Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] be in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mining town at Charterhouse on the Mendips may be considered to be in a special category of its own , the sporadic nature of its growth has been demonstrated by Professor G. D. B. Jones through air reconnaissance and ground survey . |
| 2 | Because it is inevitable that there will continue to be an increased use of IT within enterprises , existing computer- and telecommunications-based managers clearly would normally be expected to be in a much stronger position than existing library and information centre managers to become the overall managers of all the information-based resources of the firm , IT-based or not , if that is what the company decides it needs . |
| 3 | The authors see the requirement for the nurse to re-register every three years ( periodic licensing ) , as an important step forward in ensuring ‘ that all patients receive the highest level of care and that the qualified nurse can really be seen to be in a position of accountability ’ . |
| 4 | The parliamentary party on the outbreak of the First World War can therefore be seen to be in a rough state of balance , with the interests of land , services , professions and business in a near equality . |
| 5 | To use the argument brought forward against the related speculation of Block ( i.e. about the tiny homunculi ) , one might at the very least want to deny that the higher and lower consciousnesses could , in any sense , be the same consciousnesses , whether or not they could be said to be in a physical part — whole relationship . |
| 6 | That they are not such statements is in accord with the fact , rightly insisted upon by Hume , as already noted , that causes can not be said to be in a certain logical connection with their effects : the fact that it is not contradictory , however mistaken it may be , to assert that a causal circumstance for an event existed but that the event did not occur . |
| 7 | At any one time , though , there are a number of relationships that may be said to be in a constitutional haze . |