Example sentences of "they [verb] be [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 2 | The most startling illustration of how things can stay the same while they change is found in one of Stein-am-Rhein 's many excellent restaurants . |
| 3 | Because they are designed to justify certain propositions , the questions they ask are formulated in such a way as to prompt the desired answers . |
| 4 | Allow your tiles to acclimatise at room temperature for at least 24 hours before laying — especially if they 've been stored in cold conditions |
| 5 | Most shops are prepared for your to do this with expensive boots , but do n't expect them to be exchanged if they 've been marked in any way or worn outside ! |
| 6 | I still number some of them as personal friends all these years later , but at the time what struck me was their unbelievable competence and sheer quality compared with the wretchedly small scope they had been given in prewar Britain . |
| 7 | The remains of the king and his father had been removed on Aug. 16 from Burg Hohenzollern at Hechingen , near Stuttgart , where they had been placed in 1952 — having been recovered from Nazi hands during the last days of the Second World War . |
| 8 | Could she come to terms with the knowledge that they had been conceived in that dreadful place ? |
| 9 | After indifferent form in the early games , the first Test at Sabina Park , where four years earlier they had been annihilated in three days , was upon them . |
| 10 | At a time when potential reformers included senior officials and members of the royal family , it was to be expected that educated people outside the government would emerge from the bunker to which they had been relegated in 1848 . |
| 11 | On 30 March 1959 the remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera were transported from the basilica of El Escorial , where they had been buried in 1939 , for reinterment in the Church of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen . |
| 12 | They had been stolen in 1907 causing both the British and Irish authorities much embarrassment , especially since they had vanished on the eve of a royal visit . |
| 13 | These smaller dunes were distinct from the level ground on which they stood , as if they had been tipped in discrete heaps by the workmen 's lorry . |
| 14 | The majority of doctors are simply not aware of the dangers attached to Depo-Provera and other injectable contraceptives , nor that they have been prohibited in other countries . |
| 15 | They have been seen in 1981 and 1990/91 . |
| 16 | They have been seen in many countries of Europe and in America . |
| 17 | I am sure that , subject to Mr. Speaker 's ruling , it will be in order to discuss these matters — I know that they have been raised in previous autumn statement debates . |
| 18 | They have been replaced in many areas by an urban , overwhelmingly middle-class population which has been attracted by a combination of cheap housing ( until the late 1960s ) and by an idealized view of rural life which their ownership of a car has at last allowed them to indulge . |
| 19 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns in a series of changes designed to breathe new life into the programme . |
| 20 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns . |
| 21 | So , getting down to specifics , the two species mentioned both make excellent aquarium subjects , the only cause for concern being whether they have been maintained in brackish water or already acclimatised to freshwater if you wish to maintain them in this environment . |
| 22 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 23 | In view of developments it might be argued that they have been justified in this view . |
| 24 | Piling on the confusion , Ramish Vassen , a Cape Town lawyer representing three of the prisoners , said he went yesterday to Pollsmoor prison , where they have been kept in recent years , to deliver a suit for one of his clients , Elias Motosaledi . |
| 25 | Yet if they have been done in this way it means they have not been done ! |
| 26 | According to this hypothesis , they have been administered in inflammatory bowel disease patients , but the results of various clinical trials are controversial . |
| 27 | But they have been left in little doubt that Washington would be displeased if they decided to help Vietnam 's programme to grow its forests anew . |
| 28 | As with all denizens of Fairyland , the glastyn may be perverse as well as benign by turn , and reports have been noted of those who have run amok , raping women and destroying crops if they have been slighted in any way . |
| 29 | 2.5 Whilst the foregoing factors have created the need for more language teachers — teachers , moreover , who have been trained to cope with new challenges — the supply has been falling , to the point where they have been labelled in one study ‘ an endangered species ’ . |
| 30 | It can be seen that comparisons between the sub-groups are made much easier if they have been sampled in this way ; there is no problem of having to cope with a preponderance of one group and a dearth of another if stratification has taken place beforehand . |