Example sentences of "be [verb] in [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | JAGUAR car workers are to put in nine hours ' overtime each week to complete the biggest single car order in the company 's history . |
| 2 | Over 80 artists from some 14 nations entered for the new BP Peter Pears Award , each presenting a 22-minute programme representing their talents in opera , oratorio , baroque and 20th-century works ; Britten was to be heard in most contestants ' 20th-century selections . |
| 3 | A review of the project will be made in twelve months ' time . |
| 4 | This small characin can be seen in all dealers ' tanks , their fluorescence guaranteed to catch the eye of fishkeepers . |
| 5 | Hewitt ( 1989 ) , for example , accepts that the speech of black adolescents shows influences from Creole but asserts that the same influences can be seen in white adolescents ' English in certain areas : the English of many black youngsters also itself displayed evidence of Creole influence beyond those stretches that might be plainly treated as switches . |
| 6 | But King He can expect to be freed in three years ' time but Don King is convinced the former champion 's conviction will be overturned at a forthcoming appeal . |
| 7 | Do you think that it could ever be true that they would be sufficiently inexpensive that they could be used in most doctors ' surgeries , or is it going to be something which is only used in one or two important hospitals ? |
| 8 | Well , you 'll be flying in seven months ' time . |
| 9 | How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ? |
| 10 | Today the ‘ A ’ team take the field against county champions Essex at Lord 's , the opening fixture in a first-class season which will still be running in 22 weeks ' time . |
| 11 | If you were to achieve your goal in five years ' time , what would you have to be doing in four years ' time to get there ? |
| 12 | What the bland uniformity of the final bestseller lists ( see opposite ) fails to reveal are the intriguing regional variations that could be found in most respondents ' submissions . |
| 13 | THAT her divorce from Prince Andrew will be finalised in two years ' time . |
| 14 | The winner will be announced in six weeks ' time and both the winning plumber and the nominator will receive holidays to Majorca . |
| 15 | The winner will be announced in two months ' time . |
| 16 | The Minister has also criticised our lack of proposals for individual units , but when we table questions to get information on which to base proposals , which perhaps we will be implementing in six months ' time , we can not get proper answers from the Government . |
| 17 | The unspoken concern of West Germany and France is that if sterling joined the ERM at its present exchange rate , a devaluation might still be required in several months ' time . |
| 18 | Now these visitors were dressed in simple shepherds ' tunics though they were fashioned in stripes of crimson satin and cloth of gold . |
| 19 | So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop |
| 20 | The Japanese FA is to initiate a programme of stadium-building before the choice is made in seven years ' time . |
| 21 | The Japanese FA is to initiate a programme of stadium-building before the choice is made in seven years ' time . |
| 22 | Worst of all there was very little interlocking between separate communes , a circumstance which was reflected in these peasants ' lack of political cohesiveness in the Dumas . |