Example sentences of "be [adj] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easily Accessible : Here , you are right in the depths of the Devon countryside , surrounded by woods , farmland and gentle hills . |
| 2 | In order to demonstrate a connection and to begin to document specific effects it is first necessary to show how the structural conditions of the global system are inherent in the ways in which the communications TNCs operate . |
| 3 | Loan repayments are due in the currencies in which they are made . |
| 4 | We might believe we are helpless in the arms of fate/God/luck , or that we have control of our own destiny . |
| 5 | These may have been possible in the days of full staffing and adequate resources . |
| 6 | I have heard it denied that the candles — different candles — glimmer for every child when he or she reaches the age of three or four , but of course that denial is nonsense ; simply , most children are asleep in the depths of the night when the candles shine out . |
| 7 | He made Joynson-Hicks ( good on penal reform but illiberal on all else ) Home Secretary , and thus firmly launched the Home Office , which had been different in the days of Harcourt , Asquith and Churchill , upon a course of dour obscurantism from which it took three or four decades to recover . |
| 8 | The elections of December 1965 and March 1967 had confirmed what had been clear in the elections of 1962 : that his political base was , in fact , partisan rather than truly national . |
| 9 | I am not a prying woman , I have never really been interested in the affairs of others , I would never examine the contents of their drawers and cupboards and bathroom cabinets , as Isabel did , wherever we went to stay . |
| 10 | Lord Joseph has been interested in the causes of poverty for a long time : as a young man he joined the Howard League for Penal Reform as well as a Quaker group which busied itself about improving the social conditions of the poor . |
| 11 | Geographers have always been interested in the relations between people and the environment . |
| 12 | As my hon. Friend knows , the TA already does do that on occasion , and I am interested in the ways in which it could be developed . |
| 13 | Those who are interested in the affairs of Church and State will observe that , at two of the three crossroads of Ramsey 's life , it was the State authority which secured the result . |
| 14 | If some anthropologists , such as Geertz , are interested in the webs of significance humans spin for themselves , while others , such as Sahlins , are more focused on the processes of how those webs are spun , both groups reveal the central role of the interpreter in shaping the material to be represented and in organising the structures in which the representations occur . |
| 15 | They are interested in the experiences of these age groups , and often conduct their own quasi-psychological studies , recording individual young and old women 's accounts of their lives and feelings . |
| 16 | We are interested in the conditions under which each system is able to reduce the search space , and the effect of these reductions on their performance . |
| 17 | Such concerns have been manifest in the reforms of social security pursued by Conservative administration in Britain in the 1980s . |
| 18 | But such trends are clearer in the minds of men than they are in the rocks . |
| 19 | Members of that nobility had been prominent in the wars against the Muslims in Spain rather than in Outremer , and the decline of military opportunities in the Iberian peninsula after 1264 left aggressive energies untapped . |
| 20 | Essentially he held to the line taken by the Ministry of Health in the 1930s : the school medical service was primarily educational , and had never been designed as a complete child health service , nor as an agency to relieve poverty as such — indeed , it operated within strict terms of reference set down by Parliament ; systematic medical inspection of evacuees would have been impossible in the conditions of panic and devastation forecast by all civil defence planners before the war ; many of the evacuees ' problems , such as bed-wetting , had cleared up quickly . |
| 21 | We also have a a budgeting process er for the er for the firm 's year and we 're right in the throes of that right now for next year for ninety four , ninety five but it wo n't be any surprise to you that the recession er hit the office like any other business or the businesses that you go and see , er quite significantly , er the businesses that we 've been looking after , they 've stopped investing , they 've stopped looking at I T issues and have become very cautious and they 've basically taken stock as to where their position is . |
| 22 | Both these lights are operative in the writings of the mystics as means by which man sees his own true nature and in doing so also a reflection of God ; it is a state in which they feel themselves to be most fully alive . |
| 23 | The most available historical models are all from the period of different forms of patronage , and it is not surprising that these have been predominant in the forms of new public bodies . |
| 24 | This was because owing to wartime censorship there had been little in the newspapers about industrial disputes . |
| 25 | In this chapter we want to examine some of the factors which are involved in the stages of language understanding which occur beyond the stage of word recognition . |
| 26 | The biologists and applied scientists are involved in the schemes in that they also are part of the resource that one would consider in the university to give talks to school children . |
| 27 | Thrush Green stood on high ground at the northerly end of Lulling , a small sleepy prosperous town , which had been famous in the days of the wool trade . |
| 28 | As in the previous demonstrations , a large number of those attending were middle class , some of whom had been involved in the demonstrations of 1973 ( which had effectively deposed the existing military dictatorship — see pp. 26209-10 ) and had also witnessed the army massacre of students at Thammasat University three years later [ see pp. 28102-03 ] . |
| 29 | He has recently been involved in the developments in sow housing and feeding which are of great interest to pig producers . |
| 30 | Travkin had been involved in the talks on founding the DRM , but had withdrawn his support when it was decided not to form a separate party , thus allowing DRM supporters to remain in the CPSU . |