Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carbohydrates provide a good energy supply for the body as they 're converted into glucose , but make sure you 're eating it in the right forms . |
| 2 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
| 3 | Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X. |
| 4 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 5 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |
| 6 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 7 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 8 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 9 | I said to Claire , I said , I 'm sticking them in the wrong one . |
| 10 | if you 're gon na plan bare rooted trees and stuff you 've got ta be doing it in the dormant season , so you 're talking October , November possibly October . |
| 11 | Mr Sabin 's family has been in the publishing and bookselling business since 1865 and his son Mark will be joining him in the new venture , together with David Fuller , another former Ackermann director . |
| 12 | ‘ Lewis seems to be making it in the old alternative comedy scene , does n't he ? ’ |
| 13 | If we continue to ignore these people , especially the young , we may be fighting them in the near fu future as they are actively being targeted by the far right British National Party and other fascist organizations that are using this sense of desertion . |
| 14 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 15 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 16 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 17 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
| 18 | ‘ Magnus is among the top assets in the XEU portfolio and my job is to keep it in the premier league , ’ he says . |
| 19 | At which , after an ovation , half the audience did depart to hear Michael Heseltine , whose idea of a fringe meeting is to hold it in the Grand Theatre , which is very grand , built 1906 , seats 1,200 , and where Alvin Stardust will head the bill in this year 's pantomime . |
| 20 | ‘ Your reward 's awaiting you in the Fiery Pit ! ’ fumed the priest , running on the spot and punching the air with fury . |
| 21 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 22 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |