Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glacial drifts on which many soils are developed are widespread in Lewis and occur sporadically in Harris , North Uist , Benbecula and South Uist . |
| 2 | Clearly , therefore , factors other than the cumulative amount of alcohol consumed are involved in determining which patients develop liver disease . |
| 3 | If you want to carry the smallest possible quantity of water or get the best possible price in the market , the judgements you make are important in a way those made in a water tray or school shop can never be . |
| 4 | Right , oh yes it 's got a , a lot of discrepancies , but the point is that the discrepancies it has are explicable in terms of what the discrepancies were trying to hide and correct and to that extent it 's a bit like psychoanalysing an individual patient . |
| 5 | But whilst the concern might , therefore , have been largely misplaced , it has been useful in fostering a re-examination of the way schools and LEAs maintain discipline amongst pupils and in prompting fresh research into the nature of misbehaviour in schools . |
| 6 | FTIR analysis has been useful in identifying the provenance of ceramics , which is usually complicated by their processing from raw clay into the finished artefact . |
| 7 | The work has been useful in 2 ways : firstly , it has yielded demonstrator programmes that can be used to convince more senior officers ; and it has increased the number of people available with some knowledge of expert systems . |
| 8 | This work has been useful in two main areas : analysis of types of content — see Berelson ( 1950 ) and Williams ( 1962 ) — and of the selection and portrayal of certain social figures — see Lowenthal ( 1961 ) . |
| 9 | Although two thirds of Oxfordshire teachers consider that the scheme has been useful in producing proposals for change in schools , the actual changes claimed are rather nebulous and a quarter of all teachers are unsure as to whether their review has led to any changes at all . |
| 10 | For 15 years it has been illegal in the U8A to produce a new car without a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 11 | He will not bow before another no matter what pain is inflicted and is confident , at least having lost the battle in Heaven , he has been victorious in shaking the throne of the Almighty . |
| 12 | Photographic recording of naevi and use of these photographs to detect change suggesting development of melanoma has been essential in this study . |
| 13 | But he has been right in saying that urgent measures have been put off for too long . |
| 14 | The attack on a dichotomy of form and content has been persistent in modern criticism ; to change so much as a word , the argument runs , is to change the meaning as well . |
| 15 | Your Team has been invaluable in providing psychological as well as practical support for these patients which have been grossly lacking through the conventional channels . |
| 16 | Your knowledge , experience and insight has been invaluable in getting the new Department of National Heritage off to a swift and successful start . |
| 17 | This work has been invaluable in giving authorities straight , non-jargonistic answers to difficult issues and in raising awareness of future demands through practice guidance , workshops , a newsletter and a helpline . |
| 18 | This has been invaluable in challenging simplicities about , say , the ‘ repression ’ of sexuality in nineteenth-century Europe , and in questioning the teleological view which sees a gradual climb towards permissiveness from Victorian darkness . |
| 19 | ‘ The course has been invaluable in terms of awareness and spotting hazards . ’ |
| 20 | With this in view the consensus among the agencies is that there will be some discounting , because nobody can ever get it exactly right , but nothing like what has been available in recent years . |
| 21 | Chameleon , for example , has been available in English , German , Danish , Portuguese and Spanish for some time , and has recently added Czech and Polish language versions . |
| 22 | Novix has been available in the UK since early 1992 and has reportedly been picked up by Parliament , BP , Amerada Hess , GEC and British Telecom . |
| 23 | A new cure has been available in Europe for two or three years , he says coldly . |
| 24 | Although directors and officers ' liability insurance has been available in the UK since the 1930s , it has only come into wide use in the last few years . |
| 25 | Foreign Extra Stout has been available in Indonesia for many years and local production began in 1974 . |
| 26 | Alcohol has been available in various pubs and discos in Edinburgh from 7am until 5am the following morning . |
| 27 | This policy has been international in scope , as was presaged by LIFFE 's early attempt to use its niche in the European time zone to create a market in US T-bond futures , for which the CBoT had established the world 's most successful futures contract in the US time zone . |
| 28 | But the snow , which has been slight in the past half-hour , suddenly begins to fall fast and furiously again , limiting her vision . |
| 29 | Yesterday , chairman of the council , Phyll Hendy , said : ‘ He has been unswerving in the service he has given to the parish and has been kind and co-operative to everyone . |
| 30 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |