Example sentences of "in the [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , the chairman of an Italian company that Morton acquired in the 1970s has been given responsibility for adhesives throughout the region . |
| 2 | The opportunity costs of two children to a white mother in the 1970s have been estimated at $50,000 ( Calhoun and Espenshade 1988 ) . |
| 3 | The ‘ cod wars ’ that embroiled Iceland and the UK in the 1970s have been settled by generally accepted legislation . |
| 4 | The confident mood of the left in the 1960s had been part of a sudden wider upsurge in creativity concentrated on the arts , pop music , fashion , ‘ lifestyle ’ and sexual attitudes . |
| 5 | PEOPLE who survived treatment for cancer when they were children in the 1960s have been able to become parents of healthy children , research shows . |
| 6 | He had grown up in a quasi-syndicalist tradition in the Liverpool docks , and his influence in the sixties had been thrown behind the growth of the shop-stewards movement and local plant bargaining on a devolved basis very much on the lines of the 1968 Donovan Report . |
| 7 | Moon rats live in swampy land , forest and cultivated areas , and in the latter have been known to gnaw the bark off young rubber trees . |
| 8 | The long-term growth in the latter has been enormous . |
| 9 | The extent to which he had refined and condensed his drawing style can be seen by comparing an early self-portrait in the Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge with that produced in 1946 ( Plate 11 ) ; the repeated , searching strokes in the former have been replaced by a confident , knowing accuracy of statement , producing a stylised likeness , brittle and poignantly self-contained . |
| 10 | The extent to which British industry has been damaged in the '80s has been explained by Lord Prior , once a dissident in the Thatcher cabinet , now chairman of GEC . |
| 11 | So it is that close attention to the language itself and reference to systemic knowledge allows us to negotiate meaning and acquire the kind of information which for the reader in the schematic know is provided in advance . |
| 12 | Cysteine residues in the GGF-III digests were only identified later by recognition of a phenylthiohydantoin-cysteine derivative ( N.T. , unpublished results ) . |
| 13 | As Ellen Wilkinson ( who in the 1920s had been among the first women in the Labour Party to support family allowances ) wrote in 1938 : ‘ what the Amery type want is to feed the existing and potential cannon-fodder with the greatest economy and lack of waste . |
| 14 | In the north midlands , the dominant figure in the 1460s had been the king 's brother Clarence , who had been granted the important duchy of Lancaster estates in the region centred on the honour of Tutbury ( Staffs . ) . |
| 15 | In the north midlands , the dominant figure in the 1460s had been the king 's brother Clarence , who had been granted the important duchy of Lancaster estates in the region centred on the honour of Tutbury ( Staffs . ) . |
| 16 | DYLAN 'S albums in the Eighties have been disappointing , including the recent and much-overrated Oh Mercy . |
| 17 | So what you 're saying is that Cabinet government in the eighties has been a matter of trench warfare with exchanges conducted in the shape of mortar fire . |
| 18 | The weakening of trade union power in the 1980s has been due to the interaction of government legislation , the rise in unemployment , and technological change . |
| 19 | The leadership strata of the Conservative party in the 1980s has been shaped by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 20 | Government policy in the 1980s has been to oppose any increase in the country 's dollar debt , which remains at the manageable level of $5.5 million . |
| 21 | A major change in the 1980s has been the huge increase in both the choice of lenders and the range of products . |
| 22 | One of the features of the haulage industry in the 1980s has been the number of firms using subcontract hauliers who are owner-drivers . |
| 23 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 24 | A characteristic feature of educational concerns in the 1980s has been quality and the raising of standards , especially in secondary education , combined with a political determination to introduce speedy reforms . |
| 25 | Even though the link between investment and growth is in some ways tenuous , it is interesting that the increased level of fixed investment in the UK in the 1980s has been accompanied by a much stronger growth performance . |
| 26 | Their growth rate in the 1980s has been twice as rapid as the growth in the economy 's real output . |
| 27 | India in the 1980s has been exporting food . |
| 28 | Despite the evidence , the Conservative government in the 1980s has been determined to lower income taxation to offset its disincentive effects . |
| 29 | The needs of pub management in the 1980s have been hard to contain in pubs originally segregated into saloon and public bars , if not into further distinct spaces . |
| 30 | The main sources of regional tension in the 1980s have been the civil war in El Salvador , where the United States has provided ever-increasing amounts of military aid to a succession of right-wing governments , and the role of the United States and the US-backed Contras in undermining the Sandinista government in Nicaragua . |