Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 2 | Peterborough are jogging along in midtable while United are slipping down … |
| 3 | Not only in P P G seven but as has been pointed out in other erm guidance notes such as four erm and three . |
| 4 | My name had been bandied about in recent weeks , ever since the ban was reduced by two years . |
| 5 | As most drift-netting operations are carried out in international waters where little or no international agreements are in force , it is extremely difficult to control this destruction of life on the high seas , or even to get an accurate picture of its magnitude . |
| 6 | It was previously observed that CytR has a strong tendency to bind non-specifically to the DNA in gel retardation assays that are carried out in low ionic strength electrophoresis buffer ( 6 ) . |
| 7 | Schregle 's ( 1981 ) approach to this basic problem of what is comparable in cross-national studies is to compare the methods and ways in which particular industrial relations functions are carried out in various countries , rather than simply comparing institutions and procedures carrying the same designation . |
| 8 | The controversial foetal cell transplants are carried out in other parts of the world too . |
| 9 | Remember that it is these kinds of tests that are carried out in conventional ( econometric ) tests of economic theories . |
| 10 | Some are rowing about in spindly black rowing-boats in the graceful standing posture that is the classic Venetian stance , while others are darting around in speedboats . |
| 11 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 12 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 13 | Some — like that of Ryno the medic , exhausted and saddened after a struggle to save the life of a fellow constable — show how very young most men are when they are caught up in armed conflicts . |
| 14 | Sometimes you shout out the names of hon. Members who are caught up in British Rail delays . |
| 15 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 16 | An oddity of this glorious portal is that the eyes , of both men and monsters , are picked out in white with black dots for the iris . |
| 17 | As a result , a whole range of measures including stricter disciplinary codes , work reorganisation and redundancies have been carried through in large numbers of firms ( Hyman and Elger , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | As for the social composition of the judiciary , the many surveys that have been carried out in recent years ( see Griffith , 1995 : 25 ) show the overwhelming predominance of upper-class and upper-middle-class backgrounds . |
| 19 | This categorisation could have been carried out in other ways , and other purposes seen here as secondary could have been given greater prominence . |
| 20 | Those few studies that have been carried out in free-running experiments suggest that the body clock might run slightly faster . |
| 21 | Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) . |
| 22 | A placebo controlled study has , however , been carried out in active distal ulcerative colitis by Angus et al , and showed that the drug was not significantly better than placebo . |
| 23 | In the modern Hebrew Bible all numbers are written out in full , but for a long time the text was written without vowels . |
| 24 | The argument was that different components of personality are built up in particular individuals as a consequence of cultural conditioning . |
| 25 | The atomic structures which characterize each family are built up in different ways with the basic SiO4 building-block . |
| 26 | They 're fighting back in other workplaces throughout the U K. We must fully support these workers and campaign for them . |
| 27 | Although the National Certificate , with its competence-based , internally-assessed modules , has almost become part of the educational establishment now , we should not forget that Scotland led the way in the development of this kind of award and our experience has been drawn on in subsequent moves to make all Britain 's vocational qualifications modular and competence-based . |
| 28 | The Auditing Practices Board has issued a Practice Note for Lloyd 's auditors , which has been drawn up in close cooperation with the insurance market . |
| 29 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 30 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |