Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in high spirits ; the idea which had been growing in her with increasing , undeniable force was now going to become a reality . |
| 2 | The user must bring the test card in from the left and , with similar messages will be told in which of twenty-six vertical strips covering the subject area ( not the reference area ) the righthand edge of the card lies . |
| 3 | In fact the parts can be used in anything from high-tech warships to telephones and TVs . |
| 4 | Home computers can also be found in one in five households , compared with just one in eight seven years ago . |
| 5 | I mean you can imagine what th the horn parts are playing in something like thirds fifths and sixths , |
| 6 | Most of the pictures were made in something like six or eight weeks . |
| 7 | In 1989 , it was estimated that sharp instruments were used in one in three aggravated burglaries , one in five robberies , one in 17 offences of violence against the person and one in 100 sexual offences . |
| 8 | They 're being sold in lots of four … one includes this mask worn at a ball at the Royal Academy … following the mysterious death of Robert Maxwell and the scandal that followed , his widow says it is an epoch that is past and no longer part of my life . |
| 9 | They 're being sold in lots of four … one includes this mask worn at a ball at the Royal Academy … following the mysterious death of Robert Maxwell and the scandal that followed , his widow says it is an epoch that is past and no longer part of my life . |
| 10 | Workmen 's and Schoolchildren 's tickets were sold in lots of six , a certain colour being used on a particular day . |
| 11 | But the both until B T split from the Post Office , the Post Office put in if I remember rightly in negotiations those days er they were putting in something like fourteen per cent of the pay bill . |
| 12 | First , the one I have already drawn attention to — love is infused in us by revealing love . |
| 13 | ‘ And nobody 's slept in them for fifty years or more ! |
| 14 | The object is to determine in which of sixteen horizontal strips the lower edge of the test card lies . |
| 15 | We 'll see how much fight is left in you after some time in the dungeon . |
| 16 | Some strength or recklessness seemed to have been released in her by recent events ; she had increased as Anwar had diminished . |
| 17 | No regular services had been held in it for many years , although it had been used for funerals and the occasional service , remaining open for visitors and pilgrims to Cell-y-bedd and the shrine . |
| 18 | An awful suspicion was growing in her like some bizarre fungus from a tiny spore . |