Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about like contraception should be integral part of it , and abortion and the options open to you , but I think it 's very important that we are taught it , we 're taught it in a heterosexual basis , and that 's just not the case , and that just alienates people any more , really more from a very early age . |
| 2 | When they measure your speed , they 're measuring your velocity really , they 're measuring it in a particular direction , along that road . |
| 3 | And we 're doing it in a second time . |
| 4 | They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is . |
| 5 | So we 're showing it in a peaceful way because in the end of course we can destroy by the ballot and not the bullet . |
| 6 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 7 | and I need to ensure that this experience erm well I I need to make sure that I will be evaluating it in a similar way as I went along . |
| 8 | If people want to better themselves , they are entitled to enjoy this sort of instruction : it should not be denied them in a civilised society . |
| 9 | That is surely what most people want , and if only Mr Major had not taken Britain into the ERM and so impoverished them unnecessarily , they would be backing him in a clear majority now . |
| 10 | R's like they are putting you in a helpless position and expecting you to be able to operate from there . |
| 11 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 12 | ‘ Nowadays somebody who uses the word nigger is seen as racist , whereas Biggles is using it in a neutral sense that 's no longer there . ’ |
| 13 | The simplest way to do this is to plant it in a dark-coloured , bottomless bucket sunk into the ground . |
| 14 | The best way to do this is to wrap them in a thick layer of newspaper and hit them with a hammer . |
| 15 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 16 | Two five five , the reason why the Executive asked for withdrawal was because it 's moving us a bit too fast along this track , and it 's moving us in a particular direction before we 've had the time to think about whether that 's the right direction to go . |
| 17 | The simplest way to destroy an ailing fish is to hold it in a damp cloth and dash it smartly against a hard surface such as a concrete path . |
| 18 | ‘ She may be getting plenty of food , but she 's putting it in a poor skin , ’ retorted Sarah . |
| 19 | " Well … something 's put her in a bad form … " |
| 20 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 21 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 22 | I know when Carl was , was doing it in a modest way and he , he 'd seen this on , and he said it 's impossible that the way they do it ! |
| 23 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |