Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal computers are too fragile to cope with viruses and must be replaced with sophisticated systems which are resilient to viruses in the first place . |
| 2 | I have been depressed about life in the Eighties , the way the economy has gone in the last twelve years . |
| 3 | The same tenure seems to have been usual for officials in most lawcourts — except for the judges — and in such administrative departments as the Signet Office and the Privy Seal Office . |
| 4 | The racial card has been used to effect in previous New York elections , but in Mr Giuliani 's case he is being criticised as an opportunist for his attacks on the city 's first black Democratic nominee . |
| 5 | Decorative vaulting had been used to effect in England , but in Parler 's imaginative hands , first the crazy vault and then the net vault , reached their full potential . |
| 6 | The logic instantiated in this research design has been used to effect in some branches of psychology and medicine as a method for testing causal explanations . |
| 7 | Although Sontag ( 1979 ) may have been guilty of exaggeration in her claim that Benjamin 's most important influence came from surrealism , it is certain that he was enthusiastic about surrealism both as a movement in the arts and as often explicit politics . |
| 8 | If the judge awarded damages to the petitioner on the grounds that there was no compromise or that the compromise had been cancelled and on the grounds that the respondents had been guilty of misconduct in the Clearwater transaction , then the respondents could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 9 | However he later went on , at p. 631 , to countenance the possibility that the defendant might have been guilty of extortion in insisting upon payment ‘ even without that species of duress , viz. the refusal to allow the party to exercise his legal right , but colore officii . ’ |
| 10 | And his thinking is indeed knowingly premised on the assumption that in the complete absence of change in conditions there would be no changes in organization ; so that whatever different changes in organization have occurred in the many lines descending from some common stock are due to differences in the conditions in those lines . |
| 11 | The different interpretations are due to differences in the scope of almost with respect to certain of the semantic traits of kill : notice how the paraphrases match the interpretations simply by moving almost in the sentence so as to alter its scope . |
| 12 | They are due to differences in the data available for the preliminary analysis ( the abstract was written in December 1991 , when data collection and analysis were incomplete ) and to the limited space available in the abstract ( 200 words ) . |
| 13 | Within marriage , fluctuations in the proportions without children are due to changes in choice about childlessness , not changes in fecundity . |
| 14 | Some of these shifts in time perception are due to changes in metabolic rate produced by fever and drugs , but the mind always plays a part . |
| 15 | We conclude that the obtained variations in the base modification pattern in the different tRNA variants are due to changes in the normal 3D-structure of tRNA Asp caused by the introduced mutations . |
| 16 | This downward bias will be more severe the more that changes in actual income are due to changes in v t rather than changes in expected income ; in other words , the more inaccurate our measure of expected income is , the greater is the severity of the bias . |
| 17 | According to the Working Party on Pesticide Residues , the higher amounts are due to changes in farming practice which have led to more frequent spraying of crops . |
| 18 | In the standard Keynesian view of macroeconomics such a policy will soften the fluctuations in real output and other real variables to which any economy is prone and which are due to fluctuations in private-sector spending . |
| 19 | It is possible , but not established , that these variations are due to fluctuations in the mains voltage . |
| 20 | The shrimp industry , however , contends that the shortages in the supply of larvae during the past decade are due to fluctuations in population . |
| 21 | But when changes in births are due to shifts in timing , the TFR exaggerates current trends in relation to the final future outcome of family size . |
| 22 | Right , now you you 've already made it clear to us that about half the increase in development costs are due to increases in the costs of the equipment . |
| 23 | The loans are due for repayment in June 1990 . |
| 24 | Both projects are due for completion in early 1993 . |
| 25 | A twenty one year-old man and woman are due in court in connection with the incident . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , as history has shown , some of the companies are guilty of misconduct in the pursuit of such profit . |
| 27 | We are grateful to BP in Northern Ireland for their generous extra funding for this visit to Belfast . |
| 28 | Walter had been friendly with David in England and when he came to Scotland , David granted him lands in Ayrshire , Renfrewshire , Argyll , Bute and the Lothians . |
| 29 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 30 | We had wanted two contrasting areas ( more than two would have been preferable of course in terms of the extent to which one could generalise from our findings but the projects would become expensive and it was acknowledged that we could not include more than two ) , and Ipswich and Newham were felt to fill this requirement . |