Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 2 | All this implies , as has been pointed out in the collected evidence presented to the 1987 Select Committee inquiry into the implementation of the 1981 Education Act ( cf vol 2 of the evidence ) , and to many others since then involved in attempts at educational reform : |
| 3 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 4 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 6 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 7 | But these problems have apparently been ironed out in the current batch of models . |
| 8 | Economic models are particularly useful since millions of daily transactions are carried out in the real world and so some means must be found of expressing the essential characteristics of the problem at hand . |
| 9 | All the processes other than the actual embroidery are carried out in the numerous ‘ embroidery factories ’ , most of which are located in Funchal . |
| 10 | There is now light at the end of the runnel as the contracts are let out in the final stage this month . |
| 11 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 12 | We pray for those who are caught up in the human side of the conflict ; for those in camps , held as hostage , deprived of their homes , taken away from their work . |
| 13 | ‘ There are thousands , maybe tens of thousands , who are dying out in the rural areas , or as they make their way to the towns to get help . |
| 14 | the Business has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course and in the same manner ( including nature and scope ) as in the past and no unusual or abnormal contract differing from the ordinary contracts necessitated by the nature of its business has been entered into ; and |
| 15 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 16 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 17 | Ms Capaldi said a considerable amount of work on data had been carried out in the five months since the report was published . |
| 18 | Most studies on the management control process have been carried out in the private sector with profit-orientated organizations . |
| 19 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 20 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 21 | ‘ Other members of the herd are swimming around in the blood-red sea as this killing continues . |
| 22 | Larger units of measurements in the metric system , are built up in the same way as the number system , based again on tens and tenths . |
| 23 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 24 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 25 | It was the first time an Iraqi plane has been shot down in the southern no-fly zone , set up to prevent Saddam attacking the Shi'ites . |
| 26 | Mm , what gets me is how Creda they 're gon na , they 're , they 're coming up in the pink and |
| 27 | Hence public debt , irrespective of whether it is domestic or foreign owned , involves a cost-influencing choice : at the time the decision is made ‘ forgone opportunities are experienced ’ ( p. 182 ) , but this has ‘ no connection with the fact that resources are used up in the initial period ’ ( p. 182 ) . |
| 28 | It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures . |
| 29 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 30 | Most of these options have been closed out in the last two decades . |