Example sentences of "[am/are] in [adj] [noun pl] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the employers interviewed by Margaret Irwin for the Royal Commission on Labour in the early 1890s reported that " the girls in our composing room are in many cases daughters of compositors and machinemen and men employed in other departments of the establishment … they introduce their relations in the form of sisters " . |
| 2 | If we can suspend the rigidity of the traditional comparisons , we can realise that Matisse and Picasso are in many respects part of the same enterprise . |
| 3 | The Twist family , taking part in their Prout Quest 33 Quicksticks , are in many ways exemplars of the composite ARC participant . |
| 4 | ( 2B ) For the purposes of this Act , the quality of goods includes their state and condition and the following ( among others ) are in appropriate cases aspects of the quality of goods — ( a ) fitness for all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied , ( b ) appearance and finish , ( c ) freedom from minor defects , ( d ) safety , and ( e ) durability . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there are in some cases statements of principle in general terms , which do not form part of the ratio decidendi and in others statements in dissenting judgments which it seems to me should be considered when the present question has to be resolved . |
| 6 | However , both are in some ways representative of towpaths generally in that ( a ) these canals pass through some areas of concentrated population — Scotland 's Central Belt having a total of over two million , and these canals pass right through it — and ( b ) parts of the towpaths are urban and others completely rural . |