Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] [vb -s] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The amount of confidence end-users have in the figures has been seriously dented after last year 's performance . |
| 2 | The occurrence of multiple probands in the families has been described . |
| 3 | Purulent staphylococcal infection in the lungs has been noted in many cases of metastrongylosis . |
| 4 | More than any other policy at any other stage in his career , de Gaulle 's foreign policy in the mid-1960s has been comprehensively criticized — in concept , operation , and outcome . |
| 5 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 6 | Sclerotization of such an animal , with jointed limbs replacing lobopods , could lead to an animal similar to phosphatized Ordovician fossils from , regarded as primitive pentastomids ( still extant as parasitic animals whose postulated position in the crustaceans has been recently confirmed by molecular evidence ) . |
| 7 | About 90 per cent of development in the zones has been for industrial or warehouse use . |
| 8 | In most libraries user education activity fluctuates from year to year ; a bewildering range of teaching methods and teaching materials has been tried and applied ; and a discernible pattern of development in the programmes has been almost impossible to trace . |
| 9 | Our recent record in the cups has been bad … but you look back — it always has been ! |
| 10 | The 20 tonnes of lead in the batteries has been found to have an immeasurably low level of background radiation . |
| 11 | Therefore it is not surprising that the lowlands landscape has changed most , especially in arable areas , for farming in the lowlands has been subject to the most thoroughgoing technological changes . |
| 12 | There can be no claim that this is what Roth really thinks : the affidavit that might have been contained in The Facts has been withheld . |
| 13 | The decor in the bedrooms has been tastefully designed in cool pastel shades , whilst the beautiful furniture varies from light ash and mahogany to dark oak . |
| 14 | Every item in the cabinets has been stolen , in the same burglaries that netted thousands of tools and pieces of garden equipment , and recovered by the same team of detectives . |
| 15 | The only useable machinery left in the workshops has been wrecked … and it 's thought industrial saboteurs could be to blame . |
| 16 | Its refurbishment of industrial units in the docks has been successful and well received ( Parkinson and Evans , 1990 ) . |
| 17 | The question of variations between Thou and You in the Sonnets has been discussed rather fruitlessly . |