Example sentences of "is [verb] [to-vb] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tribe of Aborigines known as the Dolphin People , who live on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria , in northern Australia , is said to have been in direct communication for thousands of years with the wild bottlenose dolphins who reside just off the coast . |
| 2 | Gunpowder is said to have been in use in certain Continental mines early in the 17th Century . |
| 3 | It was bought by Baron Meyer de Rothschild for Mentmore before 1860 , and is known to have been in Palazzo Manfrini , Venice , by the 1850s . |
| 4 | The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original . |
| 5 | May is known to have been in the service of George Villiers , second Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , |
| 6 | He is known to have been in receipt of pensions from at least three institutional clients ( the abbeys of Glastonbury and Ramsey and the priory of Durham ) and probably received similar pensions from many other individuals and institutions . |
| 7 | There was serious foreign interest in Esselte 's publishing division when it was first put on the market early in 1990 , and Hachette is known to have been in negotiation before an agreement with Liber was finally concluded . |
| 8 | That is not say that those whom it is hoped to benefit are in any sense undemanding or unsophisticated . |
| 9 | The ‘ 18T was radically different to earlier variants , a totally new fuselage having been designed to give side-by-side instead of tandem seating and first flight is believed to have been in 1967 . |
| 10 | The child who is learning to read is in a situation that is likely to encourage him to begin to consider possibilities in relation to at least one important act of thought : the apprehension of meaning . |