Example sentences of "be in [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 2 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |
| 3 | True some modes of thought are in certain circumstances and periods dominant over others ; they may even hold the envied status of an official orthodoxy . |
| 4 | Colour is even more limited than before , and the palette for the succeeding years is established : some of the paintings are in earth colours , greys and blacks , with a few touches of dull green , while others are in softer grey-blues and buffs . |
| 5 | those with difficulty looking after themselves , the confused , the incontinent , the blind , the deaf , and the bad tempered were more likely to be in such homes than others . |
| 6 | From the coastal area , you can be in broom-covered hills and forests within 30 minutes . |
| 7 | Nitrates should be in single figures and water changes should be carried out at the rate of 20% each week for the time being . |
| 8 | The point of a demonstration may be nullified if the target of the protest is not within the sight or hearing of the demonstrators , and it may be expected that it would only be in exceptional circumstances that conditions would be imposed preventing such a gathering . |
| 9 | It may be in these circumstances that moderation rather than liberation is more likely to achieve results , but it is a matter of interpretation whether the results achieved by good behaviour are worth the energy required . |
| 10 | Christina was interested too , and the two of them were in good spirits when Stephen drove into the dry , scrubby car park in front of the Crane Beach Hotel , which from that aspect seemed an unremarkable low-level with thirties undertones to the architecture . |
| 11 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 12 | By comparison , 36% of men in the population as a whole were in non-manual occupations and 64% in manual occupations ( OPCS , 1989 , Tables 9.29 and 10.1 . |
| 13 | Similarly , the third example can be seen to legitimise systems of employment in which people 's weekly income is uncertain and variable — as in fact it is in certain trades and industries , building being a notable example . |
| 14 | THE former shipping company Ocean Group still owns tug boats and oil rig supply vessels , but these days the thrust of its expansion is in environmental services and distribution . |
| 15 | It is in these areas that Marketing departments come into their own . |
| 16 | It is in these groups that subcontracting is especially strong , and their organization is more heavily centralized around the parent firm than is the case in the keiretsu . |
| 17 | Given the apparent sexist bias of much humanities and social science teaching , it seems odd that it is in these subjects that women are numerous ; it is the absence of women in physical science and engineering that has generally been regarded as a ‘ problem ’ . |
| 18 | ISS focused on the fourth and fifth years because it is in these years that pupils tend to narrow their curriculum , as schools frequently have a very small core with large option schemes , with the result that some pupils pursue a curriculum that is neither broad nor balanced . |
| 19 | If feldspar is present , it is in minor volumes or traces . |
| 20 | He was in better spirits and colour now , for he had been out walking several times with Luch since she had gently persuaded him to dress and go to the wedding . |
| 21 | The extra growth was in new places and industries , yet much was still generated in manufacturing employment . |
| 22 | It was in these circumstances that Blackpool bought six open-top trams from the London United Tramways Company in July 1919 . |
| 23 | It may seem odd to begin a description of Roland Michell with an excursus into the complicated relations of Blackadder , Cropper and Ash , but it was in these terms that Roland most frequently thought of himself . |