Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal arguments for a policy of CPD were advanced in the Brett-Jones Report of 1978 and although none could be refuted in a responsible way , it was not until 1 January 1981 that Regulations were made by the General Council of the RICS to make compulsory , and to regulate , members ' Continuing Professional Development . |
| 2 | I was driving on my way through beautiful scenery in Wales where I live and it suddenly occurred to me how this would all be altered in a nuclear war . |
| 3 | The Alvington entry will be competing in a new class for slightly modified production models , hoping to head off the Jaguars and Porsches when the race gets underway on June the 19th . |
| 4 | The study will be undertaken in a consecutive cohort of 500 patients undergoing elective abdominal , thoracic and vascular surgery and involves audiotaping of information given to patients , issue of operation information cards ( on a random basis ) and assessment of the personality and mood traits . |
| 5 | Close work is not in itself detrimental to sight and need not be discouraged , but it should be undertaken in a comfortable position and with appropriate task lighting . |
| 6 | This impairment can be explained in a straightforward manner if one assumes that damage has occurred to the part of the reading system that involves addressed phonology . |
| 7 | Some of the themes in the Babylonian story — in particular , man 's place as a substitute worker — can be traced in a Sumerian poem , Enki and Ninmakh , written before 2,000 BC . |
| 8 | Thus a moral lesson can be given in a light-hearted manner : |
| 9 | Though he argued that any attempt to lay down rigid rules for classifying applications would be doomed to failure' , Dobry thought that guidance should be given in a national code of practice . |
| 10 | [ A roundup of local and republican election results from throughout the Soviet Union , including the dramatic victory in Lithuania on Feb. 24 for candidates of the pro-independence Sajudis movement , will be given in a forthcoming article . ] |
| 11 | Therefore , whereas prescribing budgets will inevitably be set in the aggregate , taking into account local social and epidemiological factors , both PACT and formularies are much more likely to lead the GP to consider why a particular drug , and not an alternative including no drug , should be given in a particular instance . |
| 12 | The first of these , the preparation of lessons in sequence will obviously deal with the formulation of learning objectives which can be realised in a particular unit of work . |
| 13 | If his notion of the mode of production as such a totality could not be sustained in a differential relation to other modes of production ( notions of residual and emergent forms notwithstanding ) , Althusser nevertheless offered a particularly interesting theorization of the problems involved in the concept of the historical , articulating the paradoxical conditions of any theorization of history . |
| 14 | The British hardly conceived the French could be defeated and few Americans expected to be embroiled in a global war . |
| 15 | The difference in attitudes toward welfare between the USA and Europe has been highlighted to show that trends toward contraction of municipal housing and urban programmes , when coupled with the process of deinstitutionalization , make it more likely that hospital leavers will be marginalized in a competitive environment . |
| 16 | The workings of the legal system in 1922 will be examined in a later chapter as one aspect of Bolshevik control over society , and the general extent of crime will be noted . |
| 17 | ‘ One day a man knocked on my door , and asked to be painted in a nearby churchyard , ‘ to symbolise the desolation of my life ’ , he said . |
| 18 | Conservationists claim that traditions — no matter how old or well-established which add unnecessary pressures to species which are already in danger , can no longer be justified in a modern world , and should be abandoned . |
| 19 | He never supposed a bus might recur in his life , to be travelled in a second time , with a recognisable darn in its upholstery . |
| 20 | The delivery process itself is determined by the futures exchange and involves a sequence of steps that must be completed in a specific order and at specific times . |
| 21 | The planned journey is from Gransden to Crowfield , a distance of 48 nautical miles to be completed in a straight line track of 095° in a single seat Jodel D9 Bébé . |
| 22 | If the load is to move a fixed distance then the high gear ratio requires the motor to move a large number of steps and for the load movement to be completed in a reasonable time the motor needs to attain a high stepping rate . |
| 23 | If the weather holds out work could be completed in a short time . |
| 24 | The human genome project , which aims to identify the make-up of all human genes , could be completed in a purpose-built US laboratory by the middle of next year , according to a leading participant in the work . |
| 25 | I be they 've never played Turrican or Creatures otherwise they 'd be gobsmacked , especially the console owners who pay about £40 for games that can often be completed in a few hours ! |
| 26 | This is not an enterprise that can be completed in a few months . |
| 27 | The Touche Ross report had to be completed in a considerable hurry , for reasons that we understand . |
| 28 | The range of processing times that will allow processing to be completed in a single revolution is shown in Fig. 7.20 . |
| 29 | The course is being offered initially to some 100 IBM staff and participants will have the opportunity to gain credit for their prior learning thus enabling the course to be completed in a shorter time . |
| 30 | Or how the greatest treasure of all , St Vladimir 's Holy Cross , came to be hidden in a humble farmhouse in the Ukraine . |