Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he feels they 've been treated in a shabby way . |
| 2 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 3 | Works on areal geology , mineralogy , and the applied earth sciences may be valuable in their own way , but the information they contain is used in a different way , and by different readers , from that in geophysics . |
| 4 | They have been arranged in a Western home by the Japanese wife of Balthus , the great French painter . |
| 5 | These points have been recognised in a practical way by the existing UK tax structure , for example the zero rate of VAT on children 's clothing . |
| 6 | The pond , sluices and some of the buildings can be seen today , but the majority of the surviving buildings have been incorporated in a private home . |
| 7 | Over four hundred carpet designs have been illustrated in a new brochure which now forms part of the sales aids used by the Contract Sales Force . |
| 8 | ‘ You see , Doctor Masters , ’ he continued , ‘ we have been placed in a difficult position , but that is no reflection on your qualities as a good doctor . |
| 9 | Most decent councillors have been placed in an impossible position because of the failure of the Government 's housing and economic policies to deliver the affordable rural homes that are so desperately needed . |
| 10 | Erm , we need to be convincing in challenge , otherwise the challenge , erm , we should question whether there is a need for any change , erm , if things have been done in a certain way for a certain period of time , erm , just because we want to change them , does n't mean to say that it does n't |
| 11 | After all , the new towns have been built in a car-familiar age and do not have accident rates inflated by large numbers of pre-car districts of great traffic danger . |
| 12 | In particular , life events of certain kinds have been implicated in a wide range of disorder , and some of the evidence to establish their role has been described in earlier chapters . |
| 13 | Tumour-suppressor genes have been implicated in an increasing number of solid cancers , and some of these genes have subsequently been found to be inactivated in haematological malignancies . |
| 14 | Traditionally the conception and design of these systems have been conducted in a hierarchised way , separated from users and the place of work . |
| 15 | The Law Society has been negotiating the terms of franchise contracts with the Legal Aid Board for some weeks and although a number of matters remain to be resolved , the negotiations have been conducted in a positive manner . |
| 16 | The compilation of a lexicon therefore requires considerable manual intervention to ensure that indices have been assigned in a reliable manner that fits the application . |
| 17 | In order to show more clearly the significant impact of exceptional items on the results for the year , these items have been presented in a separate column on the face of the profit and loss accounts . |
| 18 | But Marxism and socialism are not the only nineteenth-century political theories which have been presented in a new way during recent decades . |
| 19 | Further details of the method have been given in a recent paper . |
| 20 | More than a hundred and thirty people have been killed in an Iranian plane crash near Tehran . |
| 21 | The U.S. delegate was ‘ gratified ’ that his country 's proposals ‘ have been accepted in a large measure by the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 22 | High buckminsterfullerene yields have been obtained in a heated pulsed laser vaporization where there is no continuous source of new small radicals as there might be from the arc . |
| 23 | A strike rate of just over one goal every two games is exceptional by any standards , even more so considering they have been scored in a struggling team . |
| 24 | The prevalence of hypertension is significantly greater in non-diabetic blacks than whites ( Comstock , 1957 ; Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program Co-operative Group , 1977 ) , and similar findings have been confirmed in a recent clinic survey of diabetics at a District General Hospital ( Pacy et al , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | André Cluytens recorded Ravel 's orchestral works in the early 1960s and most of them , apart from his complete Daphnis et Chloë , have been packaged in an attractive set . |
| 26 | Community here is , thus , based on the relations between male miners , a process which has meant that miners ' wives , except , perhaps , until very recently , have been kept in a different and subordinated position within such communities . |
| 27 | If the only or main reason for your being sacked was an ‘ economic , technical or organisational ’ one , entailing changes in the work-force — the vague Euro-jargon of the 1981 Regulations is a reminder that they were inspired by an EC Directive — your claim will not succeed if you have been treated in a reasonable manner . |
| 28 | In the 1980s , following on government cuts in finance , British universities have been engaged in a desperate scramble for overseas students and the more-or-less economic fees they are required to pay . |
| 29 | Vauxhall Conference Championship Shield and Bob Lord Trophy victories this season have been achieved while his side have been engaged in a relentless struggle with Colchester United for a place in the Fourth Division . |
| 30 | For more than a year , the Poles have been engaged in a brave , almost quixotic attempt to transform a moribund command economy into a lively free market , and they are now suffering the growing pains of a capitalism devoid of capital . |