Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Abstract nouns , participles , and relative pronouns are italicized in the above passage . ) |
| 2 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 3 | His face had been hidden in the darkness , yet she thought she would recognise him if they met again . |
| 4 | ‘ We did not accept his resignation because we felt he had already been dismissed in the summer , ’ Lawrie Hargrave said . |
| 5 | The Court then decided that the Tribunal 's decision was perverse , because there was no material from which to conclude that the hypothetical man guilty of misconduct would not have been dismissed in the same way as was S. Her appeal was dismissed and leave to appeal to the House of Lords was refused . |
| 6 | Seven players have been dismissed in the latest intercontinental group stages and last night the organising committee of four officials each from Italy and England , chaired by Bristol City 's Leslie Kew , held a crisis meeting in Pisa . |
| 7 | The Defence Ministry announced on July 16 that 71 members of the armed forces had been dismissed in the last year for human rights abuses and drug trafficking . |
| 8 | The violent repercussions of the second decree have been examined in the case-study of Roslavl' in the Smolensk guberniia . |
| 9 | Paragraph ( a ) has already been examined in the context of the mental element in the offence , and will not be considered further . |
| 10 | The effect of passage through the primate gut has been examined in the tamarins in Amazonian Peru , where it was found that germination success rates were about 70% . |
| 11 | Yesterday , Crawford Beveridge , SE chief executive , said the issues raised in the documents had been examined in the audit . |
| 12 | A stolen vehicle had been stopped in the [ name of place ] area so we sped up there . |
| 13 | The rooms of the museum are furnished in the style of the period , with important collections of authentic period furniture , silver , china and art . |
| 14 | The panels cast a dreamy light in the rooms — which are furnished in the most sparse manner with stone floors , white beds and the odd piece of exquisite antique glass . |
| 15 | These expressions have been italicized in the diagram above . |
| 16 | The ruling , the first occasion on which a constitutional amendment had been overturned in the court , marked a defeat for Ershad . |
| 17 | The aircraft had previously been flown in the USA as N190DH until a crash at Sellersburg , Indiana , on September 22 , 1987 , following which it was imported into the UK in 1989 and has only recently completed rebuild in the capable hands of Cliff Lovell , giving us a second airworthy DH.90 alongside Wessex Aviation & Transport 's G–AEDT . |
| 18 | Ninety-eight per cent of all criminal cases are heard in the latter courts . |
| 19 | The interest rates are calculated in the way required by the Consumer Credit Act and do not take into account any tax relief that could be gained for a home improvements loan . |
| 20 | The values of for polyatomic ions and ionic compounds are calculated in the same way as for molecular compounds . |
| 21 | Once the population levels are calculated in the model , the population is converted in to households using marital status and rates . |
| 22 | The Council of Europe , the OEEC and NATO had been joined in the 1950s by WEU . |
| 23 | Since its formation these founding companies have been joined in the Quality Scotland Foundation by other like-minded organisations , all keen to promote a quality-conscious attitude not only in their own businesses but throughout Scottish life . |
| 24 | Women 's role and position in the social stratification system husband and wife working in a paid job or career ? vicarious role they are assigned in the sociology of stratification . |
| 25 | Yet the prevailing treatment of women workers defines them as a particular and different sub-group of the general category ‘ workers ’ ( this parallels the role they are assigned in the study of deviance ) . |
| 26 | For this reason an additional agent has been hypothesised in the pathogenesis of CLO . |
| 27 | Besides , wrote Goldberg , you have only to see where Brighton are placed in the League to wonder at the wisdom of associating with them in any capacity . |
| 28 | You will I hope realise that these cases are placed in the context of a diseased sexuality . |
| 29 | Selection for senior posts is therefore more important than training ; if people who display the appropriate qualities are placed in the correct context then they will flourish . |
| 30 | Although Handy 's model is essentially abstract it does assume significance when schools are placed in the context of local management of schools and the National curriculum . |