Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crash of the Sea King helicopter in which twenty members of the S.A.S. died was reported as the regiment 's single greatest loss since a whole troop with an aircraft had been posted missing in the Second World War . |
| 2 | ‘ It is important , if you are to continue to live in the same house . ’ |
| 3 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 4 | The subframes are designed to deform in the same manner as the robust bodyshell and thereby contribute to this energy absorption . |
| 5 | Deferred taxation is provided using the liability method on all timing differences to the extent that they are expected to reverse in the foreseeable future . |
| 6 | Provision for deferred tax is only made for any differences when they are expected to reverse in the foreseeable future , and no provision is usually made for deferred tax assets . |
| 7 | Margins are expected to improve in the second quarter when higher speed Viking chips are more available and more deliveries on higher end higher margin Sparc 10s are made . |
| 8 | Farm incomes are expected to fall in the 1990s and the Commission expects many farmers to participate in the scheme , despite initial protests that the payments are too low . |
| 9 | Her children Peter , 15 , and 11-year-old Zara are expected to sit in the front pew for the short service . |
| 10 | Constipating drugs such as opioids increase motility while inhibiting propulsive activity , and abnormal hypermotility patterns have been reported to occur in the irritable bowel syndrome and constipation . |
| 11 | However , the one thing that instantly distinguished PageMaker from the rest was the fact that it had been designed to work in the same way as a traditional paste-up table . |
| 12 | The dolphin is practically extinct in the Punjab , where only 60 to 70 are reported to survive in the thousands of kilometres of river which were until recent times the home of many more animals . |
| 13 | Yes , and Ladies — are seeking to speak in the European debate . |
| 14 | The industry says that the figure should be almost 165,000 , and that more jobs are threatened to go in the next few months . |
| 15 | Or those voracious fish-eaters , otters , have been seen to play in the same pool as the salmon , fish who would normally flee from the presence of such a competent and fearsome predator . |
| 16 | On other occasions , he had been seen walking in the surrounding countryside at the dead of night , carrying sacks full of rocks . |
| 17 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 18 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 19 | Although probably unlucky not to salvage a draw , Alton need to find more flair if they are needed to finish in the upper half of the table . |
| 20 | One of the characteristics of many of the people who are drawn to work in the social services is a strong commitment to those services . |
| 21 | I just do n't know what we are going to do in the New Year . ’ |
| 22 | I think the R A F would would clearly be interested in in keeping in touch with what 's going on there , of course the states themselves er the picture is not entirely clear er about er what kind of types are going to emerge in the longer term but we would certainly wish to keep a a close view on what was going on and of course there is a Navy dimension to the harrier replacement as well . |
| 23 | That comment under-estimates the growing interest which shareholders are beginning to take in the wider responsibilities of the companies they invest in ( eg , support for arts , education , health , environment or indeed anything which contributes to an increase in the quality of life ) , and its cynicism can only alienate the executives whose involvement in their companies ' patronage we so badly need to encourage and applaud . |
| 24 | THE green shoots of recovery are beginning to sprout in the Black Country . |
| 25 | We are beginning to look in the right direction , and there is a genuine urgency . |
| 26 | Marx also took from the classical economists the idea that rates of profit are bound to fall in the long term . |
| 27 | RAIL fares are scheduled to soar in the next few years and at least 5,000 railway jobs will be lost following the Government 's decision to slash grants for British Rail in the early 1990s . |
| 28 | The great grandchildren of those who had been gulled by the infantile speculative ventures on offer during the manic South Sea Bubble phenomenon had obviously been conditioned to react in the same wild way . |
| 29 | No suitable candidates have yet been detected , but it is readily understood how such traces could arise : solar uv radiation and the thunderstorms which are known to occur in the Jovian atmosphere could act on various atmospheric constituents to produce a rich variety of coloured substances . |
| 30 | Furthermore , both cAMP and cGMP have been suggested to play a part in proliferative and inflammatory processes , which are known to occur in the small bowel mucosa of patients with coeliac disease . |