Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But three in every four Vietnamese-Americans arrived or were born in the past decade . |
| 2 | During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries many villages were industrialized in the sense that the majority of their inhabitants worked as nailmakers or weavers , for example , or at some other ancient hand-craft or were employed in the new mills , ironworks , quarries and coalmines which had transformed so many parts of the English countryside . |
| 3 | All along the Baltic region brick building began early , owing to the lack of stone materials , but such work has mostly been altered later , in the Middle Ages , or was destroyed in the Second World War . |
| 4 | However by 1941 , almost the entire membership had either found war work or was employed in the surviving Edinburgh printing offices , and by then only 2 members were listed as out of work . |
| 5 | Comfortable Seats — Clio is equipped with seats that are manufactured in the same traditional style as those in larger cars . |
| 6 | While we wish to avoid the pitfalls of many earlier studies on ‘ peaceful ’ or ‘ violent ’ societies by pulling out one behavioural feature as overridingly important in the analysis , we feel nevertheless that several issues of general interest have emerged , all of which are suggestive for the further understanding of societal peaceful coexistence , and we turn now to a brief consideration of some major points that are raised in the ethnographic papers . |
| 7 | Attribute data relate to the properties of the points , lines and polygons that are stored in the cartographic database . |
| 8 | The importance of the unconscious for political realities of industrial enterprises may seem a tenuous link but objects of feeling that are retained in the unconscious , and constitute our psychic reality , are : |
| 9 | But the relevant sense of constraint , and the aspects of society that are constrained in the two cases , are vastly different ; and if the longue durée is to be more than a ragbag of everything that endures these disparities would have to be elucidated . |
| 10 | by no means all of the large reptiles that are found in the Mesozoic rocks are dinosaurs — the reptile groups that took up life in the sea or the air were only distantly related . |
| 11 | By this time they were taking species such as the blue , sei and sperm that are found in the deeper oceans , and were whaling as far afield as the Antarctic and Atlantic oceans . |
| 12 | d'Compress has a lot of options that you can alter to suit your exact needs — you can choose between maximally compressed files , or files that are compressed in the shortest time , for instance . |
| 13 | It is these network forms of coordination that are considered in the third section of this book . |
| 14 | I do not think that the availability for work rule will impinge on any of the proposals that are identified in the White Paper , but I shall reflect on the point that my hon. Friend made . |
| 15 | Although there are literally hundreds of blood-tests that can be performed in medical practice , it is usually only the serological tests for syphilis that are needed in the genito-urinary medicine clinic , and there is no point in asking , as many patients do , for their blood-group or their haemoglobin level , as these investigations will not have been done . |
| 16 | Homonyms are headwords to different entries that are spelt in the same way , e.g. bow ( the weapon ) , bow ( the action ) , bow ( the verb expressing the action ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Personality , character and commitment ’ , the DES note , are as important as the specific knowledge and skills that are used in the day-to-day tasks of teaching . |
| 18 | Should he not turn his attention vigorously to sorting out the common agricultural policy , which is endangering the Uruguay round and remains a serious blot which is totally inconsistent with the sort of policies that are embodied in the new treaty ? |
| 19 | Matlashewski has described two groups of genes that are required in the morphological transformation of normal primary cells in vitro . |
| 20 | Its special property is that it can activate most of the genes that are required in the mature muscle . |
| 21 | Pyrenees may also refer to small ewes ' milk cheeses that are produced in the same area . |
| 22 | And the hair that looked as though it had been dramatically carved out of something shiny rather than been grown in the normal way . |
| 23 | Every day more children die in the poor world than are born in the rich world . |
| 24 | In some passerine species it even justifies slightly larger clutches than are found in the same or closely related species of lower latitudes ( Ricklefs , 1980 ) . |
| 25 | If there was an assassin about , he reassured himself , best to confront him now rather than be taken in the dead of night . |
| 26 | Although it is still possible that subjects ’ perceptions of the tasks could have been altered by the different exemplars of a junction that were viewed in the different experiments , it does not appear that the subset of 24 were unrepresentative of the full 60 . |
| 27 | He also had repaired many of the roads and bridges that were damaged in the great flood of I 803 and built a bridge at Câmara de Lobos , improved the municipal theatre and presented six beds and a hundred blankets to the hospital . |
| 28 | Even under the equator if you go deep enough you 'll enter water masses that were formed in the polar regions . |
| 29 | Among those that were formed in the 1930s were Port Talbot and Bedford , while some long-established ones acquired new premises . |
| 30 | As Buschbacher et al. ( 1987 ) have pointed out , it is doubtful if many of the pastures that were created in the eastern Amazon basin in the 1970s ( section 7.3.1 ) , and have since been abandoned , w ill ever return to forest : they may be permanently covered in heathlike vegetation . |