Example sentences of "be [verb] in [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course was only eight kilometres , but it was cross country and had to be completed in less than one hour . |
| 2 | The same program can be placed in more than one Program Group . |
| 3 | Any such classification is bound to be somewhat arbitrary and , as Willett acknowledges , many groups can be placed in more than one category . |
| 4 | Any package in the structure which is to be updated and approved must not be contained in more than 30 other packages . |
| 5 | In the end I asked myself why I should be trapped in there while they walked about freely . |
| 6 | In certain states , a rule can be applied in more than one way . |
| 7 | Setting prices on average equal to marginal cost can be done in more than one way , and some will be socially superior to others . |
| 8 | Of course , there can be pictures that are ambiguous , in that they can be interpreted in more than one way , and even pictures for which there is no plausible interpretation ( Figure 13 ) . |
| 9 | Bank in 2 can also be interpreted in more than one way ( e.g. ‘ margin of river ’ or ‘ establishment for the custody of money ’ ) ; but it has no general meaning covering these possibilities . |
| 10 | New features include the Veritas file system , which is claimed to guarantee file system integrity and enable rapid file system recovery ; a new user-level state-check program that monitors processes deemed vital to system operation and restarts them if terminated ; and a new fast-reboot feature that enables upgrades to the Non Stop-UX kernel to be performed in less than two minutes . |
| 11 | Visa and Access , the latter known as Mastercard abroad , can be used in more than 7m places worldwide . |
| 12 | Many of the words used in palaeography have broad meanings in normal English usage , or may be used in more than one way . |
| 13 | It is however also clear that the concept of legitimate expectations , like many legal concepts , can be used in more than one way ; it does not have to be given a restrictive interpretation . |
| 14 | This can be produced in less than 12 hours , when previously designing and producing molds for prototypes could have taken weeks , if not months . |
| 15 | ‘ Or else you 'll be locked in here until you decide not to be so stubborn . ’ |
| 16 | In practice , it is established policy that minerals cases will be called in only if they raise issues of regional or national importance . |
| 17 | This June Meeting asked for the bond balances to be called in so as the final land purchase could go ahead and , for the first of many times , it discussed the question of the use of caddies on a Sunday . |
| 18 | For the purposes of the City Code , these include contracts or arrangements where the consideration consists of a debt instrument which can be redeemed in less than three years . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll be moving in there once we 're married , and it 'll give you a chance to look around . ’ |
| 20 | For a garment piece that is to be knitted in more than one stitch pattern ( a border followed by an all-over pattern for example ) , it is necessary to combine all the appropriate individual patterns into one large stitch pattern before integrating with the garment piece . |
| 21 | Some estimates predict that Kenya 's fuelwood will be exhausted in less than 20 years if current rates of consumption persist . |
| 22 | Echo claims a complete commercial application written in a high-level language can be translated in less than two weeks and that in most cases the code size and performance of an application translated with FlashPort will compare favourably with applications compiled directly on PowerPC . |
| 23 | Echo claims a complete commercial application written in a high-level language can be translated in less than two weeks and that in most cases the code size and performance of an application translated with FlashPort will compare favourably with applications compiled directly on PowerPC . |
| 24 | Witness summonses may not issue less than seven days before the hearing and be served in less than four days before the hearing without leave of the court . |
| 25 | Because of its Hypersoft compression technology , or rather because it does n't require image decompression , 100 full-screen zoomed images can be viewed in less than 17 seconds , 1,000 in 3.5 minutes . |
| 26 | Because of its Hypersoft compression technology or rather because it does n't require image decompression 100 full-screen zoomed images can be viewed in less than 17 second , 1,000 in 3.5 minutes . |
| 27 | Treaties must be kept , genocide is forbidden , war is to be indulged in only when vital national interests are at stake . |
| 28 | A full scale mock-up of the wheelhouse was built to make sure that all equipment could be fitted in exactly where it was required and comments were invited on the precise layout of instrumentation and equipment . |
| 29 | PENTAGON budget officials are contemplating cancellation of a hi-tech joint Navy-Air Force electronic jamming system scheduled to be fitted in more than 2,000 new fighter and attack planes . |
| 30 | The objectives thus agreed can probably be achieved in more than one way . |