Example sentences of "[be] in [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the earliest exports to Australia had been in 1820 but the breed did not become established for another 30 years . |
| 2 | Let me write this down for you , ten divide by one is ten , because you are saying how many ones are in ten and the answer is ten , okay ? |
| 3 | Nevertheless , all struggles should have their recompense , and the effort laid out to achieve a satisfactory musical culmination would be in vain if the climax were to disappear before anyone really noticed it . |
| 4 | That is rather a ponderous way of saying that no one in his right mind doubts the truth of my assertion about the states in which Bill will be found , because there are two of them and he must be in one or the other . |
| 5 | She ought to be in one or the other . |
| 6 | I know of one private home in the Darlington area where a number of elderly residents would give their eye teeth to be in one or the other of the two Darlington homes being closed . |
| 7 | And Philip Ziegler has moved from HarperCollins to Sinclair-Stevenson and Mandarin , with his book about London during the Second World War ; publication will be in 1995 and the agent is Diana Baring at Curtis Brown . |
| 8 | As for the levels of owner occupation , there are 3.5 million more owner-occupiers today than there were in 1979 and no doubt 3.5 million more than there would have been had the right hon. Gentleman been in government . |
| 9 | ‘ Few people can judge what shape a particular horse is in better than the smith who shoes him . |
| 10 | The four-day hearing was in private but the panel 's 37-page report is in the public domain . |
| 11 | Consumption of butter today was only half what it was in 1980 and a quarter of the 1970s figures , Dr Buss said . |
| 12 | The Peugeot 405 , both non-turbo and turbo , is now in group 8 ; previously the non-turbo was in 4 and the turbo in 5 . |
| 13 | It was in 1763 that an event occurred which led Watt radically to improve the efficiency of Newcomen type steam engines . |
| 14 | It was in 1910 that the brigade first entered competition work , when they competed at Watford . |
| 15 | It was in 1988 that the college was led to believe that the three picture would fetch £15–20 million , but while the college 's financial situation has improved since then , the state of the art market has done the exact opposite . |
| 16 | It was in 1984 that the war at sea began to hit the headlines , although there had been earlier incidents involving attacks on shipping . |