Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The almost exclusive concentration on the formal political process has been replaced by accounts that take in crucial determinants outside this sphere , and which are placed in an explanatory framework that allows links to be made with wider sets of social relations . |
| 2 | The effect of such a rule is that the lineage of the bride and the lineage of the husband are placed in an asymmetrical wife-giver/wife-receiver relationship ; the wife-givers then receive " valuables " of some sort in return for the women that they give away . |
| 3 | Chicks are treated in an identical fashion . |
| 4 | This will show amendments and repeals up to the date of last publication ; more recent changes are listed in an annual publication entitled Annotations to the Acts . |
| 5 | Most decent councillors have been placed in an impossible position because of the failure of the Government 's housing and economic policies to deliver the affordable rural homes that are so desperately needed . |
| 6 | Norman Lindop , as Chairman of the Committee for Education at this stage , considered that the Council had been placed in an impossible position by the sudden introduction of a new range of institutions ‘ and the need for urgent action to solve problems externally created ’ . |
| 7 | Much of the criticism was justified but to be fair to Hodge , he had been placed in an invidious position and , blinkered as he was , in some respects , he was correct in appreciating that a rebuilding of the Korean right offered the only means of preventing communist success in south Korea . |
| 8 | On a more serious note , the dangers to the environment are highlighted in an entertaining way in the animated adventure Fern Gully : The Last Rainforest . |
| 9 | Types of learning are distinguished , and are arranged in an hierarchical way so that earlier types are necessary conditions for later types of learning . |
| 10 | Interestingly , the gill openings are arranged in an oblique line , a situation very reminiscent of the gill opening of anaspids and lampreys . |
| 11 | Then someone suggests a new theory , in which all the awkward observations are explained in an elegant and natural manner . |
| 12 | As silica is only mobilised in strongly alkaline environments and as gypsum and other soluble salts occur in the underlying zone of weathering , it is suggested that they may have been formed in an arid environment . |
| 13 | Tumour-suppressor genes have been implicated in an increasing number of solid cancers , and some of these genes have subsequently been found to be inactivated in haematological malignancies . |
| 14 | The inclusion of these provisions in the plan were referred to by Rafsanjani in a speech on Oct. 8 , when he reported that " we decided to make some amendments in the plan ( which had been completed in an earlier draft form by the previous government of Prime Minister Hossein Moussavi ) under the new atmosphere " . |
| 15 | The two parts have subsequently been re-assembled in an exploded relationship ( shown in Figure 6.24 ) . |
| 16 | We all know frames of mirrors or rococo pictures which are decorated in an asymmetrical and extravagant style . |
| 17 | BIZARRE stories about Princess Diana receiving psychic messages from her dead father are appearing in an American magazine . |
| 18 | Such considerations in relation to temperature alone have been considered in an earlier section . |
| 19 | But it is equally important , in the world of the late twentieth century , to form a clear conception of how the processes of political change in any one country or group of countries are located in an international network of political forces . |
| 20 | Postwar holiday consumption patterns in Britain indicate the rapid growth of package holidays in the 1950s , but the roots of this boom are located in an earlier period before the Second World War . |
| 21 | True , in what I actually do in the laboratory , I am trapped in an artefactual world mediated by machinery . |
| 22 | Most differences have been addressed in an object-level interface definition that takes bits from SVR4.2 and Solaris , which will form the basis of the UI ABI . |
| 23 | The Whigs had contemptuously dismissed the invaders as ‘ bare-arsed banditti ’ , an ill judged description , for many of their officers had served in the English army and the force had been organised in an orthodox fashion , into divisions and regiments , often based on individual clans . |
| 24 | Directly and of its own accord , it has ‘ not a little contributed towards spoiling the most useful parts of knowledge ’ : ‘ the plainest things in the world , those we are most intimately acquainted with , and perfectly know , when they are considered in an abstract way , appear strangely difficult and incomprehensible . ’ |
| 25 | And it 's a patch clamp recording which has been done in an inside-out patch , that is with the physiological inside of the membrane facing the bathing medium , so we have experimental control over what the er physiological inside of the membrane is seeing here . |
| 26 | Things could have been done in an underhand way , but I insisted that Hibs ask for permission to speak to me . |
| 27 | One reading of this situation is that society 's thought patterns are developing in an anarchic fashion , with their adherents less able to communicate meaningfully with each other . |
| 28 | Yet this exceedingly sensible system has not always been applied in an even-handed manner . |
| 29 | The 80 years of Chaplin are presented in an ever-changing scene . |
| 30 | It should not be forgotten either that in this so-called era of peace , there are wars going on in many parts of the world which means that some people are living in an unsafe environment and in constant danger . |