Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [det] [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly monastic writers may have been slightly less chauvinist in outlook ; the St Albans chronicler at least is less effusive about Agincourt , although he too notes the triumphant reception which the King received on his return ( 16 , p.111 ; 22 , p.70 ; 39 , pp.xviii , 98–9 ) . |
| 2 | There could be yet another cut in interest rates and positive help to home-buyers to get the vital housing market moving . |
| 3 | The association was closed to new members from the time that this project became public , but now membership will be opened again : I imagine there will be considerably more interest in membership than prior to the event . |
| 4 | The Profitboss listens to Joe Cooper , the union representative , and his mind is open to the possibility that Joe could be right about certain aspects of the payment system being inequitable , The Profitboss 's mind is open to the possibility that there might be too much bureaucracy in company secretariat when Paul the property services manager mentions it in passing . |
| 5 | There is not another soul in sight and no sound . |
| 6 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 7 | So far as dreaming is concerned , it seems that the most striking difference between modern Western culture and pre-scientific cultures is not any decrease in mysticism or Informal supernatural beliefs , but an explosion in the number of alternative explanations for dreaming . |
| 8 | THERE is always much excitement in steam operations on the main line but we should not forget the amount of effort taking place on the preserved lines especially as now the Santa Season is in full swing . |
| 9 | There is still some water in storage but it can not be pumped out without this effect on the environment . |
| 10 | The tribunal will generally compensate you for lost fringe benefits , although putting a figure upon them is often another exercise in guesstimation . |
| 11 | He said that the oceans would suffer the effects of oxygen depletion before the atmosphere , because there is proportionately less oxygen in water |
| 12 | If it is accepted , as I believe it should be accepted , that certiorari goes not only for such an excess or abuse of power but also for a breach of the rules of natural justice there is even less reason in principle for excluding other established grounds . |
| 13 | Er Moderator er there is n't any reason in principle why this sh should n't happen that er this subject could n't come up at the presbytery clerks conference . |
| 14 | Whereas what we 're talking about in the structure plan is how much housing in total , of which affordable housing will form a greater or lesser part . |
| 15 | There is never any merit in being second best . |
| 16 | This paradox is explained by the fact that in Britain the vast majority of older people are poor and there is therefore less difference in income levels between the group . |
| 17 | What my , my honourable friend raises a very interesting point because er when I we studied er the law relating to partnerships one of the basic er er principals was the personal relationship between partners and I 'm bound to say that when one looks at the headed notepaper of these big multi national accountancy firms sometimes the names of which cover most of the letter and there 's very little room in fact left er for the message . |
| 18 | Yeah , yeah , yeah , the thing was , because it left about fifteen minutes later , at a quarter past eight , there was so much difference in traffic , |
| 19 | Was not that change in turn due to a realisation by the Soviet Government that the Governments of western countries , particularly the British Government , were not going to adopt a policy of one-sided nuclear disarmament , despite the urgings of Opposition Members ? |
| 20 | In addition , it might be noted that British fascism had not substantially changed the attitudes of Britain 's major political parties and it could be argued that there was still much equivocation in government as to whether or not Mussolini or Hitler represented the biggest threat . |
| 21 | He commonly observed to his students that it was doubtful whether there was as much joy in heaven as in some places on earth at the rise of the ‘ Barthian school ’ — and would add that he at any rate did not belong to it . |
| 22 | Boris Becker recently expressed the view that there was too much money in tennis and that it was ruining the game — a view of course that it is much easier to make objectively once you have £5m in the bank . |
| 23 | interestingly , hearing people seemed to increase in their re-arrangement over time while there was very little difference in BSL . |