Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 2 | A high proportion of diplomats everywhere still began their careers , until well into the second half of the nineteenth century , by serving as unpaid attachés ; and it was not unusual for the head of a mission to ask for a son or a nephew to be assigned to it in this capacity . |
| 3 | BM says that behaviour is influenced by two powerful forces , both of which could be modified by you in some situations . |
| 4 | Albert Schweitzer pointed out that there is a modesty of spirit which should not be violated , although occasionally one 's close friends may be revealed to one in special moments , almost like a flash of lightning which illuminates briefly but clearly . |
| 5 | That enhancement scheme is being prepared now and reference should be made to it in this document in respect of . |
| 6 | ‘ Will we be looking for anything in particular , sir ? ’ |
| 7 | Write in and let us know what you think about the new law changes — we will be looking at them in greater detail in next month 's issue . |
| 8 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 9 | Only a few years before , Camille had been acutely concerned about her mother 's appearance , sometimes refusing to be seen with her in public , but now it seemed that she no longer minded : she had expropriated from Scarlet 's wardrobe those few articles that she felt would suit herself and had thereafter left her mother to her own devices . |
| 10 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 11 | So neither plant owners nor instrumentation makers are at all keen to report on RFI problems that could later be used against them in legal proceedings . |
| 12 | There 's a proof because so if two people were contemplating the proof of the infinity of primes they would n't be going about it in different ways , erm , if they 're contemplating the proof , they 'd be contemplating exactly the same steps in the same order . |
| 13 | Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect . |
| 14 | A county council spokesman said : ‘ We have received Rev Harper 's letter and will be replying to it in due course . ’ |
| 15 | If , on the other hand , they depict merely a perceptual order within the percipient " s own experience , then no argument in favour of ontological pluralism can be based upon them in any case . |
| 16 | Erm , and if if I can just , we will Treasurer and ourselves , be reporting to you in more detail on this , in the appropriate areas , but suffice it to say , that the government are accepting the need for further investigation on some of these issues , to look at some of them in the light of the national B U D report , on superannuation and pension arrangements generally , have nevertheless agreed that individual authorities ought to have some more discretion , and the compensation regulations that I mentioned earlier , is one example of that . |
| 17 | Until the age of seven , Nicholas had received a treat every year on the Feast Day of his patron ; and from the age of ten he grew to know that the day would generally be marked for him in some way or another — in many different ways , although not every year — until , of course , his wife Marian died . |
| 18 | We need to hear what the Lord may be saying to us in all of this and be open to the challenge of church planting and the support of other fellowships around us . |
| 19 | They did n't seem to be focused on anything in particular . |
| 20 | It may well have been so intended , as it was in the Canadian case of Malette v. Shulman ( 1990 ) 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 where the Jehovah 's Witness carried a card stating in unequivocal terms that she did not wish blood to be administered to her in any circumstances . |
| 21 | Home computers can also be found in one in five households , compared with just one in eight seven years ago . |
| 22 | Other people do n't need to be diminished by you in that way — and in any case it shows you 're insecure about your own status . |
| 23 | Christopher Voelcker , stipendiary magistrate , said : ‘ Mr Graham 's £260 legal aid payment will be remitted to him in full . ’ |
| 24 | The visions which our ancestors saw with the mind 's eye , must be embodied for us in palpable form … all must be made palpable to sight , no less than to feeling . ’ |
| 25 | On the other hand , for a task such as fault diagnosis he will be thinking about it in various structured ways which he can reveal by talking about it and exploring verbally why he looks at particular indications or takes particular actions . |
| 26 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 27 | A programme of events for the winter months is being drawn up and details of these will be forwarded to you in due course by the Social Secretary . |
| 28 | If a personal creditor of the heir has been sent into possession in order to protect his property , and has obtained an object left under trust to me , it is agreed that I ought not to be prejudiced by him in any way ; no more than if he had received that object as a pledge from the heir himself . |