Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immigration control had for long been advocated and in 1917 , under pressure of war , an Immigration Act was passed forbidding the entry of aliens over 16 years of age who were unable to read a 40-word passage . |
| 2 | The Ministry is one for which Mr Toubon has long been prepared and in which he is determined to make a mark , despite the obvious difficulties of taking over from such an active and popular man as Jack Lang . |
| 3 | I know that enthusiastic palaeontologists in several countries have claimed pieces of this missing record , but the claims have all been disputed and in any case do not provide real connections . |
| 4 | It should perhaps be noted that in spite of the shift from a gesellschaft to a bureaucratic administrative type of law and social regulation which has been outlined above , private ( essentially property-related ) interests continue to be well-served by the existing representative model of democracy , in spite of its imperfections as a means of exercising political control and accountability over policy-making . |
| 5 | In lanes 9,10 and 12 the input probe only is seen while in lane 11 a new double stranded product can be seen and is indicated by the arrow . |
| 6 | Where a claim has been automatically referred to arbitration ( when £1,000 or less was claimed or in dispute , Ord 19 , r 2(3) ) , costs are limited to the summons costs , save by special order ( Ord 19 , r 6 ) . |
| 7 | Their own experiences at the Front , and the fact that in many of their villages and townships heavier losses had already been recorded than in the First World War , contradicted what Hitler had had to say . |
| 8 | It has already been noted that in the British system of government MPs and councillors are elected in individual constituencies on the basis of a procedure in which the candidate with a simple majority is the winner . |
| 9 | It has already been noted that in order to put Abdulkerim 's Muftilik into the reign of Bayezid II the writers connected with the later tradition have had to ignore Mustakimzade 's dating of Molla Arab 's Muftilik , namely 893/1488 to 901/1496 ( based , as mentioned above , on the and have substituted instead 893/1488 to Rajab 900/March- April 1495 for Abdulkerim 's period of office and the latter date to Rajab 901/March-April 1496 for that of Molla Arab . |
| 10 | By 1801 , not only had the conflicts between monarch and nobility over the extraction and use of rents and taxes , and the respective rights and duties of each , largely been resolved and in the process made irrelevant , but also the industrial revolution was well under way , establishing the basis for the growing political ascendancy of the industrial classes over both monarchy and aristocracy . |
| 11 | somebody came to settle up bang and he was playing thinking he 'd just been wounded and in fact he 'd been shot and killed , poor chap |
| 12 | To no other , to no less divine a source can I trace the movement ’ , but as we have seen , other speakers , like Joseph Parker , were more perceptive while the 1897 National Council president admitted that ‘ perhaps it can scarcely be denied that in some of our earliest Nonconformist Councils … at first the inspiration was to a large extent political ’ . |
| 13 | It might finally be observed that in its short life , Article 100A , which derogates from Article 100 by allowing the Council to act by qualified majority in co-operation with the European Parliament in order to complete the internal market , has already been used to anticipate new competences expressly recognized in the Maastricht amendments : two of these relate to the encouragement of ‘ trans-European networks ’ and measures in the sphere of energy , yet Article 100A had already been used to enact Council Directive 90/547 on the transit of electricity through transmission grids and Council Directive 91/287 on the transit of natural gas through grids . |
| 14 | True democrats will easily be persuaded that in the absence of an absolute majority for either of the two big parties the pivotal role of a third party is inevitable and salutary . |
| 15 | You will need to wear a watch to time the starts ; this should be worn on the wrist of your right hand , with the face on the inside , so that in the final seconds of a frantic starboard tack start it can easily be read whilst in the sailing position . |
| 16 | Everything people said about Kelly was supposition , nothing against him had ever been proved and in this country you were innocent until proven guilty . |
| 17 | ‘ To listen to some officers in this army one would think that no other war had ever been fought but in Spain ! |
| 18 | While NATO must maintain for the foreseeable future a mix of nuclear and conventional forces in Europe , the declaration reaffirmed that no weapons would ever be used except in self-defence and that the lowest and most stable level of nuclear forces to prevent war was sought . |
| 19 | The joint declaration , finalized in Vienna on Nov. 14 , affirmed that its signatories " are no longer adversaries " and that " none of their weapons will ever be used except in self-defence " . |
| 20 | It may possibly be seen that in some cases the application of the united front from below is the only possible tactic , but it can never be the case that the application of the united front from above is the only possible tactic . |
| 21 | The 80486 translator floating point code is still being optimised and in a couple of weeks Charig says that time will be cut to between 20 and 30 seconds . |
| 22 | The 80486 translator floating point code is still being optimised and in a couple of weeks Charig says that time will be cut to between 20 and 30 seconds . |
| 23 | It has also been stated because in such warehouses there are fewer people , if any , working in them and that management , housekeeping and discipline will be good , fires will be few . |
| 24 | However it has also been suggested that in areas such as science , engineering and medicine , the linearity of knowledge between school and higher education poses particular difficulties for mature students if their levels of preparedness in appropriate subjects compares unfavourably with traditionally qualified school leavers . |
| 25 | Already we have seen microspeciation occurring in trees in Trinidad and Tobago ( section 6.2.6 ) , but it has also been suggested that in crossing major faunal boundaries , plant species may undergo so-called ‘ cryptic ’ speciation with major differences in fruit sizes and so on , associated with different dispersers ; i.e. obscured rather than obscure in that herbarium material is rarely preserved with fully ripe fruits and complete field notes . |
| 26 | Promotion opportunities have also been restricted and in the competition for higher status positions , personal merit evaluation is now given greater weight in determining pay and position . |
| 27 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |
| 28 | Conversely , it has also been shown that in the absence of another meal , the previous one may be kept in the stomach for more than twice as long as usual ( Chitty , 1938 ) , presumably with a gradual increase in stomach acidity , and the bones in this instance are likely to be strongly modified or even totally destroyed . |
| 29 | Other parts of the digestive system may , however , also be affected and in a number of different studies constipation and diarrhoea as well as impaired gall bladder contraction in diabetic patients have been attributed to autonomic neuropathy . |
| 30 | However , it must also be recognised that in most cases when English speakers come across an unfamiliar word , they can pronounce it with the correct stress ( there are exceptions to this , of course ) ; in principle , it should be possible to discover what it is that the English speaker knows and to write in the form of rules . |