Example sentences of "to be in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I promised to be in a certain place by this time tomorrow , and I intend to be there .
2 They appear to be in a catatonic state , but this is deceptive because they may then suddenly bite the hand that holds them .
3 In the other little side ward next to mine was my one certainty , a patient of my age , generally believed to be in a terminal condition .
4 This frail , little woman , pronounced by doctors to be in a terminal condition had decided , gone through the age-old barrier of forgiveness .
5 But do bear in mind the very wet weather leading up to the weekend which means rivers such as the Ribble , Wyre , Dane , Dee and mid-Wales waters such as Severn and Banwy , are going to be in a terrible state .
6 Erm , but I did n't prime the previous speaker who spoke so nicely er , about N C V O even though we do seem to be in a mutual admiration society .
7 The Jewish people seem to be in a continuous latency period in that they have forgotten that they murdered Moses , and , before him , the Primal Father .
8 ‘ Only that he seemed to be in a decent position , and that he died . ’
9 The system is then said to be in a viscoelastic state .
10 Some commodity arbitrations relating to quality and price seem to be in a separate category in this respect .
11 All three were said to be in a critical condition last night .
12 He was said to be in a critical condition yesterday after he was hit in the head and body .
13 He was said to be in a critical condition today .
14 He is said to be in a critical condition .
15 The policeman gave chase but one of the suspects turned and shot him twice in the back w He was rushed to Homerton Hospital where he was said to be in a serious condition early today .
16 A female passenger is said to be in a serious condition in hospital .
17 He was hit in the leg and was last night said to be in a serious condition .
18 Whether any other position could serve that purpose is at best arguable , but in any case all discs need to be in a standard place so that they can be checked in seconds without searching .
19 The intended use of the eventual instrument was to be in a standard growth cabinet or growth room .
20 When a girl gets married her parents are traditionally considered to be in a humiliating position vis á vis her parents-in-law .
21 It was to be in a small town called Bad Schwarzendom . ’
22 The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three .
23 ‘ That 's our pinnacle , ’ says Chuck , ‘ To be in a small place , and just rocking it with our own tunes . ’
24 Being female makes you less likely to be in a low status job , and less likely to go absent .
25 You need to be in a strong mood to face up to the unvarnished realism of these performances but , once entered into , they are absolutely gripping .
26 The bread-room was said to be in a deplorable state ; the acting master and the needlewoman were at loggerheads , as were the labour master and the carpenter .
27 ‘ Imago Studios ’ , the address Jacqui had given him , proved to be in a tatty mews near St Mary 's Hospital in Paddington .
28 Within any strain of a species , deep structures tend to be in a fixed position relative to certain landmarks on the skull , such as the joints between the bones that form its upper surface ( Pellegrino , Pellegrino , and Cushman 1979 ) .
29 The man seemed to be in a desperate hurry , but he was n't the only one , she thought doggedly .
30 Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes .
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