Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Congress was told that journalists had been registered in only fifty of ninety guberniia committees . |
| 2 | For instance , Townsend writes that : ‘ the concepts of retirement [ and ] pensionable status … have been developed in both capitalist and state socialist countries in ways which have created and reinforced the social dependency of the elderly ’ ; and Walker believes that : ‘ dependency at both ends of the age spectrum has been enlarged by social and economic developments over the course of this century ’ . |
| 3 | The public will be able to request information relating to these areas , but the body concerned will be allowed to refuse any requests " which are formulated in too general a manner " . |
| 4 | Information processing models are essentially of the ‘ black box ’ type ; that is to say , although assuming that processes like filtering do have physiological correlates , the models themselves are formulated in purely psychological terms . |
| 5 | Some of the larger motor neurons are arranged in bilaterally symmetrical pairs and can be identified from one insect to another ( Cohen and Jacklet , 1967 ) . |
| 6 | It had originally been erected in AD 276 in the reign of Florian , and records that it stood M(ille) P(assuum) I ( i.e. one Roman mile ) from its official point of measurement . |
| 7 | More angular and less fluid in outline than those which feature in the final version of ‘ La Danse ’ , the figures are painted in predominantly grey-blue tones against an unfinished blue background . |
| 8 | Unfortunately this means that they occupy fairly similar orbits and could not have been formed in widely separated parts of the PFM . |
| 9 | Three of the schools in the survey are situated in fairly small country towns , in a county which still operates a selective system . |
| 10 | Mr Gough said that the merger discussions had been completed in just three weeks . |
| 11 | The memories of his early years and surroundings and the impressions he formed on life as a result are immortalized in so many of Tennyson 's poems . |
| 12 | The main task of sensory neurophysiology has been to establish in more precise detail how ‘ the diversity of working produceth diversity of experience ’ — the modern term for which is ‘ coding of sensory information ’ . |
| 13 | But Dear and Wolch 's main point is that the daily lives of those dependent on welfare are suffused in largely intangible and invisible ways by the institutions on which they are dependent . |
| 14 | For academics qua researchers can operate without a department in an institution of higher education ; many academics are located in quite different settings , as I have just mentioned . |
| 15 | Lifestyles copied from Miami and Fifth Avenue are enjoyed in closely guarded compounds well away from the misery of the slums . |
| 16 | But it is not clear whether the military operation which unfolded yesterday could have been organised in only four days . |
| 17 | Most will die , but since many millions are contained in even one drop of semen it is practically inevitable that some will find their way through the uterus into the fallopian tubes . |
| 18 | I understand this theory and , while I am not able to disprove it , I feel that , in the light of all the research which has been done in more recent times , it leaves too many gaps which no one has yet been able to fill . |
| 19 | This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places . |
| 20 | It was recorded as early as 1749 , by the French astronomer Legentil , though presumably it must have been noticed in more ancient times . |
| 21 | The emphasis is upon detailed analyses of competitive positions ; the financial benefits are evaluated in very general terms by reference to rates of return and profitability . |
| 22 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 23 | We 've got to get a much better system of subsidising housing for everybody , so that those in real need get a bigger share of the cake than the people who are living in very big houses , with very big incomes , and getting tax relief at the higher rate . |
| 24 | ‘ Rembrandt : the master and his workshop ’ closed at the National Gallery , London , on 24 May , having previously been seen in slightly different forms in Berlin and Amsterdam . |
| 25 | This interesting stance has been seen in more recent dinosaur fossil discoveries . |
| 26 | If the stitches are transferred in only one direction all the time the finished work will have a terrible bias which no amount of blocking will eliminate and it will also develop curved side seams . |
| 27 | The same is true of Chinese rugs , which are made in both Persian and traditional Chinese designs . |
| 28 | And it will be used for transplants of kidneys and other organs , there are already of course many transplants done at the Churchill , but they 're done in very cramped conditions , and this will provide not only better conditions for the patients , but also new research laboratories , and of course with transplants preventing rejection of the graft is very important , and that 's what the Churchill is particularly good at . |
| 29 | Sometimes you 're called in that many times in the , I mean , they put the phone down y , on you , do you know what I mean , and it 's actually getting to speak to the person is just a total shock . |
| 30 | He has also been accused in both Serbian and Croatian newspapers of working at one time as a hitman for the Yugoslav secret police . |