Example sentences of "[be] [adv] in [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This phenomenon will be illustrated using pseudo-synonymy , although pseudo-relations are not in principle limited to synonymy . |
| 2 | The two organisations are not in fact connected and we apologise for any confusion that may have been caused . |
| 3 | If the process of the construction of knowledge can be shown to work against itself , this can operate because the ideas of the dominant order are not in fact threatened by alternatives which , with hindsight , may appear radical to us now . |
| 4 | This is not the same situation as in those areas of the law where there are medical concepts which are not in fact accepted without further refinement by courts ; the notion of what constitutes therapy is such an issue , as are , for example , the concepts of insanity and paternity . |
| 5 | I think er , we need to er , look at this issue of carers far more rigorously , and I 'm very sad that the government , having made a great play about back to basics and er , encouraging family values , erm , are not in fact prepared er , to do something to er , alleviate unemployment by encouraging employers to make adequate provision to ensure that people with dependants can actually work . |
| 6 | As we shall see in the next chapter these very high strengths are not in fact confined to glass fibres but can be got from almost any solid , glassy or crystalline . |
| 7 | These five possible areas of leisure activities are only illustrative for the particular methodological problem here being discussed ; they are not in fact derived from any research , but they will suffice to show that the researcher should now be thinking in what order they might be placed so as to g*e a sensible progression in an interview . |
| 8 | It is always necessary , however , to remember that the bands are not in fact associated with local , group modes , but with normal modes of the whole molecule . |
| 9 | Even less is known about the usefulness of books which are located and borrowed , and it is quite likely that many of the titles thought to have answered a subject enquiry are not in fact found by the reader to be very useful at all . |
| 10 | The two rooms in question can be and are still in fact used for the same purpose for which they were used prior to the erection of the staircase . |
| 11 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 12 | Trainees at Harvard Securities were not in practice made to send out details on stocks to clients they were pitching who had n't dealt three times , as all dealers were supposed to . |
| 13 | Important changes in the doctrine of precedent were also made in midgame : judges were persuaded or persuaded themselves that they were not in fact bound by court decisions their predecessors had taken as binding . |
| 14 | But , to spike the guns of barrack-room lawyers , it is expressly stated that it is not a defence to prove that the documents prepared were not in fact prepared in accordance with the Act . |
| 15 | The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) . |
| 16 | Yet even the new system brought criticism that the budgeted grants were not in fact paid by the government ( El País , 6 November 1985 ) . |
| 17 | The family had changed , and its various functions of education , food production , and the manufacture of clothing were already in part relinquished to a variety of institutions whose smooth functioning rested on the intervention and guidance of the nation state . |
| 18 | Peter de Neville lost his wardenship , and in February 1272 both he and his son Theobald were still in prison charged with these offences . |
| 19 | Several of these were also in packages managed by other people and it was realised that two new modules would be required . |
| 20 | For example , that it was hard to explain to the Vietnamese how large numbers of Vichy French were back in positions held during the war . |
| 21 | How many men were there in Vienna known to Fräulein Müller , who were likely to be on the scene when needed , and now preferred to remain anonymous ? |
| 22 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 23 | Sometimes the ultimate question is only in theory left to the public authority ; for example , in some cases of review for jurisdictional errors of law or fact in which it is clear that if the authority had got the law or the facts right , its decision would have been different and could only have been one way . |
| 24 | ‘ If a person with knowledge of the facts pays money , which he is not in law bound to pay , and in circumstances implying that he is paying it voluntarily to close the transaction , he can not recover it . |
| 25 | But before these can be discussed , another lexical relation must be introduced , which , although it figures prominently in lexical proportional series , is not in principle restricted thereto . |
| 26 | 3136 DC is not in state CREated , so can not be submitted : |
| 27 | The user has attempted to submit a DC which is not in state CREated . |
| 28 | The DC is not in state AGREED . |
| 29 | Following this reduction to a less serious ' offence , sentencing policy seems to be that the offence of taking vehicles without consent is not in isolation deemed to be serious enough to attract a custodial sentence . |
| 30 | In many cases the structure may also be capable of being assessed under TA 1988 , s739 although if there is a UK life tenant it may be argued that the income is not in reality paid to a person who is resident or domiciled outside the United Kindom within TA 1988 , s739 . |