Example sentences of "[be] in the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , some teachers did not return the questionnaire because they had not been in the school at the time of the review and felt that their knowledge of SSE as a general notion was too limited even to enable them to complete the section on general attitudes . |
| 2 | But she finally admitted that she had n't been in the ship at the time . |
| 3 | The doctor said there was nothing wrong with me , but the Operation Raleigh people rang to warn us : they had been in the rainforest at the same time as us , and 50 to 60 per cent of their people had gone down with river blindness . |
| 4 | It 's alleged the car was stolen ; a 16 year old youth alledged to have been in the car at the time , is on police bail . |
| 5 | I I often , well , usually , if I 'm in the country at the time I bet on the National just for a , for a to sort of waste some money . |
| 6 | and I am making I 'm in the process at the moment of making application to be accepted by them . |
| 7 | Alternatively one could simply say the seats were actually all taken , and that all three occupants happened to be in the toilet at the time . |
| 8 | You were lucky to be in the kitchen at the time . ’ |
| 9 | The draft letter to Katkov merely claims that crimes like this fictional one can be found in the newspapers , and that the fictional murderer has come under the influence of certain half-baked ideas which happen to be in the air at the time . |
| 10 | Taekwondo places great emphasis , of course , on flying kicks , and it is not unusual for two opponents to be in the air at the same time , one executing an attack and the other an airborne block or counter attack . |
| 11 | We just happened to be in the pool at the same time , that 's all . ’ |
| 12 | He requested that his parents and a very close friend of ours say goodbye to him , and that I 'd be in the room at the time and stay with him when they said goodbye . |
| 13 | MYSTICAL manifestations seem to be in the news at the moment , what with the imminent publication of a book about recent sightings of the Virgin Mary in a London tower block . |
| 14 | ‘ It is good to be in the frame at the top of the Premier League and competing in the cups . ’ |
| 15 | As Lord Bridge of Harwich said : ‘ I was one of those who were in the majority at the conclusion of the first hearing of this appeal in holding that s 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , construed by conventional criteria , supported the assessments to income tax made by the Revenue on the appellants … |
| 16 | My Lords , I was one of those who were in the majority at the conclusion of the first hearing of this appeal in holding the opinion that section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , construed by conventional criteria , supported the assessments to income tax made by the revenue on the appellants which had been upheld by Vinelott J. and the Court of Appeal . |
| 17 | Which was pretty demoralizing for us that were in the water at the time but |
| 18 | But he said all had been totally dismantled since he came to power in 1989 and all South African nuclear facilities were open to scrutiny by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , whose inspectors were in the country at the moment . |
| 19 | ‘ You were in the bathroom at the time . ’ |
| 20 | There were in the parliament at the end of 1989 twenty-nine European Greens and fourteen members ( including two defectors from the Greens ) of their old partnership , the Rainbow Group , a ‘ technical ’ gathering of green-tinged communists , nationalists and anti-EC Danes . |
| 21 | Three people who were in the car at the time were injured in the crash , one of them seriously . |
| 22 | During the raid at Barclays in Oxford , several customers were in the bank at the time . |
| 23 | but I mean , him and Joe were in the room at the same time . |
| 24 | and also the Home Guard or the army were in the house at the far side of the airport which was called Aldridge Lodge they were very much in there the erm |
| 25 | It 's in the front er it 's , it 's in the back at the front , I 've got the |
| 26 | ‘ It 's in the balance at the moment . |
| 27 | He 's in the garden at the moment . ’ |
| 28 | Basically it 's in the news at the moment and it 's er very prelavent to the criteria surrounding the company at the moment . |
| 29 | Any other one other factor that might be important in , er explaining this relative change composition of trade between agriculture and manufacturing ? something that 's in the news at the moment |
| 30 | What happens when the account is in the black at the time of presentation but in the red when the bank honours the withdrawal ? |