Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [be] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts have used regulatory rules in determining whether an obligation under the general law exists or has been broken in a number of ways . |
| 2 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 3 | Certiorari quashes a decision which is found to be invalid because it is outside the powers granted to the court or tribunal ( ultra vires ) , or has been given in proceedings in which the principles of natural justice were not observed , or where there has been an error of law on the face of the record . |
| 4 | Or has been going in the past , and violence obviously can result in serious injury or at least death . |
| 5 | The range of distances that animals can focus on or accommodate is measured in dioptres . |
| 6 | Nor can the grounds on which payments of ex gratia compensation are made or refused be questioned in a court , unless criteria for the payment of such compensation are published . |
| 7 | Where ferreting is curtailed in this way you may be able to trap the entrance holes and snare the nearby runs ; you may also be able to crop the rabbits by night netting and by evening and night shooting . |
| 8 | Other typical situations where barking can be a problem are when a dog wants to come indoors or resents being left in a car on its own . |
| 9 | Secondly , the tension surrounding the question of " form " — the sense that what design is or does is embodied in form ie the material form of objects , yet also the sense that form , once considered as important is yet not enough , that design is " more than " a matter of merely forming things . |
| 10 | ( Common sense reminds us that given the distribution of women in employment in Edinburgh , most of the mothers probably were or had been employed in some form of domestic service or in the clothing industry ; but in what proportions ? ) |
| 11 | ‘ The builder had either spent three weeks cleaning it or had been kept in pristine condition , ’ says Darren . |
| 12 | Enraptured by the celluloid screen , we revelled in the romance that had been denied to us , or had been put in cold storage ‘ for the duration , . |
| 13 | In Nicaragua , many cotton farmers applied over 30 sprays a season , while in Central Africa , where scouting was introduced in the 1960s , most farmers apply fewer than 12 sprays . |
| 14 | If previous lives do , in fact , exist , then everything we ever do or learn is stored in our subconscious . |
| 15 | Some memoirs , too , take us much further than official material ; those of de Gaulle are a case in point , while British official documents which in their original form remained hidden from the historian by the thirty-year rule were printed in the books of Winston Churchill and Eden , or have been unearthed in private collections by scholars able to disregard the consequences of publication . |
| 16 | In a number of instances , actual boundary stones remain , or have been recorded in the recent past . |
| 17 | S 459 of the Companies Act 1985 provides that if a company 's affairs are being or have been conducted in a manner which is unfairly prejudicial to the company 's interests , then the members may obtain relief through the courts . |
| 18 | Whether you have just moved into a new home or have been living in the same place for years the main thing is that you are alone and you must make your home your pride , your joy , your sanctuary . |
| 19 | In case you had n't figured it out already , or have been vacationing in the Amazon rain forest , ACE is well and truly dead . |
| 20 | YOU ca n't enjoy good beer if the pubs that serve them are badly run or have been modernised in a vulgar and insensitive fashion . |
| 21 | About 90% of rural adults in Mexico have friends or relatives who are or have been working in the United States . |
| 22 | For all the ingenuity that has been exercised in studying remaining ships and portrayals of ships in the light of expert modern knowledge — in the building and sailing of replicas and all manner of ingenious devices — it still remains true that we are tempted to judge early medieval navigation mainly from a handful of second-hand boats ready for retirement , which were thus thought suitable for burial . |
| 23 | Basically , every compliment that has been chucked in Suede 's direction during the past ten minutes the band wholeheartedly , erm , agree with . |
| 24 | Any precious metal that has been manufactured in some way , including coins used for ornament . |
| 25 | When I 'm running , I feel like I am a machine , like a new car that has been run in well . |
| 26 | If would-be choreographers examine Ashton 's The Dream they will discover the significant development that has been made in the structure of the old kind of romantic ballet . |
| 27 | Drug testing also may disproportionally victimise members of racial minority groups whose subcultures sanction casual marijuana smoking , reversing much of the progress that has been made in eliminating employment discrimination . |
| 28 | Let us think for a few moments of the wonderful achievements of the human race — the towns that have been built , the works of art that have been produced — the books , plays , films , pictures , music … the progress that has been made in science and technology . |
| 29 | In Britain also , there is recognition that the progress that has been made in the last fifteen years in increasing the pool of professionally-trained social workers must be matched by similar efforts to upgrade the skills of the paraprofessional work force if the quality of social service provision is to be adequate . |
| 30 | He began by commenting on the dramatic progress that has been made in the understanding of both tropospheric and stratospheric chemical processes during the past 20 years . |