seems to be needed . |
| 11 | This property has been recognised in many plant species . |
| 12 | This has been recognised in particular by UK companies , and only a minority of large UK companies do not now use graphical means of data presentation in their corporate annual reports . |
| 13 | This is the first time that a photographer has been recognised in this way . |
| 14 | This is the first time that a photographer has been recognised in this way . |
| 15 | Pain arising from the costal margin has been recognised in medical studies for many years . |
| 16 | A children s adventure playground has been built in recent years , and the field is well used by the village football and cricket teams . |
| 17 | A second possible objection to the rational basis/rightness approach is that it would be somehow inconsistent with the juridical basis on which judicial review has been built in this country . |
| 18 | This produces that variety of note-successions so typical of the total-chromatic usage of serialism ( Example 140 ) : This exercise has been written in such a way as to reveal the considerable difficulty which inevitably occurs when using several serial forms at the same time . |
| 19 | So much has been written in recent years about Ralph Sarich 's Orbital two-stroke engine that our award for technical innovation might appear somewhat tardy . |
| 20 | Much has been written in recent years of the so-called " male menopause " . |
| 21 | A good deal has been written in recent years about Primitive Catholicism , the tendency apparent even within the New Testament period itself to domesticate the Holy Spirit , to make him the perquisite of the Church . |
| 22 | His Laws is still read with pleasure when much that has been written in intervening centuries on the subjects which he treated appears arid , unintelligible , pompous or irrelevant . |
| 23 | Many businesses close ; employment has been lost in rural areas ; when subsidies first went and interest rates were high large numbers of farmers were forced to leave their land . |
| 24 | What has been lost in all this second-guessing is the wanton reckless joy of his finest records . |
| 25 | Some of my best writing has been lost in this way , for I have reason to suppose that the letters were not kept , not even in an old shoe-box . |
| 26 | The matter has been handled in meticulous detail both by Hare and Macfarlane , and only the most salient points can be noted here . |
| 27 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 28 | The Irish Bank Officials ’ Association , over the years , has made a tremendous contribution to the welfare of its members and we know that in recent times IBOA has been engaged in many struggles to protect those terms and conditions . |
| 29 | A YOUNG flying ace of a Spitfire squadron which has been engaged in many battles over Britain , and who married a former Sheerness Carnival Queen , has been killed in action . |
| 30 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |