Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 5 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 6 | But these problems have apparently been ironed out in the current batch of models . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All the processes other than the actual embroidery are carried out in the numerous ‘ embroidery factories ’ , most of which are located in Funchal . |
| 9 | There is now light at the end of the runnel as the contracts are let out in the final stage this month . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Ms Capaldi said a considerable amount of work on data had been carried out in the five months since the report was published . |
| 15 | Most studies on the management control process have been carried out in the private sector with profit-orientated organizations . |
| 16 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Most of these options have been closed out in the last two decades . |
| 23 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 24 | Many 's the night he 's been called out in the small hours … ’ |
| 25 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 26 | One way to remind ourselves is to reflect that , even today , not all the phenotypic effects of a gene are bound up in the individual body in which it sits . |
| 27 | A prelude to 1811 – 12 had been played out in the woollen districts of Wiltshire between 1799 and 1802 . |
| 28 | Community mental health care does imply the closure of the large , asylum style psychiatric hospitals , not least because many of the resources for new services are tied up in the old institutions . |
| 29 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 30 | ‘ Jesus stresses that love of God and love of one 's neighbour are summed up in the Ten Commandments . |