Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] in " in BNC.

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1 The selectors knew they were playing with fire when they decided to arrange a couple of club fixtures and they have duly been consumed in a conflagration of their own making .
2 In the last 12 months great strides have successfully been taken in maintaining a high profile and promoting the industry .
3 They operate under Royal Charters , appoint their own staff , decide on their own admissions policies and have traditionally had academic freedom in their teaching and research , though the last of these has arguably been eroded in recent years by the ‘ earmarking ’ of government funds for specific subjects , and the need to seek sponsors for particular projects .
4 Such a huge margin of victory has rarely been seen in a tournament of this class .
5 According to the outgoing editor , Mr Peter Stanford , she also has glamour of a kind that has rarely been seen in the paper 's musty offices .
6 The process of creating the record is valuable in its own right ; it brings respect for the contribution of the parent to the learning environment and can provide a level of involvement by the parent which has rarely been seen in our schools .
7 Anorthosites occur on Earth and Moon , but have rarely been seen in meteorites .
8 It is generally the case , nevertheless , that in the 30 years since the signing of the Treaty , EC policies have only rarely been developed in a framework which explicitly evaluates the spatial impact of those policies .
9 Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia .
10 LeWitt 's use of geometrical structures dates to 1963 but this vital aspect of his work has rarely been examined in depth in Britain .
11 The pig has rarely been used in physiology laboratories because of its size and temperament , but the development by animal breeders of a minipig with better temperament may change this .
12 Orders for discovery rarely are made in criminal appeals and , when made , generally go , if not to the prosecution , then , as here , to a statutory body .
13 The review quoted by H Humphreys and D Greenwood makes clear that this type of regimen has mostly been studied in infections that generally respond well to treatment and not in patients with complicated illnesses ( in particular , renal disease ) and that its use is currently limited .
14 But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win .
15 If the millions of pounds raised annually in this country for these people via television , telethon , etc. are spent in such a manner , this would surely see the start of a reversal of the present path on the dead-end road we seem to be following .
16 A warrant for Proksch 's arrest had eventually been issued in March 1988 .
17 The Shoe People has since been televised in 52 countries and has spawned a multi-million pound empire .
18 He has since been engaged in teaching at Cambridge , and has obtained experience in W.E.A. lecturing there .
19 The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen .
20 James Chapman looks at the advances that have since been made in diver deployment and recovery .
21 Significant finds have since been made in the Urals and South Africa .
22 The decision has since been applied in Department of the Environment v Thomas Bates & Son Ltd [ 1990 ] 2 All ER 943 .
23 Diameter has since been declared in default by the Investors Compensation Scheme , thus preparing the way for compensation .
24 The threat has since been withdrawn in a statement issued to the local Press .
25 Besides the straight eurobond , the market has been the location of a number of key product innovations , many of which have since been adopted in domestic markets .
26 A strong lobby within the Labour Party was urging more open government and greater access to official information on the lines of the Freedom of Information Act which has since been implemented in the United States .
27 The airborne branch has long since been covered in its own thorough MAA 139 , so it is welcome to see this new and interesting study of the LFDs — in much greater and more specific depth , and well illustrated .
28 This has since been employed in the wide variety of commercial designs that have arrived following the introduction of the Hawaiian ; but for a simple and long-standing development one need look no further than Top of The Line 's own ‘ Spin-Off ’ .
29 Mr Dobbs ' parents heard police evidence that their son had travelled to Amsterdam with 3 others ; two from Gloucester , who 've since been questioned in connection with conspiracy to smuggle drugs .
30 The Village Labourer by J.L. & B. Hammond was originally published in 1911 and has since been republished in paperback ( London 1978 ) .
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