Example sentences of "in [adj] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in private we are comfortable living with ourselves — we just do n't always admit it to ourselves . |
| 2 | What was much more important in the rise of MacGregor , he said , was that in private he was genial company and , more importantly , his ‘ decency ’ . |
| 3 | Sometimes we know people very well , but it still helps does n't it if somebody else comes in that there 's some sort of system there that somebody else who takes over your section can find out exactly who 's received what . |
| 4 | There is a plus in that there is extra traffic c would come in and use Road to gain access to Harrogate . |
| 5 | In 1986 there were 146 management companies , managing over 800 unit trusts . |
| 6 | In 1986 there was new legislation to restore these traditional colours to houses in the island and banning the use of unpainted aluminium for windows , gates and so on , which have been spoiling many of the traditional buildings . |
| 7 | In 1861 he was high sheriff of Surrey and served as a JP . |
| 8 | In 1880 he became a deacon of the Episcopal Church in Scotland ; in 1881 he was ordained priest and served at the church of St John the Evangelist , Edinburgh . |
| 9 | In London he became a member of the congregation of J. Baldwin Brown , a famous Congregational preacher in Brixton , and in 1876 he was ordained minister at the Congregational church in Shipley , near Bradford . |
| 10 | Most are characterised by a large buccal capsule which often contains teeth or cutting plates and in some there are prominent leaf crowns surrounding the mouth opening . |
| 11 | When that Committee reported in 1972 there was further delay before a White Paper , Computers and Privacy , was published in 1975 ; the Data Protection Committee was established in 1976 and reported , recommending legislation , in 1978 . |
| 12 | Yet its numbers are not high : in 1985 there were 1,918 pedigree breeding females and 47 bulls in Britain . |
| 13 | In 1892 there were 64 trade stands , this year there were 650 . |
| 14 | In 1877 he was ordained priest and in 1878 took up his ministry in Wray-on-Windermere . |
| 15 | In 1991 there were 2,300 asylum requests . |
| 16 | By the time I had joined the BBC in 1969 I was three stone overweight , I drank a bottle of scotch a day and thought muesli and high fibre were feed for cattle . |
| 17 | In 1984 there was considerable publicity concerning a woman who gouged out her eye and another who slashed her breast in order to get out of her cell for a few minutes . |
| 18 | In 1984 there was public anxiety in the area covered by Forth Valley Health Board in Scotland about emissions from a chemical incineration plant that was disposing of polychlorinated biphenyls . |
| 19 | In 1917 he was consecrated archbishop and sent to Munich as nuncio , or papal ambassador , where he was considerably shaken by first-hand experience of a Bolshevik revolution . |
| 20 | In all there were 12 state coaches , each drawn by eight horses caparisoned in red velvet , heavily embroidered in gold with the imperial bees . |
| 21 | In 1913 there were 11,000 post and telecommunications offices , of which only 3,000 were in rural localities . |
| 22 | In 1952 he was electrical engineering manager , HM Dockyard Devonport , and in 1957 superintending electrical engineer on Gibraltar . |
| 23 | Indeed , in 1978 there was some evidence that the British security forces , coupled with divisions amongst the Provisionals , were swinging the balance away from the IRA . |
| 24 | In 1476 there were two deputy stewards : Sir Edmund Hastings and William Chamberlain . |
| 25 | In 1476 there were two deputy stewards : Sir Edmund Hastings and William Chamberlain . |
| 26 | In 1958 he was chief coach to the British team which produced our best post-war results in the European championships , with gold medals from the likes of Ian Black and Judy Grinham , and two years later he was appointed manager of the British Swimming team for the Olympics in Rome . |
| 27 | At the annual meeting in 1961 there was sharp criticism of an ‘ out of date ’ programme and by 1964 there was talk of winding the whole thing up because it just could n't pay its way . |
| 28 | In 1721 there was another vacancy for a land surveyor at Port Glasgow , and this time the strongest solicitation was made by George Smollett , whose father was one of the major political figures in the Glasgow district of burghs through his control of the town council of Dumbarton . |
| 29 | In particular there is anecdotal evidence to show that they are willing to expose the faults of other companies , including those that buy advertising space in the paper . |
| 30 | In 1982 there were sixteen forestry/conservation projects and conservation elements in six integrated rural development projects ( each with a different donor agency ) . |