Example sentences of "[prep] be in the " in BNC.

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1 You 've got ta be in the job five years opposed to two years to get protection against unfair sacking , sick pay , redundancy pay , maternity leave .
2 Yeah but what they 're saying is it 's got ta be in the night before so that when they come in that next morning
3 You 've got ta be in the , no actually it 's B
4 A well anyway it 's got , I 've got cos it 's got ta be with me anyway on it , cos I 've got ta be in the conversation somewhere he said .
5 Got ta be in the right places you see .
6 Since lunch-time I 'd done nothing except be in the company of women , hanging around in pubs or crawling through traffic .
7 But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s .
8 Charles wanted his protégé in and as I was the resident ( and unpopular ) Baroque sculpture specialist , I happened to be in the way .
9 It would be paradoxical for them to be in the vanguard of social change , for as Templeton ( 1980 ) points out , they are ‘ there to preserve the structure ; to uphold the state of play ’ .
10 Questions were raised in the House of Commons about a group of local hippies arrested early in 1967 , and local MPs vied with each other to be in the vanguard of efforts to control the ‘ army of secret drug takers in the area … ( who need to be ) brought back from the brink of madness ’ ( Newcastle Evening Chronicle : 27 February 1967 ) .
11 And the first evening in the bar , Lucy said she liked to rise early and walk , it was so rare and precious to be in the green and open air .
12 Jay had no inclination to go through the who are you , what do you do , oh really , gosh my brother-in-law used to be in the same field .
13 Those fortunate to be in the areas covered by the PTEs were another story .
14 Dog squadron instructor Keith Waugh was born to be in the RAF and , after 11 satisfying years , he 's happy to say his family 's links with the force have gone to the dogs
15 The draft letter to Katkov merely claims that crimes like this fictional one can be found in the newspapers , and that the fictional murderer has come under the influence of certain half-baked ideas which happen to be in the air at the time .
16 Where operation is to be directly from a different data file directory then TableCurve has to be in the dos path .
17 The ions in water and blood happen to be in the critical mass range .
18 This tone is intolerable , and augurs very ill for Carpenter 's biography of Pound , said to be in the works .
19 The party may claim to be in the vanguard of history , but its clock seems to have stopped in the 1950s .
20 INTEL , the California-based semi conductor manufacturer , yesterday confirmed its first European manufacturing base is to be in the Irish Republic .
21 ‘ Everyone else seems to be in the same position .
22 They do not want to be in the position of having to make decisions .
23 Amer Midani , the Lebanese-born businessman and United director who has a 15 per cent stake , seems to be in the strongest position to take over if Knighton 's bid falls through .
24 Travel the roads of Italy , and petrol-engine cars appear to be in the minority .
25 ‘ But we can not give them cash limits because we have no idea how bad the weather is going to be in the winter or what particular type of ‘ flu might be coming along .
26 The Ferranti source said : ‘ Lord Weinstock ( GEC 's managing director ) would like to be in the position where he was able to say to the Ministry of Defence , ‘ Look , I am the only person who can rescue Ferranti from collapse . ’
27 The asking price now is rumoured to be in the region of £15m .
28 The Old Boys will hope that their captain , England international Julian Halls , who has been plagued with injuries since the summer , comes through a second XI game today without problems ; if so , he is likely to be in the squad .
29 Partisan viewers tended to see television as being less favourable to their own party than it appeared to be in the eyes of other viewers .
30 At the same time , partisan readers tended to claim that their newspaper was more favourable to their own party than it appeared to be in the eyes of other readers .
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