Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruling overturned a February 1989 civil settlement , whereby criminal charges against UCC were to be withdrawn in return for compensation [ see p. 36466 ] . |
| 2 | FIFTIES style trains to be withdrawn in favour of safer , modern carriages . |
| 3 | They can be withdrawn in cash on demand and are thus also totally liquid . |
| 4 | The remaining twenty-seven were obliged to be withdrawn in consequence of action brought or disputed ownership . |
| 5 | Overinvolvement by close relatives seems to be implicated in relapse of an established schizophrenic illness . |
| 6 | Thus , to the primary objective : the production of a new OED for the twenty-first century ; we must add a second objective : the electronic handling and delivery of the information contained in and added to the OED , so that the latter is able to be altered in response to changes in the language . |
| 7 | The constitution of Convocation might be altered in order for it to be open to those obtaining recognised qualifications other than degrees , or those obtaining approved qualifications moderated by the University . |
| 8 | The proposed system is designed to meet these requirements , and will be altered in line with future developments . |
| 9 | There would be some increase in grant-aid to Responsible Bodies in the next two years ; grant regulations would be amended in line with Recommendation 6 and the Ministry would discuss and review work with Responsible Bodies individually before allocating a block grant for the year to each . |
| 10 | In 1833 J. C. Loudon , who has been described as the first architectural journalist , announced that the ‘ great object ’ of his Encyclopaedia of Cottage , Farm and Villa Architecture was ‘ to show how the dwellings of the whole mass of society may be equalized in point of all essential comforts , conveniences and beauties ’ . |
| 11 | But it 's okay , it it it is possible for these moral values to be implanted in people by the exercise of force , by fear , er , or it is possible by an understanding , an acceptance of spiritual moral , ethical values . |
| 12 | Both the sample and the responders are likely to be biased in favour of those of higher social and educational status . |
| 13 | MEPs are to be lobbied in Brussels on Friday and approaches will be made to leading shareholders in DAF , including British Aerospace , which has an 11 per cent stake in the company . |
| 14 | In spite of promising prospects for the future , it has so far been a complementary course , to be undertaken in addition to the main course of study . |
| 15 | Slow , rhythmic or stretching exercises should be undertaken in preference to jogging and jumping-about type exercises . |
| 16 | The preparation of the title is one of those tasks that can be undertaken in advance of a transaction being negotiated , and should form part of the early work of a seller 's conveyancer . |
| 17 | This enhanced investment will be undertaken in co-operation with statutory educational and health authorities . |
| 18 | Only after the social formation had been constructed could the evaluation of the role of institutions and values be undertaken in terms of the place of these consciously-realized phenomena in its working . |
| 19 | It is likely that most electronic publishing based on the Special Collections of the British Library will be undertaken in partnership with other publishers , despite the fact that the Library is now a successful small-to-medium sized publisher in its own right . |
| 20 | This work again will be undertaken in partnership with non-governmental child care organisations in that country . |
| 21 | The fashion for Bonington among French collectors can be explained in part by the wave of anglophilia that swept France under the Restoration . |
| 22 | This can be explained in part by the large numbers of dogs that were imported initially , but it is clear that the breed has really taken off and is now firmly established in the top ten most popular breeds in New Zealand . |
| 23 | Legal withdrawal in the recent past from regulation of personal matters such as sexuality and birth control suggests that the uneasiness about law 's role in relation to the family may be explained in part by looking at the history of the debate on law and private morality . |
| 24 | I suggested that the latter point could be explained in part by reference to the change in the social composition of the electorate which had been in progress over the '60s . |
| 25 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
| 26 | According to the report , the overall net downgrading can be explained in part by the increased monitoring effort of the NRA and by the hot and dry summers of 1989 and 1990 , which in many areas reduced the amount of water available to dilute the inputs of contaminating waste . |
| 27 | The problems which these and other patients suffer can mostly be explained in terms of detailed functional models of face processing such as that proposed by Bruce and Young ( 1986 ) , in the same way that patients ' different reading problems could be explained by Coltheart ( 1985 ) . |
| 28 | The theory of natural selection meant that natural species could be explained in terms of the conditions necessary for their survival , and it seemed a small further step to explaining human social systems in such terms ; that is , in terms of the ways by which human beings gained their livelihood and reproduced . |
| 29 | Football hooliganism , therefore , can neither be explained in terms of simple continuities nor as an abrupt discontinuity ; the location and the specific forms of juvenile riotousness were new but the phenomenon itself was as old as the hills . |
| 30 | Something more of the requisite independence could be achieved by Berkeley 's doctrine that ideas which are not subject to our own will are produced in us by God : the independence of a real thing , its having some continuity despite interrupted perception of it , could be explained in terms of a continued readiness on God 's part to excite the requisite ideas in us at suitable moments . |