Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counsel may be briefed with the approval of the Area Director ; assistance may be withdrawn in certain circumstances ; costs may be awarded out of the legal aid fund to an unassisted party ; the statutory charge operates subject to specified exceptions . |
| 2 | It was felt that this would enable more rail services to be withdrawn in rural areas without ‘ undue hardship ’ ( an ill-defined term ) being caused to the communities currently served by rail . |
| 3 | Ideally the MIS should be operated on the basis of ‘ management by exception ’ , ie it should enable managers to delegate confidently in the sure knowledge that significant variances in actual performance compared with standard performance will be highlighted in timely fashion by the system . |
| 4 | Separate allegations against Gates — suggesting that he might be implicated in illegal efforts to supply US arms and technology to Iraq via third countries such as South Africa and Chile — were also believed to have been made to congressional investigators and federal law enforcement officials . |
| 5 | The three are also believed to be implicated in other cases of serious violations against street children . |
| 6 | Other physical factors may be implicated in mass strandings . |
| 7 | Our time perception can be altered in other ways . |
| 8 | Thus approved Green Belt must only be altered in exceptional circumstances . |
| 9 | The value of the kind of team approach which operates in Jamkhed is beginning to be recognized in other rural areas in India . |
| 10 | As for coelenterates , though , several arguments suggest that all four extant cnidarian classes can be recognized in early metazoan assemblages . |
| 11 | Er no th th for anything that they run this week , they 'll be redirected in in-house , so we should be getting er about forty of those statements in tomorrow and forty the next day . |
| 12 | Such support would be based on the following principles : adjustment should be economically viable as well as socially and politically bearable ; it should conform with long-term development objectives ; it should be based on a joint assessment by the EC and the country concerned ; and it should be undertaken in close co-operation with the international financial institutions ( primarily the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank ) . |
| 13 | The Doctus contract scheduled to expire at the end of June 93 has been extended until December to allow further work to be undertaken in specific areas within the company . |
| 14 | The story demonstrates the urgent need for similar studies to be undertaken in other parts of the world to determine the status of the many other dolphin species about which we know so little . |
| 15 | In particular , slings should always be used on the tops of climbs to avoid any erosion due to rope friction , and no climbing or abseiling should be undertaken in big boots . |
| 16 | Since work to be undertaken in respective months in the kitchen , fruit and flower gardens was noted in the Dictionary , it might be thought that a Kalendar was superfluous , but Miller explains that at the request of particular friends he had produced a work not only portable , but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book . |
| 17 | Such a phenomenon may be explained in various ways , but one factor of acknowledged importance is certainly the rapidity of economic and social change , which tends to separate more sharply the experience , expectations and outlook of older and younger generations , as Mead ( 1970 ) argued in a study in which she likened the ‘ dissident young ’ to pioneers who are exploring a new time rather than a new country . |
| 18 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 19 | This immediately makes it more likely that women 's ‘ deviant ’ linguistic behaviour will be explained in stereotypical and sexist terms . |
| 20 | So we have an operatic phenomenon that can be explained in good , old-fashioned aesthetic terms . |
| 21 | There is a speculative element here , for such patchy symptoms could be explained in other ways ( for instance by increased consumption of cereals , or by the increasing impositions of lordship in some localities ) . |
| 22 | Mystics are aware that their experience can never be explained in rational terms and insist that it is unhelpful and can even be dangerous to attempt to define the ultimate reality in terms of reason and logic . |
| 23 | In particular , any special or complex routine , or routine involving additional software routines in machine code or hardware devices , should be explained in great detail . |
| 24 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 25 | This continuity can be explained in large part by the nature of the superstructure . |
| 26 | Other similarities can be explained in different ways . |
| 27 | The reduced predictive power of the former test in treated coeliac disease patients could be explained in different ways . |
| 28 | He was a reductionist who believed that all the relationships he investigated could be explained in materialistic terms . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , when all factors have been assessed , there still remain effects which can not be explained in orthodox terms . |
| 30 | Certain common elements in the New Primary Approach and the Primary Education Improvement Project — ambitious goals and policies , unrealistic time scales , high hopes and eventual very fragmentary success — may be traced in other big centralised projects throughout Africa . |