Example sentences of "be [pron] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you in the warm woods in the south ? |
| 2 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 3 | There 'd been something in the local papers about me and my work , and these girls , aged about eight to eleven years old , sent me a book of poems they 'd written , printed and sold to raise money . |
| 4 | Are we in the right area ? |
| 5 | Are we in the wrong jobs ? |
| 6 | And all souls are one in the great ocean of the Supreme Consciousness , the Lord . |
| 7 | There seems to be nothing in the early stages of the series which could support one continuation against the other . |
| 8 | Such conduct would clearly be a form of ‘ delivery ’ rather than the formal service effected by the authorities of the state of destination , but there seems to be nothing in the various Hague Conventions to suggest that the postal channel was any less valid than any other permitted mode . |
| 9 | Most likely there will be someone in the close family or a reliable friend . |
| 10 | There could be someone in the outside world who is prepared to take over and put money into the club . |
| 11 | ‘ Slugs and snails and puppy dogs ' tails ’ — there seems to be something in the popular imagination that finds snails slightly repulsive . |
| 12 | The showhouse will be one in the middle price bracket . |
| 13 | Which system we would have to decide , who draws up the list er would the list be a U K one , a regional one or would it be one in the separate countries that go to make up the U K. A huge amount of discussion there , not a chance missed at all , er he wanted a separate seat for for Cornwall . |
| 14 | Penny Kiley discovers some unusual Fab Four tracks one of which is barking mad Exotic Beatles but are they in the wrong groove ? … |
| 15 | Are they in the top oven ? |
| 16 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 17 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 18 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 19 | What the , the links between the manifest and the latent content are what in the technical jargon of psychoanalysis we would call free associations . |
| 20 | Is everyone in the Agatean Empire as rich as you ? ’ |
| 21 | There is nothing in the political system that forces them to consider the future . |
| 22 | There is nothing in the autonomous status of self-testimony to call for our adopting the myth of the sense behind the sentence . |
| 23 | As to what counsel said there is a keen dispute which their Lordships can not resolve , beyond observing that there is nothing in the abbreviated note of the arguments in the district court to suggest that counsel went further than to point out that the immediate future of the B.M.F.L. prosecution was highly speculative . |
| 24 | They return in delight but with sadness too , for even the memory fades because there is nothing in the rational mind with which the ideas may be linked and there are no images to fix them in the memory . |
| 25 | There is nothing in the black youth 's experience to compare with that of javelin thrower Paul Brice , a white boy , whose father carefully supervised and monitored his training programmes and competitions at considerable financial expense . |
| 26 | On the other hand there is nothing in the Labour amendment which many of them would oppose anyway . |
| 27 | There is nothing in the long run that is more damaging to investment than inflation . |
| 28 | There is nothing in the biblical account to suggest that Mary was extraordinary in any way . |
| 29 | There is nothing in the Old World that resembles the giant ground sloth of South America , alas now extinct . |
| 30 | However one explains the motives behind his actions , things happened because he chose that they should : there is nothing in the previous reign which compelled him to act as he did . |