Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect on the indigenous peoples has been debilitating in that their loss of faith in , for example , indigenous medicine has been combined with a realization of the ineffectiveness of western medicine in treating psychosomatic illness . |
| 2 | The institutions themselves succeeded in raising fifty per cent of the price of eleven out of the eighteen drawings and the support of the National Art Collections Fund , the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Foundation for Sport and the Arts has been crucial in raising most of the remaining moneys required . |
| 3 | A win-win outcome is where all parties involved are successful in achieving their objectives . |
| 4 | The result meant that both parties failed to capitalise on the widespread disaffection with the mainstream parties and in particular with the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) which had been discovered in recent months to have been involved in a number of scandals . |
| 5 | The fight was broken up by the housemaster , whose ears had been open in anticipation for some days . |
| 6 | Her eyes had been open in a fixed and vacant stare , and the waxen tinge to her skin had told its own tale . |
| 7 | Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice , the third Special Rapporteur , thought that previous analysis of treaties and third parties had been unsatisfactory in both theory and doctrine , and that the subject had received no systematic treatment . |
| 8 | Five seats were also given to the Ittehad-i-Islami , a Saudi-backed fundamentalist Wahhabi Sunni group led by Abdur Rab Rasool Sayyaf , whose fighters had been involved in fierce street battles with Wahdat in Kabul on June 2-6 . |
| 9 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
| 10 | Many teachers , whose schools had been early in the reporting cycle , also said that they had considerable difficulty in remembering their review and its outcome or had been so little involved that they felt unable to say much about it . |
| 11 | Duke of Northumberland 's Archive ( Alnwick and Middlesex ) The Percy family and its successors have been prominent in English history since the thirteenth century , firstly as earls , and later as dukes , of Northumberland . |
| 12 | Fans have been constant in their opposition to all-seater . |
| 13 | There is currently a move towards Community Education in the Urban and Burgh schools ; rural schools have been involved in this , informally for a long time . |
| 14 | We shall see below how different schools have been involved in one or more of these types of situation , but for the present two illustrations should suffice to demonstrate the potential of this classification . |
| 15 | These solutions have been successful in providing users with the ability to fire off queries to multiple databases . |
| 16 | These solutions have been successful in providing users with the ability to fire off queries to multiple databases . |
| 17 | The women 's organizations have been instrumental in promoting women 's rights , particularly the need to train women , to assume responsibilities outside the domestic sphere , They are running various workshops and co-operatives which were initially started through the financial support of women 's groups in Europe and elsewhere . |
| 18 | Thus one often encounters the claim that a large number of Quakers ( and other dissenters ) contributed significantly to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physical science and that Jews have been preeminent in mathematics , physics , and psychiatry in the twentieth century . |
| 19 | Cars have been popular in the movies since Mack Sennett was wrecking them around 1914 in such shorts as Lizzies of the Field — not funny to some members of early audiences , who were trying to save up for a Ford Model T or ‘ tin Lizzy ’ . |
| 20 | Already in the sixth century BC , at the time when Buddha and Mahavira lived , that part of India was ruled by the Achaemenids of Iran , and Iranian influences have been important in India ever since . |
| 21 | Some parties have been assiduous in doing so , others have not . |
| 22 | in choosing a laterality index subsequent authors have been interested in the statistical correlation between various indices of laterality and overall accuracy . |
| 23 | Inevitably single women with children and elderly women form an important part of this group , and indeed , housing associations and co-ops have been important in providing groups with an opportunity to live collectively as a positive alternative to the nuclear family . |
| 24 | Many Branches have been fortunate in making successful collections in their local Tesco stores for several years . |
| 25 | These changes have also been socially differentiated , because in-migrants and out-migrants have been selective in terms of age , sex and socio-economic characteristics . |
| 26 | The lads have been great in helping me to settle in . |
| 27 | Foreigners have been instrumental in chasing share prices higher . |
| 28 | The House will know that 46 British inspectors have been involved in the process of inspection within Iraq . |
| 29 | It has been gratifying to learn that the panel 's work stimulated so much discussion and presbyteries and sessions have been generous in their acknowledgement of this . |
| 30 | Since the days of the Great War against Chaos the two brothers have been active in the defence of Ulthuan . |