Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though committed to increasing the number of bishops in England since the council of Hertford in 672 ( HE IV , 5 ) , he did not attempt ( so far as is known ) to partition Wilfrid 's vast diocese of York until Ecgfrith quarrelled with Wilfrid and expelled him in 678 and even then king and archbishop appear to have been in agreement about the subdivision ( HE IV , 12 : V , 19 , 24 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) . |
| 2 | Where the divergence has arisen is in the statement of dogma into which educators have been lured . |
| 3 | The heads interviewed had been in post from four terms to nearly 20 years . |
| 4 | Many spoke with respect and admiration for the soldiers of the 6th Army , but took the view that the losses suffered had been in vain . |
| 5 | The textual practices of these nouveaux romanciers reveal a much greater similarity than was previously the case : under Ricardou 's stewardship , a new aesthetic programme seems to have been in operation . |
| 6 | ‘ A third role the Guild has to play is in the promotion of the consumption and enjoyment of cheese . |
| 7 | Ferranti 's capacity to deliver had been in doubt because of its financial problems following the September 1989 revelation of a major alleged fraud scandal , but on Jan. 23 a deal was announced for the sale of Ferranti 's radar division Ferranti Defence Systems to GEC , which would merge it into GEC-Marconi . |
| 8 | The main problem that companies have to face is in choosing the most appropriate channel , and from the viewpoint of sales management this includes the type of sales outlet that must be serviced . |
| 9 | The hook shown had been in service for four years and showed very little wear . |
| 10 | On the same day , the eighteenth of October , Mr came back and spoke to Miss about this telephone call and he rang Peter in the afternoon of that Friday and he asked again if it was possible to withdraw because of the landlord 's failure to consent to the er assignment and again er after what will er be described as a fairly easy discussion between the plaintiff and er Mr , er he was told very clearly that it was not possible for him to withdraw , contracts had been exchanged and he was advised that what the landlords er failure to consent did was in fact er provide Mr with more breathing space in order to obtain proper funding and re-arrange his finances er , that again is denied . |
| 11 | The warning voices raised from time to time in the journal appear to have been in the minority . |
| 12 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
| 13 | Another situation where a wife became involved was in the case of sickness , when over half the farms would rely on the wife to keep things going . |
| 14 | The restaurant Rodriguez had chosen was in one of the streets behind the cathedral , a small , sombre place which served only Mexican food . |
| 15 | The hole through which Harry had fallen was in the centre of the ceiling . |
| 16 | The bloodless Norman conquest initiated by David I in Scotland was almost as effective as William the Conqueror 's had been in England 60 years earlier . |
| 17 | His financial interests appear to have been in land and minerals . |
| 18 | Wheeler did not add that for a man whose chief pleasure in the past seemed to have been in giving other people orders , a falling off of that activity boded ill . |
| 19 | The relative autonomy which the state appears to possess is in fact functionally necessary because of the institutional separation of polity and economy in capitalism . |
| 20 | the so-called ‘ defense line ’ to which the Ambassador had referred was in actuality merely an enumeration of those sectors in the western Pacific in which the United States held firm military commitments : i.e. our responsibilities as an occupying Power in Japan , our special interest in the Philippines as a former part of United States territory etc . |
| 21 | It 's alleged the car was stolen ; a 16 year old youth alledged to have been in the car at the time , is on police bail . |
| 22 | That the information sought had been in the knowledge of the company , particularly if sought from an officer of the company , added weight to the applicant 's case on the balancing exercise . |
| 23 | Towards the end of the research most of the children referred had been in care for shorter periods of time and were still in more or less meaningful contact with members of their natural families . |
| 24 | The origins of this reform of the services for deprived children seem to have been in a child care scandal , the O'Neill case , which led to the setting up of the Curtis Committee to investigate contemporary practice . |
| 25 | Police said had been in Germany since last September and was being considered for asylum . |
| 26 | Most of the theatres Warner had acquired were in what was described as the ‘ populous East ’ and especially in Pennsylvania , New Jersey , and New York and it could be claimed that the studio knew and needed to know more about industrial America than some of its rivals . |
| 27 | For the next three centuries there was no further trouble within the Province of Britannia , and all the military problems were confined to the northern frontier , except that in the late second century the Brigantes seem to have been in a state of unrest , but the historical reference is far from clear . |
| 28 | His coinage system seems to have been in good order for most of the reign , although its development and exploitation for the king 's benefit may have been another cause of popular unrest . |
| 29 | As we have seen , old St Paul 's had been in a very poor state of repair even before 1640 , and had suffered further damage as a result of the events of the 1640s before being fatally weakened by the Great Fire . |
| 30 | Eight of the properties Citalia has secured are in an old farmhouse on the estate about two miles away from the castle . |