Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 20,000 people have now been through the Quality in action workshop and more than 2,500 managers through MQS . |
| 2 | If the Witch King had started this long war , Tethlis was determined to finish it , and he might have succeeded had it not been for the decline in power of the dragons . |
| 3 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 4 | Although it is still not clear how much we actually raised , initial indications are for a figure in excess of £3,000 , which is superb . |
| 5 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |
| 6 | The trend through evolution , however , has been towards an increase in size and complexity . |
| 7 | Compulsory ‘ liberal studies ’ was , however , not to remain a distinctive feature of CNAA degrees as they had been of the Diploma in Technology . |
| 8 | You know the egg cups , I thought the egg cups were for the conservatory here but they 're for the conservatory in Fulham . |
| 9 | They 're for the child in school ; they 're for the housewife ; they 're for the businessman of the future , and an ordinary competent businessman has the capability and the possibility of actually learning how these devices work and using them , rather than just leaving it to the boffin , the scientist , the computer expert . |
| 10 | Although we 're near a hole in time there 's no way it can escape into our universe . |
| 11 | of course our members er of which we 've got a hundred and twenty three thousand , flood the lines into Luton wanted to know what happens they imagined a surplus as being some pot of er big tub of notes that they can dip it and we can dip into , but of course the surpluses have been used basically by British Telecom in particular for funding early retirement schemes er we 're in no way in knowledge whether the money 's every been paid back . |
| 12 | There are holes in your pullover , your Barbour is in the last stage of decrepitude and your trousers ca n't have been near a press in months . |
| 13 | If most of your ticks are against the statements in section A , then you are predominantly left-brained ; whereas If you have placed more ticks against the section B statements , you are predominantly right-brained . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ There 's absolutely nothing to see and it 's awfully full of nettles ’ ; at the same moment Jean Powers was saying noisily that not a solitary soul had been into the Britches in years and the village wondered what Edward got up to in there — ha ha ! — some people said he must be into black magic , or maybe he was growing cannabis . |
| 15 | He had been in a pub in Hammersmith when a hypnotist jumped on to a low podium and put on a show . |
| 16 | She had been in a squat in London but had thought it would be pleasant to have some sea air for the baby for the summer . |
| 17 | The corpse has been in a freezer in Hawaii since he died there in exile in 1989 . |
| 18 | I 've been in a sauna in London I belong to a health club there . |
| 19 | She had been in the clinic in Pennsylvania . |
| 20 | We 've been in the Burlington in Dublin , it 's gorgeous ! |
| 21 | A number of specific measures have been adopted or are in the pipeline in relation to accountancy and audit matters . |
| 22 | There are in the parables in Mark 's gospel 18 main characters , all of whom are men ; in Matthew 's 85 , 12 of whom are women , but this includes 10 bridesmaids ; in Luke 's 108 , of whom 9 are women . |
| 23 | Another 30 are in the embassy in Prague . |
| 24 | She helped me with advice , support and encouragement to bring humanitarian aid to the Shias who have escaped and are in the camps in south Iran . |
| 25 | More brave men at Swindon tomorrow … the area 's top fighters are in the ring in Penhill for the Senior Championships … |
| 26 | Because stores need to restock hot CDs quickly , the savings from buying abroad would not be worth the delay in delivery . |
| 27 | Billy Rock who has Listowel in mind for his smart and successful chaser Joey Kelly runs the gelding on Monday and he will go again at the next Roscommon meeting a fortnight later before travelling to Listowel where he might be worth an investment in view of that Galway win in July . |
| 28 | Yeah , I think it 's definitely got to be after the s in books , as it sounds as if there 's more than one of them . |
| 29 | There are , however , certain promises and acts which , for various reasons of policy , are deemed to be of no value in law and which are therefore an insufficient consideration . |
| 30 | The floor — the planet-would be like a hole in space — a hole that sucked in anything and everything that came within range . ’ |