Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [adj] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Research findings have been ambivalent in this area and no firm results have been shown . |
| 32 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 33 | But I have been lucky in all sorts of things . |
| 34 | Ranganathan 's fundamental facets have been important in this area . |