Example sentences of "[be] [adj] in a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Once I am interested in an act 's music and I like their live performance , the first thing I want to know is where this new band sees itself going .
2 The rest of this chapter and the following chapter provide a more detailed account of the processes which are involved in a child 's mastery of language from the perspective of learning theory , the acquisition of abstract rules and developmental change .
3 One reason why no such demonstration is possible is the fact that a variety of factors are involved in a scientist 's judgement of the merits of a scientific theory .
4 Free elections would then be possible in a year 's time when all parties could participate equally . ’
5 The second misunderstanding concerns the ideas which must be present in an animal 's mind if kin selection is to operate .
6 A consequence of this tradition is that the sculptor 's own personality may receive less prominence in a monograph than a painter 's , as the effect of patronage given or withheld can be decisive in a sculptor 's career .
7 It combines this wrap-around view with the ability to pick out any detail which might be significant in a duck 's life .
8 Being short-scale in a Gibson EB3 sort of way , the Hamer is quite comfortable to wear .
9 This experience of a tight community of shared aspiration is rare in a novelist 's lonely life .
10 If the Lady of the Hearth principle is active in a woman 's life , then it will have a pleasurable and creative quality to it .
11 What private letters from an artist can do best is to elucidate what was uppermost in an artist 's mind at the time , often artistic aims which would be difficult to discover otherwise .
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