Example sentences of "be [adj] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The spinelets are largest in the centre of the disk becoming shorter and more rugose towards the edge .
2 The spinelets are largest in the centre of the disk .
3 Powerlessness as a broad-based variable of disease risk is supported by research in poverty versus non-poverty areas ( Haan et al , 1987 ) ; by occupational setting studies where people have worse heart disease rates if they are lower in the hierarchy ( Rose and Marmot , 1981 ) , or have high work demands in combination with low levels of decision-making control ( Karasek and Theorell , 1990 ) ; and by the stress literature which indicates an association between chronic stress and various physical , behavioural , and psychological health problems ( Kasl and Cooper , 1987 ) .
4 Santa shivered when Suzanne wrapped his body in cold , clammy bandages which had been pre-soaked in a solution of menthol , camphor , marine algae and alcohol .
5 Few companies have taken an interest in biological insecticides such as Bacillus thuringiensis ( its spores or toxin ) or the baculoviruses , because of lack of protection by patent and difficulties in producing formulations that are stable in the field .
6 But you are right in a way .
7 Easily Accessible : Here , you are right in the depths of the Devon countryside , surrounded by woods , farmland and gentle hills .
8 By the embers of the fire in the grate of the long kitchen , the burly man had been asleep in a chair .
9 He 's been asleep in the car .
10 He was also the most relaxed of batsmen , often having been asleep in the dressing-room before going out to the middle .
11 Any offer of help , even if presented as a humanitarian gesture , would have been controversial in the US and Israel , which still sees the PLO as a terrorist organisation .
12 Ethnic minorities are under-represented in the teaching profession in comparison with their numbers in the population .
13 Peter Davis , Reed 's chief executive , said : ‘ This offers us a unique opportunity to expand our subscription-based information publishing for the legal market , which we know well and where we are under-represented in the US . ’
14 I wish to put two propositions to my right hon. Friend : first , the English are under-represented in the House ; and , secondly , the Scots are over-represented here .
15 There is no need to point out to you the extent to which women are under-represented in the House , and many women will be disappointed to note that , on an agreement affecting the female population — especially in relation to maternity rights and pay — we have not had a proper hearing today .
16 The liberals believe they are under-represented in the Congress , which was elected two years ago under the old Soviet system .
17 One of the criticisms of reporting convertible debt as a liability is that it ignores the equity rights which are inherent in an issue of convertible debt .
18 Irrespective of personal efforts to maintain safety , all people are exposed to dangers — natural forces as well as man-made hazards — which are inherent in the environment and which the individual is impotent to control or eliminate .
19 But difficulties arise which are inherent in the nature of poetry itself .
20 ‘ Not to do so would be very costly in the imposition of formal controls , without improving on the effectiveness of the informal controls that are inherent in the nature and purpose of professional work . ’
21 Other drawbacks are inherent in the method .
22 In order to demonstrate a connection and to begin to document specific effects it is first necessary to show how the structural conditions of the global system are inherent in the ways in which the communications TNCs operate .
23 What are the limitations to our analysis which are inherent in the accounting data we are using ?
24 Mum jumped up straight away and began rearranging the furniture which had been upset in the commotion .
25 Dr Mann concluded that students are uninstructed in the use of books , and laid the blame on the lecturers .
26 Nevertheless , the SDA 's approaches towards urban policy have been innovative in a way that the overwhelmingly property-orientated UDCs have not .
27 Is he aware that a similar campaign was carried out by the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) against trust hospitals in England , which have now delivered more patient care , cut waiting lists and been innovative in the service that they offer to patients ?
28 Clichés and superlatives are rampant in the log that I kept on the trip .
29 Most mammalian embryologists have been guilty in the past of using age as a measure of developmental stage ; this has proved to be an inadequate and often misleading criterion .
30 If I am right in the conclusion reached with some doubt earlier that there was consideration for the 10 per cent .
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