Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Shoe People has since been televised in 52 countries and has spawned a multi-million pound empire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was a positive answer to an appalling problem that has since been copied in different forms by many other industries . |
| 9 | LTP has since been found in all excitatory pathways in the hippocampus , as well as in several other regions in the brain , and there is growing evidence that it underlies at least certain forms of memory . |
| 10 | China and Taiwan claimed to have ended the trade in rhino and tiger products earlier this year , but stockpiles have since been found in both countries . |
| 11 | This view has since been reflected in official commentary during and after the MTFS . |
| 12 | While both of those systems were initially developed in the USA , and have since been used in other countries with varying degrees of success , many of the claims made on their behalf have failed to materialize . |
| 13 | The features and functions of this recitation style of teaching have since been identified in greater detail . |
| 14 | Third , there are epistemological and ideological problems associated with the bringing together of issues which have hitherto been studied in one or other of the natural or social sciences . |
| 15 | It sounds to a man 's understanding as if women had hitherto been kept in disagreeable subjection to the stronger and sterner sex . |
| 16 | Pennethorne incorporated this building , which had only been completed in 1832 , into his scheme by adding another storey and possibly linking it by an arch to the Foreign Office . |
| 17 | Well , remember that all this equality has only been achieved in one small part of the globe , and then mainly at the expense of the rest of the globe ; and that this inequality , once such a national feature , is now such an international feature that it has led to a bitterly destructive war between rich and poor nations ; and remember that that inequality is fed by an ever-hardening racial antagonism which enlightened men regard as the tragedy of our age . ) |
| 18 | A corresponding survey , carried out in Sweden in 1981 , found that orientation courses had only been evaluated in 8 libraries of 34 , one-third of the libraries had evaluated courses in manual information retrieval and about half the libraries with courses in computerized information retrieval had carried out some form of evaluation . |
| 19 | American critics of the $25 billion buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1988–89 lamented this treatment of a ‘ fine old American company ’ , yet conveniently forgot that it had only been formed in 1985 when R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands , which in turn had only been formed in 1981 when Nabisco merged with Standard Brands . |
| 20 | American critics of the $25 billion buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1988–89 lamented this treatment of a ‘ fine old American company ’ , yet conveniently forgot that it had only been formed in 1985 when R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands , which in turn had only been formed in 1981 when Nabisco merged with Standard Brands . |
| 21 | The Roman Emperor Constantine had only been converted in 312 , and not till 433 did St Patrick go to Ireland . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the detailed work on which that revision is itself based has only been published in Soviet journals in Russian , so has not stood the test of scrutiny by Western astronomers . |
| 23 | It is therefore hardly surprising that Persian compositions have not only been reproduced in countless machine-made carpets in the West , but also emulated by most other rug-producing countries in the East . |
| 24 | This represented a change from the noticeably cool US attitude towards Yeltsin in the immediate aftermath of the August coup , which had apparently been prompted in particular by his assumption of control of the armed forces [ see p. 38371 ] . |
| 25 | The national church organization had long been accepted in central Europe : bishops were the crown 's natural advisers , the crown 's civil servants . |
| 26 | The pacta tertiis rule ( which protects non-parties to a treaty from having the treaty imposed upon them ) has long been accepted in international law . |
| 27 | The latter point has of course long been recognised in academic psychology and from the 1950s onwards considerable effort was expended attempting to identify the unique features of creativity . |
| 28 | and ‘ beyond some point that has long been surpassed in crowded industrial societies , conditions of use tend to deteriorate as use becomes more widespread ’ ( pp. 2–3 ) . |
| 29 | An underlying hormonal element has long been suspected in many cases of malignant melanoma . |
| 30 | It has long been established in American universities ; hence the acute consciousness of period , and the rapidity with which , in the state-of-the-art graduate schools and research establishments , critical approaches have followed one another : New Critical , structuralist , poststructuralist , deconstructionist , feminist , Marxist , New Historicist , dialogic . |