Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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1 | The properties of the state so formed are related in a probabilistic way to the properties of the states out of which it is composed [ the photon has a chance unc a of transmission ( which is a certainty for polarisation along y ) and a chance cos ' a of not being transmitted ( which is a certainty for polarisation along x ) ] This is what is meant by the superposition principle : that states can be combined in this way with a probability interpretation of the result . |
2 | The candidate who brings his whole library to such an examination often fails : the facts that he needs are lost in a multitude of pages . |
3 | In Fig 36 an example is given of a holding pattern that has been completed in a time of 4 mins 28 secs . |
4 | The analogous hypokalaemia that may occur during treatment with β 2 adrenoceptor agonists has been explained in a similar manner . |
5 | The skill and determination of Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell , of Arranmore 's Tyne class lifeboat William Luckin , during a difficult eight-hour service in winds of up to Force 9 has been recognised in a framed letter of Thanks from the Chairman of the Institution . |
6 | A service by Cromer 's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II on 21 November 1990 has been recognised in a letter of thanks to the crew from the Chairman of the Institution . |
7 | Agency has been recognised in a number of international contexts . |
8 | The effect has been recognised in a number of studies , not least in my own . |
9 | The hotel has been built in a lovely mansion style . |
10 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |
11 | Team Pension News , which has been written in a bright , punchy style , carries an in-depth analysis of how money from the Mirror pension fund was misappropriated by Maxwell and an explanation of how a repeat can be avoided . |
12 | If the system has been written in a modular way ( i.e. the individual components of a system are intelligently partitioned , allowing each module to see all and only the input it requires ) then the modification is greatly simplified . |
13 | Overall , the first stanza has been written in a depressing way . |
14 | In a " memorandum of disapproval " , Bush defended his veto , claiming that " the original focus of the bill — to help revitalize America 's inner cities — has been lost in a blizzard of special-interest pleadings " . |
15 | For a number of years , the department has been engaged in a research project entitled ‘ The emigration of German-speaking art experts ’ , which lies behind this symposium . |
16 | Similar findings on the decline in the strength of trade unions has been highlighted in a report on labour performance in the North-West — an area traditionally strong in trade union organization . |
17 | The issue of local economies being spun into what becomes a self-perpetuating decline has been highlighted in a recent report from the Centre for Environmental Studies ( Outer Estates in Britain , CES Paper , 1984 ) . |
18 | An increased risk of developing gastric cancer in the smoking population has been highlighted in a number of large scale prospective cohort studies and there is increasing evidence accumulating from postlabelling studies that DNA adducts can be correlated with smoking history . |
19 | The plight of young homeless people has been highlighted in a new report . |
20 | His leadership has been criticized in a number of particulars : the timing of the movement 's creation ( too early or too late ) ; the adoption of anti-communism , which had short-term benefits but turned Gaullism into a right-wing preserve ; the systematic hostility to parliament and refusal to negotiate with the parties ; the tactical mistake of refusing apparentements in June 1951 . |
21 | In the business sector , the users ' needs approach to accounting theory has been adopted in a number of authoritative statements . |
22 | The volume of complaint about the difficulties encountered by pedestrians is certainly high and has been recorded in a number of surveys in recent years . |
23 | ‘ This has been done in a very formal and proper way . ’ |
24 | This has been done in a similar fashion to Martin 's approach , where the fret ends are chopped off square and then individually rounded , rather than by running a fret file down the sides of the neck and lopping all the ends off at a 45 degree angle . |
25 | This has been done in a number of papers and in this sections we outline the results of a study by Attfield and Duck ( 1983 ) ( henceforth AD ) . |
26 | The interior has been excellently restored after damage caused in the Second World War , though it has been done in a modern , simplified manner . |
27 | To some degree , the MDC has been placed in a particularly onerous position because of its having to compete for industrial and commercial investment with surrounding new towns and the local enterprise zone and Freeport . |
28 | When a plant has been placed in a low-humidity environment likely to cause water stress the measurements taken so far have always decreased and so revealed the stress . |
29 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
30 | DEC , which admits it has been locked in a ‘ defensive position ’ over Unix , will sell version 1 of the personality as a layered add-on product to the 64-bit OSF/1 1.2 . |