Example sentences of "be in [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 2 | I have been in this city a week today . |
| 3 | ‘ I have been in this game a lifetime and wonder in what direction it is going and where it will all end up . |
| 4 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |
| 5 | Has the LDDC , in spite of all the hype and political prominence , been in some sense a failure ? |
| 6 | Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ . |
| 7 | There are in this force a number of young men who have fixed hours of duty — 8.30 a.m. until 5.30 p.m. with every Sunday off . |
| 8 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 9 | For Kelsen , the dynamic principle is characteristic of legal positivism which understands law to be in some sense a product of human acts and decisions rather than a deduction from timeless and immutable principles . |
| 10 | Within the family itself , each member contributes as part of the system , being in some way a member from birth through to death , so that the system has a long history . |
| 11 | The patrician planners of the late 1940s were in some retreat a decade later . |
| 12 | It is also relevant that the ability of families to deal with risks of early childhood morbidity is in good measure a matter of social and economic conditions ( see e.g. Wray , 1971 ) . |
| 13 | As I see it , the ‘ passivity ’ is in one sense a consequence of the decision to write the sonnets from a man to a man — as Sonnet 20 made clear , no ‘ activity ’ is contemplated . |
| 14 | When I answer this in the affirmative , I am aware that a man 's marriage with the woman of his choice is in one sense a boon , and in that sense the reverse of a loss ; yet , as between the plaintiff and the party promising an income to support the marriage , it may be a loss . |
| 15 | A novel is in one sense a game , a game that requires at least two players , a reader as well as a writer . |
| 16 | The term wastes , as used in early documents , is in modern parlance a misuse of the word , as they also existed at lower levels where arable and pasture might be expected . |
| 17 | As C. D. Burns remarked in 1924 : " We have … developed in England a compromise by means of which the educational system is in great part a State system and the standard of education is largely set by the universities free from state control . " |
| 18 | The name ‘ Ostrich ’ is in all probability a corruption of hospice . |
| 19 | War is in some sense a feature of life that loses its distinction as an element of malice . |
| 20 | This aunt is in some sense a kind of female-father figure , just as the maternal uncle is in a sense a male version of the mother . |
| 21 | The impression is sometimes given by Ministers and judges that the size of the prison population is in some sense a product of forces of nature beyond political or judicial control . |
| 22 | Indeed , if it could be shown that any content is possible consistent with the general requirements of justice , then ‘ justice ’ or ‘ natural law ’ would be stripped of their critical function whereby that which does not exhibit conformity of content with ‘ justice ’ or with ‘ natural law ’ is disqualified as law or , at least , is in some way a law less compelling upon conscience . |
| 23 | It may be that the state of affairs in which everyone ( as opposed to just some people ) is guided by such a maxim is an impossibility , or it may be that it is in some way a thing that no individual can wish for . |
| 24 | And , although this huge deficit is in large measure a consequence of the fall in tax revenue and the cost of unemployment in the recession , the IFS expect it to remain at this level for some years even if a gradual recovery does take place . |
| 25 | And , although this huge deficit is in large measure a consequence of the fall in tax revenue and the cost of unemployment in the recession , the IFS expect it to stay at this level for some years even if a gradual recovery does take place . |
| 26 | A self-concept develops from interaction processes since it is in large part a reflection of the reactions of others towards the individual : hence the term ‘ looking glass self ’ coined by Charles Cooley . |
| 27 | ( It is in this sense a quality which is likely to be inflamed in the racism of British society . ) |
| 28 | It is in this way a world view , of which psychoanalysis forms an important part . |
| 29 | Here the intestate heir is again the nearest agnate , who is in this case a brother . |
| 30 | This is made explicit in most sets of disciplinary rules , but is in any event a term built in to your contract by the common law . |