Example sentences of "[pers pn] be in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'm just want to draw your attention very quickly and I will emphasize that a lot of the information you 're hearing from me are in a brief sense , will be more than adequately covered when |
| 2 | Most of them are in a ruinous state with their upper storeys missing shattered by earthquake , war , neglect . |
| 3 | Many of them are in a dangerous condition and at least one contains asbestos . |
| 4 | And to add to all the infamous circumstances which concur to plague a traveller , I must not forget the eternally meeting with chalk-waggons ; themselves frequently stuck fast , till a collection of them are in the same situation , and twenty or thirty horses may be tacked to each , to draw them out one by one . |
| 5 | ‘ Had I been in a civilian occupation , ’ he wrote , ‘ I should not have hesitated to pay the full amount . ’ |
| 6 | Sara and I are in the front bedroom . |
| 7 | I suppose I am in a good position to weigh up the prospects of the major contenders in today 's race , at least , and I have no hesitation in declaring my delight at being on Docklands Express . |
| 8 | Your Royal Highness , ladies and gentlemen , as a minister , judge and professor , I feel I am in a good position to speak about the history of marriage , its importance in society , and the duties of the married couple to each other and the wider community . |
| 9 | I am in a good mood now . |
| 10 | I 'm divorced forty ye , I 'm a divorced forty year old woman with two grown up children and I am in a terrible situation . |
| 11 | He replied : ‘ I do n't agree with it , I did n't agree with it in the '80s , I was a minority view in the '80s , I am not a minority view now — and anyway I am in a better position to expound my views . ’ |
| 12 | I am not a minority view now and , anyway , I am in a better position to expound my views . ’ |
| 13 | It may be they know that I am meeting somebody they are trying to affect through his hierarchy ; or it may be they need to find out something which they think I am in a better position to find out than they are . |
| 14 | I may be in a murderous place , but I am in a sensible country . |
| 15 | December 7 , 1786 : I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan , and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin 's and Aberdeen Almanacks , along with the black Monday and the battle of Bothwell Bridge . |
| 16 | They perhaps take a little longer than anticipated , so when they eventually arrive an hour later than expected , the anxiety has been building up , and I am in a steamy temper . |
| 17 | I think I am in a kinder mood now , and my only worry is that dullness and thickness of brain which I think I have often mentioned before . |
| 18 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |
| 19 | ‘ I am in a crazy mood today so let's all do the verse without the words ’ . |
| 20 | I never negotiated with Volvo and I am in a different position to Nick Faldo and Sandy Lyle . |
| 21 | Consider the statement that I am in a jolly mood , which clearly is not one of the chosen kinds . |
| 22 | ‘ If I am wearing a pure white carnation I am best avoided on that day because it means I am in a bad mood , ’ he said , adding that he always warns new acquaintances of this fact but has as yet not lived up to the threat . |
| 23 | I am in a little lane that runs across the front of the hillside , with a kind of broken roadway underfoot which disintegrates as I follow it into gravel studded with outcrops of manhole . |
| 24 | And the 1991 Wimbledon champion declared : ‘ I am in the best shape ever . ’ |
| 25 | Or maybe I am in the perfect position to write it , as I have spent the last week slumped on the sofa , watching the war . |
| 26 | Patrick Scott , managing director of BSB Datavision , said : ‘ I hope I am in the embarrassing situation of earning more than BSB . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I am in the latter part of my career , not the beginning . ’ |
| 28 | About half-an-hour before his death , he said , ‘ I am dying ’ , and soon after added , ‘ ‘ I am in the high road to heaven . ' ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I am in the same case as you , ’ said the abbot , and smiled . |
| 30 | Do I , she asked herself , imagine that because I have lost a man I am in the same category as spotty Betty ? |