Example sentences of "[be] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is more likely that a physical restraint influenced the swirling liquids — just as bad weather cyclones and hurricanes are anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise south of the equator of spinning planet Earth . |
| 2 | The spinelets are largest in the centre of the disk becoming shorter and more rugose towards the edge . |
| 3 | The spinelets are largest in the centre of the disk . |
| 4 | Powerlessness as a broad-based variable of disease risk is supported by research in poverty versus non-poverty areas ( Haan et al , 1987 ) ; by occupational setting studies where people have worse heart disease rates if they are lower in the hierarchy ( Rose and Marmot , 1981 ) , or have high work demands in combination with low levels of decision-making control ( Karasek and Theorell , 1990 ) ; and by the stress literature which indicates an association between chronic stress and various physical , behavioural , and psychological health problems ( Kasl and Cooper , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | It is unexplained why the radiometer readings in Bands 6 and 7 are lower in the second series , when the illumination is greater , but this was taken as grist to the mill of the idea that the radiometer method would probably be less reliable than the imaging method . |
| 6 | References to experts are private in the same way that arbitrations are . |
| 7 | Few companies have taken an interest in biological insecticides such as Bacillus thuringiensis ( its spores or toxin ) or the baculoviruses , because of lack of protection by patent and difficulties in producing formulations that are stable in the field . |
| 8 | Easily Accessible : Here , you are right in the depths of the Devon countryside , surrounded by woods , farmland and gentle hills . |
| 9 | He was also the most relaxed of batsmen , often having been asleep in the dressing-room before going out to the middle . |
| 10 | He 's been asleep in the car . |
| 11 | Any offer of help , even if presented as a humanitarian gesture , would have been controversial in the US and Israel , which still sees the PLO as a terrorist organisation . |
| 12 | In the case of Japanese enterprise groups many of these hierarchical relationships are arranged through complex subcontracts and the extensive use of quasi-democratic work teams using horizontal relationships to substitute for functional arrangements which more typically are hierarchical in the modernist bureaucracy . |
| 13 | Peter Davis , Reed 's chief executive , said : ‘ This offers us a unique opportunity to expand our subscription-based information publishing for the legal market , which we know well and where we are under-represented in the US . ’ |
| 14 | The liberals believe they are under-represented in the Congress , which was elected two years ago under the old Soviet system . |
| 15 | Ethnic minorities are under-represented in the teaching profession in comparison with their numbers in the population . |
| 16 | I wish to put two propositions to my right hon. Friend : first , the English are under-represented in the House ; and , secondly , the Scots are over-represented here . |
| 17 | There is no need to point out to you the extent to which women are under-represented in the House , and many women will be disappointed to note that , on an agreement affecting the female population — especially in relation to maternity rights and pay — we have not had a proper hearing today . |
| 18 | Irrespective of personal efforts to maintain safety , all people are exposed to dangers — natural forces as well as man-made hazards — which are inherent in the environment and which the individual is impotent to control or eliminate . |
| 19 | Other drawbacks are inherent in the method . |
| 20 | But difficulties arise which are inherent in the nature of poetry itself . |
| 21 | ‘ Not to do so would be very costly in the imposition of formal controls , without improving on the effectiveness of the informal controls that are inherent in the nature and purpose of professional work . ’ |
| 22 | To achieve a fine white printing quality , the paper is oxygen bleached , thereby having none of the detrimental effects on the environment which are inherent in the conventional chlorine bleaching process . |
| 23 | In order to demonstrate a connection and to begin to document specific effects it is first necessary to show how the structural conditions of the global system are inherent in the ways in which the communications TNCs operate . |
| 24 | What are the limitations to our analysis which are inherent in the accounting data we are using ? |
| 25 | Mum jumped up straight away and began rearranging the furniture which had been upset in the commotion . |
| 26 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 27 | Dr Mann concluded that students are uninstructed in the use of books , and laid the blame on the lecturers . |
| 28 | So far as mining is concerned , the long colliery shifts of the nineteenth century do not seem to have been usual in the eighteenth . |
| 29 | Is he aware that a similar campaign was carried out by the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) against trust hospitals in England , which have now delivered more patient care , cut waiting lists and been innovative in the service that they offer to patients ? |
| 30 | Clichés and superlatives are rampant in the log that I kept on the trip . |