Example sentences of "be [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal arguments for a policy of CPD were advanced in the Brett-Jones Report of 1978 and although none could be refuted in a responsible way , it was not until 1 January 1981 that Regulations were made by the General Council of the RICS to make compulsory , and to regulate , members ' Continuing Professional Development . |
| 2 | I was driving on my way through beautiful scenery in Wales where I live and it suddenly occurred to me how this would all be altered in a nuclear war . |
| 3 | The Alvington entry will be competing in a new class for slightly modified production models , hoping to head off the Jaguars and Porsches when the race gets underway on June the 19th . |
| 4 | The study will be undertaken in a consecutive cohort of 500 patients undergoing elective abdominal , thoracic and vascular surgery and involves audiotaping of information given to patients , issue of operation information cards ( on a random basis ) and assessment of the personality and mood traits . |
| 5 | Close work is not in itself detrimental to sight and need not be discouraged , but it should be undertaken in a comfortable position and with appropriate task lighting . |
| 6 | This impairment can be explained in a straightforward manner if one assumes that damage has occurred to the part of the reading system that involves addressed phonology . |
| 7 | Some of the themes in the Babylonian story — in particular , man 's place as a substitute worker — can be traced in a Sumerian poem , Enki and Ninmakh , written before 2,000 BC . |
| 8 | Thus a moral lesson can be given in a light-hearted manner : |
| 9 | Though he argued that any attempt to lay down rigid rules for classifying applications would be doomed to failure' , Dobry thought that guidance should be given in a national code of practice . |
| 10 | [ A roundup of local and republican election results from throughout the Soviet Union , including the dramatic victory in Lithuania on Feb. 24 for candidates of the pro-independence Sajudis movement , will be given in a forthcoming article . ] |
| 11 | Therefore , whereas prescribing budgets will inevitably be set in the aggregate , taking into account local social and epidemiological factors , both PACT and formularies are much more likely to lead the GP to consider why a particular drug , and not an alternative including no drug , should be given in a particular instance . |
| 12 | Should be given in a modest , restrained , deadpan way . |
| 13 | Good quality bags will have a boxed foot so your feet will be cocooned in a hollow ‘ cushion ’ of warm filling with no cold spots . |
| 14 | The first of these , the preparation of lessons in sequence will obviously deal with the formulation of learning objectives which can be realised in a particular unit of work . |
| 15 | The latter phenomena have been extensively analysed in the limit B 0 , in which the Ikeda mapping becomes one-dimensional and can be realised in a so-called hybrid system in which the feedback is electronic rather than optical . |
| 16 | If his notion of the mode of production as such a totality could not be sustained in a differential relation to other modes of production ( notions of residual and emergent forms notwithstanding ) , Althusser nevertheless offered a particularly interesting theorization of the problems involved in the concept of the historical , articulating the paradoxical conditions of any theorization of history . |
| 17 | The British hardly conceived the French could be defeated and few Americans expected to be embroiled in a global war . |
| 18 | The difference in attitudes toward welfare between the USA and Europe has been highlighted to show that trends toward contraction of municipal housing and urban programmes , when coupled with the process of deinstitutionalization , make it more likely that hospital leavers will be marginalized in a competitive environment . |
| 19 | The workings of the legal system in 1922 will be examined in a later chapter as one aspect of Bolshevik control over society , and the general extent of crime will be noted . |
| 20 | ‘ One day a man knocked on my door , and asked to be painted in a nearby churchyard , ‘ to symbolise the desolation of my life ’ , he said . |
| 21 | Conservationists claim that traditions — no matter how old or well-established which add unnecessary pressures to species which are already in danger , can no longer be justified in a modern world , and should be abandoned . |
| 22 | He never supposed a bus might recur in his life , to be travelled in a second time , with a recognisable darn in its upholstery . |
| 23 | The delivery process itself is determined by the futures exchange and involves a sequence of steps that must be completed in a specific order and at specific times . |
| 24 | The planned journey is from Gransden to Crowfield , a distance of 48 nautical miles to be completed in a straight line track of 095° in a single seat Jodel D9 Bébé . |
| 25 | If the load is to move a fixed distance then the high gear ratio requires the motor to move a large number of steps and for the load movement to be completed in a reasonable time the motor needs to attain a high stepping rate . |
| 26 | If the weather holds out work could be completed in a short time . |
| 27 | The human genome project , which aims to identify the make-up of all human genes , could be completed in a purpose-built US laboratory by the middle of next year , according to a leading participant in the work . |
| 28 | I be they 've never played Turrican or Creatures otherwise they 'd be gobsmacked , especially the console owners who pay about £40 for games that can often be completed in a few hours ! |
| 29 | This is not an enterprise that can be completed in a few months . |
| 30 | The Touche Ross report had to be completed in a considerable hurry , for reasons that we understand . |