Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Ministry of Defence ( MOD ) admits that " chemically treated " compounds such as incinerated mustard gas and white asbestos are buried in five marked sites in the area , but denies that these could be polluting the environment . |
| 2 | These notions of the automatisation of processes which no longer require close monitoring are described in more detail in Underwood ( 1982 ) , but for the present purposes it is sufficient to note that attention can only be devoted to higher-level activities , such as comprehension , when lower-level activities have become skilled through practice . |
| 3 | More specialist types of board are used in top level racing ( see Chapter 6 ) and speed sailing . |
| 4 | As in previous examples , the problematic items in the source text are underlined and the items which replace them in the target text are highlighted in bold . |
| 5 | Although the human and social aspects of change are emphasised in this section , the technical aspects are also important . |
| 6 | These various strands of information work with the computer are combined in some of the newest developments in user education in schools . |
| 7 | Recommendation ( ix ) calls upon local offices and the Department of Social Security to give higher priority to those entering residential care to make sure that their claims for income support are processed in good time so that people do not have weeks of worry or possibly weeks in a home without paying . |
| 8 | Many cultural formations have of course been restricted in this way . |
| 9 | Several of the group who took part most from the Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education course are handicapped in some way . |
| 10 | If this makes it seem inevitable that Labour 's electoral support should slump , it has to be pointed out that , according to the opinion polls , Labour might well have won had an election been called in 1978 . |
| 11 | In the interests of conciseness and convention , it is necessary to use here the suffix notation for vector equations which has for the most part been avoided in this book ( the other main exception being the appendix to Chapter 5 ) . |
| 12 | He submitted that the concept of a peculiar domestic law differing from the general law of the land was artificial since in practice the charter and statutes of a university are expressed in ordinary legal language and applied in accordance with the same principles as those applicable under the general law . |
| 13 | There is no reason to think that the laws of physics are violated in living matter . |
| 14 | The surviving remnants of the eighteenth-century building are shown in solid black , the parts which have vanished as broken lines . |
| 15 | Its coat colour and pigmented skin are valued in hot climates where it has proved resistant to eye cancer and also , to some extent , to ticks . |
| 16 | Here , attention was drawn to the dominance of a sub-culture of child abuse expertise into which many professionals working in the field are socialised in different ways . |
| 17 | Only certain parts of the spectrum are used in remote sensing because radiation at some wavelengths is absorbed by gases present in the atmosphere , particularly ozone and water vapour . |
| 18 | The characteristics of the 24 stimuli that were chosen for this experiment are described in greater detail in Chapter 7 . |
| 19 | ‘ One can only speculate what would have happened had this not been done but I seriously doubt if we would be meeting here today had not the capital infusion been made in 1990 and this plan put into place and well executed . |
| 20 | The details of this programme are covered in greater depth elsewhere in this book . |
| 21 | The details of this programme are discussed in 3.3 |
| 22 | The financial constraints on Ayr racecourse are reflected in much-reduced prize-money for today 's Scottish Champion Hurdle , which features a rematch between Fidway , fourth in the Champion Hurdle , and Granville Again , who fell when challenging at the second-last . |
| 23 | The obstacles to preventive research are found in many countries , including Britain , which has a distinguished history in epidemiology , public health , and preventive medicine . |
| 24 | During an acute hyperglycaemia induced by intravenous infusion of glucose , gastric emptying , gastric acid secretion and pancreatic enzyme secretion are reduced in healthy subjects . |
| 25 | The effects of allowing or inhibiting entry are examined in this section first by investigating the plausibility of completely free entry , then by seeing whether firms can adopt policies to guard against entry . |
| 26 | As promised earlier , many of the proofs in this chapter are written in expansive style with square brackets indicating those portions of proofs that could , without great loss , be omitted . |
| 27 | Thus the skills , knowledge and qualities of individuals appointed to the institution are formulated in such a way as to contribute to the achievement of institutional aims . |
| 28 | The second , more questionable assumption is that , even in the short run , capital and labour are combined in variable proportions , that is , that a movement down the marginal productivity of labour curve will imply the employment of more workers with a given number of machines . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know if it should be that important if everything we do is based on good sound scientific principles , because if people perhaps in the same industry are situated in different places in the estuary , y'know , if one was to point the finger at the other and say ‘ But you allow him to discharge such and such and you only let us do this ’ , then we should be able to turn round and say , ‘ Ah yes , but you 're discharging in a different place and the river quality in this different place needs different treatment . ’ |
| 30 | Examples of the use of this theorem are given in 2.2.3 . |