Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) I do not think the Engdiv case , 1990 S.L.T. 617 assists Mr. Beazley , since both the pursuers seeking contribution and the defenders resisting it were parties to the building contract at issue in the case , so that it was difficult to resist the submission that the claim for contribution in that case was in a matter relating to a contract . |
| 2 | Bet old Kelly 's in a mess now is n't she ? |
| 3 | The day we met she wore trainers , tracksuit bottoms and a striped loose top ; her shoulder-length curly hair was in a pony tail beneath a neat African-style hat . |
| 4 | I was conscious soon after , and for the next few hours was in a state of half-sleeping , half-waking , yet aware of the presence of a pretty young nurse , perhaps Thai or Korean , who alternated between giving me sips of water and jabbing a needle in my bum . |
| 5 | Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ . |
| 6 | This chapter is in a sense a crucial point in the course : although the segmental material of the preceding chapters is important as a foundation , the relationship between strong and weak syllables and the overall prosodic characteristics of words and sentences are essential to intelligibility , and most of the remaining chapters of the course are concerned with such matters . |
| 7 | While this instrument is in a way value-neutral and may be used for ends of which different commentators may approve or disapprove , it may turn out to be — is indeed intended to be — a powerful force for overdue change , increased coherence and strengthened accountability . |
| 8 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 9 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Conversely few companies are in a position to compete strongly in the auction when subsidiaries are put up for sale , ’ they said . |
| 11 | When a crisis comes , that is when a paradigm no longer seems valid , a multitude of competing theories may arise , and the scientific community is in a state of disarray . |
| 12 | The party which had ruled France for ten of the past 12 years was in a state of ruin . |
| 13 | ‘ Since neither the Canadian or the British governments are in a position to produce the element ‘ 49 ’ ( code name for plutonium ) or ‘ 25 ’ ( code name for uranium-235 ) our interchange has been correspondingly restricted by order from the top . ’ |
| 14 | You just weigh up and take so much information in through your eyes do n't you , perhaps this person 's in a panic or they look angry , yeah , this sort of stuff , do it very , very naturally . |
| 15 | When the old person is in a family , complex and as yet unresolved issues are raised concerning the introduction of legal powers which would enable the abused person to be removed . |
| 16 | This court is in a position to define the extent of this common law tort in such a way as not to require a positive amendment of the law by Parliament . |
| 17 | Oh dear , the hon. Gentleman is in a muddle . |
| 18 | It was widely felt in the colleges that the Gann C1 and C2 groupings were an over-simplification of the existing situation , as the potential C1 students who possessed suitable qualifications and had clear objectives were in a minority . |
| 19 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 20 | Possibly the first ever use of this method was in a proof of : Theorem 0.4.1 If unc and unc then |
| 21 | As a successful merchant banker there was no reason for her to know where the back door was in a BAC One-Eleven , and that the tail opened downwards with the stairs ! |
| 22 | With his usual flair for publicity , Billing conducted his own defence , amusing and scandalizing the nation with his claim that the German government was in a position to blackmail 47,000 prominent British ‘ perverts ’ , among them Mr and Mrs Asquith ( later first Earl and Countess of Oxford and Asquith , qq.v. ) , whose names , he alleged , figured in a ‘ black book ’ . |
| 23 | The emerald dress was in a heap on the floor , and Isobel 's slender pale boyish body was stretched out naked on his narrow college bed . |
| 24 | It is because the rich in this city are in a club news travels fast between families . |
| 25 | We believe that British advertising is in a class of its own for inventiveness , elegance and sophistication . |
| 26 | British Coal is in a position to sign long-term contracts with the generators , which will be very much in the interests of British Coal and the electricity consumers . |
| 27 | This country 's in a mess . |
| 28 | This suggests that the situation may change , and CCM in this country is in a state of flux . |
| 29 | This country is in a mess , and that says it all , ’ said one of three petty officers from the anti-submarine vessel Red Crimea . |
| 30 | You 've got to bring back some deterrent to this bloody country , otherwise the next thing you 'll be getting is vigilante groups , and if you get vigilante groups then this country is in a hell of a bloody state and you will have bleeding trouble . |